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Donald Trump throws coronavirus travel ban into MORE chaos by saying Americans will NOT be allowed back into the country if they test positive and quarantine will be 'enforced' despite Pence insisting all US citizens can come home
DM ^ | 3/12/2020 | smith

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 ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: artofthedeal; china; chinavirus; concerntroll; coronavirus; eu; headlinebias; hystericalfreeper; iran; sanctions; transactions; travelban; trumpeutravelban; trumptravelban; virus
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To: P-Marlowe

So ALL american citizens CAN NOT come home

Until Negative

Changes it doesn’t it??’’

BUt if positive can come home from Britain but Not France

You can’t reconcile the two statements without changing part of the statement


101 posted on 03/12/2020 10:51:46 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Iran asks IMF for loan to combat virus as infections pass 10,000
Iran said Thursday it has asked the IMF for its first loan in decades to combat a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed 429 ...

YAHOO!1h


102 posted on 03/12/2020 10:51:55 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: RummyChick

Go away troll.


103 posted on 03/12/2020 10:52:41 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: P-Marlowe

Are you sure? If he charters a plane from France and is positive is he allowed in?


104 posted on 03/12/2020 10:53:23 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: piasa

I assume medical equipment is exempt from sanctions.

There are no anti-coronavirus drugs commercially available.


105 posted on 03/12/2020 10:53:23 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Engedi

Nah. Them brits speak english so........... Besides, they no longer are part of the ‘yewwwwwww’.


106 posted on 03/12/2020 10:53:56 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: RummyChick

So, your position is that someone, known to be positive, should be allowed to board a trans-oceanic flight, and put everyone on that flight at risk, including the crew, just because American?

And people wonder why we’ve become America, the Spoiled and Degenerate.

Children, masquerading as adults, incapable of dealing with life’s harsh realities.


107 posted on 03/12/2020 10:54:52 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

keep reading..I have posted my position. But it is harsh.


108 posted on 03/12/2020 10:56:04 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Troll


109 posted on 03/12/2020 10:56:08 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Wayne07
"the policy here is.good..."

What Pence said is not good. What Trump said would be better if feasible but how if we still don't have timely, reliable tests here?

110 posted on 03/12/2020 10:56:17 AM PDT by Moonlighter
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To: RummyChick

Pompeo made a comment directed at Europe that any easing of sanctions should be connected to a demand that Iran release hostages first.

They’re still holding Levinson and others.


111 posted on 03/12/2020 10:56:40 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Boogieman

“Everyone has an agenda. Anyone who says they don’t is a liar.”

Agreed (except for those who lack the self-awareness to realize that they have an agenda).


112 posted on 03/12/2020 10:57:14 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: P-Marlowe

but you cant answer the question

thus the chaos

We just arent sure what the rules are...and if you can get on a plane infected in the UK then banning it from France does no good. It is a short train ride from France to the UK


113 posted on 03/12/2020 10:59:35 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Here is what is going on with regard to a ban on the EU [but not the UK] and the Democrats of course are on the unhelpful side of the issue:

https://www.jpost.com/International/US-angered-by-Europes-refusal-to-extend-sanctions-on-Iran-620634

Trump is rubbing their noses in the mess they made.


114 posted on 03/12/2020 11:00:54 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Magic Fingers

My agenda is to know as much as I can about it all and the ripple effects of it all

THAT is my agenda.

I could care less whether you think it is just the flu or you are in a class of people that should be worried and bury your head in the sand

Really really dont care what other freepers are doing as it relates to the virus.

I care about me and what I learn and how it effects my health and my pocketbook.


115 posted on 03/12/2020 11:02:18 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

but you cant answer the question

thus the chaos

**********

Developing situation being reacted to quickly. Where the rubber meets the road, at the operational end of all this, it’s being worked out to the nth in details.

The rest of it is general broadcast for basic info purposes and a “head’s up” about changes in progress, and a whole lot of confusion being purposely spun up by the usual suspects.

POTUS tweets to us and comments to the press and speeches for the public are not operational orders to the troops in the field.


116 posted on 03/12/2020 11:04:21 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: RummyChick

It appears you cannot understand that the rules are changing almost minute by minute.

And because you are dazed and confused - you are lashing out at Trump, and us Freepers.

Why don’t you stop posting for awhile and cease the hysteria?


117 posted on 03/12/2020 11:05:23 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Any info on when and how infected American citizens will get home? Surely not on a plane with negative testees?


118 posted on 03/12/2020 11:06:36 AM PDT by Moonlighter
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To: RummyChick; Jim Robinson

Until you educate yourself, maybe you should stop trolling the forum with your stupid questions and silly arguments.

Maybe free republic should put you in a 14 day posting quarantine. You are not being helpful. You are just being annoying.


119 posted on 03/12/2020 11:06:46 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Ancesthntr

With Brexit, the U.K. no longer is part of the Schengen accord that allows the free flow of people among the signatories.


120 posted on 03/12/2020 11:08:08 AM PDT by kabar
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