The problem is banning the EU as a whole. It makes no sense at this stage.
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Most travel from Europe to USA suspended for 30 days beginning Friday (some countries exempt. See threadmarks.)
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Currently in Paris with my family and had a flight home scheduled for Saturday evening. We've had to book brand new tickets for an absurd amount of money due to the failure of Delta Airlines' website and phone line just to get home before the ban takes effect. Haven't experienced stress like this in quite a while.
He didn't write that himself. Someone on his staff commenteered his phone. It's legible and gets the message across. He must have gotten off script and carried away during the news conference
even if people from the US can go to Europe, flights will be limited because what airline would fly back to the US from Europe empty with passengers lol
Foreign nationals only? I'm currently in Ghent and was to fly home to NYC on Sunday. Delta has a 4 hour wait and a useless website. It's also 3:30am here. I'm kind of freaking out a little right now.
Thanks. What I want to know is if I can leave the US to go to Europe, is that still possible?
I already have a ticket to Europe in April, just want to know if my flight will be canceled or not
Ghost Flights are absolutely a thing.
Why Airlines Are Flying Empty Ghost Planes
The problem has been brewing for a while, but it's worse than ever before.
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Ghost Flights are absolutely a thing.
Why Airlines Are Flying Empty Ghost Planes
The problem has been brewing for a while, but it's worse than ever before.
ah well, good news is, fuel prices are going down!
Trump is an absolute joke and a buffoon, but he didn't write the text on the teleprompter. Somebody royally fucked up the comms on this one. The trade & cargo thing was an immediate mega red flag panic inducer and it turns out that's not even part of the policy at all. How do you make a mistake that huge?
It almost certainly wasn't on the teleprompter. I mean, who writes "Anything coming from Europe to the United States is what we are discussing." in prepared remarks? The previous sentence was probably misread and he didn't know his own policy
In an effort to ease the spread of infection, this seems like a highly ineffective move and is most llikely motivated by something else. Especially if you don't include the UK, which is still part of the EU and has many, many many connecting flights from Europe to Heathrow and onwards to the US. If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if Europe suspends flights from the US in "retaliation".
Turns out tonight's speech was written by C.
Because people can travel across Europe freely without tracking anyone since they dont have passport controls. If a person is flying to the US out of Poland but spent 3 weeks in Italy right before that there is no way for immigration to see that
His cadence when speaking was really obviously reading (badly). However, you're totally right that this could have been off teleprompter and his staff immediately face palmed
What an absolute cluster of an address
How does it not? Italy has literally shuttered itself to protect their citizens we deserve the same right to contain this.
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I hope this works both ways, because goven your government's response, Americans traveling abroad are a massive liability. 🤷‍♂
Why? It's in most countries to some degree.
Didn't they read the news?
I did not say they were smart friends.
I guess they couldnt get refunds is my guess.
So has there been an explanation why UK is exempt even though they have more cases? Reminds me when the muslim ban happened to stop "terrorism" but Saudi Arabia was exempt.
Yeah so it already seemed pretty pointless with the fact that the UK wasn't included. Now it's just stupid.
Then why ban the schengen area, but not Ireland, not the UK,...? Its just nonsense
Because our current administration doesn't like the EU I suppose. I didn't say they did it for the right reasons.
But a bunch of the non-Schengen countries, including Croatia, Ireland and (still) the UK, are in the EU.
So it's not actually to stop the virus spread but because he knows nothing else than banning foreigners.
You get rewarded by being xenophobic by being allowed to bring disease to the States. To own the libs.
This seems so stupid.... so now we're going to get everyone from Europe funnelling through the UK and then to the US?
Or Ireleand, Ukraine, etc......................
All you can do is laugh.
I think it has more to do with Schengen Area which UK isn't part of.
This would make sense, if US had wide set internal policies towards the virus. But they don't so corona keeps spreading regardless of flight ban. Also, if people want to go to US they just fly to London first and from there to US.
Can't see this as anything else but some kind Larry David-esque spite ban.
Can't see this as anything else but some kind Larry David-esque spite ban.
Curious to see how banning people from Slovenia or Portugal will stop community transmission in Washington
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If you have been to a Schengen Area country in he past 14 days then you cannot go to the US. So they would need to stay in the UK (or another non-Schengen country) for two weeks.
Honestly there's probably a ton of people in the EU that are infected and don't know it right now (same with the US and every other country that has a decent number of confirmed cases).
Unfortunately it's probably too little too late at this point and will only slow things down a little bit.
The world should have done it before COVID-19 was even a thing to be honest.