 Poster: A snowHead
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In the excitement of the French Border being open to skiers again please please do not overlook the fact that France is in a Covid crisis.
The rate of infection is still climbing!
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COVID-19 infections in France are at their peak — the highest daily average reported — now at 293,866 new infections reported each day
3,067 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days
Updated 10:47 AM CE
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https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/france/
If you are going to France please be very careful and follow the covid advice.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@boredsurfin, exactly, stay out of doors, take chairlifts where possible, avoid Paris, go skiing.
And the uk is not in any sort of covid crisis?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@under a new name, Yep! no the UK is the land of garden cheese and wine parties 
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@boredsurfin, could have been worse, they could have been in the cellar (no windows, no vents) of Gordon's Gin Bar.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@under a new name, Gordon's Wine Bar on Villiers Street?
Great place to go for a snifter out of MOD, no chance of being called back, it was a great not spot in the noughties.
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@chocksaway, the very one. Mrs U used to frequent as a student ...
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@under a new name, Brill place, does she remember the real cockney lady that had worked there since before The Blitz?
(Sorry for the drift!)
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Ahhh Gordons- My favourite hide out when I was working in Castle Grey Skull next door. Cracking pork pie
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@under a new name, @chocksaway, a favourite escape from the City for me too! 
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Totally. If I go to a cafe, it’ll be outdoors. We won’t be sampling any apres, we’ll just takes beers to the flat and play Mario kart and mortal Kombat. Masks on in any busy spots.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I suspect our trip to Tignes will be a little flat, most likely it will be a few us sat around a table in the hotel bar.
I have a feeling Italy will be the same but I'm not that fussed as long as I get to the mountains.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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(This is at the tiny ski area of Romme) Wednesday we were extra quiet, all the local primary school kids had been told to keep away from others if possible, Thursday we were closed and so was school. Friday afternoon we have half the local kids that show up Wednesday or weekend because school is closed and 1/2 tested positive. Be careful out there.
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We've just cancelled our trip to La Tania on 23rd Jan - France may be open now but with a sudden surge of Brits into the resorts that will only mean one thing. You're pretty much guaranteed to catch Covid skiing in France in the next few weeks.For the vaccinated that isn't going to be an issue 99% of the time. However for those of us with jobs that can't be done from home, this is a deal breaker.
We're re-booking for early March.
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Fri 14-01-22 15:41; edited 1 time in total
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You know it makes sense.
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Of the 7 families I know that went out to France at Xmas, 5 of them got COVID - in some cases just one or two members, in others, the entire family.
This has partly driven my decision to drive this Feb - I've flown every time previously for c. 15yrs, but it's hard to fly home when someone tests positive.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@snowdave, that's bizarre. What were they doing? We've all been happily going on as usual, extended families out before and for xmas and new year, quite enough socialising, visiting, skiing, etc., and no-one caught it, a fair few colds mind you!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| snowdave wrote: |
Of the 7 families I know that went out to France at Xmas, 5 of them got COVID - in some cases just one or two members, in others, the entire family.
This has partly driven my decision to drive this Feb - I've flown every time previously for c. 15yrs, but it's hard to fly home when someone tests positive. |
I’m not sure you are meant to drive home if someone tests positive? Or are you a Mr D Cummings?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Idris, are you saying the resort closed due to Covid? If so, was that staffing issues or lack of demand.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| under a new name wrote: |
| ...a fair few colds mind you! |
Were you actually treating those colds as Covid and taking a Lat Flow/TAG?
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we were in Chamonix for 3 weeks over Xmas/ NY, returned home last week. Didn’t catch covid or even a cold. Plenty ways to mitigate risk of catching it - eg minimise time indoors in public settings.
Didn’t find lift queues or gondolas/ cable cars an issue even mixing with unmasked folk.
We drove out to keep options open for return.
I would be back out like a shot if I didn’t have to work until Easter.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Let's face it, countless people are either not going to take a test when they get cold symptoms in resort, or they're going to travel back while knowingly positive. Without wishing to virtue signal - it's just a personal choice - I have cancelled two long-anticipated trips rather than do that (and for a very specific reason, I can't risk getting stuck in resort.) The requirement to test might just as well be abolished at this point. 
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| NoMapNoCompass wrote: |
We've just cancelled our trip to La Tania on 23rd Jan - France may be open now but with a sudden surge of Brits into the resorts that will only mean one thing. You're pretty much guaranteed to catch Covid skiing in France in the next few weeks.For the vaccinated that isn't going to be an issue 99% of the time. However for those of us with jobs that can't be done from home, this is a deal breaker.
