{"id":1098001,"date":"2021-12-08T10:28:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098001"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:28:38","slug":"top-philippines-diplomat-on-stupidity-of-biden-africa-travel-bans-we-are-all-going-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-philippines-diplomat-on-stupidity-of-biden-africa-travel-bans-we-are-all-going-to-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Philippines Diplomat on &#039;Stupidity&#039; of Biden Africa Travel Bans: &#039;We Are All Going to Hell&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-philippines-diplomat-on-stupidity-of-biden-africa-travel-bans-we-are-all-going-to-hell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, Teodoro Locsin, Jr., denounced on Tuesday the \u201cbreathtaking stupidity\u201d of travel bans imposed on African countries following the discovery of the Omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus in late November.<\/p>\n<p>European countries, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/26\/joe-biden-enacts-african-travel-ban-despite-calling-racist-xenophobic-2020\/\">then<\/a> President Joe Biden, announced travel bans on citizens from South Africa, Botswana, and other nations in southern Africa after South African scientists alerted the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) that they had discovered a previously unknown variant of Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and several other heads of state \u2013 as well as the head of the W.H.O. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres \u2013 have vocally denounced the Biden-style travel bans as \u201cunscientific\u201d and particularly useless in light of the revelation by the Netherlands and several other European countries that they have evidence the new Omicron variant was spreading in that region before it reached Africa.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7630057803468\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki Tries to Defend Biden&#8217;s Travel Ban After He Called Trump&#8217;s Ban &#8220;Hysterical Xenophobia&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WirYnW2JAJ\">pic.twitter.com\/WirYnW2JAJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1465411536801914881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a presidential candidate, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1223727977361338370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1223727977361338370%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_2_7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F11%2F26%2Fjoe-biden-enacts-african-travel-ban-despite-calling-racist-xenophobic-2020%2F\">accused<\/a> President Donald Trump of \u201chysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering\u201d for travel bans on China and other key countries, including some in Africa, during the early days of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. In November, Biden justified similar travel bans as a \u201cprecautionary measure\u201d against the new variant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Biden administration has not added European countries where Omicron appeared prior to its discovery in Africa to its travel ban, nor has it rescinded the bans on African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Locsin, who serves as the top diplomat for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, lambasted the travel bans as \u201ca move of breathtaking stupidity and self-destruction\u201d on Twitter following a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHMissionNY\/status\/1468331340152152068\">meeting<\/a> with the president of the U.N. General Assembly,&nbsp;Abdulla Shahid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a move of&nbsp;breathtaking stupidity and self-destruction, the rest of the world\u2019s response to South Africa\u2019s revelation of a new variant was a global ban on and interdiction of South Africa,\u201d Locsin wrote. \u201cThat&nbsp;teaches other countries the price of honesty for the global good; better to hide something that endangers the rest of mankind since revealing it will only hurt you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnbelievable,\u201d he concluded. \u201cWe are going to Hell in a hand basket.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.426523297491\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2 teaches other countries the price of honesty for the global good; better to hide something that endangers the rest of mankind since revealing it will only hurt you. Unbelievable. We are all going to hell in a hand basket.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1468410126361059337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Locsin omitted from his Twitter rant that the Philippines immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/philippines-suspends-flights-south-africa-new-covid-19-variant-november-2021\/\">enacted<\/a> a travel ban on South Africa \u2013 as well as Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique \u2013 in late November after the W.H.O. branded Omicron a \u201cvariant of concern.\u201d Unlike the Biden administration, however, Duterte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/world\/asia\/philippines-imposes-travel-ban-on-seven-more-countries-over-omicron-variant20211128190731\/\">expanded<\/a> his travel bans to include European countries like the Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, and Switzerland following news that Omicron had been circulating on the continent before it was found in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/covid19-philippines-bans-travellers-from-france-to-prevent-omicron-spread-101638961266978.html\">added<\/a> France to its ban list on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rodrigo Duterte has openly expressed racist sentiments about \u201cwhite people\u201d on multiple occasions, usually in response to human rights groups questioning his violent policies to subdue drug crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with these white people, these American blockheads, is that for every five Americans, three out of five are idiots, and only two are in their right minds,\u201d Duterte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/12\/22\/rodrigo-duterte-un-burning-americans-idiots\/\">railed<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>On another occasion in 2019, Duterte declared, \u201cthe whites really have no shame\u201d in response to Icelandic complaints that he was violating human rights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIceland allows the slaughter of the fetus inside the womb of the mother up to 6 months.