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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 (web
by 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 agoActually, 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.