USA Mega Trip - July & August 2022
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Every time I think about flying, I just look at the news and am reminded that Toronto (YYZ) is a complete disaster. Lost luggage, cancelled flights, angry passengers due to the luggage and flights, and just an over all shitshow regarding ever changing regulations and testing requirements. We have won the number one spot in the world for cancelled and delayed flights.
Numerous times I keep thinking I'm going to try working this out where I can go to Gosport for the Anniversary Party but I just look at the news and shake my head…
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I mean, I assume you can't get on a plane to head home if you're positive
well I was just thinking about this the other day. you can, because most countries no longer require pre departure tests or on arrival tests any more. whether you should is a totally different question..
Oh boy, I didn't like flying to begin with! Didn't realize they stopped requiring a negative test. Do they scan foreheads still?
tbh, forehead test does fuck all. not everyone will run a temperature.
I've done quite a few trips internationally towards the end of the pandemic (end 2021). Then, you'd require both departure and arrival test and loads of document checks. but between then and now, a lot of requirements have been relaxed (almost minimal to none) bar a few countries that are reluctant to do so..
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I mean, I assume you can't get on a plane to head home if you're positive
well I was just thinking about this the other day. you can, because most countries no longer require pre departure tests or on arrival tests any more. whether you should is a totally different question..
Oh boy, I didn't like flying to begin with! Didn't realize they stopped requiring a negative test. Do they scan foreheads still?
tbh, forehead test does fuck all. not everyone will run a temperature.
I've done quite a few trips internationally towards the end of the pandemic (end 2021). Then, you'd require both departure and arrival test and loads of document checks. but between then and now, a lot of requirements have been relaxed (almost minimal to none) bar a few countries that are reluctant to do so..
I agree that the forehead test isn't great, but it's indicative of at least a minor amount of caring about COVID. If they're not even zapping foreheads, they just don't care.
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The show must go on…
Tested negative on Sunday, and again yesterday so back in an airport. This time Jet Blue @ JFK and heading down to the Bahamas for a bit of a vacation and some time working remote before heading into Charlotte.
Huzzah! Glad to hear it, Alex! Enjoy your time off.
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They do make metal detectors that can detect fevers though. That should probably be pretty widespread at ports of entry given the pandemic-riddled future ahead of us.
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If they're not even zapping foreheads, they just don't care.
Or they have determined that the risks are so slight, that it's just not worth it. I had to jump through a lot of hoops to enter Japan, but one of those hoops was not a forehead zap…..
I guess that's fair.
Every friend or family member that has traveled lately by plane has caught it. But maybe it wasn't transmitted on the plane, maybe it was at the airport or at a restaurant. Who knows.
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I'm pretty relaxed on the plane, not so in the scrum that is the airport…..
I don't think I would hate flying as much as I do if the whole process were more casual. Sorta just saunter into the airport, get served a drink on a platter, have someone walk up and take your bag, walk into the plane and enjoy the ride. Make it more like I'm being seated at a restaurant and less like I'm going away for 20 years for armed robbery
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People have forgotten how to act. Brandi tells me on almost every flight of a neighbor doing something unconscionable like watching TV without headphones at full volume, or flossing, or ignoring their kids as they kick chairs and scream uncontrollably (those kids have approximately a 0% chance of not becoming assholes themselves, and perhaps are well on their way already).
The human race is devolving into a cluster of islands unaccountable to anyone but oneself, and without a care about anyone else.
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Now you have touched a nerve.
A couple of flights ago, on the way back from Morocco, I sat next to a (quite large) guy, who watched shite on his phone for the whole flight, with no headphones.
When we landed, he asked me if he could use my phone to call his taxi, because he had run his phone battery to zero.
I told him that he could fuck right off…..
The next 10 minutes were a little uncomfortable, but FFS.....
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Getting stares for holding a door open still shocks me. I'm not trying to do anything sinister, just being polite and using some manners instilled in me from an early age. I am teaching my kids the same manners…just imagine the travesty and consequences for their futures...
