The hits keep on coming. On the same day that the bombshell Woodward recordings dropped, this:
White House orders end to Covid-19 airport screenings for international travelers
The U.S. government on Monday will stop conducting enhanced screening of passengers on inbound international flights for COVID-19, Yahoo News has learned.
The screening operations have been held at select airports since January, when the first cases of the disease began to emerge from Wuhan, China. Since March, incoming international flights from select high-risk countries, including much of Europe, China and Iran, among other regions, have been funneled through 15 designated airports in the United States.
As of Monday, however, international flights will no longer be funneled into select airports for screening purposes and all screenings will come to a halt, according to communications and sources. All screenings and rerouting of select international flights will cease at exactly 12:01 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 14.
People will not be screened — not even to take their temperatures — and no contact information will be recorded. If someone is later found to have entered the country with the virus, no one on that same flight will be notified. All that would have to be pieced together well after the fact by health authorities. Maybe. I suppose that would depend on which state the ill person showed up in. If it has a Republican Governor, it seems more likely that anyone would be forbidden to do so.
Thankfully, some righteous individual has leaked this, because it’s not clear when this was going to be made public.
The orders to cease prescreening operations came from the White House, with strict orders to keep the information secret until a public announcement is made. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the various agencies — and contractors — involved in the airport screening operations are working frantically to prepare for Monday’s shutdown.
My guess is that the public announcement was scheduled for right after everything had been torn down. That would be on point for these scumbags.
