Pentagon bans these three states for travel by US service members

[sarge43]

Source: Newsweek

The Department of Defense announced Monday are prohibited for travel by its service members because of the constant spreading of COVID-19. Those do not include the recent flared up hot spots of Texas and Arizona.

California, Florida and Michigan are now the three that service members are not allowed to travel, whether it's for leisure, temporary duty or permanent change of station, the Military Times reported.



Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-bans-these-3-statestravels-us-service-members-1514252

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If Texas is included later while CA and FL are still on the banned list, that will lock down a fair share of service personnel.

[DURHAM D]

1. Why Michigan? nt

[IowaGuy]

4. I know, that makes no sense at all. They have been one of the few states that is having success (nt)

[DURHAM D]

8. Pentagon just wanted to ding a female.

They are sooooo tried of dealing with all the successful women in the military and civilian life.

[Sanity Claws]

5. That was my question too

I thought Michigan had CV under control.

[denem]

6. Squirrel

[lagomorph777]

11. Whaaat? First, issuing travel advisories inside the USA is a sign of major breakdown.

Second, wouldn't it make more sense to, um, target the states with the biggest problems?

[sarge43]

13. Just a guess

According to the CDC, Michigan's ratio of deaths to cases is on or about ten percent.

MI: Deaths-6157; Cases-69,946

CA: Deaths-5905; Cases-211,243

FL: Deaths-3419; Cases-138,567

FWIW

[progree]

17. Michigan -- a slight uptick recently, very very low on a per-capita basis

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
See the little graphs of the 50 states.
By default they are on a per-capita basis so that states can be compared fairly
"All charts are shown on the same scale. "
Michigan is the 8th graph on this page (I haven't figured out how they come up with an order)
Look how currently it is trivial compared to almost all the other states
Even at its long-ago peak it wasn't that much compared to many states.

Click on any state's graph to bring up larger graphs and stats for that state, e.g. Michigan
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/michigan-coronavirus-cases.html

[IronLionZion]

2. They need to add Texas and Arizona sooner, not later

[BComplex]

3. A bunch of the military bases ARE in Texas.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

12. I think that's what this is about.

[sarge43]

18. At any given moment a sizeable portion of US armed forces is slutting around in Texas

"If you haven't been stuck in TX at least once, you haven't gotten the most out of your enlistment." For example, all Air Force enlistees are trained at Lackland Plane Patch just outside of San Ton.

[Newest Reality]

7. I just want to shout out to..

I just want to shout out to all those dishonorable village idiots out there displaying facial nudity in public places as an obscene gesture of disrespect and wanton disregard for the health of their fellow Americans and who whine, complain and yell about their own, selfish rights like toddlers, which clearly demonstrates that they don't understand that rights and freedom are reciprocal and depend on one's honor.

Y'all really need a brutal dictator like your Dear Daddy Leader, but we reasonable, intelligent adults don't. Languishing in your arrested development and playing in adolescent fantasies has a price and we are not going to pay for that.

Great job, COVID-19 enablers.

[mwb970]

10. They say "The government can't tell me what to do."

Then they stop and wait at a red traffic light.

[Newest Reality]

16. Yup!

Oh, and the tyranny of having to wear seat belts! It's communism.

What about the oppressive idea of having to drive in only one, mandated direction on each side of the road, huh? The nerve! Our Forefathers would have had something to say about that.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

14. Call them Spreaders

Probably dangerous from an STD standpoint too.

[Lonestarblue]

25. They're Republican Party Super spreaders.

Thanks to them, no one will be allowed to travel to any EU countries anytime soon. They’re too stupid to see that no travel hurts the US airline industry, and EU citizens will not travel here because they would have to quarantine upon their return. Businesses that depend on travel of their employees to other countries will also be hurt. Thanks, Republicans. You and your Loser President have done a great job of screwing over this country.

[vsrazdem]

9. Well, AZ had 4682 new cases today, so they should be adding it. We are working our way up fast.

[marybourg]

19. Catch-up from yesterday.

[vsrazdem]

20. Yup, I figured it was coming today, and Tuesdays are usually the worst days, so I actually thought

it would be worse.

[marybourg]

22. Yes, when you average it in with yesterday's,

it seems kinda low. We’ll see tomorrow!

[keithbvadu2]

15. Approved by Commander in Chief of course.

[mahannah]

21. Does this include the Commander in Chief?

[elleng]

23. California, Florida and Michigan are now the three that service members are not allowed to travel.

[Tommymac]

24. Hmmm...seems like the Military is quietly neutralizing themselves...

to prevent Donnie from trying to call them out against American citizens.

First the Intelligence community isolates His Orange Highness from the world and his own citizens...

and their cousins in uniform are following suit.

This will make me sleep a little easier.

[tinrobot]

26. So the Commander in Chief can't go to Florida, either?

Asking for a friend.