Looks like things are escalating Patriots. Stay safe and Godspeed.
Edit: “The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19. In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States, unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period.
At present the Department of State is making every effort to assist U.S. citizens overseas who wish to return to the United States. As the Covid-19 situation develops, our ability to provide such assistance working with commercial airlines or arranging for evacuation flights may become more limited or even unavailable. In recent weeks, commercial airlines have significantly reduced flight schedules and countries have closed airports and borders with little advance notice. If you wish to return to the United States, you should make arrangements to do so now and contact the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate for assistance as needed. There is no guarantee that the Department of State will be able to continue to provide repatriation assistance and transportation options to the United States may be unavailable in the future. If you choose to remain overseas, you should be prepared to remain where you are for the foreseeable future.”
Most likely indicates all international travel will be shut down completely shorty. The pieces are in place for it, they got a bailout for the airlines. The State department telling you to get out NOW lends to that. They are arranging flights to get people home, they have been for a while, but this will be your last chance to get home or you will be stuck where you are shortly.
11pm isn't really that bad. Especially when everything closed at midnight before this anyways. I don't have this need to visit the bar right now anyways.
But I guess I'm supposed to believe that a bed time makes me "less free" than the inability to live overseas without the IRS wanting to be involved in every part of my life while NOT living in America.
Lots of cuckpedes angry at you because you dared to suggest America isn't perfect. Fact is a lot of expats have said the same thing. America is far less free than these idiots pretend and while Trump is doing what he can, over half the population is completely worthless.
Hey put out a public notice, check the internet make your own masks use the 3M or what ever brand of furnace filters with the higher then 1900 to filter out viruses! Open them up make a cotton cover staple in place. We built a whole navy after Pearl Harbor! Where are those ladies saying they can do anything! Step up ladies, dig out grandma’s old sewing machines and get to work!
That probably won't work out well for you and you may want to rethink.
Most American expats are very used to being in the specialized or valued class where they reside, and major crisis' with suddenly difficult times and/or resources for locals tends to create hostility/shunning/marginalizing towards "outsiders"; and trust me, YOU are an outsider still.
This is in all sincerity, things turn on a dime:
1 I have a co-grandparent to some of my grandbabies who relocated to northern Thailand 3 years back including a Thai girlfriend and supporting most of her extended family, wide expat community, successful work there and a house; he was back here visiting grandkids etc like he does regularly when it hit the fan in Wuhan, and said girlfriend a week later basically said don't return until who know when, no work or food in town and patrols, and she was back in isolated hillfarm compound with family.
2 I have a nephew who refused to return from Shanghai as the lockdowns there expanded. He has spent the majority of years since mid high school either joint learning or teaching in China with only fairly short legs in the US- diplomatic, biz, economics, language degrees now. Told his parents who had secured a very difficult to get ticket and transport for him from Stateside that he was hunkering down in his apartment and had food for a month, not to worry. They haven't heard anything from him (an extremely engaged and loving only child btw) after about 5 weeks in and most between was minimal. He may be just cut off techwise due to all the censoring, but.... yeah.
Do NOT think you are immune to being Othered and assume life will continue being good for you in whatever country you are in. Tribalism is real.
I left 5 years ago. I speak the language. Most every business in a mile radius knows who I am because it's not a tourist area and probably 4 other expats. There's plenty of food. Expat communities are where you get othered, because you live in an othered area by nature. I appreciate what you're saying, but from day one I've spent my time living as a local instead of living among them.
Looks like things are escalating Patriots. Stay safe and Godspeed.
Edit: “The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19. In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States, unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period. At present the Department of State is making every effort to assist U.S. citizens overseas who wish to return to the United States. As the Covid-19 situation develops, our ability to provide such assistance working with commercial airlines or arranging for evacuation flights may become more limited or even unavailable. In recent weeks, commercial airlines have significantly reduced flight schedules and countries have closed airports and borders with little advance notice. If you wish to return to the United States, you should make arrangements to do so now and contact the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate for assistance as needed. There is no guarantee that the Department of State will be able to continue to provide repatriation assistance and transportation options to the United States may be unavailable in the future. If you choose to remain overseas, you should be prepared to remain where you are for the foreseeable future.”
