If you want to keep disease out of your country or to keep track of it when it arrives, then checking the health of those arriving at the door to your country makes sense, especially from places where unpleasant transmissible diseases are common.
We don’t do that.
Biden’s open border has allowed millions of illegal entrants into America with little if any, surveillance or screening. They are then bussed or flown to cities and towns in the interior and released into the wilds of modern America. Even during the height of COVID pandemic fear, the idea of testing and isolating anyone was sold as racist, nativist, or xenophobic. Be it COVID or any number of third-world plagues (aside from the invaders themselves) that we’d eradicated from sea to rising sea.
There is no concern for the risks to citizens and non-citizens alike, but the CDC has decided to increase surveillance for respiratory illness in airports. I assume this is for show. Look, we’re doing something!
“The expansion of the Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program to flu, RSV, and other pathogens is essential as we head into fall respiratory season. The TGS program, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic, acted as an early warning system to detect new and rare variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and will do the same for other respiratory viruses going forward,” said Dr. Cindy Friedman, chief of the CDC’s Travelers’ Health Branch, in the statement. …
The CDC’s program has “enrolled” more than 360,000 air travelers since it was implemented in late 2021, the agency said, adding that it is both “voluntary and anonymous.” It covers flights from more than 135 countries around the world.
The government is collecting the genomic profiles of foreigners to look for flu viruses that statistically represent a low threat level but allow millions of people in unchecked – to the best of our knowledge – with any number of more dangerous diseases.
Are they watching to see where the next engineered respiratory virus arrives from so they can plan how they will deny it was engineered or originated in Nation X?
It seems more likely, given the situation.
And this is not about public health and safety.
