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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn’t get Covid wading through the wall to wall crowds of the Vatican museums and the other crowded spots of Italy. It’s not like you get Covid any time you step into a crowd…[/quote]

Since everyone is bashing OP, I will comment that we went to the Vatican spring break, all got Covid, & a 50-yr old otherwise healthy adult in our family ended up hospitalized for 3 days with Covid complications. Not saying you shouldn't go, but Covid is not "over" & raising the question in 2023 is completely rational.[/quote]

Yes but that could be true anywhere at this point. There is essentially zero masking anywhere in the US anymore. We live our lives right now exactly as we did in summer 2019. The virus has completely spread everywhere in the world, and the vast majority of people have some level of immunity, either from vaccination, previous infection, or both. There is nothing special about traveling and transmission versus your day to day life.[/quote]

DP. Maybe not YOUR life. But I live in a SFH, where I don't have to worry about covid. I drive a car rather than use public transport. I dont dine indoors. I only go indoors if I have to and when I do I wear a kn95. WHen I hang out with friends, I do so outside.

If I fly to Europe, I am in airports, planes, trains, ubers, and hotels with rooms that may have shared air. I will at a minimum need to go insto restaurants to get takeout. I will be tempted to visit indoor art galleries etc.[/quote]

There is no reason you can't live that way while traveling if you want to. We traveled some in 2021 and 2022 and masked everywhere indoors, and only ate outdoors. Nothing preventing you from doing that now.[/quote]

I’m sorry, what? Are you forgetting the concept of a long haul airplane flight? And crowded airports? I don’t put myself in the situation when I’m at home. I have traveled, by car. to cottages and houses.

That’s very different from taking a long-haul flight to Europe[/quote]

It sounds like you have a different risk preference, which is fine. Sounds like you don't feel comfortable in almost any public indoor space, masked or not. In that case, it appears any transportation with others may be too risky in your assessment. So the final destination doesn't really matter- Midwest, west coast, Europe, Asia, whatever.

We have had 4 shots and 1 (very mild) infection, so our risk assessment is different.[/quote]

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