There Goes Transatlantic Air Travel.
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Originally Posted by Longtimer
Fly into Canada and then sneak across the border. Southbound should work as well as Northbound has worked for the past few Liberal years. 
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Sounds like this is the start of countries putting up walls and closing borders. Once the numbers explode in the U.K, I assume the ban will be extended to there too. Maybe the US and the U.K. need a tenth man? 😉
He is a laughable goon, saying ‘look at how in control we are not like those reckless European’s’. Does the US President not realise that the virus is already out of control and spreading in the USA and the only reason the numbers are low is because the US either doesn’t want too or can’t test en-masse. The US will be Italy on steroids in 10-14 days, what will the Don’s excuse be then. South Korea is testing 20,000 people per day and have a mortality rate of approx. 0.5%, the USA has tested around 2500 TOTAL and has a mortality rate of approx 4-5% which either means your treatments are inferior or the number of cases is woefully under reported. I know which one my money is on, on the plus side Donald got to have a 10 minute pat on the back session live on TV. Oh how the world currently needs a strong leader but all we have are chumps.
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So the UK becomes the U.S. offshore quarantine/incubation area? Passengers from high-infection rate Schengen countries wishing to travel to the U.S. are effectively being re-directed into the UK for 14 days (or less if they're not honest to the U.S. authorities about point of origin), during which they may or may not be Coronavirus carriers.
If the latter, then no problem for the U.S. which just bans U.K. flight origin as well after our rate rises. Brilliant!
If the latter, then no problem for the U.S. which just bans U.K. flight origin as well after our rate rises. Brilliant!
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It is for the same reason Italy went in lockdown when the virus was already wreaking havoc: To spread the number of sick people over a longer time.
That way you will have a less intense ‘peak’ that puts a burden on the medical infrastructure.
It is not so stupid as you might think, it is the way to go according to experts. You will not stop the virus, most people will get sick, but spreading it over a longer time helps in relieving the pressure on your hospitals and clinics somewhat.
That way you will have a less intense ‘peak’ that puts a burden on the medical infrastructure.
It is not so stupid as you might think, it is the way to go according to experts. You will not stop the virus, most people will get sick, but spreading it over a longer time helps in relieving the pressure on your hospitals and clinics somewhat.
Originally Posted by DieselOx
This is a supremely stupid action. The virus is already here.
Whatever, they'll figure that out in a couple weeks.
Anyone questioning why they did this? Sheer incompetence, nothing else.
Whatever, they'll figure that out in a couple weeks.
Anyone questioning why they did this? Sheer incompetence, nothing else.
Originally Posted by Eutychus
How does this work for pilots of any provenance, please? Does the ban not apply if they stay airside?
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This is starting to get properly worrying, how is this going to end? There’s not an airline in the world that will survive this (without government support anyway) if this goes on for longer than a couple of months. When the problem abates how are we going to rebuild if there’s no airlines left?
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Originally Posted by ReturningVector
It is for the same reason Italy went in lockdown when the virus was already wreaking havoc: To spread the number of sick people over a longer time.
That way you will have a less intense ‘peak’ that puts a burden on the medical infrastructure.
It is not so stupid as you might think, it is the way to go according to experts. You will not stop the virus, most people will get sick, but spreading it over a longer time helps in relieving the pressure on your hospitals and clinics somewhat.
That way you will have a less intense ‘peak’ that puts a burden on the medical infrastructure.
It is not so stupid as you might think, it is the way to go according to experts. You will not stop the virus, most people will get sick, but spreading it over a longer time helps in relieving the pressure on your hospitals and clinics somewhat.
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Originally Posted by deltahotel
The ban is for anyone who has been in Schengen within 14 days of travel. Doesn’t apply to cargo, though presumably does to cargo pilots.
if it does than Europe should immediately close their airspace for US cargo carriers in response. Good chance that those pilots have been in corona infected countries in the last 14 days as well.
The ban is for anyone who has been in Schengen within 14 days of travel.
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Although UK is exempt for now, this ruling will surely create many more empty seats for BA with all of their states bound connecting traffic from Europe now gone. Most premium corporate traffic was already gone.
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Originally Posted by ReturningVector
It is for the same reason Italy went in lockdown when the virus was already wreaking havoc: To spread the number of sick people over a longer time.
That way you will have a less intense ‘peak’ that puts a burden on the medical infrastructure.
It is not so stupid as you might think, it is the way to go according to experts. You will not stop the virus, most people will get sick, but spreading it over a longer time helps in relieving the pressure on your hospitals and clinics somewhat.
That way you will have a less intense ‘peak’ that puts a burden on the medical infrastructure.
It is not so stupid as you might think, it is the way to go according to experts. You will not stop the virus, most people will get sick, but spreading it over a longer time helps in relieving the pressure on your hospitals and clinics somewhat.
To restrict international travel is not necessarily the wrong thing to do. Whether this is right measure at the right time is a question for the experts. To blame the virus on the EU, and then omit the UK from the travel restrictions when we are probably no more than 3 or 4 days behind France, Germany, Spain in terms of this outbreak is illogical and sounds very Trump. There must always be a scapegoat and today its the EU. I fear for the US in this pandemic, without a consistent, top-down, expert & evidence-led set of public health decisions, the US will have the greatest death rate in the developed world.
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So the trans Atlantic flight restrictions are to protect those in the USA . "Protecting the American people from threats to their safety is the most important job of the President of the United State" Trump says on Twitter.
ere really ?? - just like sorting out gun ownership and protecting the 15,292 people in 2019 that were fatally shot dead in the country ,what a joke!
ere really ?? - just like sorting out gun ownership and protecting the 15,292 people in 2019 that were fatally shot dead in the country ,what a joke!
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