Who is scared of whom?
 

I realise this is a slightly glib comment and not fully researched in a statistical sense, but why would the USA deem arrivals from the UAE to be any more dangerous than its’ own citizens?

I recently flew back from Oman to the UK for some leave with my family. If I’m honest, I don’t think that journey has decreased my chances of infection.

Oman is dealing very well with the illness. Maybe UAE is similarly well prepared.

Oman has shown how autocratic governments are more able to bring in draconian measures without complaint from the population. So far at least.

BV

Sky news just said Ek announce suspension of pax flts, starting wednesday..

When did I blame the rest of the world for a failure of the Obama administration? He flooded the CDC with money and made them a lazy lot much like the US postal service. The US takes full responsibility for the failures of Obama. Despite Trump trying to get them back into shape by cutting funding and trimming the fat they have still been unable to produce a vaccine or a reasonable number of test kits. A poor performance by the CDC for sure!

So everything is locked down in Dubai now? Restaurants the mall and the like? Everything is closed including the massage parlors? You can’t tell by crew Facebook pictures.

Not to USA

My geography must be at fault, but I see Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle on that list

See latest update.


Having received requests from governments and customers to support the repatriation of travellers, Emirates will continue to operate passenger and cargo flights to the following countries until further notice, as long as borders remain open, and there is demand: the UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, South Africa, USA, and Canada. The situation remains dynamic, and travellers can check flight status on emirates.com.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12318914

"The man told the restaurant he and his crew did not care to follow the rules and they were leaving Auckland on Tuesday, "so who cares"."

My initial reaction was this must be a M/E local who is above all laws....But having just received a facebook screenshot of "Sandy", well good luck bud as your imperial masters will no doubt be terminating your contract with immediate effect.

Sorry, but my sarcasm detector seems to be INOP at the moment. You are not serious, are you?

Now they have been forced to suspend all flights.
(quoting an official announcement on Twitter, March 23rd)

Bit I am not getting is that when observing the strict lockdown in Italy, for example, how come cases are still increasing and deaths still increasing ?

We still get lots of conflicting info too . RADGIRL tells us the virus is blasted out into the ether and lives on Cardboard for 24hrs. My info was that it does not survive "for very long on cardboard". Yikes, just cancelled me take-away balti !

I wouldn’t bank on it. There is some extreme blinkering and distinct lack of critical thinking on both sides of their political system.