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> Passports for EU citizens aren't stamped anywhere in the EU. I live in Denmark. Would the USA know if I flew to the UK, then the USA? This kind of question i

> Passports for EU citizens aren't stamped anywhere in the EU. I live in Denmark. Would the USA know if I flew to the UK, then the USA? This kind of question is a weird one to me. It's like "oh, marijuana prohibition hasn't worked so we should tax it and regulated it". If you're breaking the law, there's sanctions. You may or may not get caught, and you may or may not be penalised, but that imperfection doesn't decide if it's valid or not. The jails in every country have murderers in them, but murder has been illegal since time immemorial. No-one proposes that we allow murder because with the prohibition we simply wind up with people in prison. And there's a big difference between free movement of people versus a limited funnel of people. If it's still early enough, that could make the difference between something that is containable and something that is not, and it might make the difference between ICUs that can cope with the peak and being completely overwhelmed. (However, I think the horse has already bolted on this one.)

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
it's a legit question which is the pillar of (software) security thinking. It's called parallel or adversarial thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking what would work in that case is take the Channel Tunnel to England, then lie about how long you've stayed in the UK. It probably wouldn't work if you have taken a flight out/in the EU in the past months as that would show up to any customs official.
Symbiote 7y ago
We saw many people in Italy fled south by train and car in the hours before quarantine was to be imposed in parts of the north. I wouldn't be surprised if some people in Europe are making similar "escape plans" via the UK, if they feel they need to be in the USA for some reason. As an example: a parent of an international student, whose university in the USA has just been shut down.

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago

it's a legit question which is the pillar of (software) security thinking. It's called parallel or adversarial thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking what would work in that case is take the Channel Tunnel to England, then lie about how long you've stayed in the UK. It probably wouldn't work if you have taken a flight out/in the EU in the past months as that would show up to any customs official.

Symbiote 7y ago

We saw many people in Italy fled south by train and car in the hours before quarantine was to be imposed in parts of the north. I wouldn't be surprised if some people in Europe are making similar "escape plans" via the UK, if they feel they need to be in the USA for some reason. As an example: a parent of an international student, whose university in the USA has just been shut down.