coming home for a visit this month because
she feared that she wouldn’t then be allowed
back into the United States to finish her course
of schooling there.
There were immediate howls of concern from
the travel industry. Americans also scrambled
to leave Europe too, even though the travel ban
shouldn’t stop them from getting home.
“I’ve been hysterical for two days, so a
complete panic attack about getting home,”
said Helen Neumann from Martha’s Vineyard,
Massachusetts, who was flying to Boston on a
direct flight from Rome on Thursday. “I was like,
I’ve got to get out of here.”
Reynaert expects to postpone her trip and the
Elvis wedding in Vegas to next year.
“We didn’t want to do something conventional
in France,” she said.
Deaux said he’d try to reschedule their voyage
for later this year, in hopes the virus passes.
“When I heard this morning, I was very
disappointed but not surprised,” he said. “All the
preparations, ruined.”