They should be grateful they aren’t being quarantined for a week or two, and that the tests don’t require testing in, let’s say, the back nether-regions
US citizens returning from overseas say they are waiting hours for coronavirus screening at airports
As Americans are being urged to keep their distance from one another, travelers returning on flights from Europe say they are being made to wait for hours in close quarters at US airports to get screened for coronavirus.
Several travelers told CNN that when they arrived at airports in Dallas, Chicago and New York, they faced long lines and confusion.
President Donald Trump announced restrictions on entry into the US from 26 countries in Europe on Wednesday. The ban went into effect at midnight on Friday, but only after the original announcement sparked chaos at European airports as Americans sought ways to return home before it went into place.
Karen Rogers, a passenger returning from Paris by way of London told CNN Saturday night she had been waiting in line for at least five hours to be screened at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and was told she would have at least another hour to go.
Ann Lewis Schmidt, a passenger returning from Iceland, said the process in place at O’Hare has passengers “essentially go(ing) through customs twice.”
And they have to fill out forms!
“One was just name, passport number, flight number, seat, address, emergency contact, and details about your trip,” Deibler said.
The second form asked specific questions about symptoms and travel to coronavirus hot zones, she said.
OMG, that’s horrible! And some had to share pens!!!!!
O'Hare thousands of people going nowhere. This doesn't instill confidence. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/wYNeHcGXOq
— Katy Loves Soil (@katyslittlefarm) March 14, 2020
Aww, poor baby. Perhaps you and the rest should have considered your over-seas flights prior to taking it, because we all knew about the potential spread weeks ago
And CNN isn’t the only one featuring whining by citizens. At Fox News we see
This is unacceptable. The reactionary, poorly planned travel ban has left thousands of travelers at ORD forced into even greater health risk. @realdonaldtrump and @CBP: no one has time for your incompetence. Fully staff our airport right now, and stop putting Americans in danger. https://t.co/gswIaHwelx
— Archived: Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot (@mayorlightfoot) March 15, 2020
Except, O’Hare is fully staffed. Perhaps Mayor Lightfoot should worry about people being shot and stabbed. And perhaps instead of being a whiner she should offer ideas and help.
And over at the Washington Post
Liz Hoyer, a 46-year-old teacher in Texas, said she was nervous for her elderly parents, who were caught in the thick crowd at O’Hare. Trump announced the U.S. ban on travel from most of Europe while her parents were still in the air on their way to Germany. They booked the earliest flight they could back to O’Hare, one of the only U.S. airports still accepting European flights.
Are you noticing a pattern here? First, people taking overseas trips they should have known better than to take, and, Chicago’s O’Hare is the epicenter of disaster. A few other airports, notably JFK in New York and Dallas-Ft. Worth are having a few issues, a few hours wait, but, we aren’t seeing things this bad at LAX in Los Angeles, airports in Boston, Miami, here in Raleigh, Washington D.C., Charlotte, or other east coast and west coast airports.
Regardless, why are people traveling when they know they shouldn’t be?
