Is it possible to travel responsibly (during a pandemic)?

[chillyinCanada]

Article from the Afar travel magazine. It's quite detailed and informative.

How the Delta Variant Might Change Your Travel Plans

 

[Dan]

Can a liveaboard trip become a super spreader? You never really know.

Well, so far those liveaboards that I have been on have been pretty strict in screening their guests, requiring negative COVID-19 test before boarding their boats. I have been on 6 liveaboards since last December and no positive case that I know off (knock on wood).

One guest from Mumbai was denied entry to Maldives due to positive COVID-19 test in early March, at the beginning of Delta variant explosion in India. Had he gotten on board. He could be the super spreader. So, we were in COVID-19 free bubbles.

 

[HKGuns]

I'll just leave this here as mental stimulation for some who are falsely claiming I am offering medical advice.

I have not offered medical advice, I am advocating that you make INFORMED decisions regarding your health. Something you can't do when the information you receive is propaganda and censored by those creating the propaganda.

Different standards of safety for vaccines vs. ivermectin (Tess Lawrie & Bret Weinstein)

 

[divinh]

I'll just leave this here as mental stimulation for some who are falsely claiming I am offering medical advice.

I have not offered medical advice, I am advocating that you make INFORMED decisions regarding your health. Something you can't do when the information you receive is propaganda and censored by those creating the propaganda.

Different standards of safety for vaccines vs. ivermectin (Tess Lawrie & Bret Weinstein)

This treatment is experimental and there's no accounting for long-term effects.

 

[lexvil]

Even if treatment is approved doesn’t prevention seem the better plan? Why worry about DCS when a chamber ride can fix it.

 

[tridacna]

I'll just leave this here as mental stimulation for some who are falsely claiming I am offering medical advice.

I have not offered medical advice, I am advocating that you make INFORMED decisions regarding your health. Something you can't do when the information you receive is propaganda and censored by those creating the propaganda.

Different standards of safety for vaccines vs. ivermectin (Tess Lawrie & Bret Weinstein)

Ivermectin isn’t a highly effective drug for treating COVID-19

 

[Centrals]

Prevention is better than cure.

Mask, personal hygiene, social distancing, vaccination.
A cheap and reliable test kit would be most welcomed for individual.

 

[greeniguana]

Ivermectin isn’t a highly effective drug for treating COVID-19

Well, that's because it's for treating parasites in farm animals.

Do-it-yourself COVID treatments an evolving threat

I can't belive this is even being treated as a sane topic of conversation.

Drink bleach. It's just as effective.

 

[uncfnp]

A cheap and reliable test kit would be most welcomed for individual.

There is in the states.

Over-the-counter COVID-19 testing now available at CVS Pharmacy | CVS Health

Over-the-counter COVID-19 tests now available

 

[Kimela]

Not that Mexico is the epitome of best medical practices, but I have a friend there who got a nasty case of covid (including lung issues) and was treated with ivermectin, antibiotics and tylenol and made a full recovery. Of course they may have made a full recovery anyway, but ivermectin was standard operating procedure and was not considered 'experimental'. According to wikipedia (yeah, yeah) it's been in use since 1981 and is on the WHO's World List of Essential Medicines - to fight parasites - and is probably ok for use during breastfeeding (again, according to wikipedia). Doesn't sound particularly 'dangerous' in terms of side effects. If people want to try it without FDA approval - and with a valid prescription, why not? We're getting injected with a vaccine that still doesn't have FDA approval (I got mine - Pfizer).

Live and let live ...? No?