The Justification Is the Need to Maintain Public Fear of the Virus

South Africa’s Top Health Official Slams ‘New COVID’ Travel Bans, Says They’re Unjustified [VIDEO] (lifezette.com)

[South Africa minister of health Dr. Joe Phaahla] also said that many countries that have imposed travel bans have a much higher daily infection rate than South Africa. “It really doesn’t look scientific in any way. So that’s why we insist that kind of reaction is quite a knee jerk and panic and actually almost wanting to put the blame on other countries rather than work together as guided by the World Health Organization.”

Pleading with countries and organizations to work with South Africa, Dr. Phaahla added, “The U.K. simply went ahead and imposed the restriction without even engaging us. So, that was basically a unilateral action without, before there could be any engagement.”

Knee jerk reactions have been the norm during this pandemic. Worse, once they’ve been shown to be knee jerk reactions, they aren’t revisited.