{"id":226,"date":"2021-12-01T18:24:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=226"},"modified":"2021-12-04T00:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:59:51","slug":"travel-industry-pushes-back-on-illogical-travel-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2021\/12\/01\/travel-industry-pushes-back-on-illogical-travel-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel industry pushes back on illogical travel bans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Roger Dow, CEO of the US Travel Association, is questioning the logic of President Joe Biden&#8217;s travel restrictions, imposed on South Africa and seven neighboring countries following the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant.<\/p><p>&#8220;We want them to revisit this quickly,&#8221; Dow told CNN in a phone interview. &#8220;We need to follow the science \u2014 and a travel ban is not the most effective way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/01\/business\/omicron-travel-ban-push-back\/index.html\">Travel CEO calls for Biden to quickly revisit Omicron travel ban<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no logic to the travel bans on South Africa considering that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/medical\/covid-19-omicron-was-in-europe-before-southern-africa-travel-bans\/ar-AARl773\"> Omicron has been found in other countries before South Africa<\/a>, and those other countries are not travel restricted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update Dec 3:<\/strong> Now confirmed in 38 countries and 8 U.S. states. The travel bans went into effect AFTER the virus was already circulating most everywhere. The bans, the testing regimes will do nothing to prevent this from spreading now. I will not update this again as it is now clear that Omicron (an anagram of Moronic) is off and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"958\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron.jpg 728w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-46x60.jpg 46w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Dow, CEO of the US Travel Association, is questioning the logic of President Joe Biden&#8217;s travel restrictions, imposed on South Africa and seven neighboring countries following the emergence of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-regulatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}