Bro you just got stickied in the middle of the night! Congratulations!
Holy shit. That’s a first for me. It only took the fucking apocalypse!
It's the Democrats 2020 election strategy.
Maybe this is all a fever dream because I feel like I’ve seen this show before. Perhaps like that show, we all already have it.
L M F A OOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Funniest thing I've ever seen on here.
We got to try and laugh don’t we fren😜
Nothing new here. Already hard to travel internationally. So many stories of people trapped in this country or that. These stories are weeks old.
The government just doesn't want to have to do special flights to other countries. Which tbh using military planes. Wouldnt be that hard to do.
Not really an escalation of anything.
Most likely indicates all international travel will be shut down completely shorty. The pieces are in place for it, they got a bailout for the airlines. The State department telling you to get out NOW lends to that. They are arranging flights to get people home, they have been for a while, but this will be your last chance to get home or you will be stuck where you are shortly.
Cool. See ya never, loser.
Hahahahahahaha I just laughed like crazy at that!
^ Deserves .WIN-GOLD!
Have fun with your........ curfew?
The virus...it only comes out at night, ya know!
Haha I know... You would think that would be the best time to go out. And he is calling us dumb!
It’s a maneater.
11pm isn't really that bad. Especially when everything closed at midnight before this anyways. I don't have this need to visit the bar right now anyways.
But I guess I'm supposed to believe that a bed time makes me "less free" than the inability to live overseas without the IRS wanting to be involved in every part of my life while NOT living in America.
Perspective. It's a hell of a drug.
Your username is perfect for you
Getting taxed twice is totally freedom though!
Lots of cuckpedes angry at you because you dared to suggest America isn't perfect. Fact is a lot of expats have said the same thing. America is far less free than these idiots pretend and while Trump is doing what he can, over half the population is completely worthless.
Not if they succeed in forcing "mail-in" ass-kicking attempts only.
Hey put out a public notice, check the internet make your own masks use the 3M or what ever brand of furnace filters with the higher then 1900 to filter out viruses! Open them up make a cotton cover staple in place. We built a whole navy after Pearl Harbor! Where are those ladies saying they can do anything! Step up ladies, dig out grandma’s old sewing machines and get to work!
You think any liberal woman born in the past 30 years knows how to sew?
That probably won't work out well for you and you may want to rethink.
Most American expats are very used to being in the specialized or valued class where they reside, and major crisis' with suddenly difficult times and/or resources for locals tends to create hostility/shunning/marginalizing towards "outsiders"; and trust me, YOU are an outsider still.
This is in all sincerity, things turn on a dime: 1 I have a co-grandparent to some of my grandbabies who relocated to northern Thailand 3 years back including a Thai girlfriend and supporting most of her extended family, wide expat community, successful work there and a house; he was back here visiting grandkids etc like he does regularly when it hit the fan in Wuhan, and said girlfriend a week later basically said don't return until who know when, no work or food in town and patrols, and she was back in isolated hillfarm compound with family. 2 I have a nephew who refused to return from Shanghai as the lockdowns there expanded. He has spent the majority of years since mid high school either joint learning or teaching in China with only fairly short legs in the US- diplomatic, biz, economics, language degrees now. Told his parents who had secured a very difficult to get ticket and transport for him from Stateside that he was hunkering down in his apartment and had food for a month, not to worry. They haven't heard anything from him (an extremely engaged and loving only child btw) after about 5 weeks in and most between was minimal. He may be just cut off techwise due to all the censoring, but.... yeah.
Do NOT think you are immune to being Othered and assume life will continue being good for you in whatever country you are in. Tribalism is real.
If China really is blaming Americans for spreading this, Americans in China really do need to get out.
good post, TY. updoot
I left 5 years ago. I speak the language. Most every business in a mile radius knows who I am because it's not a tourist area and probably 4 other expats. There's plenty of food. Expat communities are where you get othered, because you live in an othered area by nature. I appreciate what you're saying, but from day one I've spent my time living as a local instead of living among them.
Nice shiny new account you got there Xi, or should I say, Pooh!
So I guess the new hotness is if you question lack of personal safety measures in American society during a virus outbreak, you're a Chinese bot.
Sounds more like leftist speak to me.