On 02/05/2021 15:37, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2021 14:44:14 +0100, S Viemeister
> > wrote:
>
>> On 02/05/2021 14:31, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>> > wrote:
>>>> On 02/05/2021 13:26, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>> Not yet. But my flight (if it isn't cancelled yet again) is in a couple
>>>>>> of months. That's assuming lockdown continues to ease.
>>>>>
>>>>> My nephew is stuck too. He had gone over because his mother was
>>>>> clearly going to die, then came Covid, then she did die and at least
>>>>> he was there, but now he is just sitting waiting to return. Now that
>>>>> we are having a third wave, likely it will be a couple of months
>>>>> before he can come back. I think you'll have more luck going to the
>>>>> US than he will here.
>>>>>
>>>> A relative by marriage, who shall remain un-named, doesn't understand
>>>> why I haven't just hopped over to the nearest airport and flown off.
>>>
>>> Doubtful you could ever explain Sympathies.
>>>
>> Said relative has never left the US, but some time back, called to make
>> sure we knew we'd need 'Real ID' drivers licenses the next time we
>> flew!!! Well, no. We need passports. Of which I have two.
>>
>> So, yes - trying to explain would be a waste of time and effort.
>
> Correct! Did you ever have a non real ID drivers license ???
>
> Mentioning passports I am perplexed by this 'no vaccine passports' by
> the antivaxxers. Forever and a day one had to have doctors
> certificates to show one had Yellow Fever, Typhus, ParaTyphoid,
> Smallpox vaccination etc in order to travel between Hong Kong and the
> UK. Nobody challenged it. I did have a signed,sealed Dr's
> certificate absolving me of having a Typhoid shot because the reaction
> to the shot was almost worse than having Typhoid, and it was always
> accepted. I feel if they are antivaccine (for no medical reason) then
> the price they will have to pay for those beliefs is, no travel.
>
Yes, I still have one of those certificates, with each vaccination
signed and stamped. I agree - the typhoid one was absolutely dreadful. I
had my first one on a very hot summer day, and was planning on walking
the few miles home. I got about halfway there, fortunately near a
friend's place, and nearly collapsed. By that evening my arm had swollen
to twice its normal size. The next one wasn't quite that bad, and the
third was rather unpleasant, but just about tolerable.

> I had my first Covid shot and by the time I was home I found in my
> email a note from our NS Health Care saying I had the first shot. I
> printed it off and put it in my wallet, as I will with the final shot,
> feeling it might be useful at some point.
>