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If you have a Covid test, it needs to be taken about three days before you go at the most. A negative test for Covid now is useless for a tour in December.
Cathy, I’m obviously the opposite to you, I’m totally pessimistic about travel for the foreseeable future. Anything else, I’m usually the bright and funny one. I would love to take a break in The Caribbean in January or February,we used to do that before we were able to squeeze in two Tauck tours a year. Our favorite area is the BVI. St Kitts was our second best but too much construction has cut off the best beaches and scenery.

JohnS, an excellent article everyone should read. I’ve been negative so much about travel, virus and vaccine etc all this time on the forum because Mr. B spent most of his entire working life on Drug development. I have learned so much from him over the years and within my own working life about things like random controlled trials, compliance, adverse reactions etc etc It takes years to develop a drug or vaccine, years, the trials take years, you have to have allow a certain amount of time to go by to check for safety and effectiveness. Indeed, it’s even more of a risk with vaccines because you are giving a perfectly healthy person something that could do them harm, not like an ill person receiving a drug or injection to make them better. I’ve seem my hubby work on a drug for maybe ten years and see the triumph On his face when he finally gets the FDA to approve the drug, or the disappointment when after the various trial phases when a promising looking drug fails to meet the hopes everyone has about it.
So I apologized for annoying people all these months for my gloom, I want to feel hope like everyone else here, but it’s harder for me. So next time you moan at the price of a drug and those ‘greedy’ drug companies, think about the years they spend trying to make life better for you.
We are really frightened that come the end of October, someone might insist a vaccine is pushed out onto the public when it has not been fully seen to work or be safe.

not surprise!..... and for more then the obvious reasons..............................

As if it couldn't get any worse! I was just reading an online article that Americans are now banned from 87 countries. Our Italy trip for this year was cancelled and we were just about to book another Tauck trip when all this started. It looks like we will be waiting a bit longer before rebooking anything.

I was just born when my siblings came down with chicken pox. Doctor told my mom to go ahead and expose me. I had one mark on my back that may have been a pox so for years didn't know if I had it. Two years ago the doctor had me take the blood test to determine if I had had it and the test said yes so then they recommended the new shingrix vaccine. That's when I developed the immune disorder I'm currently fighting. No way to know if it's the virus or some additive in it that caused the reaction. Haven't taken the second dose and don't plan to. Yes, I know the risks of shingles.