Most Americans don't travel abroad. Those that are accustomed to frequent travel for business or leisure are acutely aware of the current situation because it's already blown up their year.
A lot of Americans don’t leave the country anyway, only 42% have passports.
I actually don’t think that’s as damning as many make it out to be: foreign vacations are expensive and the US provides an incredible variety of vacation spots at a much more affordable price. It’s just a shame there isn’t as much exposure to different cultures on those trips.
I just flew from JFK -> LHR via Dublin last week. Quarantine for two weeks, and I could enter Germany as per the UK GOV:
"In line with the European Commission recommendation, from 2 July Germany is gradually lifting restrictions on entry from third states where the COVID-19 epidemiological situation is improving. The rules concern travellers’ place of immediate prior stay, not their nationality."
(I'm not going to leave the UK or even the flat I'm in for the matter). Travel in COVID Era is stressful, but once you are out of the US "illness free" for two weeks, it seems like a US citizen wouldn't be barred.
I think they go by your current permanent residence or citizenship, not which country you came from last, otherwise it would be fairly easy to get into the EU just by quarantining in stopover country.
Most Americans wouldn't get on an airplane right now if you paid them. If I go on a vacation this year, it'll be in a car with my family, not in a cramped aluminum tube sharing infected air with hundreds of strangers.
Most Americans just don't tremendously care. I wouldn't travel internationally right now even if I could; look at what happened to the British tourists in Spain, who got a surprise 2 week quarantine order dropped on them.
This is a gross overstatement of the current situation. I have family who work at international airports and a large portion of travel is still to destinations outside the country. Besides, most Americans don't want to travel right now. Passenger aircraft are running at a fraction of their normal capacity - even after adjusting for the pandemic. There are few reasons to travel right now when it comes to business or vacation.
What does it even mean to be "trapped" in America? It's the third largest country in the world by landmass. It takes three to five days to drive across the country. How can you be trapped in a country that is so large, a single human can barely comprehend it?
Mostly because they're not trapped in their on country. US passports grant access most places still... maybe not as many as before, but much of the world is / will still be open to them.
