Onno (VK6FLAB)
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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In my experience, Sarcasm and Satire appear to have cultural hooks that prevent them from translating well online.
I’m not a Telegram user, but the internet says: https://www.ticktechtold.com/export-telegram-chat-messages/
7·5 days agoVLC over a VPN?
22·5 days agoDoes Hungary abide by the International Criminal Court?
6·5 days agoDoes Hungary abide by the International Criminal Court?
At no point did I state when these statements were made, or for what purpose. For example, Mexico specifically warns about Measles, no doubt the first of more to come.
How the list I’ve created is used, is entirely up to the individual contemplating travel.
If you actually READ the sentence above the growing list of countries, you’d see the words “some form of travel warning”.
The Smart Traveller link you keep responding with, lists a whole washing list of “normal” precautions to take when you visit the USA, including but not limited to: protests, violence, terrorism, guns, etc. Seriously, the advice includes getting active shooter training. That’s not normal in any sense of the word.
In addition, the page states that you can apply for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), which if you’d done your research before blasting me, you’d discover is at the heart of many of the warnings issued by other countries. Specifically, if your passport doesn’t match your gender assigned at birth, then your ESTA will, apparently, cause you to be turned back or locked up.
Then there’s this page: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/before-you-go/who-you-are/LGBTQIA
I won’t be losing any sleep about my attempts to inform people about the reality of travelling to the USA at this time.
I’ve updated it a couple of times, it’s getting longer.
gracias
It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Portugal
- United Kingdom
Decades ago this happened on my street with a local accounting company. Complete client files blowing up and down the street.
Given that client contact details were on the files, we contacted them directly. Suffice to say, they were not amused.
When the accountant opened three days later (long weekend), we handed over unidentified files. They didn’t seem to think it was a big deal.
Very glad they were not my accountants.
Source?
Edit: found it https://www.newsweek.com/norway-issues-travel-warning-us-2051890
It appears that Germany has updated their information several times. So much so that your second link gives me a 404 error. There are multiple reports stating that Germany issued a travel warning. The most recent I could find is from three days ago: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/foreign-travel-warnings-about-us-travel.html
There are updates that are older than this that state that Germany changed its report and clarified that they weren’t issuing a travel warning specifically, just heightened caution. That seems like “some form of warning” to me.
Australia has similar wording. While it describes the situation as “Green”, it talks about heightened levels of alert and crime.
This is precisely why I worded my post: “It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:” (emphasis added).
I think that the wording that Germany is using falls under this heading.
If you think about it, these are government announcements, it’s just over two months since the excrement started hitting the rotating equipment.
In that time a country needs to take note of the change in circumstances to its citizens, verify that it’s happening systemically and not occasionally, formulate a response, approve the response, and then publish it.
Much of the border issues didn’t appear to be visible until a month or so ago.
In other words, I think that this is lightening fast as diplomatic responses go.
It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Portugal
- United Kingdom
Overtones of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell - Mk II, next it will be for all Government employees … nah that would never happen … right … right?