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

Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days by endorphone on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:43PM (#22553506)

The US can't restrict its own citizens from returning (although it could certainly impose a quarantine), and I didn't claim or imply that they should.

The point is that the action is farce. Those flights to and from Wuhan were always full of primarily Americans, and continued unabated. Just as Americans can still fly to and from Europe, though obviously carriers are going to drastically cut the flight counts.

Regardless, it is without an ounce of doubt that COVID-19 is spreading, completely uncontrolled, throughout the US. Italy is a week or so ahead of the United States, but sadly the most probable outcome is a catastrophe in the near future.

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Re:U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days by unishark on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:15AM (#22554533)

I agree we are maybe 1.5 weeks behind Italy. Though hopefully it never explodes quite as fast in most of the US due to lower population density and other cultural differences. But as for travel bans, the complaint is that they only slow the spread, in return for economic and other downsides. But I'll take that. The flatter the curve is the better.

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