Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. It is my desperate hope this might be seen by @SpainInTheUSA @France24_en @franceintheus @BBCNews @10DowningStreet @UKinUSA @GermanyinUSA @ItalyinUS @SwedeninUSA @NorwayUS Please RT to them often.

A huge number of Americans - likely all untested for COVID-19 - are coming...

2...to your nations in far larger numbers than usual starting as soon as Saturday. You need to impose a quarantine on us to stop this. We have no idea how many of them could be infected because we are not testing. They could infect you - or get infected and come back soon...

3...infecting everyone on airplanes and then exploding the infection here.

I have spent days trying to convince about 20 kids I know from *one* college NOT to go to Europe for Spring Break. The response: "Trump says its no big deal" "I'd rather die there than here" "I don't...

4...want to miss vacation" "young people are fine if they get it." After days and days of giving them information - including telling them if they go they might not get back - I finally convinced them. But other kids at the same college or the 1000s of colleges around the USA...

5...do not have someone drilling down with facts - or scaring them with the idea that they could miss the rest of the semester. *Untold thousands of them could be coming starting Saturday.*

Worse, this is a cohort with big probability of infection....

6...they are packed in together, living in dorms, sharing bathrooms, touching everything everywhere. Any attempt at controlling the pandemic could be undermined by this single event.

You have to quarantine the United States, and forbid us from coming to you. You, as competent...

7...officials from countries that are living in reality rather than the delusions pushed out by our leader - know that this one event could be the tipping point of a COVID-19 explosion - with our untested students bringing it to you or them coming back and bringing from you...

8... to us, then packing back in where they will be exposed to millions of others in very close proximity. *We will do nothing.* *Our president does not care, lies that COVID-19 is so insignificant that people with it should go to work.* Whenever he lies, our government acts to..

9...prove him right by withholding or manufacturing information, or punishing truthtellers.

We wont have testing kids anytime soon. Government is slow-walking them, undoubtedly to keep facts from contradicting Trump.

Quarantine us. It's the only way we can save each other.

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