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BRAVO These are the right questions that should appear here instead of a virtual pissing contest "who can bring more arguments for or against scuba travel"... They got infected by a passenger, presumably representing the 10% error margin of the PCR tests. Nevertheless would the boat crew (and...

So you will need to get vaccinated every year or you adapt to living with it...

Later this year? For the vaccinations to be effective at least 60-70% of the population has to be vaccinated. There is very little chance this will be the case during this year, even in Europe and the US

WOW, again? You are mixing the PCR tests with rapid antibody tests, I guess.

Hahaha. Now we are back to 0 and you are bringing an example where travel restrictions would have made sense: a country without any covid infections. Yes this is the same as if travel would have been banned in 2019. Than it would really have made sense. But you know what? I did not want to visit...

:) So you mean variations? I still think your calculation is faulty. Out of 100 passengers statistically without screening there are about 10 infected. The test can only produce a faulty result on 10% of these 10, all others are negative by default. That is clearly 1 to me. Also on the...

So you never need to buy food, go to work or meet people otherwise? Saying you are "safe" at home is simply silly. Besides this most of the earlier reactions did not focus on the extra risk for the travellers but they tried to state that travelling imposes a risk for everybody else... I guess...

The Maldives have been allowing tourists since September 2020. No "loophole" necessary. They require a negative PCR test and if you have a look at their statistics, it seems to work. Their infection numbers are around 50 new cases per day. Their death numbers are extremely low. They are...

Let us get things right! I do a PCR test so with a negative result the chance for me being infectious is smaller than average. This applies to most other travellers as well. I drive to the airport in my car meeting no one on the way. Inside the airport only travellers are allowed and most of...

If you could explain me first what additional risk the LOB poses for everyone else (staying at home), please? In my opinion moving from a region with many infections to a place where people got screened would also lower my chances to get infected, don't you agree?

Seems still to be a brief (less than a day) excursion, not a multiple day international travel. Besides this, the probability to get infected on an airplane and later on the liveaboard is multitudes lower than in any European or North American city. So if the chance to get sick is smaller, the...

No I am not. How many percent of the population is currently actively infected? Around 10%? So assuming that you surely get infected, you need to meet 10 people and likely one will carry the virus - this is 10%. It does not take into consideration that you might avoid getting infected by...

Well again my English. I did not know "outings" means international travel. I thought it ment having a brief (outdoor) excursion...

To me this rather looks like winding around words.

I think these Covid-19 measures should be adhered to, instead of making up false claims about the physics of a virus spread.

THIS is a statement that makes sense. But as always, if people would adhere to basic prevention measures (like people do in other parts of the world) the spread could be slowed. I would say it is better to get screened monthly and be (almost) sure not to be contagious than silently spreading the...

So much about the "new variants" and how dangerous they are. Please also read Fast-spreading UK coronavirus variant: All your questions answered | Live Science

Yea, it is a scientific paper and it says UK variant IS more deadly... This is how information gets altered. Why are so many people getting their information from the tabloids? Did you still not learn that these "journalists" are paid per page view so they would put a view catching headline...

Are you sure sure you are not mixing up PCR and rapid antibody tests? Because the links you posted regard to those kind of rapid test methods.

I would contact Alexander Bryant, one of the shareholders of Emperor Maldives. https://www.facebook.com/alexander.bryant.77/ I would explain him my concerns, especially in the light of this situation and ask for a re-booking date.