U.S. to Be Removed From E.U. Safe Travel List

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  1. cd8ed

    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    MONDAY, Aug. 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Due to surging coronavirus cases, the United States will be removed from the European Union's "safe list" of countries whose citizens can travel to the 27-nation bloc without additional restrictions such as testing and quarantines.

    The change is expected to be announced Monday, but will not be mandatory for EU member nations, who can decide for themselves whether or not to impose the new measures, The New York Times reported.

    To be on the EU's safe travel list, a country must have had fewer than 75 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 a day over the previous 14 days.

    The U.S. infection rate is much higher than that and COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide rose above 100,000 last week for the first time since January, the Times reported. [US News]

    What a disgusting development. As other nations see what the US is rapidly becoming due to an extremely vocal minority of extremists (herein “silent majority”) I am surprised it has taken this long.

    Will this be the last or can we expect more travel bans to the former world power that is being destabilized from within?
     
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    Wow.
     
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    I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this is NOT a "small majority" by any stretch of the imagination.

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    I'm not the shot caller in any country but I don't blame them. I wouldn't be cool with ~48% unvaccinated either. We have seen the costs (not just in lives) but in every facet of our lives. We brought this upon ourselves. We fight for "our freedom" while we plummet to the south end of these stats.
     
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    We had a guy who tried to do something similar and we know how that turned out.

    I just checked the stats and most of Europe had at least one job, but it doesn’t appear they trust it otherwise they would devise travel bans.

    Anyway, it’s their loss, now US troops won’t rotate in an out of that place. Now what about the Afghans they’re accepting?
     
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    So Biden has failed to keep our vaccination rates up to the EU?

    What will he do, ban travel from the EU?
     
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    No link?
     
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    Looks like it is up to the individual countries to decide for themselves on this ban. Quite the development though by the EU.
    Thank goodness, the Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J vaccines were/are made by US companies. One can only imagine the EU sticking their bureaucratic hands in that research, development, and distribution.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, link follows the quoted remarks in brackets

    [US News]

    I wish PF would put links in blue, they get lost so easily in the posts.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The companies are indeed US but the R&D was completed in cooperation with medical and educational centers in other nations. I don’t believe any of them were developed in the US or with US taxpayer funds.
     
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    Help us out.....

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    My sister is half way to Slovenia, she left the US about 7 hours ago. We are hoping the fact she already has her visa will allow her to get in.
     
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    Ahhh... saw the link... thanks.

    Yeah... not good, but that's how it goes when panic and fear take over for Science and Math.
     
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    What can the POTUS do, hold you down and force you to get the vaccine?
     
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    Still, US companies.

    from your link : Even as Americans were welcomed back to Europe in June, the United States has remained closed to Europeans.

    looks like a tit for tat from the EU.
     
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    Yes, but it is open for Russians. It seems as though Joe is Rushan Coolushaning.

    Think of the EU as the current Soviet Union, because for all intents and purposes, that's what it is. If you want to know about travel requirements, piss on the EU, look at this website: https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/world.php

    Your sister must not be American because American citizens don't need a visa to enter Slovenia.
     
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    Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Woe is us.
     
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    They do when they are going there as a SBC missionary that plans to stay for an undetermined number of years.
     
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    I am sure that will slow down the millions of illegals (30% of which carry Covid) from flowing over our open border. I wonder how those other "safe" countries would be doing if they had the same kind of alien invasion that America is undergoing. I wonder how many billions have spent in the last six months on the health care of illegals with Covid. Our intrepid MSM can't seem to muster the energy to research that. They have also done a magnificent job of obscuring the cause of the Covid resurgence in America.
     
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    So he was lying when he said HE could get it done the HE had the plan? You guys blamed Trump for EVERYTHING about Covid during his term and even longer, Biden is President and he ran on how much better he could run things.
     
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    What I get from that graph, bad at numbers as I am is that we're more effective at vaccinating our people than the entire world, 53% to 27%. Success.
     
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    Hillarious. As if Biden can do anything to get Trumpers vaccinated. If he says something, they do the exact opposite. If he'd tell them that it is unsafe to jump off a cliff, they'd jump off a cliff to prove him wrong.
     
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    Hm, you might be onto something. Biden should say the vaccinations aren't safe, then Trumpers will vaccinate!
     
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    No ****?

    And what has President Biden did to right this injustice?

    Does he even know about it?

    As for the extremely vocal minority…freedom, my friend, is not free.

    They don’t wanna vaccinate themselves? Make them.
     
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    Did not he just recommended businesses to fire unvaccinated employees?
     
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    do you have a link to him saying that?
     

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