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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by mathieuh on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:06AM (#24048725)
Big problems in Ireland at the moment with American tourists. I realise it's hearsay and Reddit isn't a great source, but lots of people are complaining that they've seen Americans out and about, who when asked "aren't you quarantining?" have replied that they don't want to quarantine because it would ruin their holiday.

Here's an NYT article saying the same: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/world/europe/Ireland-amer...

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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by owenmarshall on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:51AM (#24049003)
> Americans [...] have replied that they don't want to quarantine because it would ruin their holiday.

The average American vacation lasts for 17 days[1]. A 14 day quarantine would absolutely ruin that. When faced with the complete revision of your plans and the high sunk cost of international travel, human nature is going to take over: "I stayed inside for a day and I feel fine, so..."

If there's one thing Covid-19 has demonstrated, asking people to do the right thing fails in aggregate. If a country doesn't want tourists breaking quarantine, they're going to need to mandate it.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/08/28/what-does-a...

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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by ponker on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:30AM (#24048858)
I mean Europe has to decide between the tourist dollars and the virus. Americans have demonstrated themselves unfit for the challenge of dealing with this virus so anyone who really cares about keeping their country healthy will ban Americans until the US basically lets everyone catch it.
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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by PopeDotNinja on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:53AM (#24049417)
As an American who did quarantine in both Spain and the UK, I'm going to disagree with your statement.
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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by throwaheyy on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:44AM (#24049862)
Unfortunately, your fellow mask and quarantine non-compliant & self-entitled citizens, putting their own ego above the health of others, disagree with you.

In an infectious disease situation, your following the rules is meaningless when many other US citizens seem to think the rules simply don’t apply to them.

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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by ponker on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:05AM (#24050694)
An immigration law is a blunt tool. It’s not going to make a clean cut.
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Re:United Airlines plans to resume service on more than 25 i... by mnm1 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:07AM (#24058048)
It's shocking that Ireland or any country on earth right now would be stupid enough to let Americans in without forced testing and forced quarantine.
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