I'm a pilot for a cargo airline so I travel for a living. I've been traveling constantly for the duration of the pandemic and have seen all manner of lockdown, quarantines, and testing requirements out of countries all over the world. Most of them are arbitrary and unnecessary, all of them are a giant PITA. In most places in Asia I'm confined to my hotel room like a prisoner in solitary confinement. Some other places I have to wear a full containment suit to walk around the airplane, looking like a giant blimp. Still other places make you wear face shields and do dumb things like wrap your bags with plastic before you can take them off the airplane. The paperwork to go into most countries is beyond stupid (I guess paperwork cures Covid). In just about every case I'm treated like a criminal just for daring to fly an airplane into their country delivering things THEY need and taking their high dollar products out. It's long since gotten old being harassed for doing my job.
It's only when I get home to Florida that people act like normal human beings again, no showing your vaccine card, no stupid questionnaires, and no hassling about mask usage. The only way to get me away from Florida and into the insanity that is the rest of the world is to pay me to do it. I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out than go on a cruise right now and be constantly hassled with Covid restrictions. You quite literally couldn't pay me enough to go on a cruise now.
Can you imagine the chaos after flying to a location when a travelling companion, vaccinated or unvaccinated, is not allowed to board a cruise ship because of a positive covid test.
Since different countries have different rules, I could see that person or possibly both people ending up in some type of local Quarantine. -Tom
Where have you gone that isn’t insane with totalitarian control disease (TCD). Seems the USA will be ruled by TCD forever. I would like to think there is an escape plan.