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U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
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#12Can we do better than link to the front page of a news site?
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#13Seems like this is too little too late, cats already out of the bag in the US.
It's all about flattening the curve at this point.
You can do your best to identify those infected and have them self-quarantine, but if the gates are open and infected people are streaming into your country, you're not going to get far.
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#14Wouldn't that make UK the next hotspot? People will travel to and from UK to get to USA. Unless UK restricts travel from the rest of Europe.
Not that this ban makes a lot of sense, but not including the UK makes even less sense, considering they've already reported 400 cases (compared to the ~1,200 in the U.S.)
edit: to be fair, maybe the administration would've preferred to just ban travel from Italy. But I'm guessing it's not possible to restrict travel from just one member of the EU.
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#15What if.. You travel to UK by land and take a plane to the USA?
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#16Closing the gate after the cows have already gotten out.
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#17I get that they excluded the UK for diplomatic reasons, but it's literally only a few days behind the rest of Europe in terms of infection count, which means this will have almost no effect.
I actually think banning travel from China months ago was a good call, but by analogous reasoning, the right time to ban travel from Europe (including the UK) was last week.
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#18Not an emergency, and we don't need testing, but hey furriners....
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#19Meanwhile, the US Dept of State's Travel Advisories haven't really been recommending any restrictions on travel to Europe.
France is the 2nd most impacted country in Europe, and the DoS' last update was 11 months ago where their primary concern was terrorism.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
Only Italy is currently at "Reconsider Travel" or "Do Not Travel" for the Northern regions.
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#20Can we do better than link to the front page of a news site?
NYTimes has removed paywall for coronavirus stories: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/world/coronavirus-news.ht...