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I got stuck in the United States, was not allowed to fly back home until I got a negative result on a rapid test. It still took a week to test negative after I'

by tinco 3y ago

I got stuck in the United States, was not allowed to fly back home until I got a negative result on a rapid test. It still took a week to test negative after I'd been symptom free.

BoxFour 3y ago
Regrettably, there are individuals who exhibit evident symptoms yet would gladly travel and deceive on a simple questionnaire. That might explain why governments adopt a blanket rapid test approach irrespective of the potential for false positives (even given the potential, as the article alludes to, for false negatives).
- mullingitover 3y ago
  This fact is evidence for my hypothesis that humans are engineered by viruses as a means of transportation.
  - NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
    In the same manner that humans have been domesticated by wheat, with all the best land, food, water, and cushiest existence on the planet. (I believe that this was a comment by Niven or Heinlein.)
- jrmg 3y ago
  You’re now expected just to mask up and travel. Recently just had this experience with a family member. Airline would not do anything at all. Travel agent (website) would only book a new flight, but not refund the old one - they said (probably truthfully) that the airline ties their hands. Travel insurance would only pay out if the trip was _cut short_ because of a COVID diagnosis (how does that even work?), or if they were placed under mandatory quarantine by a government authority. Seems unethical to me on all fronts but that’s how things are. I suppose it’s not much different to how people are now, in most countries, just expected to go to work unless they’re heavily symptomatic (and even the “unless they’re heavily symptomatic” seems like lip-service that is not universally observed).
  - jrmg 3y ago
    Actually, maybe I should amend that. “You’re now expected just to mask up and travel” is really “You’re now expected just to travel”. The considerate may mask up of their own volition - no one is enforcing it, and there are barely any recommendations.
dboreham 3y ago
14 days here
belltaco 3y ago
Were you a citizen or permanent resident of the country you call home? As far as I know almost no countries put restrictions on their own citizens from returning. Some had quarantine requirements.
- talldatethrow 3y ago
  Their country might have let them in if they showed up at the border/customs.... But they weren't allowed on a commercial plane flight probably.
- tinco 3y ago
  No restrictions, but they offered no way of getting home either. My colleague had the same problem when she wanted to visit her dying grandfather in Japan. They weren't letting sick people in even if they did manage to get on a flight. For me the problem was mostly the flight.

by tinco 3y ago

I got stuck in the United States, was not allowed to fly back home until I got a negative result on a rapid test. It still took a week to test negative after I'd been symptom free.

BoxFour 3y ago

Regrettably, there are individuals who exhibit evident symptoms yet would gladly travel and deceive on a simple questionnaire. That might explain why governments adopt a blanket rapid test approach irrespective of the potential for false positives (even given the potential, as the article alludes to, for false negatives).

mullingitover 3y ago
This fact is evidence for my hypothesis that humans are engineered by viruses as a means of transportation.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  In the same manner that humans have been domesticated by wheat, with all the best land, food, water, and cushiest existence on the planet. (I believe that this was a comment by Niven or Heinlein.)
jrmg 3y ago
You’re now expected just to mask up and travel. Recently just had this experience with a family member. Airline would not do anything at all. Travel agent (website) would only book a new flight, but not refund the old one - they said (probably truthfully) that the airline ties their hands. Travel insurance would only pay out if the trip was _cut short_ because of a COVID diagnosis (how does that even work?), or if they were placed under mandatory quarantine by a government authority. Seems unethical to me on all fronts but that’s how things are. I suppose it’s not much different to how people are now, in most countries, just expected to go to work unless they’re heavily symptomatic (and even the “unless they’re heavily symptomatic” seems like lip-service that is not universally observed).
- jrmg 3y ago
  Actually, maybe I should amend that. “You’re now expected just to mask up and travel” is really “You’re now expected just to travel”. The considerate may mask up of their own volition - no one is enforcing it, and there are barely any recommendations.

dboreham 3y ago

14 days here

belltaco 3y ago

Were you a citizen or permanent resident of the country you call home? As far as I know almost no countries put restrictions on their own citizens from returning. Some had quarantine requirements.

talldatethrow 3y ago
Their country might have let them in if they showed up at the border/customs.... But they weren't allowed on a commercial plane flight probably.
tinco 3y ago
No restrictions, but they offered no way of getting home either. My colleague had the same problem when she wanted to visit her dying grandfather in Japan. They weren't letting sick people in even if they did manage to get on a flight. For me the problem was mostly the flight.