Denmark has closed its borders to foreigners in an attempt to slow the progress of the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted on 03/14/2020 2:19:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
At his daily briefing on the coronavirus emergency on Friday, Luca Zaia, the governor of Italy’s Veneto region, one of Europe’s worst-hit, told reporters that Europe’s borderless zone was “disappearing as we speak”.
“Schengen no longer exists, it will be remembered only in the history books,” Zaia said, pointing to the long lines of traffic stuck at Italy’s northeastern border, where Austrian officials have reintroduced stringent controls.
With Italy reporting the most virus cases and deaths anywhere in the world except China, the pandemic is increasingly wearing on the EU's cherished core principle, which envisions a border-free Europe where citizens can freely live, work and travel.
Austria became the first country to impose drastic curbs on travel from Italy on Wednesday, urgently reinstalling border checkpoints in the exact spots where they had been dismantled back in 1997 when the country joined the Schengen Area.
All travellers seeking to cross the Brennero border from Italy are now required to present health certificates proving they have not contracted the COVID-19 virus – a measure that has slowed traffic on the busy Alpine crossing to a near standstill.
Since then, Slovenia and Switzerland, which also border Italy, have imposed similar curbs. But several other EU nations – including Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Cyprus – have announced restrictions that go far beyond travellers from Italy.
While the virus is spreading across the continent, the rushed actions taken by individual states are highlighting the lack of a coordinated approach to fighting the coronavirus – not least among the European Union’s 27 member states.
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Denmark has closed its borders to foreigners in an attempt to slow the progress of the coronavirus pandemic.
Be very quiet, we are herd immunitizing
I wonder how the “Doctors Without Borders” like this “Pandemic Without Borders”.
Isn’t that racist or something? I’m so confused, I thought only American Republicans wanted borders.
Why, those dirty, rotten, xenophobic, raciss rats.
One of the democrats said we’re culling the herd.
“...the lack of a coordinated approach to fighting the coronavirus – not least among the European Union’s 27 member states.”
I thought that was the whole power and glory of the EWW?
Those Austrian speaking peeps are the wurst racis's evah...
This article seems both outdated and incomplete.
It should have mentioned that the USA also now has banned travel from the UK and Ireland in addition to Continental Europe. Instead, it only mentions that the EU is pissed off at Trump. Trump has made the EU look worse by staging the travel ban.
It should also have mentioned that Belgium has the highest COVID-19 infection rate in Europe. However mentioning this would also make the EU look bad, which is possibly why it is not mentioned.
Schengen was a really bad idea.
Brexiters are even further vindicated.
“I wonder how the “Doctors Without Borders” like this “Pandemic Without Borders”.” Good question.
https://www.msf.org.za/about-us/where-we-work/china
Docs exited China in 2014, although they are supposedly supplying some protective equipment help. With fake news pandemic, WHO can be sure? WHO? WHO? WHO let the germs out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He82NBjJqf8
Party ‘till you drop.
Corexit
The EU official said we shouldn’t use ideology and close our borders when WHO said that closing borders was ineffective. What idiocy. And, talk about “ideology!”
I love it that even the countries in Europe haven’t consulted the EU when they closed their borders. That’s because the EU is useless except for regulating prosperity away and redistributing wealth. The EU is a Western version of the Soviet Union, but without nukes or a military. It will go the same way as the Soviet Union. The thing is European countries are too small and limited to survive on their own. But their cultures are too different, one might choke out “diverse,” to get along. No, diversity isn’t a good thing.
I was hoping for a reworking of Abbott and Costello, but I am afraid that the link simply proved the wisdom of your tag line.
There are no borders to prevent you from moving between one state and another in the US. We’re going to have the same problem.
“One of the democrats said we’re culling the herd.”
Very interesting. Thanks.
EU - Eugenists United? The world, especially Europe, has been a slaughterhouse for a long, long time. The U.S.A., where the individual was sovereign and the government was under control was an exception. Things are changing rapidly.
We are at war right now. Asymmetric war. Think F.A.S.T. - Food. Ammo. Shelter (remote is better) Today. War-gaming for the worst case scenario is good.
Life/liberty BUMP
National borders exist for a reason.
Happy to see that some European nations are remembering that fact.
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”
—British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, August 1914
Open Borders, yeah!
Flights from China? Oh so RACIST
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