Normally I have 20-30 page views per day, As of 15:00 I had 29,500 page views for today. The geographic distribution was:
France 10382
Belgium 4189
Philippines 2392
Kuwait 1443
Spain 262
United States 17
On an hourly basis there were 1200-1800 page views since 0900 this morning.
The views of individual pages were from 17 to 27 for a total 203. That means most of these “users” were accessing the site rather than individual pages.
I made my first blogger entry on 2006-09-15 and I have made 2597 posts. The most page views of a post - 292 on “Mike Peters ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’”. Today’s traffic accounts for over 1/6th of eleven years of traffic.
I have no idea why this spike has occurred. And why only outside the United States. I do know that I have had a large number of views from France. I don’t know why. I have only three acquaintances in France and I’ve lost contact with two of them.
Showing posts with label foreign visitors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign visitors. Show all posts
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Can travelers stop Trump?
I thought I saw an article in BBC News that many people in other countries who could travel to the U.S. are choosing to go elsewhere. For example, a British professor who received a travel grant decided to use it to travel to a conference not in the U.S. In addition, travel to the U.S. supposedly is down. Is this seasonal or because of Trump.
Trump’s travel ban is having an effect on doctors for small towns. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/doctor-shortage-visa-policy.html. Many of these small towns depend on foreign doctors because many U.S. doctors aren’t interested in working in low-paying areas.
I wonder how much people leaving the U.S. and people not considering can put a crimp in the support of Trump.
What if all those U.S. residents who are foreign-born decided to go elsewhere? I have many foreign-born friends, some who are also citizens. I would not like to see them leave. But as with the doctors, if large numbers of engineers, professors, programmers moved outside the U.S., would the U.S. economy be hurt enough to get many of Trump’s enablers to abandon him?
What if large numbers of temporary visitors decided to go elsewhere? Would the travel industry feel it enough to complain to politicians.
If this came to pass, I know who Trump would blame: me.
Actually probably not me, but I’m sure he would find lots of scapegoats other than himself.
An additional thought along these lines. How much do U.S. travelers enable other anti-democratic leaders? Could a large enough boycott have an effect on these leaders, or would their countries become another North Korea?
Trump’s travel ban is having an effect on doctors for small towns. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/doctor-shortage-visa-policy.html. Many of these small towns depend on foreign doctors because many U.S. doctors aren’t interested in working in low-paying areas.
I wonder how much people leaving the U.S. and people not considering can put a crimp in the support of Trump.
What if all those U.S. residents who are foreign-born decided to go elsewhere? I have many foreign-born friends, some who are also citizens. I would not like to see them leave. But as with the doctors, if large numbers of engineers, professors, programmers moved outside the U.S., would the U.S. economy be hurt enough to get many of Trump’s enablers to abandon him?
What if large numbers of temporary visitors decided to go elsewhere? Would the travel industry feel it enough to complain to politicians.
If this came to pass, I know who Trump would blame: me.
Actually probably not me, but I’m sure he would find lots of scapegoats other than himself.
An additional thought along these lines. How much do U.S. travelers enable other anti-democratic leaders? Could a large enough boycott have an effect on these leaders, or would their countries become another North Korea?
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