Use it or lose it I guess, while it lasts...they'll probably double down in the fall if they don't get 95% vaxx rate. Enjoy the summer to the max, travel till you drop.
Most certainly not. I don't think any country has set such a lofty goal, because vaccination is not mandatory. Yes, these measures are a consequence of the vaccination (a bit under 4M people got at least a shot here), but I don't think any country with a significant number of inhabitants will have 95% rate.
Travelling was never a problem here. We could travel as much as we want to. But yeah, I'll visit some beautiful places, not frequented by the average tourists. Romania has plenty of 'em.
can't take these measures for granted, because of "the Indian variant" that is spreading. One day they will ease the restrictions and the next day new measures will be introduced again. Boris Johson also worried about the spread of Indian variant and "ruling nothing out" to tackle it. I believe that summer will be shorter due to this and in autumn everything starts all over again.
Nobody took into account the Indian variant here. As I said in the first post, the plan is for the second set of relaxation measures, starting August 1st. However, last fall there were warnings about the British variant, which lead here to a maximum of 10k cases daily in November. It was quite an experience.
I'm in Romania too and i've never worn a mask, only exception is inside the supermarket. I'm surprised i haven't been fined or arrested. Right now almost 100% of the people on the streets here wear a mask. Today i went inside a bank to the atm machine without a mask, i went inside a car dealership without a mask, so far nobody bothered me. Only time i was harrassed was inside a mall when some little security guard asked me to put my mask on, i was wearing it but only covered my chin, i completely ignored him and walked away.
Its such BS, in the gyms nobody wears a mask, but everywhere else its a crime to not wear it. I'm so so sick of this circus. Romanians are very docile and even though i'm glad that there is a relaxation of the tyranny comming, i'm afraid that in october or so, they will come with some new made up mutation and it starts all over again.
Are you Romanian or a foreigner who is in Romania? I guess the later. You don't get arrested for not wearing a mask, only fined. And if you weren't fined... then we're on the same team, because I have almost never worn a mask outside, despite having a few chats with some police officers. The city where I live is not crowded at all. It is almost empty after 7:30 PM so it doesn't make any sense to wear the mask. This doesn't mean that the police didn't fine anybody else, though.
I am surprised the mall security guard let you walk away so easily with the mask under your chin.
Yes, comparing to the Americans we are more docile. This is part because of our recent history. You aren't going to see Black Bucharest Matters or AnTIMISOARAiffa here.
I wouldn't call this state of events here a tyranny, though. Comparing to what is was here in the last years of the Communist regime, you'd gladly take the mask and three shots rather than going through what was going on back then.
Situation in Croatia:
1. Masks outside have never been introduced.
2.Curfew has never been introduced.
3. Shops, restaurants, etc. can work until 22:00, thinking about scraping that rule
4. Stadiums and all outdoor sporting events so far still closed for visitors
5. Similar.
Not very different from what we have now.
Romania seems like somewhere you could bribe a doc to give you a fake vax cert. Would I be wrong?
Most certainly yes. I don't see a real reason for why you'd wanted to do that. There is no discrimination between people who got the vaccine and people who didn't get it.
And the end of relaxation would be September 1 st., I suppose based on last year. That means you can enjoy walking on the street with ice cream without a mask one month a year. Great improvement.
Actually, things got more serious in November last year. Night curfew from 23:00 to 5:00 (later it was from 22:00 to 5:00), masks everywhere, online school 100%, restaurants weren't allowed to serve indoors (this is how I found out now cool it is to eat a pizza and drink a beer at -2 degrees Celsius).
I hope they don't get a spike. This is what happened to other countries and unfortunately, it didn't go well.
So do I. But things look promisingly well at the moment I am writing this.
Now I remembered one Romanian politician, who also suppressed Romanian people until they had enough. Nicolae Ceausescu was his name. Maybe better not to tease people from the land of Dracula -)
Exactly! This is a lesson the virus seemed to understand very well
