With vaccines rolling out worldwide, and COVID cases coming down albeit slightly, travel culture is rearing its excited head ready to pounce. Backpackers are researching their next destination. Travel bloggers are aching to see new sights. Mountaineers are getting ready to climb that next mountain. But while we think it’s amazing, and while we’re excited as well, here’s why we think you should be careful.
Avoid Overcorrection
Just because people are getting vaccinated doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods just yet. The coronavirus is still a very real thing and we need to take it seriously all the same. It would be a shame for everyone to travel at the same time right when the restrictions lift, only to create some serious crowding issues and zero social distancing.
Maintain Good Practices
If there’s one good thing that the pandemic taught us, it was how to be cleaner individuals. Washing our hands every chance we could, putting hand sanitizer when possible, social distancing, you name it. These are all practices that can still help us avoid getting sick, not just from COVID-19 but from all kinds of illnesses.
Let’s Just Chill For a Bit
We need to keep a level head about all of this. Let’s be mature and wait for the right time to take a vacation. Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. Not yet, at least. After all, was your quarantine really that bad?