Hey guys, welcome to FOMOthevlog
today, it's a bit of a solo the vlog because
The other half of FOMO is actually in Bali right now.
Our channel FOMOthevlog is all about traveling
It's about gaining experiences.
It's about meeting people from all over the world
As creators of a travel blog
We thought it'd be super important to actually talk about
the things that you should think about before you go traveling during this pandemic
the precautions and things that you could do
to keep yourself safe while traveling and
Also, I want to bring to attention some things that you need to think about before you actually travel
This is a disclaimer. I am in no way a medical professional
all the information
I got was a combination of the things I found online
things that I've been told and
The things that I've learnt myself while traveling and trying to keep healthy and safe
I want to talk to you about five main things today
The question stands
should you even travel during the corona pandemic?
Tip number one would be the most obvious and the most clear tip
Don't.
Don't travel during this pandemic
because the less you move around
the less people you'll come into contact with
the less chance you get of
Getting sick
the less chance you have of spreading the sickness to other people
Because I understand that like most of the people that I'm making this video for are around my age.
We're young. We're healthy.
That's great.
But a lot of the people that we come into contact with
are older or they might have underlying medical conditions
You having a mild sickness and then spreading it to someone else
might create a completely different situation for that person
This pandemic is more about taking care of the community and taking care of others.
It's about understanding
how your actions have consequences.
Stay in your bedroom, get all cozy, and put up some lights, make some tea
You know, binge the office for the 13th time
make a video about the corona virus pandemic like I am
What do you do if you choose to travel?
During the corona pandemic.
The first couple of things. I want to talk about are of course more practical
So as you've heard from everyone and everything and everywhere,
wash your hands
Literally every time you touch anything or anyone
especially if you're going in an airport
It's already a super grubby, icky place
make it a habit as much as it is checking Instagram every half an hour
Go wash your hands every half an hour,
have a little bottle of antiseptic with you
Every time you touch something right after disinfect your hands,
Please disinfect your phone
because that is the single most
Nasty object
that you carry around everywhere all the time
You go to the bathroom with it. Don't even lie to me
I know it. We know it. Y'all know it.
There's been a lot of information going around about not wearing masks
And yeah
it's a hundred percent true that you shouldn't wear a mask if
You're not coughing and not sneezing
and you're not spreading anything
a mask isn't for the protection of yourself
It's for the protection of others
So unless you have symptoms, you don't really need a mask,
but from personal experience when I was traveling around Asia
Polina and I still chose to wear masks during our flights.
That's not because we were super-paranoid that we'd get sick
I know that for example
I'm a face toucher, like I touch my face every moment,
like possible, every moment that I get.
It's a super bad habit that I really need to get rid of especially right now
But it is what it is
And I know that wearing the mask is gonna prevent me from doing something stupid
like I don't know touching
a door handle and then scratching my face
and then getting coronavirus
if you're like me maybe a mask would actually be a good idea
So look into that and stop touching your face
Or I should like I should do a thing where I have to
Put a dollar in a jar every time I touch my face
because I don't even notice when I do it
It's really really bad and I don't even understand why I do it
Tip number four
this tip is actually inspired by the one and only Naomi Campbell
we watched a video the other day where she
showed her routine of disinfecting every airplane seat that she got on
she has
Disinfectant wipes
that she literally wipes down all the possible surfaces that she can
so the tray table
The seat in front of her,
the little handles on the sides.
She wipes it all down
even the window
She had a couple of microfiber towels that she used to kind of wrap around the seat
that's
Exactly, actually what we did when we were traveling in Vietnam
on the overnight train because we heard it was super dirty
We got our towels
and we kind of lay them across all the possible surfaces
that we would touch before actually laying down there
Especially because we have to spend 15 hours on that train.
Yes. It's a bit extreme, but it's better to be safe than sorry and
Especially right now.
I want to talk to you about what you should
Definitely think about before you even travel
don't buy a ticket before you find this information out
go online
Go on the website of the Ministry of Health
of whatever country it is you're going to
so for example
I'm from Cyprus and
my parents really wanted me to go back
then I decided to check the Ministry of Health website
and once I went on there
I realised that if the UK is one of the countries that the added to
self-isolation which means that
if I come back to Cyprus
I wouldn't be able to leave my own house for two whole weeks
Check online about whether or not you're gonna have to quarantine yourself
Another thing that you should check
is if you're gonna require certificate proving that your coronavirus free
so again back to my example
another reason why I decide to stay in London is because Cypriot government
started asking for
Certificates from every person that arrives to Cyprus
proving that their coronavirus free
and that is not a certificate
that is easy to get
make sure you check that your country doesn't have a weird rule like that
Requiring extra documentation about the state of your health and stuff
We thought about how important it is right now
to talk about this information and get it out there
because our channel is all about
Traveling but sometimes travel might not be the best thing
which it is right now
So watch our vlogs and live through us vicariously
through our experiences.
We were lucky enough to go around Southeast Asia
Before the whole outbreak
so we came back in December and literally January all of this mess had begun
So if you watch our previous episodes
you're gonna get to see Asia
From the comfort of your living room
or bedroom or wherever it is your watching.
So watch our other episodes
They're pretty fun.
Right now. Polina is actually still in Asia and
she went from Malaysia to Bali the other day,
and I asked her to film a video about her experience traveling and
How it is to travel in Asia
during these outbreaks and what precautions they take over there
Asia has been dealing with the corona virus for at least a month and a half to two months longer than Europe has
Everything has just started here
So it's gonna be interesting to see the sort of measures that they have in place
as compared to the measures that our
government has here
take responsibility for your own choices right now
because staying in a couple of weekends and
You know concentrating on other parts of your life
like meditation and you know making videos for YouTube
Could actually save lives
For real.
It's about making sure that the more vulnerable members of our communities are safe and protected
Be mindful of what you choose to do.
And if you do go traveling if you must
Please keep these tips in mind
and I hope they're gonna keep you healthy and safe and happy
I'm gonna include some links below
from like official sources and official information
If you want to know more tips about how to stay safe
how to stay safe while traveling
how to deal with
Even the emotional stress of this whole situation.
Thanks for watching
I hope you got some useful information out of this video
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and keep an eye out because we're gonna make a video about polina traveling
Right now during this epidemic
From one Asian country to the other
and she's gonna tell us all about it
FOMOthevlog is now
contained and isolated for the time being
we're gonna keep posting videos from our previous travels,
but at the moment unfortunately
We're also taking responsibility and trying to stay
Contained and isolated.
Um, take care. Love you all and
Wash your hands
See touching my face