Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?

[Anonymous]

We have travelled many times and never got COVID. Our kid ended up getting it from a classmate in school despite masks.

[Anonymous]

I think so many more people are getting Covid during travel now than at any other point throughout the pandemic. I’ve traveled internationally several times and was fine, but I am nervous about my upcoming trip. The vast majority of my acquaintances who have recently traveled either got Covid on the trip or on their way back home.

[Anonymous]

Have traveled overseas about 10x over the past year, including a return last week and so far no covid at least as far as I know.

[Anonymous]

We haven't been that careful about travel and have been doing a lot of domestic travel including flights and hotels . We didn't get covid from any of the trips, though we all got Omicron before the winter holiday when my high school kid got it at school and gave it to the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have been cautious but have traveled a good amount since spring of 2021 (not much in the first year of Covid). We are in Puerto Rico right now. My kids caught Covid from classmates over the past spring, but my husband and I are still Covid-free despite traveling to Boston (three times), New York (twice), California (twice), Oregon, Lancaster PA, and probably other places I'm not remembering.

We never ate inside restaurants until we started to very cautiously do so about nine months ago. We mask in all indoor spaces except the rare case when we eat indoors and then we sit far away from other people (if that's not possible, we skip the restaurant). Mask on all planes, trains, shuttles, etc. It's not that hard.

You are not cautious

What, then, constitutes cautious to you? Never traveling? Only eating outdoors? Never attending any sort of gathering? I find that type of approach to be unreasonable 2.5 years into a pandemic that isn't ever going to go away. I travelled twice during the delta surge, and have continued to travel for work monthly since then. I wear masks in airports and airplanes. No Covid from travel. I DID get Covid lasts month -- from having dinner with a couple of friends.

[Anonymous]

Travelled to kid's college graduation at large state u. Wore n95 mask on plane and everywhere we were around people including inside kid's apartment. One of kid's roommates thought he was coming down with covid. We don't eat indoors at restaurants. Spouse travels for work on occasion and has attended after work get togethers but still wears n95 mask when most around us have stopped. Both kids are in college and mask most of the time they are around others. One kid travelled to Maine at end of school year on college based trip. Most everyone on the trip got covid except for kid.

None of us have had covid. We wear our n95 masks when we are around other people, except outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have travelled many times and never got COVID. Our kid ended up getting it from a classmate in school despite masks.

I bet your kid wasn't masked when they got covid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have been cautious but have traveled a good amount since spring of 2021 (not much in the first year of Covid). We are in Puerto Rico right now. My kids caught Covid from classmates over the past spring, but my husband and I are still Covid-free despite traveling to Boston (three times), New York (twice), California (twice), Oregon, Lancaster PA, and probably other places I'm not remembering.

We never ate inside restaurants until we started to very cautiously do so about nine months ago. We mask in all indoor spaces except the rare case when we eat indoors and then we sit far away from other people (if that's not possible, we skip the restaurant). Mask on all planes, trains, shuttles, etc. It's not that hard.

You are not cautious

What, then, constitutes cautious to you? Never traveling? Only eating outdoors? Never attending any sort of gathering? I find that type of approach to be unreasonable 2.5 years into a pandemic that isn't ever going to go away. I travelled twice during the delta surge, and have continued to travel for work monthly since then. I wear masks in airports and airplanes. No Covid from travel. I DID get Covid lasts month -- from having dinner with a couple of friends.

There are many shades of gray on the caution spectrum. The most cautious people I know are not traveling (or if they are, by car, surely not by plane), only eating outdoors, only getting over her with 1-2 families outdoors, masks everywhere, in some cases the kids are in virtual school. To them, we are not even remotely cautious we are not as strict, but my southern ILs think we have been crazy cautious all along. You can’t win!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have travelled many times and never got COVID. Our kid ended up getting it from a classmate in school despite masks.

I bet your kid wasn't masked when they got covid.

You don’t understand the limits of masks. Even the best do not offer 100% protection for the user over a 7hr school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have been cautious but have traveled a good amount since spring of 2021 (not much in the first year of Covid). We are in Puerto Rico right now. My kids caught Covid from classmates over the past spring, but my husband and I are still Covid-free despite traveling to Boston (three times), New York (twice), California (twice), Oregon, Lancaster PA, and probably other places I'm not remembering.

We never ate inside restaurants until we started to very cautiously do so about nine months ago. We mask in all indoor spaces except the rare case when we eat indoors and then we sit far away from other people (if that's not possible, we skip the restaurant). Mask on all planes, trains, shuttles, etc. It's not that hard.

You are not cautious

Um, they're masking. That's insanely cautious.

No that’s common sense. And some people use masks as an excuse for engaging in risky behavior.

[Anonymous]

Got back from California a week ago. We are vaxed but boosters were back in November. No masks at all. Went to Disneyland, indoor concert, indoor dining. No issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Travel stories from before April/May of 2022 aren't relevant. The new strains are super contagious and vaccination means nothing to whether you get covid. We had traveled a lot during covid but only got it on our trip in June despite driving instead of flying and strict mask wearing. Everyone I know who has traveled recently had at least some members of their family get covid. Its just the way it is right now.

Yup; the people I know who traveled in June on airplanes are all reporting that they got COVID. They aren't sharing that information on social media or anything, but when I talk to them in person I learn that people in their family or traveling group got sick. In most cases it was a bad cold, but kept them from enjoying the rest of their trip. On one case the traveler passed the virus on to the elderly relatives they were visiting, which was a bummer, but the elderly relative is doing OK.

I traveled on airplanes 3x in June. Maskless. No covid.

I know, I get it, not everyone comes down with COVID.

All I am saying is, I know a lot of people who have traveled this spring. In Jan, Feb, March, April, May my friends traveled and they did not get COVID.

Suddenly, in June, people are traveling same as they did all those other months, but I am hearing that they got COVID. Lots of people. Like it is coming up in just about every conversation I have with friends who recently traveled this month.

Infection rates are up over 10%. This is a surge. During the previous surge, travel was safer because of testing and masking. More people are going to get COVID from travel this summer due to relaxed restrictions.

[Anonymous]

Most of my friend coming back from travel to Europe this month got COVID.

[Anonymous]

We traveled last July and last December by plane and never got it. We traveled this July and I came down with it.

[Anonymous]

I travel constantly. I finally got it in April during my one longer stint home.