What is the single dumbest government response to the coronavirus? There is, we can all agree, a crowded field competing for that distinction. But there is surely no policy so self-defeating, so needlessly harmful, so absurd in its own terms as the Biden administration’s continuation of the travel ban from selected nations.
The man who promised that the United States would reengage with allies has cut it off from the world. The candidate who pledged, before the presidential election, to “shut down the virus, not the country,” has shut down the country. And the president who boasts of following the science isn’t even pretending to base his crackdown on data.
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