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Uncategorized Oct 23, 2025
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“As we’ve reiterated many times, while it’s understandable to see tighter travel policies in recognition of the emerging Omicron variant, the travel industry contributes much less to the variant’s spread than what’s often attributed to it in public discourse.”
Ricky, you are completely FULL OF SHIT. The only reason the virus left China was due to travel. The only reason variants have gone from South Africa to Canada, or Brazil to Canada, or Canada to Germany, or wherever else, is because TRAVELLERS are carrying the versions of the virus with them on airplanes and trains.
If anybody should have caught COVID by now it should be you, instead of the grandparents in nursing homes and the parents working in hospitals as nurses doctors and cleaning staff.
Every single case of COVID in Canada is linked back to people who brought the virus here from elsewhere. Every single case of COVID in China (as far as science knows) is linked to people who brought the early COVID viruses from Wuhan (by travelling on trains and planes).
Stop with your bullshit ‘travelling isn’t a high risk of spreading Covid variants like the media says’ PR and marketing for ‘Travel Influencers’ and the airline industry. Stop with your pandering about COVID not spreading on planes or in airports.
Thanks to selfish people who refuse to follow stay at home rules and guidance, this pandemic will never end. Selfish jerks won’t stop travelling, won’t stop promoting travelling, won’t stop selling travel tickets and packages, and won’t be responsible for the pain and misery they indirectly cause everyone else through their selfish actions.
Good job Ricky, keep on complaining about audacious travel restrictions. My dead grandparents are entirely sympathetic with your struggle to fly Air France La Premiere during the pandemic and the truly horrendous discrimination you have received as a travel influencer trying to travel.
How unfair and unjust the Canadian, European, Asian and global governments are to discriminate against you and make travelling into their countries more difficult during a respiratory disease pandemic.
Why can’t they think about Ricky and how his points, hotel and flight reviewing business is suffering when he can’t as easily convince people to spend points on trips and apply for cards through his referrals.
The great thing for you Ricky is that people are so mentally exhausted, tired and depressed that more and more of them are starting to give up and not even try anymore. Look on the bright side buddy, more people will be ignoring restrictions by the week, travel is back baby!!
Except for you travel never really ended eh? That’s okay though. I’m sure it can be justified because you were being tested and isolating… and not finding ways to avoid testing or isolation measures whenever loop holes were available.
Enjoy your travels to Europe and Asia and the Caribbean and elsewhere Ricky!! Hope you don’t get kill anybody by making them sick! Some people you encourage to travel will probably spread the disease to others and result in their deaths, but hey, that’s not your problem. It’s not on your conscience either cuz it could have been from anything and anyone right?
Good for you Ricky. Keep your conscience clean. You’ve done nothing wrong and the rules shouldn’t apply to you. The Hong Kong authorities treated you barbarically by making you quarantine during your China visit. How dare they ruin your vacation!!! …Sorry I mean mourning period for your relative. That was the purpose of the trip, not a vacation across China when a emergency visa was made available to you.
COVID is inevitable so we should just live with it. After all, that’s what idiots who kept travelling for the last 2 years have made inevitable for all of us. More Covid variants, more sickness and more death! Hooray!!!
It’s not travellers who are the problem, it’s the people who have been staying at home trying to contain the spread of the virus. Ricky, they should have realized it was futile in the first place and that you would be snagging up some heavily discounted hotels and airfares while they were being the real idiots.
Thanks Ricky for all your hard work making sure everybody knows that travelling during the pandemic wasn’t the issue. It was everything and everybody else.
Bon voyage!
I feel very bad for you, Justin. It is terrible to lose people close to you.
But if you have bought anything online, or at grocery store, or damn near anywhere, it has come cross border. Travelers aren’t the cause of the pandemic, nor are they the reason it continues. That honour goes to those who choose not to get vaccinated.
It’s OK if you don’t agree with people traveling for personal reasons, but there is no objective data to support that hypothesis.
Assuming you’re not a troll, I wholeheartedly wish that you can soon meet your grandparents again.
Actually, my grandpa’s doing just fine, thank you very much.
Sounds like you need to visit a lockdown website instead of a travel website
So if test need to be taken Ina a country other than Canada, how does the Switch Health Lamp self test forfil that requirement when technically the test the results are bring issued by a Canadian company?
Not sure how to correct my typos…sorry..lol
Again, overreach and overreaction by the govt. nothing seems to slow the spread, even vaccination. It seems this is the natural progression of viruses; more contagious but less powerful. According to Gates this will petter out soon. He said 2 years. April will be 2 years.