Portugal was a crazy breeding ground for COVID.

Yes, we went to Switzerland and didn't get any kind of illness. This was when COVID testing was common (and required to return to the US) and we didn't test positive. No masking or other precautions, though.

Why are you concerned about this in 2023?

I went to England and Belgium back in April. It was pretty crowded in many places and hardly anyone wore a mask anywhere! I only wore one while waiting in crowded train stations and airports. I removed it once everyone had boarded the planes and trains and were done walking past me. I did not get sick in any way and neither did the family member that I traveled with.

We are in Italy now. No one is masking. Plenty of people are hacking and coughing. Anyway, there are lots of places to eat outside, which I have always preferred because of the experience.

We went to Portugal and came back with norovirus which then ripped through our whole family. That was way worse in our experience than what we had with covid. Thank goodness no one was sick on the plane home.

Listen, any time you are around a lot of people you are going to be at risk of getting sick. Go or don’t go but that’s the reality. It might be a stomach bug, it might be a respiratory virus, or you might get lucky and nothing at all. I personally would never give up travel because of that risk.

We traveled all around Italy last summer and traveled and didn't get it. For the first day or two, we masked and then we didn't for the rest of the trip. We saw some people masking but not a whole lot.

We went to Amsterdam and Copenhagen for spring break. We didn't even bring masks with us, and 99.9% of people were not masking.

We've also done 3 cruises in the past 18 months. The first one was back in March 2022 and we did mask b/c it was required. The other two we didn't. We didn't get covid.

We've all had covid only once--during the height of omicron. My son caught it at daycare and we all got it.

Add me to the list that thought this was a zombie thread.

We just came back from Paris.
Louvre was packed as was Versailles. Plane over and back was full.
I just did a test as did my teen who was with me as we did not want to spoil the 1st weeks of summer for the rest of the family. Both of us were negative.
We did not take any particular precautions other than not seeing the Mona Lisa partially because I prefer to look at art and not be in a mob for a social media moment.
We also stepped aside in Versailles for a bit as it felt like a crowd leaving a sporting event going from one room to another.

OP lol, we’ve been to Iceland, Cyprus, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia, turkey, Germany and Switzerland since 2020 and didn’t catch covid.

We did catch it at a friend’s birthday party that was moved indoors once it thundered back in 2022.

You just never know!

Anonymous wrote:We went to France and Netherlands in spring 2022 and Spain a month ago. We also traveled to Canadá and many states. We caught COVID in Florida at Christmas. I think if you haven’t caught COVID by now, you are very susceptible. Just get paxlovid in advance of your travel and go,

How do you get Paxlovid in advance? I'd love to be prepared, but I doubt my doctor will prescribe it "just in case"?

We went to Munich and Paris for spring break. No Covid. We’ve only had it once and 3/4 of us got it last summer - I believe I was patient zero and it was contracted in Vegas. Embarrassingggg lol

I'm in Europe right now.

Flight from US to UK. Only maybe 4-5 people in masks on the plane. Two were older. Two were younger purple haired progressives. No one at Heathrow was masked, staff included.

In Amsterdam, no one was masked, by which I mean I saw maybe 4-5 masked people out of thousands. Saw the Vermeer exhibition, which was fantastic. Not a single person masked.

No one on the plane from Amsterdam to Italy was masked.

In Italy, 99.9% are not masked but you spot a few older people on the subway or on bus with a mask.

Covid is for all practical purposes over. If you are afraid, don't travel. But unless you have significant cancer or obesity, I'm not sure why you'd be so scared.

We went to France and Netherlands in spring 2022 and Spain a month ago. We also traveled to Canadá and many states. We caught COVID in Florida at Christmas. I think if you haven’t caught COVID by now, you are very susceptible. Just get paxlovid in advance of your travel and go,

Since March 2020, I’ve been to England twice, the Netherlands three times, Belgium once and Spain once. Did not catch covid.

I’ve had a few trips recently. Stops included France, Spain, Ireland & Netherlands. The Vermeer exhibit in amsterdam was amazing but was claustrophobic and the whole museum was packed bc it was pouring rain. There were a few visibly sick people, tons of coughing, etc. so I was convinced we’d come down with Covid and still none of us did. We did all catch it in Florida last summer, though.
I did have us wear masks in europe on packed flights. We were pretty much the only ones in masks

We went to France and Italy during spring break of this year. Four out of 5 of us got covid. Three of us were symptomatic.