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.
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If you are infected, why wouldn’t your best course of action be to simply to nest up in a hotel or resort, reduce your contact with others as much as possible, and do your best to not share your illness with others?
Well said!
A world without Starbucks would be just fine and likely somewhat improved.
Exactly! It seems many on FR cannot reconcile two facts. We aren’t going to allow infected Americans to just roam around the nation!
Not definitely so. Any such person has an EU stamp in his/her passport. That might be enough to stop him or her.
NO but news was questioning this am why no ban to UK and Ireland and said probably because that is where he has two golf courses.
The layoffs in Vegas are very large...hotels down to 25%...housekeeping staff are the first out.
Are we at FR spreading panic?
Paging Captain Obvious, the white courtesy phone...
So who won’t be put allowed on planes. Anyone but Americans???
Infected Americans allowded on Planes from Europe but all other infected people are banned?
I didnt see the press conference.
Yes, I cant reconcile the two comments
Please answer:
All US citizens CAN come home.
HOW?
I just tested positive in France, I am a US citizen. How do I come home??
We are not putting them on planes if they test positive
Agree, it should be obvious to us all that this is nothing more than panic and rumor spreading from pearl clutchers
My opinion? We should let them return if they test positive but put them in quarantine immediately.
I saw something about DM paying for stories from ‘anyone’, I guess.
Maybe that is the reason.
No, that is where the confusion come in. They still are not in sync and are muddling up his messages.
Should we let Hanks return home?
In the past 72 hours, a handful of intrepid FR moles seem to have been trying hard to make sure nobody else can do it either.
But should the United Airlines be responsible for letting the known infected person on the flight exposing everyone else on the flight so that the person can then be quarantined in home country
If Unitied Airlines allows that to happen then they are now in the hotseat for everyone on the plane getting it.
I agree - that was my point. Trump’s message was clear, but immediately contradicted by people and agencies below him.
So Hanks would be a perfect example. You know he is positive.
He is an American Citizen.
Why should he even be allowed on a flight at this point unless it is a special flight.
So, there is the we won’t let them on the flight part of the message. But only if he is coming from Europe???
This tripe is typical of the Leftist Daily Mail. Why post foreign anti-Trump diatribes when we have no shortage of domestic whining against the President?
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