What are your guesses about how your travel (for pleasure) will be affected in the relatively near future - let's say from six months on, up to the end of 2021 - once the present extreme measures are gradually withdrawn?
Under the assumption that the virus will not be eradicated, but there will be widespread testing available at some point, and that somewhat useful and safe vaccines and treatments will appear in 2021 - how will this influence your travel behavior? Will you still want to practice social distancing to some level? Will you still travel to countries that are in partial restriction of everyday life? Will you be willing to be vaccinated if there are doubts about the effectiveness of the vaccine? Will you adapt your itineraries or travel behavior to diminish chances of getting sick? For example, will you be willing to constantly wear a mask while in public places? If so, will you still enjoy traveling?
Or are you more optimistic and believe that this virus will go the way of previous short-lived epidemics, and that by next year we will look at COVID-19 as a "blip" in the past?
I assume that many, if not most, on this forum are over 60 years of age (I am too) - how far are we willing to go in this new reality?
Personally, I am pretty pessimistic - unless I know for sure if I have been exposed or not, or how I react to this sickness, I don't see myself doing any travel abroad in this time period. Hope I'm wrong. I also am supposing that I will not want to get vaccinated.
Under the assumption that the virus will not be eradicated, but there will be widespread testing available at some point, and that somewhat useful and safe vaccines and treatments will appear in 2021 - how will this influence your travel behavior? Will you still want to practice social distancing to some level? Will you still travel to countries that are in partial restriction of everyday life? Will you be willing to be vaccinated if there are doubts about the effectiveness of the vaccine? Will you adapt your itineraries or travel behavior to diminish chances of getting sick? For example, will you be willing to constantly wear a mask while in public places? If so, will you still enjoy traveling?
Or are you more optimistic and believe that this virus will go the way of previous short-lived epidemics, and that by next year we will look at COVID-19 as a "blip" in the past?
I assume that many, if not most, on this forum are over 60 years of age (I am too) - how far are we willing to go in this new reality?
Personally, I am pretty pessimistic - unless I know for sure if I have been exposed or not, or how I react to this sickness, I don't see myself doing any travel abroad in this time period. Hope I'm wrong. I also am supposing that I will not want to get vaccinated.
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