Originally Posted by
GloballyServiced
Can you help clarify the logic for us on the required testing for international inbound flights while domestically the US has hundreds of thousands if not millions of cases circulating at all times?
I'm always fascinated by bureaucracy trying to accomplish goals in completely nonsensical fashion.
It's not so much logic as it is legal restrictions. The federal government has some authority to restrict movements internationally, but interstate movement is mostly protected. It'd be up to individual airlines to impose a pre departure test to board, and then there's IDB rules etc., otherwise individual states can only impose a limited quarantine on arrival.
You're stating this as if some central medical authority decided it was best to test international arrivals and not domestic flights and therefore is a hypocrite or nonsensical. In practice this authority may have wanted both but could only secure one.