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And New Zealand has just gone 100 days without a single new local covid infection.
The USA has warned about travelling to New Zealand because apparently we have 29 active cases in obligatory quarantine!
The USA has warned about travelling to New Zealand because apparently we have 29 active cases in obligatory quarantine!
Yeah...we just came back to Europe after a spot of leave back in the States. There is a supreme irony when COVID cases in much of Europe are largely under control. COVID deaths in Europe are running at 200-300 per day for a population of 740-ish million compared to daily deaths in the US at over 1000 for a population of 360 million...and yet the US is warning its population not to travel to Europe because of the COVID threat?
"Pot to kettle. State colour, please. Over."
I'm curious how bad they expect this to get during the Autumn and Winter months?
If you took the time to read the State Department's press release, travel to ANY destination for Americans is discouraged to help arrest transmission - coming or going.Yeah...we just came back to Europe after a spot of leave back in the States. There is a supreme irony when COVID cases in much of Europe are largely under control. COVID deaths in Europe are running at 200-300 per day for a population of 740-ish million compared to daily deaths in the US at over 1000 for a population of 360 million...and yet the US is warning its population not to travel to Europe because of the COVID threat?
"Pot to kettle. State colour, please. Over."
The big fear is the impact on hospital capacity once flu season starts. With COVID already stressing medical services in some US cities, there just aren't beds available to also treat the usual number of people who are hospitalized due to seasonal flu.
If you took the time to read the State Department's press release, travel to ANY destination for Americans is discouraged to help arrest transmission - coming or going.
Trust me, we really didn't want to fly to the States but one of my wife's close relatives is in the terminal stages of cancer and we wanted to spend some time with her while she was still "herself".
The key problem is not the risk of transmission coming into the US from overseas. It's the much higher risk of transmission internally within the US because many people are being idiots and not taking basic precautions to limit spread 9fntue disease. From what I saw, only about 40 percent of people seemed serious about taking precautions.