> closing flights from Wuhan is racist (even though China itself was doing it domestically) This is a myth. Wuhan Tianhe International Airport was completely s

> closing flights from Wuhan is racist (even though China itself was doing it domestically) This is a myth. Wuhan Tianhe International Airport was completely shut down. Domestic and international flights stopped at the same time. Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution falsely claimed that China kept allowing international flights to keep taking off after it stopped domestic flights, and his claim has since gone viral. Even Trump has repeated it several times on national television. The irony is that the airport was shut down so quickly that foreign governments didn't have time to get their citizens out of Wuhan. They had to negotiate with the Chinese government to allow specially chartered evacuation flights to take off from the city. But Niall Ferguson looked at a flight tracker that showed scheduled (not actual) flights, and concluded that international flights were still taking off from Wuhan, and then wrote an Op-Ed about it. The myth has never died, despite repeated debunking.