Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] Air travel chaos
From: jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:53:22 -0400
References: <DE826721-9640-4552-8811-671399E46874@frozenlight.eu> <aecd53435d16a663dfcf42166fdf35e1@reid.org>

Brian:

The? European travel ban is being extended to Ireland and the U.K., 
effective at midnight on Monday.

More here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-updates-cases-fears-deaths-us-latest-2020-03-15/
 


JimH

Sent from my Linux-Ubuntu desktop :-)



On 3/15/20 7:18 AM, Brian Reid wrote:
> I'm in London, which looks mostly normal when seen out a hotel room 
> window, but when you get down to the street the anxiety is palpable. 
> I'm cutting my trip short, flying out of Heathrow tomorrow, hoping to 
> get home to crawl underneath my own bed and hide. But I have read that 
> there are hours-long arrival lines in US airports for poorly-planned 
> "health screening"; I'll probably catch the virus from a fellow 
> traveler while waiting in crowded lines to be scanned for fever.
>
> Since this is a photography forum, here's a photograph of the reason 
> I'm in London.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/family/nora-12mos.jpg.html
>
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In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/3/2020: ghost town)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/3/2020: ghost town)