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Frankly all this stuff seems to be randomly enforced. We just returned from a cruise (hey, we did the Camino in October so I don't feel unwelcome here) and had to do some PLFs (passenger locator forms) for Greece, (embarkation port), Italy (disembarkation port) and the EU in addition to a...
We had an Iberia direct SFO-MAD flight booked for October when they cancelled it and changed us to a very inconvenient connection in Chicago. I called and got a complete refund.
The USA is the only country that specifically includes the geographic locus "America" in its formal name. Other countries on the two American continents have not chosen to do so, and thus have to a certain extent abdicated the logic of complaining that the USA has unilaterally appropriated the...
I'll bet that if you were a hotel or restaurant owner dependent on the tourist trade you'd think it was pretty unfair to see your business go under while waiting for everyone to get vaccinated. The sooner this economic damage can be undone the better for everyone, traveler or not.
True, but the fact that after millions of vaccinations worldwide there have been no (to my knowledge) reports of a vaccinated person carrying an infectious viral load is a pretty good sign, particularly because there are epidemiologists all over the place looking for just this thing. There will...
It's worth noting that several countries are considering opening to foreign tourists who have a "vaccination passport" whose exact format is yet to be determined. Thailand, for example, has a tentative plan to do this from July 1. Countries highly dependent on tourism have a powerful incentive...
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