We're re-booking for early March. |
I don't get this. If you're guaranteed to catch covid (you aren't), then why on earth would it magically be fine in 6 weeks time?
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Hurtle - agree 100% and this is why we have cancelled our trip to La Tania
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| sugarmoma666 wrote: |
| @Idris, are you saying the resort closed due to Covid? If so, was that staffing issues or lack of demand. |
It's quiet season so we are shut Tuesday and Thursday. Most resorts have some lifts closed due to staffing issues in general and made worse due to Covid + everywhere is very dead even considering it's mid January.
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| Timmycb5 wrote: |
| I don't get this. If you're guaranteed to catch covid (you aren't), then why on earth would it magically be fine in 6 weeks time? |
Work in NHS, knowingly exposing ourselves to the risk of having to isolate right now would not sit well with us ethically.
The situation will change in March - both in terms of the prevalence of Omicron and also the staffing pressures in work.
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| NoMapNoCompass wrote: |
| Timmycb5 wrote: |
| I don't get this. If you're guaranteed to catch covid (you aren't), then why on earth would it magically be fine in 6 weeks time? |
Work in NHS, knowingly exposing ourselves to the risk of having to isolate right now would not sit well with us ethically.
The situation will change in March - both in terms of the prevalence of Omicron and also the staffing pressures in work. |
That's a fair point.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Sorry, appreciate everyone is in a different situation so not saying France should be off the limits right now. But for some of us it is.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| under a new name wrote: |
| @snowdave, that's bizarre. What were they doing? We've all been happily going on as usual, extended families out before and for xmas and new year, quite enough socialising, visiting, skiing, etc., and no-one caught it, a fair few colds mind you! |
Normal stuff - no particular partying etc. Not all in Cham - various places, but all families with kids, so unless they brought it from the UK (possible in one case) then it was local transmission.
My understanding is that at least one of the Chamonix schools shut early before Xmas because there was so much COVID that it wasn't practical to stay open. You will probably know more on that front than me!
@NE1, no need to test if you're driving home.
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everywhere is very dead even considering it's mid January
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But we've just had bookings for the weekend (brits) so I expect a flurry of arrivals ...
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You know it makes sense.
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@snowdave,
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no need to test if you're driving home.
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What's your authority for that statement, as a matter of interest?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
| @under a new name, Yep! no the UK is the land of garden cheese and wine work meetings until Sue Gray says otherwise |
FIFY
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Hurtle, It's correct one only has to do a test upon return to the UK. It has to be a test booked in advance as the test number is required for the locator form to gain entry to the UK. I had better be correct or I'll be stuck in Calais next week 
(As long as fully vaccinated and have uploaded vaccine status to Eurotunnel website)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@boredsurfin, yes, but what are the rules in France when you get symptoms?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Hurtle wrote: |
@snowdave,
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What's your authority for that statement, as a matter of interest? |
Pre-departure tests have been abolished (apart from a limited set of circumstances that don't apply to us).
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@Hurtle, Sorry no idea. I think... its a 7 day quarantine until you test negative. I guess most Brits will simply get home one way or another spreading Omicron as they go.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@snowdave, I repeat the question I've just put to @boredsurfin.
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
| @Hurtle, Sorry no idea. I think... its a 7 day quarantine until you test negative. I guess most Brits will simply get home one way or another |
Precisely the point I was making. Brits will be ignoring that and swanning around regardless, potentially infecting French people (unless they hermetically seal themselves in their cars until they reach the UK.)
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
| I guess most Brits will simply get home one way or another spreading Omicron as they go. |
I think that is an accurate assessment and also why you are virtually guaranteed to catch Covid skiing in France in the next few weeks.
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@NoMapNoCompass,
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also why you are virtually guaranteed to catch Covid skiing in France in the next few weeks.
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That's possibly a step too far. It's not impossible to be careful.
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@Hurtle, ... which boredsurfin has largely answered... your original question crossed over with my original reply. 7 or 10 days depending on circumstances if you test positive.
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| snowdave wrote: |
| @Hurtle, ... which boredsurfin has largely answered... your original question crossed over with my original reply. 7 or 10 days depending on circumstances if you test positive. |
Well, your post saying that there's no need to test if you drive home seems to imply that the French laws won't apply to you, unless I've misunderstood you.
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