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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  • 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.









  • 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.