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Old 12-21-2020, 12:43 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I was referring to the naive idea that everyone you've interacted with has been responsible and that prolonged periods in a confined space are easily regulated. Shaming you over something that you're going to do anyways isn't my goal.
You lost me. Did I say everyone I interact with is responsible? I don't care if they are as long as they're wearing their mask around me. Which is what my interaction with others is like. Including at work, when I was going to the office. If both parties are wearing masks the risk of infection is minimal.

My point is also that simply existing in a confined space with other people doesn't mean you will catch something, if you are and others are wearing masks. Hence me taking the subway to work for many months during this year and NOT getting infected.

I don't see how changing my mode of transport is suddenly me behaving like a reckless homicidal maniac.

Again, I've posted in this thread what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and why I think it's not very risky behavior, considering all of the other factors and how I live my life in this pandemic usually.

Risky behavior for me is having a rich social life and interacting, unprotected, with many people. This is obviously not how I'm living and not what I plan to do in Europe.

And that's all really.
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Old 12-21-2020, 12:58 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You lost me. Did I say everyone I interact with is responsible?
You implied that, yes.

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I don't see how changing my mode of transport is suddenly me behaving like a reckless homicidal maniac.
Don't call yourself a maniac. That said, flights are several hours longer (idk the exact time of your flight though) than a workday commute and locks airborne particulates in the cabin because airplanes have to maintain air pressure. You're significantly more likely to catch or spread it in that circumstance.

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Again, I've posted in this thread what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and why I think it's not very risky behavior, considering all of the other factors and how I live my life in this pandemic usually.
I'm contesting the bolded.

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Risky behavior for me is having a rich social life and interacting, unprotected, with many people. This is obviously not how I'm living and not what I plan to do in Europe.
True, but it seems like you're drawing this line to excuse your own behaviour rather than to condemn theirs.
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Old 12-21-2020, 03:20 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I've also been living in Malaysia for the past year and have been going outside of my apartment and being around other people. I've gone to supermarkets numerous times and also I go to restaurants several times per week.
You’re lucky to be living in a country that did the hard work upfront. Id ride it out safely there for one more year. I lived one five year stretch without a single visit back the states before but that doesn’t mean it’s the same thing for me as it is for you but I don’t think a couple years is a big deal at all.
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Old 12-21-2020, 04:03 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Denver’s mayor flies to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with his family — after urging others to stay home. He later says he was thinking with “my heart and not my head.” A Pennsylvania mayor bans indoor dining, then eats at a restaurant in Maryland. The governor of Rhode Island is photographed at an indoor wine event as her state faces the nation’s second-highest virus rate.

While people weigh whether it’s safe to go to work or the grocery store, the mayor of Austin, Texas, heads to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on a private jet after hosting a wedding for 20. California’s governor dines at a swanky French restaurant with lobbyists, none wearing masks, a day after San Francisco’s mayor was there for a birthday party. Both had recently imposed tough rules on restaurants, shops and activities to slow the spread of the virus.
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Old 12-21-2020, 05:11 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I know what you mean guys, but I do have to go through some testing before entering Croatia and Spain so the risk will be reduced significantly in both cases. My boyfriend has travelled 3 weeks ago from Malaysia and has not picked up anything on the way, his family has been living in Spain with the virus for a year now and have not picked up anything. The only idiot that picked up something is my oldest sister who visited a friend WITHOUT A MASK. Incidentally, my youngest sister who was with her at the time (but WITH a mask) also drove her home for a few hours without a mask and DIDN'T catch it. My mother and father were in (limited) contact with my eldest sister and DIDN'T catch it.

So, I get the concern, I have it too, but I honestly think it's not so easy to catch this virus if everyone is following the protocols. Travelling, especially air travel is extremely safe these days so I think the chances of me picking up something and then passing it on to my family or boyfriend are minimal. And this is why I'm ok to travel. :/
One of the countries hardest hit, almost as bad as Italy. I get you.
And what about this new strain in the UK? Who's to say that won't surface in other parts of Europe? Honestly, you're like someone who's living in a neutral country in WWII saying "You know what, I think I'll go see my boyfriend in Germany."
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Old 12-21-2020, 06:37 AM   #6 (permalink)
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And what about this new strain in the UK? Who's to say that won't surface in other parts of Europe?
Yeah, this is terrible news, TH. Not just for the UK, but, little by little for every other country I imagine. The spread of regular covid has been pretty much unstoppable, and now...

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As happened back in March, I bet asymptomatic carriers have already taken the new varient to various countries, flying in under the radar, and reducing the effectiveness of bans. Remember the US, with its "fifteen cases", now at approx 310,000 ? What chance of restricting something 70% more contagious?
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Yes, that's casting a further cloud over my already troubled conscience for coming back to Holland this winter. I've had no symptoms and neither has anyone in my family, but still you never know, and things might have been different.
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Yes I know, trust me, it's not a decision I came to lightly.
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^^ You don't live in Holland? Or by Holland you mean the region in the Netherlands? I confuzzled.
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I'm Dutch and I grew up in Holland but I live in the UK (since last year)
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