Can anyone tell me why the US is banning travel from Europe because of the Delta variant, yet the Delta variant is running wild in the Southern USA?

@IntuitMachine I think they're concerned (rightly or wrongly) that the net effect of people flying in from Europe might be a significant increase in internal travel in the US, which could spread the Delta variant even faster across multiple regions of the US.

@IntuitMachine Because we can restrict travel from Europe but we can't restrict it from the Southern USA without a huge uproar.

@IntuitMachine Throughout the pandemic, travel bans have been completely random. A way to show that you're "doing something" and often to reinforce cruel anti-immigration policies.