To feel pissed off at PCR testing and travel restrictions...

[JollyJoon]

...when double vaccinated?

Soon to be triple vaccinated.

So if a triple jab isnt enough to protect ourselves and others from spreading, why have we bothered?

I think governments should realise that once people have been double vaxxed they're going to need a bit of an incentive to keep going back for more...

My incentives are to protect me and others. I never stopped wearing a mask in shops etc. if I was to get covid the risk of it being serious are pretty low. If I was to have it and pass it on then I might pass it to someone who is high risk. A little bit of inconvenience to protect people is fine by me. I hate wearing masks, my glasses fog up but the alternative is a lot worse.

@Panacotta

I think governments should realise that once people have been double vaxxed they're going to need a bit of an incentive to keep going back for more...

Reducing the risk of death?

Reports are coming from the US that the new variant is mild especially with the vaccinated.

All these restrictions have done is just cost travellers more and put the travel industry which employs thousands of people under strain again.

Yet the government were so scared of Covid they were having secret parties last Christmas when they told us all we mustn't see our own families.

I wouldn't mind the tests at all if they didn't cost £60-120 per person, per test. If you have to take a test before you go, before you come back and then a third once you are home, then that is a substantial cost for many families.

And it is a substantial extra cost to land on people just a few weeks before Christmas when budgets might already be tight.

@JollyJoon

I'm happy with 3 jabs I dont want to keep getting boosters if it doesn't make my life easier

It's not about making your life easier, it's about making you less likely to get very ill/end up in hospital/die.

It's not about making your life easier, it's about making you less likely to get very ill/end up in hospital/die.

It's about both! We were told by the government that everyone getting their 2 doses of vaccine would allow us to get back to normal, achieve herd immunity and 'beat this virus'. We were incentivised to get vaccinated to that end and 70% of us did just that, because we wanted our lives back. It's not just about getting ill and dying, many low risk people never felt at great personal risk from coronavirus, it's about quality of life.

Trust in the government is rock bottom for lots of reasons now.

Handling of ‘promises’ is probably very high on the list.