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I'm an airline pilot and locked in a quarantine hotel in asia right now, we can't leave our room. The myriad of rules is staggering, every country has their own set of rules and they change constantly, what they're doing today usually has nothing to do with what they wanted last week. Many countries in Asia require you to quarantine in the hotel room while you're here and you're stuck with room service for food. $10 for a soda? I've paid it when I wanted something to drink bad enough. Another country might allow you to walk around the hotel but not go outside, that's a lot better than being stuck in the room. For the most part countries in Europe have not embraced the full blown stupidity of Asia however.

Masks are of course required everywhere. Some countries require us to wear gloves and wrap our bags in plastic before getting off the plane. All of them require mountains of paperwork and/or electronic health declarations that have to be submitted before the flight or we could be denied entry. Processing into the country inevitably will take at least an hour now, I guess paperwork is supposed to cure Covid. Some countries have required us to get a test upon entering and we've had crewmembers whisked away and locked in quarantine prisons (that's basically what they are) for 14 days because they'd been around someone who tested positive.

All in all it's a nightmare and it's getting worse, not better. This virus has been a dream come true for every petty tyrant wannabee Mao whose dream has been to control every aspect of the lives of their people. If you ever wondered how people could be so pliant as to allow a maniacal dictator to come to power look no further than this virus, we've allowed tyrants everywhere to shut down the world's economy over a juiced up cold virus. The eradication of freedom in the world will come at the hands of politicians taking it while proclaiming it's for our own "safety", and most will happily comply.

Thank you for your personal report.

So sorry to hear about what you/other airline employees are going through....with this China Flu nonsense...especially in Asia.

You’re spot on...that this ‘virus’ has allowed the ushering in of tyrannical - and absurd - dictates, worldwide.

Is there any way that you can get reassigned to domestic (I take it you’re American) flights?? Or, at least to less restrictive countries/routes?