“European Union formally bars U.S. travelers due to coronavirus threat”

• Editor’s note: Yelm gets many visitors from the European Union each year.
• Now, they will have to reconsider their plans due to a requirement to enter a 14-day quarantine on their return home from the US.
• This further exacerbates the Trans-Atlantic airlines plans to gain back some sort of revenue.
• Indeed, discount Trans-Atlantic carrier Norwegian Air “notified Boeing of the termination of its purchase agreement for the Boeing 737 MAX and Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft on order.”

“NBC News’ Richard Engel reports on the list of countries whose virus levels are deemed low enough to allow people from those places to travel into the European Union, which has been mostly sealed off since March,” on Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC. Click here

+ European Union bars travelers from U.S. citing coronavirus concerns – The move is a sign of how the U.S. is seen by Europe and elsewhere as a global coronavirus hotbed.

+ Why Americans shouldn’t be surprised that Europe is blocking them. It was “embarrassing,” a “blow to U.S. prestige,” and a “stinging rebuke to the Trump administration’s management of the coronavirus scourge.”

+ E.U. could lose billions by blocking Americans, but U.S. COVID-19 rates made it ‘inevitable’

+ U.S. becoming further isolated by COVID-19 crisis