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How long these Covid test requirements will continue?
I understand that proof of vaccination must be required. But a negative test? C'mon.
Omicron is already everywhere, there's no escape. The symptoms are milder. Vaccinated people are normally well protected and don't need hospitalization.
Is this really effective enough to justify all of the costs and inconveniences of frequent testing? Imagine you are in the middle of a travel, without any symptoms, and you test positive (because Omicron is highly contagious), consequently needing to quarantine and ruin your trip in a city where half of the population already had Covid anyway.
How long these Covid test requirements will continue?
I understand that proof of vaccination must be required. But a negative test? C'mon.
Omicron is already everywhere, there's no escape. The symptoms are milder. Vaccinated people are normally well protected and don't need hospitalization.
Is this really effective enough to justify all of the costs and inconveniences of frequent testing? Imagine you are in the middle of a travel, without any symptoms, and you test positive (because Omicron is highly contagious), consequently needing to quarantine and ruin your trip in a city where half of the population already had Covid anyway.
Looks like we are just acting.
You are making too much sense.
I have a ski vacation coming up in Switzerland next month with a group of friends. When we first started planning it, testing wasn't required to go over there (just vaccination). They've changed that within the past month, and now I'm a little worried about the trip being ruined at the last minute due to an asymptomatic "positive". Just adds an extra layer of BS that can go wrong. Between that and the random rolling restrictions in various countries, I think I'll be staying away from international travel for a while after this trip.
The requirement of having to test on the return to the US was bad enough, but that's on the back end of the journey and would just be a nuisance having to quarantine overseas (travel insurance to the rescue) until I can test negative (I can work remotely as well). Still silly, as we are definitely not some COVID-safe bubble here.
I'm starting a new job in three weeks. I'm looking into going to Cairo for a week but I'm nervous about going. It's crazy cheap to go right now and it wouldn't be too hot.
Just got home from skiing in Switzerland. Aside from masking on transit, restrictions were dropped on 2/17 (just in time for the trip!) which was quite nice. Very little masking and everything was wide open. We all had a wonderful time - skied hard everyday and partied hard every evening!
CDC is actually doubling down and now recommending testing even for domestic travel so it's highly unlikely to that the international testing requirements are going to be rescinded anytime soon, it's getting to the point of becoming a joke!
How long these Covid test requirements will continue?
I understand that proof of vaccination must be required. But a negative test? C'mon.
Omicron is already everywhere, there's no escape. The symptoms are milder. Vaccinated people are normally well protected and don't need hospitalization.
Is this really effective enough to justify all of the costs and inconveniences of frequent testing? Imagine you are in the middle of a travel, without any symptoms, and you test positive (because Omicron is highly contagious), consequently needing to quarantine and ruin your trip in a city where half of the population already had Covid anyway.
Looks like we are just acting.
I share your opinion and your pain... We have done everything possible with respect to prevention against this virus. People are vaccinated, a lot of us wear masks in closed spaces permanently, people use sanitizer. The new variants of the virus are more infectious but far less dangerous (at least for vaccinated people). I am retired, and was planning to travel all the time in retirement, but if I must stay put due to permanent prohibitive travel restrictions, I might as well just die instead...
I share your opinion and your pain... We have done everything possible with respect to prevention against this virus. People are vaccinated, a lot of us wear masks in closed spaces permanently, people use sanitizer. The new variants of the virus are more infectious but far less dangerous (at least for vaccinated people). I am retired, and was planning to travel all the time in retirement, but if I must stay put due to permanent prohibitive travel restrictions, I might as well just die instead...
Incredibly, it seems I'm the last person that posted in this thread, already a year and a half ago! Well, I managed to wait out the epidemic and post-epidemic without dying :-), and have just been out of the US (to Germany & Austria) for the first time since Covid appeared. Covid seems to have become a total non-issue for travel after all. Nobody except an occasional rare Asian even wears a mask on the plane or train. I don't know whether this is true, but a German guy on the train crossing the totally unmarked and un-noticeable border between Germany and Austria told me that Austrian government recently prohibited masks; he did not know what reason was given for that.
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