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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PineappleSkip" data-source="post: 2338296" data-attributes="member: 9004">You are absolutely correct in what you say about vaccination rates in Africa, and other third world countries, and the global inequities that have ensued. The Africa bans in the knee jerk response to omicron served to <a href="https://theconversation.com/whos-in-whos-out-the-ethics-of-covid-19-travel-rules-172053" target="_blank">highlight some of these inequities</a>. Another I have contributed to is the insatiable demand for PCR tests, which sucks so much out of the third world’s meagre testing capacity. A third is the lack of access to migration and to travel for work that travel bans create.However, I don’t think this answers @OATEK‘s question about whether lack of access to vaccines prevents people who want to travel from doing so. If you wish to travel internationally in Africa and have the means to do so, getting a jab is unlikely to be an issue. You don’t actually need the jab itself, you need the certificate to say you have the jab. That’s a whole other thing. The vax requirement likely has some impact, but it’s marginal on top of all the other covid impediments to travel. BTW there was much early concern that covid would sap the foreign remittances which are the third world’s lifeblood, but that <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/05/12/defying-predictions-remittance-flows-remain-strong-during-covid-19-crisis" target="_blank">didn’t happen</a>.In the third world, travel is the domain of the privileged few with means, access and connections. So too with vaccinations where the privileged, as usual, are first in line. I still marvel that my Somali colleagues got the jab long before I was eligible. They had the connections that were needed.Lots of talk here of holiday travel. Most of those who fly out in the third world are on a plane for work, and many more travel to get health care they can’t at home. Holiday travel is very rare indeed, as is the very idea of going overseas for a holiday. It’s a quite common view over to our west that a holiday is another  of those strange behaviours that only those wierd white people engage in. We’re all sheltered by our perspectives.cheers skip</blockquote>

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