martyp
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I wouldn’t worry about your own personal health and you have received some good advice about masks. You may want to think about getting tested when you return home.
Canada is on the amber list.
We are the forgotten group of people as far as all the rhetoric is concerned about travel, dining out, etc. DH is on meds that suppress his immune system and is fully vaccinated but current studies are indicating he may have zero protection from COVID. We have/had? a trip planned to Florida for late Fall but will probably cancel now. Just too risky for him.
Hopefully he will get an opportunity to get a booster shot if it's approved soon but with no way, still, of knowing if he will get any long lasting immunity we can't make any travel plans. His doctors have said we are to behave as if he was never vaccinated at all (mask at all times, socially distance).
Just wanted to bring up that there are some people trapped between 'I'm vaccinated, wearing a mask and fine' and 'not vaccinated and don't care'. We are vaccinated and still at high risk. So to answer the OP's question, apprehensive, yes, very much so.
For what it is worth I live in the most dangerous county and city in Florida with regards to cases of Covid and especially the Delta variant. The hospitals are maxed out and they are again putting non-Covid medical patients in areas converted from lunch rooms, waiting rooms, etc. To compound the problem is the burn out from the doctors, nurses, and other medical staff making the burden on them even greater. The vaccination rate is no greater than 50% and most (90+%) of the Covid patients have not received any vaccine.... current studies are indicating he may have zero protection from COVID. We have/had? a trip planned to Florida for late Fall but will probably cancel now. Just too risky for him.
...His doctors have said we are to behave as if he was never vaccinated at all (mask at all times, socially distance).
We are in the exact same position with DH's autoimmune disease and medications. So frustrating. DH is exploring getting a booster vaccine now before FDA approval, evidently many people are doing that.
Stop worrying about it and live your life.
Stop worrying about it and live your life.
I am responding to the original post. I re-read it and I do not see a reference to a suppressed autoimmune system.I’m sorry, but which post are you responding to? Hopefully not one expressing concern about covid risk with a suppressed autoimmune system.
Going to Puerto Rico requires either proving being fully vaccinated or a negative test. Coming back does not require the negative test since it's not considered outside the US. At least this is what I've found out in planning my trip there. So yeah, if you want to dive, that's probably a good option. I quit SCUBA many years ago, but still free dive. I just bought an underwater camera good to 26 feet, which I could exceed if something interesting appears.You can avoid this problem by going to the USVI. COVID test required to enter, but not when returning.
Exactly. People who expect Covid to go away are living in a fantasy. I often hear people say..."When the pandemic is over I am going to...." And I ask "How will you know when it is over?" I haven't gotten a clear answer to that question yet.For travel I am cautious but not panicked. One has to accept the fact that COVID-19 will be with us for the rest of our lives.
God willing, next week at this time I'll be in Anchorage waiting for my flight to Juneau. I just broke down and scheduled a COVID test for $165 that guarantees next-day results rather than the no-cost-to-me version at CVS that says "typically" 1-2 days. I do not want to get results after I'm already en route. Cruise line requires a negative test.
And I'm flying American. Oh, joy. I checked the status of my most mission-critical flight (Chicago-Anchorage) last night and it was scheduled for 5:50 PM, moved to 7:30 and at 7:30 it was moved to 9:30 but eventually took off at 8:30. Nerve-wracking but that would work- my flight to Juneau is at 11 the next AM. My flight from my home airport to ORD has a 5-hour layover in ORD - just in case.
And this is why I'm a control freak about scheduling my own flights and why I'm grateful to be retired- I can do overnights both ways and not burn vacation days.
Exactly. People who expect Covid to go away are living in a fantasy. I often hear people say..."When the pandemic is over I am going to...." And I ask "How will you know when it is over?" I haven't gotten a clear answer to that question yet.
Exactly. People who expect Covid to go away are living in a fantasy. I often hear people say..."When the pandemic is over I am going to...." And I ask "How will you know when it is over?" I haven't gotten a clear answer to that question yet.
I'm also not going to travel internationally if there are moving targets on what is open, what's not, and what I can do when I go there.
I really want to go to Ireland but am putting it off for a year because it would be horrible to get there and things closed because of the virus.