How is the corona virus affecting you?

The Velvet Curtain said:
Thailand has just been put on the UK red travel list, it looks like I won't be having a pint with Yorky any time soon. :cry:
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At least you can actually get out of the UK. Fingers crossed my parents get to fly to Tenerife before the UK decides to do the same to Spain! They are trying to sell their apartment there (as a result of my step father's decreasing mobility and also what it cost them financially to be stranded in Australia for 6 months).

I can't get out of New South Wales (and I'm still a British citizen) despite being fully vaccinated.
 
Deaths from Covid in Texas are up 138-percent this week over last week. Meanwhile, our Governor issued a new Executive Order prohibiting any government entity in Texas from requiring vaccinations. That would include requirements for State and local employees and school teachers or students. Texas government just doesn't seem to be in sync with reality.

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caseydog said:
I am flying for the first time since Covid. Lots of masks. Otherwise, it looks pretty normal.

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My parents experience was different.
On Sunday, they are flying for a second time since covid and they have had to get paper copies of vaccination certificates, will have had to had various covid tests done each way and have already had their return flight changed twice... they are understandably anxious.
 
10 weeks into lockdown and Christmas has been indicated as to when we may get out of it. At least I know I will have to get all my Christmas shopping done online this year, cards included (my 25th wedding anniversary falls over Christmas. With any luck we'll get to spend the day at the beach as per normal. Fingers crossed but I'm not counting on it...

Hopefully ACT will come out of lockdown earlier than NSW and we'll get some restrictions lifted being border residents... Currently we get to stick to both sets of (different) rules.
 
We fly on Sunday, we have paper and electronic copies of our certificates, have completed and printed the locator form for Greece and have ordered our tests for return to the UK. For us it's just extra admin. The annoying part is that we will jump through these hoops imposed by the British government knowing full well that nothing will be checked when we come home.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
We fly on Sunday, we have paper and electronic copies of our certificates, have completed and printed the locator form for Greece and have ordered our tests for return to the UK. For us it's just extra admin. The annoying part is that we will jump through these hoops imposed by the British government knowing full well that nothing will be checked when we come home.
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That's pretty much how my parents feel but with Spain the locator form can't be done until 48 hrs before travel (assuming I paid any attention to my mother on Sunday night my time :whistling: )
 
Mentioning proof of vaccination...that's another area that shows how disjointed things can be here, because we prefer to delegate as much as possible.

There's no federal digital vaccine record. We get big paper ones that we carry around (easy to counterfeit, but that's another story). The feds have left it up to the states to do that.

My state isn't doing that (yet). They're leaving it up to the vaccine provider to manage. That means my wife, who got her shots at CVS, has a digital record, while I, who got mine at Kroger, do not.

I'm hoping Kroger comes around soon and rolls something out for a digital record. Otherwise, I'm stuck with some dog-eared piece of paper that some places may not even accept as proof.

Latest counts: my state is 47.99% fully vacc'd, my county is 38.05%. It took weeks and weeks and still more weeks to get from 36% to 37%, while 37% to 38% took just two weeks. I'm attributing that to the bump from getting the Pfizer vaccine fully approved.
 
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