Should international travel ever be allowed again?

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I realize the OP is trolling, but a Czech minister just stated that the Czech borders might remain closed and travel in and out of the country restricted for up to two years.

AOC had it right. We need to get rid of planes. They are a dinosaur technology from before we could telework. Everything we can do by physically flying somewhere we can do remotely.

Until we can get the Chinese to stop eating experimental creatures this has to happen.

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

Everything we can do by physically flying somewhere we can do remotely.

Only a person who doesn't understand the value of human interaction would say this. Email Skype, texting, cell phones, etc., are great tools in as far as they can go. But saying they can take the place of face to face meetings is like saying watching a movie about the Grand Canyon or Mt. Everest is like being there. Or, to put it in terms the basement dwellers on here can understand, a video of (favorite actor, singer, runner) ain't the same as being with her. Actually, the basement dwellers won't understand...

DirtyT wrote:

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Can we go -10/10?

jhgbfvtg wrote:

New dangerous viruses will pop up again and again in the future. This is not a one time event.

I believe that international travel should never occur again unless travelers go through a 30 day isolation period. They would need to live this isolation period in some type of government run facility. Travelers would need a visa to enter the country. Obtaining these visas should be very difficult to get.

Switzerland, Japan and the UK have decided to let the virus run its course, which is good of course. But then there must be strict border controls with countries that have decided to destroy their economies and live with the social unrest and chaos that their decision will lead to.

I question the idea that those countries are letting the virus run its course.

jack handy wrote:

watching a movie about the Grand Canyon or Mt. Everest is like being there

watching a movie about Everest is probably 10x better

If international travel is banned then what else will millennials live for?

Just make it more expensive (airfare, border entry fees, etc.) and a bit inconvenient (visas required for each country, strict limits on how long you can stay, etc.). That will limit how many people travel and where. The problem is cheap flights and free travel in "zones" like the EU where people run through multiple nations and urban areas just so they can brag that they visited 10 countries on their vacation.

No more travelling just to run a marathon in another country when you can just pick up a marathon close yo your home.

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

Just make it more expensive (airfare, border entry fees, etc.) and a bit inconvenient (visas required for each country, strict limits on how long you can stay, etc.). That will limit how many people travel and where. The problem is cheap flights and free travel in "zones" like the EU where people run through multiple nations and urban areas just so they can brag that they visited 10 countries on their vacation.

That's your big idea? Make it too expensive for most people to be able to travel and experience the world?

Yes. Make it expensive and make it exclusive.

Less packs of budget tourists crammed into planes, tour busses, and cruise ships that are less "experiencing" the world and more just seeing famous sites so they can post photos on social media and become better disease vectors.

Less roving packs of Americans in Europe demanding to get directions, menus, and other services in English because they're entitled Americans.

Less tour busses discharging a hundred chain smoking Chinese nationals with no manners or sense of personal space into an American outlet mall on a Saturday afternoon

Less drunk young Brits vomiting and urinating all over Mediterranean beaches

Less horned up old Germans and Aussies renting underaged sex slaves in Bangkok

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

Yes. Make it expensive and make it exclusive.

Less packs of budget tourists crammed into planes, tour busses, and cruise ships that are less "experiencing" the world and more just seeing famous sites so they can post photos on social media and become better disease vectors.

Less roving packs of Americans in Europe demanding to get directions, menus, and other services in English because they're entitled Americans.

Less tour busses discharging a hundred chain smoking Chinese nationals with no manners or sense of personal space into an American outlet mall on a Saturday afternoon

Less drunk young Brits vomiting and urinating all over Mediterranean beaches

Less horned up old Germans and Aussies renting underaged sex slaves in Bangkok

So there's a story about a traveler in ancient times who comes up to a walled city and asks the old man sitting outside the gate, "What kind of people live in this city?" The old man asks, " What were the people like where you come from? " The traveler answers, "They were a bunch of lowlife despicable, dishonest jerks." The old man replied, " The people are the same here. " So the traveler moved on. Another traveler arrived and asked the same question, as did the old man reply with his question. The new traveler replied, "They were good, friendly, honest people." "Please come in" the old man replied, " You'll find the same kind of people here. "

Anything you can learn from this?

@Portland hobby jogger wrote:

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

Just make it more expensive (airfare, border entry fees, etc.) and a bit inconvenient (visas required for each country, strict limits on how long you can stay, etc.). That will limit how many people travel and where. The problem is cheap flights and free travel in "zones" like the EU where people run through multiple nations and urban areas just so they can brag that they visited 10 countries on their vacation.

That's your big idea? Make it too expensive for most people to be able to travel and experience the world?

Travelling was a better experience when fewer people were doing it.

TAA wrote:

@Portland hobby jogger wrote:

That's your big idea? Make it too expensive for most people to be able to travel and experience the world?

Travelling was a better experience when fewer people were doing it.

Well, aren't you special?

You won the prize: Village idiot of the day!

Yes, international travellers should just have to stay in a hotel room for 14 days upon arrival at their destination