Anonymous
07/08/2022 13:06
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
Anonymous wrote:hello all!
It seems to be in my very small world anyone who has traveled, flown or stayed in a hotel has come back with covid. I'm looking for stories of travel and no one got sick. Did you mask up? Did you stay in a hotel, fly or drive, eat out? Sleep in a hotel masked or unmasked, stuff like this. I'm immunocompromised and am trying to gauge as best as I can risky situations right now. Thank you for your help.
I traveled all through covid out of the country and I have never gotten COVID. I've been vaccinated and I haven't had it yet. I don't even think about it.
Anonymous
07/08/2022 10:52
Subject: Re:Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
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.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 22:10
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
I haven't had COVID and have traveled internationally and within the US.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 21:44
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I traveled to a massive conference, was seated next to someone who tested positive, yet I didn’t get sick. I masked on the plane and at the conference except during meals.
I flew to FL and went on a weeklong cruise and didn’t get sick. I masked on the flights, but we didn’t mask on the cruise.
Everyone will eventually get covid. Everyone. Stop worrying. You’ll be fine.
Did you miss the part where OP said they were immunocompromised?
Then this thread is even more ridiculous. Ask your Doctor. Not internet ransoms.
This. But if you can’t risk getting Covid this is probably it the best time to travel. For me Covid would be an inconvenience so worth the risk. But if you’re immunocompromised to the point that Covid is likely to land you in the hospital, traveling may not be worth the risk right now. But yes talk to your doctor OP.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 21:41
Subject: Re:Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
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
+1. Lol!!
Anonymous
07/07/2022 21:13
Subject: Re:Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
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
Anonymous
07/07/2022 20:58
Subject: Re:Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
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.
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.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 17:12
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
I never stopped traveling and stopped wearing masks on April 18, the day it was allowed. No covid.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 17:10
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
We went by train earlier this summer and stayed in a hotel. We wore masks on the train and in the station, but took them off to eat. We ate at restaurants outside and inside and never wore masks in the hotel-even in the lobby. I did NOT obsessively use hand sanitizer since I read it's bad for us in many ways. None of us got sick. Now we did have a virus about 2 weeks before leaving. Tested negative for covid, but maybe it strengthened our immune system to pout up a fight before we left.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 16:42
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
Traveled 11x, including international and no one in my family ever tested positive.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 14:17
Subject: Re:Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
My DS went to Switzerland the day after Christmas for three weeks. He had to test to return to the US and didn't get Covid - this was the height of the winter surge.
In March, my DH and DS went to Myrtle Beach. I stayed the entire week. DH and DS flew home. No Covid. My other DS is a college baseball player. He was in Myrtle with his team for the tournament. Not one of the players or coaches came down with Covid. The team includes almost 50 people. They were all traveling together via bus, going out to eat in restaurants, etc.
In May, my oldest graduated from college. We all went to his graduation for a four day weekend. The entire college graduation was outside but his school of business graduation was inside the basketball arena. There were probably 1000 people in the arena. No one in my family, including my brother who flew across the country to attend, came down with Covid.
In March, my DH and DS went to Myrtle Beach. I stayed the entire week. DH and DS flew home. No Covid. My other DS is a college baseball player. He was in Myrtle with his team for the tournament. Not one of the players or coaches came down with Covid. The team includes almost 50 people. They were all traveling together via bus, going out to eat in restaurants, etc.
In May, my oldest graduated from college. We all went to his graduation for a four day weekend. The entire college graduation was outside but his school of business graduation was inside the basketball arena. There were probably 1000 people in the arena. No one in my family, including my brother who flew across the country to attend, came down with Covid.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 12:22
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:hello all!
It seems to be in my very small world anyone who has traveled, flown or stayed in a hotel has come back with covid. I'm looking for stories of travel and no one got sick. Did you mask up? Did you stay in a hotel, fly or drive, eat out? Sleep in a hotel masked or unmasked, stuff like this. I'm immunocompromised and am trying to gauge as best as I can risky situations right now. Thank you for your help.
My family of four returned 10 days ago from two weeks in Europe. Almost no one there was masking and I'd say maybe 1/3 of people on the flights were masked. Maybe. We haven't gotten Covid. So what did we do? We wore masks religiously indoors. We ate every single meal outdoors, except for a few in our hotel room. We stayed in three different hotels, and at each one we opened windows wide as soon as we checked in and kept them open whenever we were in the room. We had a CO2 monitor that we used in hotel rooms to confirm the rooms were well-ventilated. On the plane, we did not remove masks at all until after takeoff, once the plane ventilation was turned on (and then kept masks off for very short periods, to eat and drink). Both adults in the family got second boosters a few weeks before the trip.
All that said, some of this is just luck. Plenty of people take lots of precautions and still get Covid. But I have to imagine the precautions also help a lot. Best of luck!
This is helpful, thank you! I leave in less than a week so I’m hoping we don’t get it.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 11:50
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I traveled to a massive conference, was seated next to someone who tested positive, yet I didn’t get sick. I masked on the plane and at the conference except during meals.
I flew to FL and went on a weeklong cruise and didn’t get sick. I masked on the flights, but we didn’t mask on the cruise.
Everyone will eventually get covid. Everyone. Stop worrying. You’ll be fine.
Did you miss the part where OP said they were immunocompromised?
Then this thread is even more ridiculous. Ask your Doctor. Not internet ransoms.
Anonymous
07/07/2022 11:34
Subject: Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
Anonymous wrote:I traveled to a massive conference, was seated next to someone who tested positive, yet I didn’t get sick. I masked on the plane and at the conference except during meals.
I flew to FL and went on a weeklong cruise and didn’t get sick. I masked on the flights, but we didn’t mask on the cruise.
Everyone will eventually get covid. Everyone. Stop worrying. You’ll be fine.
Did you miss the part where OP said they were immunocompromised?
Anonymous
07/07/2022 11:19
Subject: Re:Any travel stories were you DIDN'T come back with covid?
Anonymous wrote:Traveled by plane in March to caribbean- no covid. Husband went on a memorial day trip to Maine by plane, and stayed in an airbnb with like 8 of his friends who had all flown in from other places- none of them got covid. However, I also currently have a friend who flew to Maine 4 days ago and came down with covid yesterday, and another friend who flew to CA a few weeks ago and got covid 2-3 days after arriving, so, it seems like a crapshoot and not uncommon.
Where you or your husband making it up?