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 ...
All US citizens CAN come home.
If you are infected you will spend 14 days in quarantine at a US military base.
Those two things don’t conflict with each other.
Trump is NOT lying, no matter how that headline is written.
I have no agenda.
I usually post from DM because that is what i read. No paywayll is a huge factor. You actually see a better selection of stories.. And they post a lot of pictures.
but just go ahead and make up nonsense stories about me.
Bump for later reading
Only in Europe. What about Canada, ireland, Uk and a lot of other places
I assume the Mexican border is still open? There’s some irony for you.
Are you confident the government minions below him are strictly following his directives when they explicitly are contradicting him?
“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”
I have seen you posting on numerous corona virus threads lately with largely the same hysteria. You already tried to pick a fight with me earlier this week because I would be concerned if you were coughing on me.
True. I am infected. I am in France. I have relatives in Mexico. Just go fly there and get in.
But easier just to take the train to UK and fly in from there.
I will let you know when I panic.
Very likely if Trump or Pence test postive will be the start of it for me...
Or..if I test positive..
I live in WA state , and I think they should quarantine us. It is already here big time, and shutting us down would slow the spread of this virus.
You know it’s coming.
PDJT will suspend that as well claiming folks with fever can’t always be trusted to make the right choice. :-)
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There should be specially equipped planes with containment units, like they did with the citizens evacuated from Wuhan and the Diamond Princess (just do it in stages in small groups though, not 100s at a time).
They cannot just allow infected people on commercial flights, that's common sense.
Maybe I missed it but I didnt see anything about Americans not being allowed back into the country.
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