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2021-02-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

White House looks at domestic travel restrictions as COVID mutation surges in Florida

[Kansas City Star] The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.

Outbreaks of the new variants — including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines — have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said.

Discussions in the administration over potential travel restrictions do not target a specific state but focus on how to prevent the spread of variants that appear to be surging in a number of states, including Florida and California.

"There are active conversations about what could help mitigate spread here, but we have to follow the data and what’s going to work. We did this with South Africa, we did this with Brazil, because we got clear guidance," one White House official said.

"But we’re having conversations about anything that would help mitigate spread," the official said, referring to discussions about new travel restrictions that could target the spread of the U.K. mutation in Florida.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-11 10:45|| || Front Page|| [22 views ] Top

#1 Hmmm....that's the ticket. Shut down all interstate travel. We'll see who screams the loudest first (teach those big blue cities that put you in the seat that its not magic that puts stuff on the shelves).

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-02-11 10:50|| 2021-02-11 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 It is interesting that China virus mutations are named after countries while the China virus itself mustn't be called the China virus.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2021-02-11 11:13|| 2021-02-11 11:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I expect that I might never leave my home state of North Carolina in my lifetime, the way things are going.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-02-11 11:14|| 2021-02-11 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Government travel permits, sounds familiar from somewhere in the Cold War. The Sovietization of America rushes forward at a breakneck pace.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-02-11 12:16|| 2021-02-11 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 First shut down all interstate travel in & out of the DC area, particularly of trucks delivering food & vital supplies.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-02-11 12:23|| 2021-02-11 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Gotta punish people who don't toe the line. Need to make some examples!

Posted by ed in texas 2021-02-11 12:31|| 2021-02-11 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Welcome Back to MAD MAX
-- Enter MAD MAX <-> AMERICAN STYLE 2021 - Where Every County Mountie has an AX to GRIND and uses it !
B-H Style(Biden Harris) with a Pelosi Attitude Pull Over an See
Don't Like what you see,
Well, Chop Chop,
Dystopian America at its Best!
Coming to a Highway, Byway or Interstate near YOU!

Posted by Dino Bumble1005 2021-02-11 16:51|| 2021-02-11 16:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Re #2, recall ancient Jingle Dynasty poem:

A friendly environment [China!]
For little distemperors [China!]
Give your bundle of joy
A head start with this ploy...
For Pandemic Birth Tourism: China!

Posted by Maggie Hupomp2614 2021-02-11 18:00|| 2021-02-11 18:00|| Front Page Top

#9 "I would have liked to have seen Montana."

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-11 18:57|| 2021-02-11 18:57|| Front Page Top

#10 scientists worry can evade existing vaccines

"Science" now includes "worrying"?

Does St. Anthony know this?

Posted by Bobby 2021-02-11 19:14|| 2021-02-11 19:14|| Front Page Top

#11 You will never see Montana or any other state in the Disunited States of America, Mad Max will see to that, just like Cuomo did in Nuevo York some months back, with NJ, PA, CT and VT in tow. The borders they were shut. U R trapped like a batdsh*t crazy rat...enjoy your home while you have it !

Posted by Spats Brown8899 2021-02-11 20:44|| 2021-02-11 20:44|| Front Page Top

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