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BTW, it's easy to reschedule if you need to. They are available 24/7.

We just did this yesterday. Kiosk to buy tickets, easy to use. Roomy train. Lots of luggage. We had two large suitcases and 2 carry ons and a Bipap machine and we are old and slow and I hurt my hip just before leaving home and hence can't move well and nobody minded. On weekends, you only need ticket for one zone, so it's cheap, quick and easy.

We didn't know about it until we got to our hotel, the Hyatt downtown. They tell you to check your email in the Airport, but our phones incur charges in Canada. So I ignored the suggestion. Bad decision. Anyway, the hotel folks told us to go to a Shopper's drug store about 10 blocks away. We walked down there and found 2 other people in the same situation. We all worked together and figured out the online registration process- yes, there's another one- and it is finicky. Finally got it done after 8 or 10 tries, I might have gotten slightly testy, and Dave got tested. It's a PCR test so useless for us. They use it for statistics to determine whether or not their Covid policy is effective or something like that. I do think they should make it more convenient. It wasn't complying with their rules that irritated me. It was how perfectly awful the registration was and how it could have cost us a lot of money if we hadn't been able to walk to the pharmacy. The whole process took about 2 hours, and that after getting up in the wee hours to fly out of Nashville. We're exhausted. If anyone runs into this, just be very careful filling out the online stuff. No leading 1 for a US phone number. Use your hotel as a Canadian address. And when you get to the disclaimer crap scroll down through it all slowly. Be sure to click on all the drop downs, and check all the boxes, even the French section.

We were there today. There were several HAL reps at the baggage area. Can't miss them. We took the sky train to downtown to our hotel. Around $9 each. Easy. Cheap.

Easiest thing we've done. Took about 15 minutes and we had confirmed emails before disconnecting. OnPoint was awesome. On arrival at our hotel in downtown Vancouver this afternoon, we discovered that David had been randomly selected for testing by Canada. Getting that done was a royal pain. So he's been tested twice in less than 18 hours.

Okay, if the actual testing is as easy as it was to make the appt with OnPoint, this is great. Got our numbers and our zoom link and we're ready for tomorrow evening.

TY for this very clear explanation. We are planning to use OnPoint on Friday evening. I will make an appt tomorrow when I know the time better.

TY for this. We are flying to Vancouver next Friday as well for the same cruise and I've been going bonkers trying to figure it all out.

We just got the bivalent booster today. We each had two cards (one card has our original series, and the second card has our two prior boosters). They were able to fit my booster on my second card with the others, but DH had to get a third card for his. It all depends on how much they can fit.

It's airborne, folks. AIRBORNE. It's not spread by fomites (touching stuff). They thought it was at first and that's why we were all wiping down mail and groceries and worrying over touching things in the stores. While fomite spread is theoretically possible, it's unlikely. The much, much more likely source is simply standing next to a positive person and breathing the same air. That's because the virus simply does not survive well on surfaces. Yes, you can find studies where they isolated Covid virus from surfaces umpteen hours after exposure, BUT those studies don't show that the virus recovered was viable or able to infect anyone. Norovirus is different. That's why I'm a huge fan of having no self service in the Lido, and I am a hand washer of almost epic proportions. When it comes to Covid, though, I put on a really good mask.

We're getting Pfizer. It's what our local Walgreens has. We're fine with either one.

I made an appt for us to get the new booster for Wednesday, Sept 7. And that's in rural Kentucky where nobody ever has anything. 🙂 I was delighted, and we can get our flu shots at the same time, one shot in each arm, and then we'll go home and spend Thursday whining. 🙂

So you are seriously saying that getting vaccinated will make you sick. That's what you're saying. Like getting vaccinated makes you all magnetized and it draws the Covid virus to you and you end up on a ventilator. I give up.

That's your problem.

I wasn't suggesting that was the case. I was using those figures because of the ease of doing the mental math. OF COURSE, pre-existing conditions matter. They do with all infections. But no, it's not a "more accurate" predictor. It's simply one of a number of factors, including vax status and age and socio-economic status, and even race. What is NOT true is the idea that somehow people who got vaccinated are now more prone to being hospitalized with Covid than those who didn't. That's just not true. At all. Not even close.