New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by bradlys on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:11PM (#29354726)

Yeah, people forget the muslim ban happened before COVID.

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by rowathay on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:31PM (#29354917)

People also forget that it wasn’t a Muslim ban. The world’s largest Muslim country was not included in it.

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by msie on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:47PM (#29355052)

Well, those excluded countries included places where Trump had business interests and longtime allies of the US (Saudi Arabia). https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-trump-immigration-ba...

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by rajup on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:12PM (#29356139)

So it wasn't a Muslim ban then?

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by Aeolun on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:03PM (#29357293)

Just because it doesn’t target all muslim majority countries doesn’t mean it didn’t target solely muslim majority countries.

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