I'd never voluntarily sign up for quarantine and am fortunate to have traveled between three countries in the past year that dont require them. If my home country started requiring quarantine while I was away I'd refuse to go back. What a joke. Im not impressed by their stats, it's not worth it.
Agreed. I did this in December in Thailand and I had no problems. Just come in with a plan to stay busy the two weeks. I was able to work remotely which took up the majority of my time.
I've spent months in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia pre-Covid. I'm very familiar with the nomad spots. I love it there but not worth a quarantine for me. There are tropical beaches and coworking spaces in latin America too.
Over the winter covid case rates were pretty bad in Latin America. Thailand was at less than 100 cases/day, with a large fraction being caught in these quarantine facilities. Thailand seemed like the safer option.
Also it was a 7 week stay, so 2 weeks of quarantine was quite short compared to the duration of the trip.
NZ, if they continue at current rate, are on track to vaccinate 100% in 51 days. Of course that's never going to happen as not everyone wants the vaccine etc, but it seems their rollout is going well if not slightly delayed.
Australia meanwhile hasn't even vaccinated 5% of the pop as they put all their eggs into a political choice (on-shore produced AstraZeneca, support aussie produced!) and are now scrambling to find a replacement. There's not enough vaccine for demand.
Both took the same isolate approach, but it looks like NZ is gonna come out of this sooner.
Australians I know got Pfizer shots. I don't understand why they did though, none of them are from high risk populations or likely to be the source of spread. And it's not helping them to leave the country either - one of them just had to cancel an NZ trip.
Yeah, there's a supply of Pfizer but it's a drop in the ocean compared to what they committed to AZ. The government declined a deal for Pfizer last year in favour of majority AZ, and has had to renegotiate for Pfizer since. Increased Pfizer supply is due to arrive soon.
I can guarantee you that this is not going to happen... I would be lucky if I am vaccinated this year... Vaccines are super scarce so we are real snails atm!