People with passports from poor nations know what it's like to be denied access to most of the world, or subjected to humiliating and expensive visa procedures just to go on holidays or attend a conference.

Americans are now in the same boat.

https://medium.com/@indica/the-plague-states-of-america-53b20678a80e

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Right now, only two dozen countries worldwide will accept Americans (mostly small Caribbean islands); if you're willing to endure a 14-day quarantine, that number rises to 28.

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All his life, @indica has endured the "post-colonial bullshit and racism [that] have made my Sri Lankan passport worthless." Now, Americans are in the same boat.

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As Samarajiva says, "the point of a passport is that a sovereign power vouches for its bearer, but America can’t vouch for the health of their citizens at all."

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The US is on track to 200,000 deaths and 50,000,000 infections by election day, and even when Trump loses, he'll still get to (mis)govern for another three months.

Samarajiva reminds us that the epidemiological technical term for this is being "completely fucked."

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Americans who are no longer welcome around the world, and that means Trump finally kept a campaign promise: "He built a wall around America and made the world pay for it. He just never told Americans that they’d be stuck inside."

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