How Not To Reason: COVID-19 / Trump / Politico Edition

This may not be the absolute stupidest thing I've ever read...but it's pretty damn close:

   The Trump administration’s quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could undercut international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent, according to a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers.
   The World Health Organization’s top official on Tuesday repeated concern that moves that interfere with transportation and trade could harm efforts to address the crisis, though he didn’t directly name the United States. Meanwhile, unions representing flight attendants, nurses and teachers criticized the administration on Tuesday for not being forthcoming about what kind of screening and treatment individuals will undergo, and some members of Congress say they’re concerned the efforts could stoke racial discrimination.
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   World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that widespread travel bans and restrictions weren’t needed to stop the outbreak and could “have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit.” Union leaders separately called for a coordinated government response and warned authorities against profiling people of Asian descent while addressing the threat.
   The virus has sickened some 20,900 people worldwide and killed at least 427, almost all in China. The FDA late Tuesday granted emergency authorization to distribute a diagnostic test for the virus to public health laboratories around the country. The move eliminates the need to confirm cases by sending samples to the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta. 

 tl;dr: we shouldn't minimize travel from places experiencing the pandemic because of some utterly bullshit, progressive-friendly, extremely speculative reasons about how maybe there will be some bad consequences of such a policy...
   I'm not even going to go into details about how goddamn idiotic this is. This is a snapshot of stupidity of a particularly contemporary variety. Those paragraphs had better make you see red, else your bullshit-detector is seriously out of whack.