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Travel during Covid? ?
I was planning to travel to Chile this December to see a solar eclipse and do some photography throughout the region. It was the trip of a lifetime that I had been planning for about a year and a half. I purchased my trip back in February and naturally I was trying to be optimistic that Covid would be over by then, or at least we’d have a vaccine. Fast forward to today, cases are rising almost everywhere it seems, but the borders to Chile opened anyways and the trip is still on. I actually canceled my trip today because I didn’t want to risk getting my family or friends sick, also I didn’t want to risk missing Christmas time with everyone I love, as I’d have to be quarantined alone for 2 weeks after I come home (missing Christmas and New Years). Though
I feel extremely sad that I canceled my trip, I am having second thoughts as it was the trip of a lifetime. I just need assurance that I did the right thing or perhaps that I made the wrong choice and should have gone anyways. Let me know what you think.
4 Answers
- conley39Lv 75 months ago
Right now is not a good time to travel anywhere. You would not only have to had to quarantine for 14 days on your return but right now there's a mandatory 14 day quarantine in Chile when you arrive. While right now that extends to December 7, it could easily be extended. There are also curfews in Chile. You would not have been able to do much. Postponing your trip was the right thing to do.
- A HunchLv 75 months ago
I think you made a poor decision.
You can protect yourself from acquiring covid without running from it.
Also since the immunity process is not figured out yet, you might have immunity to covid.
- IgG and IgM are the antibodies directly related to covid. These are considered the covid antibodies. They last for a few months and then start to decrease.
- EVERY covid patient has a chance to their T-cells. However, the change that occurs is not unique to covid and has been around for at least 5 years. If it ends up being that the T-cell change is what causes long term immunity and many people already had this change, they are already immune to covid.
Additionally, there are easy steps that you can take to reduce the chance of acquiring covid.
- a KN95 mask filters 95%+ of small and large aerosol participles.
- you can wear 2 masks or a mask/face sheild
- having adequate levels of vitamin D reduces your chance of acquiring covid by 54%
- staying one meter (3.2 ft) reduces your chance of acquiring covid 82%.
Few people are quarantining for the full 14 days. The average time period for covid to appear is 5 days. 97% of the time, symptoms appears before or on day 11.
- If you were returning the 17th or before, you can get home and then take a rapid test on the 23rd or 24th. If you aren't infected by this point, it's not likely to happen.
- sunshine_melLv 75 months ago
Yes, you made the right choice - the risk until a vaccine is rolled out is high especially when travelling internationally and to areas that may not have prevention systems in place
