Originally Posted by Visconti

And, combined with LETTERBOY's accurately pointing out that most Americans, for whatever reason, just don't care about traveling abroad. So, it makes perfect sense for both politicians and gov't bureaucrats to simply play it safe. You can just see all those "meetings about the meeting" just to give the impression that they're working diligently on accomplishing something. By keeping the ban, if there's another waive, they'll just say things would have been far worse if they didn't insist on the restrictions; and, conversely, if things improved, they can cite that it wouldn't have been the case had they not continued the restrictions. Win/win for them, but a lost for the rest of us who have business interests and/or family abroad.