Chances of Europe reciprocating?
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U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
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Re: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
#22Seems like this is too little too late, cats already out of the bag in the US.
The signaling serves a purpose though.
Re: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
#23Wouldn'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.
UK is already a hotspot. 100 confirmed cases in London (as of 11 Mar) means we should expect 10x that in practice. They just started later than some other countries.
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#24Does this mean with a round trip, you could be allowed to fly to Europe and be trapped there?
Edit: apparently not, looks like it just applies to foreign nationals https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting...
Re: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
#25Seems like this is too little too late, cats already out of the bag in the US.
It's more about slowing the progress to spread out the number of infected over time.
Re: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
#26Does this mean with a round trip, you could be allowed to fly to Europe and be trapped there? Edit: apparently not, looks like it just applies to foreign nationals https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting...
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Re: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
#27This awfully sounds like politically motivated than medically motivated.
Edit: Apparently it’s limited to Schengen Zone: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting...
Re: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
#28Wouldn'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.
And the UK is already the most popular destination in Europe for Americans. ~50% greater than #2 France.
I've no idea why other than language.
https://www.statista.com/chart/18742/most-popular-destinatio...
Re: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
#29Closing the gate after the cows have already gotten out.
Generally it is about slowing the cows.
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#30Regardless of the ability of people to travel to the UK or Canada and get here (which people have done for a long time with other nations we don't take kindly to) it's absolutely going to reduce the number of people who will travel across the pond. Which is the goal, reduce infection rates.
My concern is how economies are going to respond to the US being cut off from Continental ports for a month, which as far as I can tell hasn't happened since U boats were in open waters.
Can anyone comment on supply chains that rely on Europe to source goods? I know medical grade steel comes from over there, but I don't know what else.
Edit: apparently the president misspoke.