thats fox news framing. they know easily impressionable people will conflate the resistance to the covid ban and muslim ban.

dems called trump racist because of his characterization of it as the wuhan virus, kung flu, etc...something that could inflame anti-asian sentiment (which it clearly did).

and the ban didnt even really work.

over 50k people from china still made it over here during the ban with no testing, tracing, or quarantine. and the dominant strain of the virus that lit ny on fire and spread throughout the country actually came from europe anyway (like delta and omincron).