waterone
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There's more to it than that, though. Getting back home, for example. I ate the cost of a trip to Socorro in early January because the chance of getting stuck there was simply not acceptable to me. Even a mild or asymptomatic case would have been enough to keep me off my flight home. When I went to Roatan in July the situation was different. Omicron had not yet appeared and vaccination was effective against the strains prevalent at the time.
I went to Cozumel two weeks ago. It was very nice...but Socorro would have been amazing. I would have gone, and I am in the middle of planning a trip there. From what I read on currently if asymptomatic you are only stuck for up to 5 days and to me that is not horrible.
I wore an n95 on the way down but while down there I gave up on the n95 and wore cloth the rest of the time when needed.
The 6-foot social distance is quite laughable as while eating in a packed airport the people in bars and most restaurants are 3 feet max from each other unmasked, often coughing away. Also going through customs or any other line for that matter, no one gives you space.
Testing on the way back was painless and free since we stayed more than a week. Traveling to Hawaii I find more stressful but even there I'm going back in a few months.