sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:11 pm
Opti wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:29 am
Sister-in-law was supposed to be visiting us for a week starting on Thursday. Of course, she's tested +ve for Covid.
Went to the pantomime at the weekend with her daughter and grandaughter. Well, she
was coming from the UK, so not really a big surprise.
She's triple-jabbed.
Really needed a reason to have a good clean-up. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
Omicron? (There's presumably a way to make a humorous response to that, along the lines of "No, she went of her own accord".)
Actually, I suppose you should be glad she cancelled. I suspect that a lot of multi-jabbed people will be travelling and hoping to not get too badly ill, at least until everywhere imposes a vaccine *plus* test requirement. EU countries seem to be mostly holding the line on vaccine *or* test, certainly for intra-EU travel. When this is over (yes yes I know) the EU will have to have some interesting discussions about pooled sovereignty and public health.
Entering the UK from the EU is currently vaccine+test, in the sense that being fully vaccinated allows you to skip some of the testing and self-isolation but not all of it (to summarize your changelog.txt, something like a pre-departure LFT and PCR within two days of arriving and self-isolation until you get the negative result but no need to self-isolate until another test on day 8); Entering Italy from the UK is also vaccine+test, in the sense that being both fully vaccinated and having done a pre-departure test (PCR or Lateral Flow but can't be a self-test) allows you to avoid self-isolating for five days with another test at the end of that period.
Over the summer I enjoyed my intra-EU freedom to travel, but the only place I got checked was when sitting down for lunch on the way through Austria and then at the border entering Slovakia (because they had a local kind of PLF for arrivals and I just showed that I'd done it to the relieved young border guard).
On the way out of Slovakia, the Austrian border guards were stopping the Slovak-registered cars but let me through. I presume they wanted to check vaccination status of the Slovaks trying to enter Austria, knowing how low the takeup was (and still is).
I did a PLF for re-entering Italy by car and hit my time slot to within a few minutes but nobody cared about that either, possibly because I entered via a local border crossing rather than the one on the motorway.
Case rates were of course much lower on the continent over the summer.