To think my friend's son is a prat?

[Pipsquiggle]

He's 27 and unvaccinated. He's never had covid.

He thinks he can travel to Tenerife this weekend when the rules clearly stipulate that unvaccinated people need to show they've had covid in the last 6 months - he can't prove that.

His mum and I think he should rearrange the trip.

What will happen at the airport? Will he get refused entry to the gate? Or will he get to Tenerife and then get turned back?

I haven't flown abroad since the pandemic so not sure when they check the vaccination / medical status.

He is a real prat - he always thinks he knows better than anyone else and rules don't apply to him. I am half hoping that he does get his comeuppance with this

Makes a mockery of all the ones who have to pay out for pcr tests doesn't it?
Unless he is vaccinated and telling a few lies to look good or just very lucky somehow ( or managed to get fake documents?)

He will have a fake vaccination certificate. I know loads of people that have them and have used them with a 100% success rate.

I myself would be too scared in case i got caught plus im triple vaxxed but thats how the majority of people get round it.

I bet you’re gutted you couldn’t say “I told you so”

Why do you care anyway?

@TyrannosaurusFlex

I bet you’re gutted you couldn’t say “I told you so”

Why do you care anyway?

THIS ALL DAY LONG!!

Just had a catch up with my friend.

Yes her son got into Tenerife.

All he had to show, according to him, was a negative antigen test. Apparently they weren't looking at other covid documentation e.g. covid vaccination passports or if you'd had it in the last 6 months.

I have heard similar from other friends - some airlines are extremely vigilant others you could just wave any old pieces of A4 paper and they would let you through.

I am sorry for my friend that she won't have her 'I told you so' moment. She fears this will make him even more pig headed and emboldened in general.

Any idea who he flew out there with op?
.. just wondering who is being vigilant and who isn't !

If he flies to Ireland and then to Spain he could get in with a negative PCR

@Pipsquiggle

Just had a catch up with my friend.

Yes her son got into Tenerife.

All he had to show, according to him, was a negative antigen test. Apparently they weren't looking at other covid documentation e.g. covid vaccination passports or if you'd had it in the last 6 months.

I have heard similar from other friends - some airlines are extremely vigilant others you could just wave any old pieces of A4 paper and they would let you through.

I am sorry for my friend that she won't have her 'I told you so' moment. She fears this will make him even more pig headed and emboldened in general.

With respect, we have to live our lives now. We’ve been imprisoned by this bastard virus for TWO years! A negative antigen test is perfectly sufficient.

I say this as a nurse who has looked after the sickest Covid patients and had it twice myself. We need to move on.

Well you and your friend sound delightful! Hoping he will get turned away at the airport just so you two and gleefully say “I told you so” and he misses out on a holiday is just spiteful.