Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, France: People wearing protective face masks line up at the Air France ticketing desk inside Terminal 2E at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy on Thursday
Daily Mail: Desperate Americans spark 'bedlam' at European airports: Fliers pay up to $20,000 for flights from Paris to get back home before Trump's travel ban kicks in
* Hundreds of travelers, confused as to whether they will be let back home, rushed to airports Wednesday
* Trump announced a ban on travel to the U.S. from Europe to start Friday to slow the spread of the coronavirus
* U.S. citizens were left shrouded in confusion by the details of the proposal, scrambling to the Spanish and French airports in the early hours of Thursday morning uncertain about how the ban would impact them
* VP Mike Pence fueled the coronavirus chaos on Thursday by saying all Americans returning from coronavirus 'epicenter' Europe will be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival
* He said they will be funneled through one of 13 airports, without confirming if they would receive COVID-19 tests or saying where those ports were
* The president confirmed the United Kingdom and Ireland will not be included in the 30-day travel ban
* Travel commentators said it is a chaotic and confusing time for U.S passengers; there confusion over how ban will be implemented, under what time zone and how Americans will get home
President Donald Trump's decision Wednesday to impose a 30-day ban on most Europeans entering the United States has sparked 'bedlam' at airports across the continent, with some travelers paying as much as $20,000 for plane tickets home.
Hundreds of travelers, confused as to whether they will be let back home and face quarantine, rushed to El Prat Airport in Barcelona, Spain, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, France and Brussels International Airport after Trump announced the restrictions to start this Friday to slow the progression of the coronavirus.
Tourists from the U.S., who were left shrouded in confusion by the details of the proposal, scrambled to airports in the early hours of Thursday morning uncertain about how the ban would impact their attempts to fly back home.
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Update #1: "It caused a mass panic": travellers in Europe rush to get back to US after Trump order (Reuters)
Update #2: Americans in Europe rush to get back after Trump coronavirus order (France 24)
Update #3: Travel bans, market chaos: Dizzying reaction to virus spread (AP)
WNU Editor: The warning signs that this was going to happen have been there for weeks. After-all President Trump did ban flights from China 6 weeks ago, and the situation in Europe is worse right now than what was in China 5-6 weeks ago. This is what happens when people are in denial, and then the crisis hits them in the face. And then they blame others (in this case President Trump) for being in it.
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Naturally, Trump’s attempt to use the flu to somehow prove the novel coronavirus isn’t so bad have involved false stats, like that the mortality rate for the flu is “much higher than” COVID-19, and easily debunked lies like that a vaccine is just around the corner. (“It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for,” he said two weeks ago. “And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.”) While Fauci has repeatedly countered that the actual expected timetable is 12 to 18 months, on Wednesday he was more blunt in shutting down Trump’s fantasy timeline. “No,” he said when asked if there was any merit to the president’s assertion that a vaccine might be ready in just a few months. “I made myself very clear in my opening statement.” Elsewhere, Fauci, who has served under six presidents, generally took aim at Trump’s assertion that everything is fine and that the virus will just “go away” on its own. Asked if the worst is yet to come, he responded unequivocally, “Yes, yes it is.”
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Americans who went to Europe in the last week or so must grin and bear it. It was obvious Europe was becoming the global hot spot for COVID-19. It was obvious Trump would ban travel to hot spots. The travelers took a risk and lost. Suck it up.
Trump Attacks Democrats Hours After Calling for Bipartisanship
The president woke up on Thursday morning and immediately assailed Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, just hours after he implored the nation’s political leaders to “stop the partisanship.”
Just don't fall. You fall you get put in a nursing home. Most elderly, who fall, die in about a year in good times. This is what I have seen from coworkers parents. Nowadays a nursing home is a death sentence. You live 100 times longer on death row than in a nursing home.
good advice above!
there are easily found places to learn to work on balance for the elderly
Retarded government all of themselves full of shit go to hell people
Sick dogs
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