Most countries in the EU just relaxed the requirements to travel before the summer vacations. You don't need a PCR test anymore to travel: just an antibody test (at least for Spain / France / Belgium but I take it many others are doing the same). And there's no requirement to be vaccinated.
They also raised the age at which you need a test from 6 to 12 years old.
Source: always living/traveling across France/Belgium/Spain.
Fun fact: when you travel by car in the EU they typically do not bother to check. You can cross several countries and they're not verifying anything. Another fun thing: test is supposed to be less than 72 hours old, so if you're traveling over more than 3 days, you need to get re-tested during your trip.
Hopefully, like we see with the wuhan lab theory suppression, as time goes on, a lot of what people suffered will come to light, and be contrasted by the benefit of the elite and political class during all this.
The vast majority of people are consuming propaganda or crazy shit (MSM and conspiracy theories) but don't know how to filter the info to find a narrative that most accurately represents reality.
Because of this, the mainstream media will ALWAYS be able to dismiss strawman arguments and label dissidents as conspiracy theorists. Conspiracy theorists will also ALWAYS be able to poke holes in the propaganda and spin convincing alternate narratives.
In any valid disagreement with the popular narrative, you WILL find conspiracy theorists.
One caveat to this situation is that IF the mainstream institutions were able to rebuild trust (by telling the truth), then you would have far less people poking holes in their narratives and therefore fewer conspiracy theories. So, I don't get angry at conspiracy theorists because I understand that they're created by a lying state and media - they're canaries not a cancer.
Now it seems to be a badge of honor, or at least a popular opinion, amongst educated people, to lean in to being part of a herd.
Doing stuff because it makes sense is one thing, but praising the abstract act of being peer pressured is ridiculous.
I close my mouth when I chew because of social pressure.
Someone might choose not to pick their nose in public because of social pressure.
Someone else might put the toilet seat down because of social pressure.
The amount of time I spend changing lanes before a turn is because of social pressure.
And yet someone else may not take the last helping of a treat because of social pressure.
It's time to fight guys from that country or we'll throw you in a cage. Obey our rules or we'll throw you in a cage.
I hope if something good comes up out of covid, it will be people realising that and vote for limiting government's power.
Where I live, you need to meet one of three conditions for things like indoor dining:
- proof of a full course of vaccination (2 weeks after the final shot)
- proof of prior infection - antibody test not accepted, only positive PCR between 1 and 6 months ago
- proof of an antigen test (rapid test) that's at most 24h old