Covid and travel discussion

[Toney’s bookie]

These pictures perfectly capture the absurdity of it all from a travel and testing perspective.

Tomorrow, I could swap the cold, dark, Covid ridden UK for a week or 2 on this secluded beach in Thailand.
Instead of having to socialise indoors cos of the shite UK winter weather, I could spend almost my whole time outdoors, in the sunshine, not surrounded by people....and any international tourists I might encounter will have also had to test negative upon arrival into Thailand.
It's about as Covid safe an environment you can get.

Yet to return to the Covid ridden UK, I'd have to test negative before boarding the plane, and test again upon getting home and isolate until the result comes through.
How does that make any sense?
Hardly any other countries have these prohibitive measures on their fully vaccinated nationals returning home.

It's early January before the entry processes for the UK are reviewed, and its high time they stopped treating people who travel abroad like lepers.

It’s just virtue signalling like most of the Covid theatre

 

[Magicpole]

I have got around not being able to get away, by recreating my time in India by hiring beggars to hassle me in my garden, emptying my bins on the grass and digging up the pavement. I have four cows being delivered next week to cut about nonchalantly. I drew the line at drinking Kingfisher beer. Im not fucking mental.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

I have got around not being able to get away, by recreating my time in India by hiring beggars to hassle me in my garden, emptying my bins on the grass and digging up the pavement. I have four cows being delivered next week to cut about nonchalantly. I drew the line at drinking Kingfisher beer. Im not fucking mental.

A tall Bhaang Lassi should help the mind recreate those happy days - Miss traveling in India, it’s just so bad it’s so good

 

[mcfc_ms]

The new rules are shite. My gran has come home from Spain on Friday. Pre departure lateral flow done, day 2 PCR done, triple jabbed. Gets told someone on the plane has tested positive so now has to do lateral Flow tests for the next 7 days.

Exactly the same thing happened last time too. What’s the point of the testing pre departure and post arrival if they clearly don’t work as intended?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I have got around not being able to get away, by recreating my time in India by hiring beggars to hassle me in my garden, emptying my bins on the grass and digging up the pavement. I have four cows being delivered next week to cut about nonchalantly. I drew the line at drinking Kingfisher beer. Im not fucking mental.

You have missed out the diarrhoea.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

You must add running a bath and shitting in it before getting in.

 

[Magicpole]

You have missed out the diarrhoea.

I didnt suffer that.

 

[shemnel]

im guessing any sort of quasi-lockdown from 27th will knacker all this again. What if you're already away?!

 

[Blue Maverick]

Not been away with the family for two summers now, jus5 had a look for a lodge type place in Cornwall in July 2022, £2700 for 7nights self catering, well they can just fuck off. No wonder people go abroad normally.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Got to do our tests
on weds night to travel to Lapland on xmas eve. To say im shitting myself is an understatement.
been doing LFTs regular anyway and up until yesterday was a big negative. Still shitting my nick-nocks though