drrich2
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If untested people coming in is such a bad risk, they must be going to crack down hard on illegal immigration.
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If you have to travel for leisure in the midst of a pandemic you are part of the problem not the solution.How so?
Let’s take a hypothetical week trip to Cozumel, Arrival Saturday, somehow manage to forget my mask and I decide to eat inside a restaurant on Wednesday. I very dutifully go for my return home Covid test on Thursday and miraculously get my negative result on Friday so board and return home Saturday. Then develop symptoms on Monday.
How did the test help?
And why on earth was the vaccine option omitted?
An alternative solution that doesn’t shut down entire economies and might actually work, unlike the current plan, would be for people just act more sensibly when they leave their house.If you have to travel for leisure in the midst of a pandemic you are part of the problem not the solution.
and can get the result in the time period to catch your flight.It's sad but true. Here's the CDC press release. Coronavirus Disease 2019
This is going to kill the struggling travel and dive industry. For one, liveaboards are going to lose bookings. How can you possibly get a COVID test when you're on a dive boat and flying home the day you come back to the dock? And if you test positive, you're forced to remain in a foreign country till you test negative.
How did the test help?
But it seems same traveler from Mexico could just hop in a car and drive home...
And why on earth was the vaccine option omitted?
But yet they let you pass with documentation of prior infection, for which there is evidence of less protection than from the vaccine so carries the same or more risk of asymptomatic carriage.Because the WHO has stated that someone with the vaccine could become a asymptomatic carrier of the virus.
But yet they let you pass with documentation of prior infection, for which there is evidence of less protection than from the vaccine so carries the same or more risk of asymptomatic carriage.