Due to the alleged doomsday virus, the State Department has halted almost all passport services.

USA Today:

In an effort to the slow the spread of coronavirus, the U.S. Department of State has temporarily halted its passport services with the exception of travelers who have a “qualified life-or-death emergency.”

The reduced services went into effect March 20 after the department raised a global travel advisory warning Americans not to leave the country.

Citizens who qualify for a passport must have a family emergency that requires them to travel outside the country within 72 hours. Qualified emergencies include serious illnesses or deaths of immediate family members such as a parent, child, spouse or sibling, aunt or uncle.

These travelers will be required to provide proof of the emergency which can be a death certificate or a signed letter from a hospital or medical professional. They will also be asked to show proof of international travel such as an airline ticket.

The Department of State did not say when it would resume normal passport services.

This is Soviet Union type bullshit we are seeing here where the government is enforcing all sorts of restrictions on the movement of its people. It’s insane that the average person can’t even get a passport now because of this alleged mystery doomsday virus.

There’s no logical reason to suspend passport services with all the other global travel bans already in place. It appears as if they instead want to limit the amount of people who can leave the country once everyone realizes that the economy has been totally destroyed.

But sure, keep telling yourself that America is a free country. It hasn’t been a free country for a very long time.