We went to Italy and didn’t get Covid. We masked on the flights and at the Vatican where it was crowded. Can’t remember if we asked on the train. But we did what we generally do in the US — we mask in crowded inside events when it’s really not any hardship to do so. We didn’t mask at things like restaurants, although we mostly ate outside because the weather was so nice.
My family travels a lot and goes to lots of things like theater and take metro daily and we’ve all only had covid once — when the schools dropped masking after spring break that first year and half my kid’s class got it within a week or two—she gave it to the rest of the family. So I think my casual masking approach seems to be working pretty well.

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Anonymous wrote:The logic with these Covid freaks like OP just blows my mind. Yeah start a thread asking about anecdotal travel experiences about going to Europe. If they didn’t get Covid, then you surely won’t either, right??

Might as well carry around some garlic on a necklace to scare away vampires.

Some of you need major therapy.

Well tbf there seem to be a lot of people on this thread saying "I traveled and didn't get covid so there's nothing to worry about"

and the people who think "it's just a cold" don't seem any more in tune with reality

Re the latter, it is much closer to reality than you want to believe. The vast, vast, and triply vast majority of people who get Covid suffer nothing worse than the equivalent of a cold or state of unease for a week.

It’s very weird to talk about “what I want to believe” because I very much want to believe that Covid is just a cold but the data shows it is much more likely to result in hospitalization and that some people (probably 5-10%) will suffer effects, sometimes debilitating ones, long after a week. And frankly we seem to be finding more effects on organs the closer we look.

Maybe that doesn’t change my behavior or yours but just saying “the vast vast triply vast number of people who get Covid suffer nothing worse than a cold” makes it seem like you are the one who wants to believe something regardless of the data.

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Anonymous wrote: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…

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.

This.

To everyone saying why are you so scared, covid is NBD? Yeah covid is no big deal until the otherwise healthy person gets it and a week later has a blood clot or cardiac arrest.

Not saying don't travel, but yeah it's rational to consider it, mask on flights, go places that are more amenable to spending times outdoors. As for - so what the same thing could happen at home, sure, but at home presumably you're not scrambling for medical care the same way, you aren't worrying about how you'll make your flight back etc. So maybe add to the list above - go places with decent medical care and decent english language skills, just in case.

I mean, the flu is deadly too. You get your shot and move on with your life and hope for the best.

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Anonymous wrote:The logic with these Covid freaks like OP just blows my mind. Yeah start a thread asking about anecdotal travel experiences about going to Europe. If they didn’t get Covid, then you surely won’t either, right??

Might as well carry around some garlic on a necklace to scare away vampires.

Some of you need major therapy.

Well tbf there seem to be a lot of people on this thread saying "I traveled and didn't get covid so there's nothing to worry about"

and the people who think "it's just a cold" don't seem any more in tune with reality

Re the latter, it is much closer to reality than you want to believe. The vast, vast, and triply vast majority of people who get Covid suffer nothing worse than the equivalent of a cold or state of unease for a week.

Right. For an otherwise healthy person under the age of 65, COVID has a very small chance of being any worse than a cold. The small chance that it’s worse makes it worth getting immunized. But THATS the precaution you need to take - not masking, isolating, etc etc. it’s crazy. Get the shot and move on. It never was really much of a risk to you and now it’s much much less.

Just back from UK, and 3 of us got Covid. Pretty mild though.

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Anonymous wrote:The logic with these Covid freaks like OP just blows my mind. Yeah start a thread asking about anecdotal travel experiences about going to Europe. If they didn’t get Covid, then you surely won’t either, right??

Might as well carry around some garlic on a necklace to scare away vampires.

Some of you need major therapy.

Well tbf there seem to be a lot of people on this thread saying "I traveled and didn't get covid so there's nothing to worry about"

and the people who think "it's just a cold" don't seem any more in tune with reality

Re the latter, it is much closer to reality than you want to believe. The vast, vast, and triply vast majority of people who get Covid suffer nothing worse than the equivalent of a cold or state of unease for a week.

Edinburgh, Scotland.

Half our family did; the other half didn’t. We who did were due. The others had had it more recently. We caught it fast on our trip.

Anonymous wrote:I thought this was a revived zombie thread from 2021! There are completely full 747s landing in dc from Dulles every day and the majority of those people don’t have Covid. How is this even a question?

Same

Just back from 2 weeks in Europe---seven countries.
We are fine.

Anonymous wrote:The logic with these Covid freaks like OP just blows my mind. Yeah start a thread asking about anecdotal travel experiences about going to Europe. If they didn’t get Covid, then you surely won’t either, right??

Might as well carry around some garlic on a necklace to scare away vampires.

Some of you need major therapy.

Well tbf there seem to be a lot of people on this thread saying "I traveled and didn't get covid so there's nothing to worry about"

and the people who think "it's just a cold" don't seem any more in tune with reality