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Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days by ShakataGaNai on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:38PM (#22553094)
A little, not a lot. On the very pessimistic side, it will at least convince all the casual travelers who go "ooo look at the cheap airfare! I'm sure I'll be fine" from booking/traveling. Overall this will have a very chilling effect on travel, even to non-targeted regions.

However, we do already have the virus in the USA. So it's not suddenly going to go away because of this proclamation.

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Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days by Johnny555 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:36AM (#22553816)
it will at least convince all the casual travelers who go "ooo look at the cheap airfare! I'm sure I'll be fine" from booking/traveling

I don't think it'll have such an effect on Americans since they are exempt from the ban. But now they're guaranteed to have more room to stretch out on the plane.

But you know what would have such an effect? If the government just came out and said "We strongly recommend that you cease all non-essential overseas air travel, including vacations"

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