Posted on 03/12/2020 10:00:06 AM PDT by RummyChick
President Trump raised fresh questions surrounding his response to the coronavirus on Thursday by saying that Americans in Europe will be tested for coronavirus before they are allowed to board flights and that they will not be allowed to come home if they test positive.
The shocking announcement came after his decision to halt all travel from Europe to the US for 30 days starting from Friday at midnight.
During a press conference with the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office, Trump said: 'We are not putting them on planes if they test positive. It is going to be a pretty strong enforcement of quarantine,' he said, without explaining which tests would be used or where the diagnosed cases would then be treated overseas.
It was a direct contradiction to what Pence said on Thursday morning - that 'everyone' can 'come home regardless of their symptoms or what their condition is' and that they would be asked to go under 'voluntary' quarantine after landing back in the US at one of 13 airports designed to handle the outbreak.
Foreign nationals or visa holders without permanent residency will not be allowed back in the US from Friday at midnight, aside from people in the UK and Ireland which have been exempt from the ban.
Trump has not yet explained why they are exempt.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
So Should US citizens be allowed back in the US if they test positive?
Expect a lot of lawsuits
The policy here is good, but the muddled messaging is a disaster. Bad for public confidence, bad for the markets. Sheesh.
The Daily Mail has been screaming anti-Trump headlines for months. Just one more example. They lost millions when Melania sued after they wrote some garbage about her having worked as a call girl, totally bs and lies.
So, anyone got the countdown started yet before “they” start claiming that PDJT is going to use ‘covid-19’ to cancel the (s)elections and stay in office without the November debacle? 3,...2,...
Daily Mail can eff themselves.
Did he say it or not?
Does it contradict Pence or not?
[So Should US citizens be allowed back in the US if they test positive?]
HELL NO!!!!!
All this could cost Trump the election, this is a disaster.
If true, politically-speaking, that looks like a bad move.
If people test positive before boarding a plane how would they keep them from infecting everyone else. Or would there just be an “infected flight” for everyone testing positive.
Get past the headline.
Did he say it or not?
If he said it, should they be allowed in the US or not?
When do we shut down Washington State?
Actually sounds like a good plan since they probably instigated this corona garbage in the first place. Make their plan blow up in their faces.
Trump’s plan IS better. He is actually engaging solutions, not pretense.
Daily Mail ‘nuff said.
This is going to be interesting to see how it shakes out
I don’t think infected people should be allowed on planes.
The just the flu crowd would advocate it I suppose
But all they have to do is take the train from France to the UK and then board the flight since Trump is not banning them.
I do not understand why the UK was exempt from the travel ban.
Why not actually talk about what Trump said instead of pretending DM is lying about it and that he never said it.
UK is not part of the Schengen Area.
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