American writer Mayev Higgins extracted from personal experience traveling under Corona that closing borders and travel bans is inhuman and destructive to the people who embrace him, noting that the Corona pandemic has given Americans lessons in humanity.
Higgins says in her article in The New York Times ( the Where An the American the Passport Does Not Work ) She traveled to her country origin, Ireland, the beginning of a pandemic , "Kovid -19", and I learned through her there and return to the United States last June lessons not You would not have learned without this epidemic.
The number of Americans open to America has declined
Higgins recounted that it had found it difficult to return to America through several countries, including England, Canada and Mexico. She saw how Ireland, which had warmly welcomed Americans, held back US passport holders. She said the list of countries with open borders for Americans has never been shorter.
She said that many countries were encouraging tourism and opening its borders to citizens of other countries in the world, and making slogans such as "Thailand is the land of smiles" and "Ireland is a land of unlimited welcome," while America was its last attempt to encourage tourism in 2016, Before President Donald Trump's inauguration, with the slogan "everything is close at hand".
And she continued, of course, that Americans could not promote that ambitious slogan after years of travel bans. They became content with whispering and winking from under their masks while their country was isolated.
Now, Americans say, Higgins is forbidden to visit most of the world, and their passports have stopped working in many of them, and their "great" country that was at the top is no longer in that position.
Fragile things that control humans
She said she was still feeling the stress of her recent travel experience to Ireland, and she had strong minds in her mind: How loose things like a passport and an artificial border can divide people into two camps; The strong and the weak? Adding that this realization is not new to billions of people in the world.
She pointed out that borders, travel bans, and even the establishment of nation-states and all laws and violence that unite and separate people are all relatively new matters compared to the period people spent on Earth.
She emphasized that after seeing more people and living the restricted and dangerous truth of these artificial differences, they will realize the need to change them, noting that people do not differ from each other, as they are all weak creatures, and that they are sanctified in themselves and not because of the identification papers that they hold nor the countries that encounter If they were born there, and Americans will learn that now.