Travel restrictions?

Re recent restrictions on "non-essential travel".: just who gets to decide what constitutes "non-essential" travel?

flingebunt2020-11-16T23:48:47Z

It is usually a combination of government, health authorities and immigration bureaucracy. There is usually a set of guidelines, but as they tend to be put in place in a rushed manner, they are open to interpretation. 

Foofa2020-11-12T23:58:32Z

The governments of the individual nations decides. But the general rule of thumb is that it's for citizens returning to their home countries to wait out the pandemic and those who can prove with documentation that they're traveling for what that given nation has decided can be termed "essential business", and that somewhat varies by country. 

Karen L2020-11-11T09:44:40Z

The government gets to decide that.

sunshine_mel2020-11-11T09:06:29Z

Basically - if you don't have to do it (ie for the permitted reasons of going out, eg going to school, going to work if you can't work from home, attending a funeral) - then it's non-essential. 

ANDRE L2020-11-11T04:14:12Z

Since this is the Packing & Preparation section, I suggest you see if you can ship yourself in a FedEx box.

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