Travel Ban from Europe to United States

That news outlet is almost as funny as The Onion. Here’s another good one from 2009 from The European Union Times.

https://www.eutimes.net/2009/11/obama-orders-1-million-us-troops-to-prepare-for-civil-war/

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At least they’re clear:

Ideology
To make things clear, we DO endorse communism in its original Soviet Union form, we disavow Antifa as not real communists but as a bunch of Satanist schizophrenics who should all be sent to the Siberian gulags. We also support nationalism! We are both socialists and nationalists. Had the Axis and the USSR got along back in the 40s like they should have, the world would have been a totally different place now (for the good). [Emphasis mine]

Not only are they clear, pre-Stalin communists, Nazi’s they have never before seen pictures of the Pope that the Vatican probably doesn’t want anyone to see. Something tells me I shouldn’t use that news site as a reference when debating with people on-line?

https://www.eutimes.net/2020/03/amid-coronavirus-with-hundreds-of-italians-dead-pope-satan-asks-italy-to-think-about-the-migrants-in-turkey/

A horrible site !
I had to clean the computer’s display with Corona disinfectant.

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He probably should use his tooth rasp more if he’s going out in public…

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Every day we delay going into serious lockdown will make things much worse.

A few days ago we were nine days behind Italy in total cases and keeping pace. As of yesterday we’re seven days behind and gaining.

We’re getting ten times as many cases every eight days; was nine days a few days ago. Italy is getting 10x cases in twelve days, up from ten a few days ago.

Don’t be surprised if our total cases pass Italy’s present numbers five days from now.

This explains it all https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

Get your town authorities and congresscritters to read it and ACT.

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Scary article…

Truthful article. Be scared or not, but take it seriously and light a fire under the movers and shakers.

Netherlands has 950 official cases. I don’t have retrospective data but it seems likely the rate of increase is similar to the other Western nations. That would put you on track to have a million cases in a month, give or take.

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The US will have at least 100 million cases of corona virus and one million deaths before this is over.

Estimates are 70% infection before herd immunity kicks in. That’s 2,290,400 dead Americans at just 1% mortality rate.

As most will be older people and most older Americans are affiliated with the Republican Party this doesn’t seem like a good re-election strategy. :wink:

Besides, the American and European economies will collapse and China will be ascendant. :disappointed: ‘Merica First!

Well, I guess I will be dead in the next month or so. See ya later fellas

your assuming China doesnt already have a bigger problem than the USA and the EU re financial stability

Unlesss… to prevent the coronavirus from being spread in voting booths that ideally every American over the age of 18 should visit in November the election is called off & the Illuminati that controls the House & Senate crowns a king to save lives???

We all got it coming eventually. Keep your boots on.

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I’m sure the cretin who would be king has spent a lot of time dreaming about that scenario.

I just watched Trump on TV saying: “We have tremendous control over this virus.”

Well, that must be quite a comforting statement for the American people, wish we could say that here but then you cannot have them all… Or is he living on another planet?

We do have control. I’m at home. I cannot get it from here. You can stay home, or you can go to China. It’s up to you. Where people go cause the spread. We control that.

Here is Will Dearden who call himself a " Quantitative Researcher" with a model.

EDIT: Key assumption:

Let’s assume that there are two populations of roughly equal size. One has a head start on the other in terms of number of infected. Let’s assume it has five times as many asymptomatic people as the US.

The effect of banning international travel is the shift from solid lines to dashed lines, which is minimal. The reason is that it has already spread to the United States. Even though other countries have a head start, allowing travel only shifts the trajectory of the infection spread up a few days.

There is one main drawback to this model: the effect of travel itself. When people fly, they are traveling in close quarters with others, in recycled air, and with reduced immune systems. So the act of travel itself temporarily spikes
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for those traveling. Nevertheless, this model shows that the most effective way to reduce the spread of the coronavirus is consistent and extended social distancing.

The experts at the WHO and others were saying travel restrictions may not be effective and further that they may result in undesirable unforeseen consequences such as crowding at U.S. air ports may have inadvertently turned the airports into virus hotspots.

Found this at Marginal Revolution blog which is reliably more or less neutral, maybe leans libertarian politicaly,