Local lockdowns in the UK
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#9781
Join Date: Aug 2014
Programs: Top Tier with all 3 alliances
Posts: 8,141
#9782
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dystopia. Part of Wokeland.
Programs: 1K, *G for "life", Global Entry, Hertz PC, and my wallet
Posts: 19,143
#9784


Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Sheen, London
Programs: BA Platinum, Hilton *G, A3 Diamond, IHG Silver
Posts: 5,503
I've avoided ever having a PCR test.
I was only required to do a lateral flow test once, after my international travel in Oct 2021. But that was not actually enforced and a photo of a test kit was the only "proof" required.
The only other times I've done lateral flows were because my wife thought we should before visiting her mum.
As I mentioned before I probably had it in Feb 2020. I don't believe I've had it since then although when reading the symptoms of Long Covid I find most of them apply to me. I get tired more easily and it takes longer to recover after exertion, also my taste has changed as I'm now able to eat things that used to disgust me completely (like mayonnaise and excessively creamy soups / pasta sauces, though I still don't prefer such things). But these could just be symptoms of getting old.
I was only required to do a lateral flow test once, after my international travel in Oct 2021. But that was not actually enforced and a photo of a test kit was the only "proof" required.
The only other times I've done lateral flows were because my wife thought we should before visiting her mum.
As I mentioned before I probably had it in Feb 2020. I don't believe I've had it since then although when reading the symptoms of Long Covid I find most of them apply to me. I get tired more easily and it takes longer to recover after exertion, also my taste has changed as I'm now able to eat things that used to disgust me completely (like mayonnaise and excessively creamy soups / pasta sauces, though I still don't prefer such things). But these could just be symptoms of getting old.
#9785
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dystopia. Part of Wokeland.
Programs: 1K, *G for "life", Global Entry, Hertz PC, and my wallet
Posts: 19,143
I've avoided ever having a PCR test.
I was only required to do a lateral flow test once, after my international travel in Oct 2021. But that was not actually enforced and a photo of a test kit was the only "proof" required.
The only other times I've done lateral flows were because my wife thought we should before visiting her mum.
As I mentioned before I probably had it in Feb 2020. I don't believe I've had it since then although when reading the symptoms of Long Covid I find most of them apply to me. I get tired more easily and it takes longer to recover after exertion, also my taste has changed as I'm now able to eat things that used to disgust me completely (like mayonnaise and excessively creamy soups / pasta sauces, though I still don't prefer such things). But these could just be symptoms of getting old.
I was only required to do a lateral flow test once, after my international travel in Oct 2021. But that was not actually enforced and a photo of a test kit was the only "proof" required.
The only other times I've done lateral flows were because my wife thought we should before visiting her mum.
As I mentioned before I probably had it in Feb 2020. I don't believe I've had it since then although when reading the symptoms of Long Covid I find most of them apply to me. I get tired more easily and it takes longer to recover after exertion, also my taste has changed as I'm now able to eat things that used to disgust me completely (like mayonnaise and excessively creamy soups / pasta sauces, though I still don't prefer such things). But these could just be symptoms of getting old.

#9787
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: London & Sonoma CA
Programs: UA 1K(until 2022), MM *G for life, Hertz PC, BAEC Silver
Posts: 9,588
It does seem currently that it's luck of the draw, more than anything else, which leads to an infection, or avoiding an infection. I suppose I'm fatalistic about it, but my principal concern is not getting it ahead of something I really want to do.
#9788
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dallas, TX
Programs: American Airlines
Posts: 25,658
#9789
Join Date: Apr 2017
Posts: 143
Guess that was the vacation that was just not intended to be. Originally started out as 30 day baltic/iceland cruise, we canceled that a while back because we were concerned about how open things were going to be still, and then shortly after that ukraine happened. So we switched to an 11 day alaska cruise with some stuff before and after, and didn't get to do that, but realistically, some of the places we were going to visit on the after turned out they still weren't going to be open for hte season yet and/or had gotten flooded out. Someone was just telling us we weren't getting a vacation this yet.