Your experience during Covid restrictions
Pros: Flying internationally was fantastic...empty planes, empty airports, extremely cheap upgrades.
Cons: Constantly checking and meeting the ever changing restrictions and requirements of airlines, transit destinations and final destinations, time and money wasted on pre-flight PCR testing, 2 weeks mandatory hotel quarantine every time I entered Cambodia at my own expense and lost time with family.
Cons: Constantly checking and meeting the ever changing restrictions and requirements of airlines, transit destinations and final destinations, time and money wasted on pre-flight PCR testing, 2 weeks mandatory hotel quarantine every time I entered Cambodia at my own expense and lost time with family.
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I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
Became a prisoner in my own country, ( Oz )
Could not leave the country to see my wife or children for 2 1/2 years.
Could not leave the country to see my wife or children for 2 1/2 years.
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I refuse to go out with nothing more than a whimper followed by a small farting sound and a shit stain on my bed sheets..
Just thought I'd share that with you.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
And did your “rather large circle” all get tested? I doubt it, unless they were traveling.lazy feck og wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 1:06 pm*from my rather large circle during the 2020 and 2021 period.YaTingPom wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:38 pmLazy feck og wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:33 amBeing in Kampot we didn't really observe any restrictions. Drank and smoked in crowded bars, shared spoons and forks with strangers, passed spliffs around etc
Only had two brief curfew spells where we had to get out of the pub by 10pm
Nobody got covid. Was a nice but weird time
Of course folk caught covid
Did you ever get tested?
I know for a fact some barangs tested positive but chose to keep silent.
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Have you ever actually been to prison, not as a tourist or visitor (maybe you’re an ex screw)?
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Regardless - your average Australian was unable to leave - imprisoned. Scoffer is not claiming he had the experience of being in a prison as a convicted criminal - he’s using the wider definition of the term.
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Yes, I was being facetious.
I know Australians and Kiwis suffered more than most countries. They’re only just staring to come back.
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I would like to commend the Cambodian authorities for handling this whole situation very responsibly. Not once did I feel a lack of commitment to responsiveness and dedication in the fight against the virus.
There were initial hiccups, but overall they did a commendable job to keep the rates of hospitalisation and death very low.
I'm very surprised to see people so unaffected by the whole thing. For us, the consequence was $1-2 million in lost business and huge debt. Most of the Cambodian people in our area are similarly affected.
Yeah, that's messed up. Especially when the "VIP" Australians seemed to be able to get in and out without issue all through the lockdowns. Sadly Scoffer's story wasn't too uncommon.
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I focused on my personal experience rather ‘impact’. Of course many businesses suffered, and suffered badly but I don’t think that was the intention of the initial question.guest9 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:34 pmThere were initial hiccups, but overall they did a commendable job to keep the rates of hospitalisation and death very low.
I'm very surprised to see people so unaffected by the whole thing. For us, the consequence was $1-2 million in lost business and huge debt. Most of the Cambodian people in our area are similarly affected.
I’m talking about the west not Asia.
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I was under literal house arrest. The wife and kids got carted away to some covcentration camp set up in the local high school. Plague tape was put around my gates and I spent 2 weeks wanking and getting crates of beer and bottles of whisky thrown over the wall by local entrepreneurs and a Scotsman. Neighbours did market runs and left stuff by the gate. Still got paid, and found some side hustles never thought of before which are doing well since.
Looking back, it was fucking ace. 100% would do it again.
Looking back, it was fucking ace. 100% would do it again.
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I also didn't suffer from the restrictions much. Was scared at first with the TV shots of people gasping for air on ventilators etc but then mostly annoyed ar all the bits if paper and masks.
Was in a theoretical lockdown in the sticks in the UK for a while but nobody seemed to give a fuck and went walking and driving about as usual. Just the pubs and restaurants were shut.
Friends in China had sn absolutely horrible time, until very recently.
I don't like that it turned many people into self-policing snitches. Show me the person who voluntarily stuck by all the regulations and I'll show you a very dangerous little man is what I think looking back.
Was in a theoretical lockdown in the sticks in the UK for a while but nobody seemed to give a fuck and went walking and driving about as usual. Just the pubs and restaurants were shut.
Friends in China had sn absolutely horrible time, until very recently.
I don't like that it turned many people into self-policing snitches. Show me the person who voluntarily stuck by all the regulations and I'll show you a very dangerous little man is what I think looking back.
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