&nbsp;<em>Putang ina nila&nbsp;<\/em>(Son of a bitch),\u201d Duterte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/08\/28\/dutertes-pro-life-rant-against-iceland-the-whites-really-have-no-shame\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cIceland doesn\u2019t eat anything except for ice. The whites really have no shame and yet they teach me what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18957410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236913712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18957410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236913712-1024x699-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"676\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dutch health authorities said on November 30 that the new Covid-19 variant was already present in the Netherlands a week before a cluster of cases on two flights from South Africa. The Omicron cases were discovered on November 19 and 23. (REMKO DE WAAL\/ANP\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Duterte has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/08\/11\/duterte-white-arab-islamic-state-members-recruiting-in-philippines\/\">blamed<\/a> \u201cwhite Arabs\u201d for bringing the Islamic State into the country, despite the prior existence of radical Islamic groups like the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).<\/p>\n<p>Like Duterte, Locsin has developed a reputation for belligerent, and sometimes violent, statements. Last year, Twitter locked his prolific account after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/03\/09\/twitter-locks-out-philippines-top-diplomat-after-saying-fcking-communists-you-shoot-them\/\">published<\/a> a post reading in part, \u201cThese are fucking Communists. You shoot them. You don\u2019t listen to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, in response to the Communist Party of China repeatedly violating Philippine sovereignty for much of the past decade, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/05\/03\/philippine-top-diplomat-ugly-oaf-china-get-fk-out\/\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cChina, my friend, how politely can I put it? Let me see\u2026 O\u2026 GET THE FUCK OUT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Locsin\u2019s outrage this time aligns with the sentiments of much of Africa. Ramaphosa, the South African president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/12\/02\/african-presidents-unite-against-biden-travel-bans\/\">called<\/a> the Biden-style travel bans \u201ca slap in the face of African excellence\u201d last week because they limit the freedom of citizens of the country that had experts talented enough to identify the variant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe imposition of travel bans on South Africa and a number of countries in the southern African region are regrettable, unfair and unscientific,\u201d Ramaphosa asserted. Ramaphosa began a tour of western Africa last week intended to, in part, physically show that allowing South Africans into a country was safe and beneficial. Leaders of Ghana, Nigeria, and Cote d\u2019Ivoire stood in solidarity with South Africa against the bans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18975362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1356421780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18975362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1356421780-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A COVID-19 testing facility is advertised at Newark Liberty International Airport on November 30, 2021 in Newark, New Jersey. The United States, and a growing list of other countries, has restricted flights from southern African countries due to the detection of the Omicron variant. (Spencer Platt\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The president of Malawi,&nbsp;Lazarus Chakwera, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/11\/29\/malawi-president-brands-biden-coronavirus-travel-ban-afrophobia\/\">accused<\/a> the leaders of countries implementing the travel ban of \u201cAfrophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Ghana, the state-run&nbsp;<em>Ghanaian Times<\/em> accused Western countries \u201cmak[ing] Africa their whipping boy\u201d with the bans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere they not their own medical scientists who said vaccination had the efficacy to contain COVID-19 and all its variants?\u201d an editorial in the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/12\/06\/ghana-joe-biden-travel-bans-make-africa-their-whipping-boy\/\">asked<\/a>. \u201cWhy do the West and their cohorts make Africa their whipping boy in almost all bad situations that affect the world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/12\/02\/u-n-denounces-bidens-south-africa-ban-travel-apartheid\/\">condemned<\/a> the bans as \u201ctravel apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639046249803000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2p7g6WTgH0jilz5Yqus6h8\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639046249803000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0vxYj4xYhinkzfIKqu8Cyi\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines, Teodoro Locsin, Jr., denounced on Tuesday the \u201cbreathtaking stupidity\u201d of travel bans imposed on African countries following the discovery of the Omicron &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}