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U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days

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Post by guerrilla »

unlinked_dll wrote: post #30

Regardless 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 c…

I don't know about the actual economy but finance seems to hate this. Most open market indicators dropped by like 3%...

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Post by United857 »

o_p wrote: post #15

What if.. You travel to UK by land and take a plane to the USA?

Haven't seen any official details yet so just speculating at this point, but the China travel ban applies to "any foreign national who was in China during the last 14 days" (except green card holders/diplomats). It'll likely be a similar definition with the EU.

Edit: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting... confirmed this (countries in Schengen area)

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Post by allovernow »

mvid wrote: post #36
partiallypro wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so? This will undoubtedly push the world into recession, how does that help Trump?

Just because he can’t anticipate the repercussions doesn’t mean it wasn’t politically motivated

Do you really think some moron bumbled his way into the most powerful office in the world? Have you stopped to think about how unlikely something like that is?

You may not agree with his style (I don't) or his personality (hate it) but the guy has to be minimally intelligent to make it as far as he has. At the very least he knows how to work a crowd and spot opportunity.

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Post by jcranmer »

cj wrote: post #4

I see in some places it says this includes cargo / shipping. Is that true?

That seems to be the news.

I suspect that Monday will shortly be the second largest drop in absolute terms after tomorrow. We might even see tomorrow crack the top 10 in percentage terms.

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Post by mrtksn »

partiallypro wrote: post #31
mrtksn wrote: post #27

This 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...

How so? This will undoubtedly push the world into recession, how does that help Trump?

Short term pain may lead to long term political gains. This all plays into the narrative, the story that certain political fractions push.

It’s not like it will change too much anyway(EU and USA will be like Italy in few weeks, they already have the infection spreading). Besides, it was “just a flu” few days ago according to him.

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