TRAPPED in the UK’s Crazy COVID Lockdown – The Credit Shifu

Hey credit warriors, hope you had a great christmas, and we are going to have a story telling episode today. We are in the UK and lots of people have sent me messages on Instagram asking if we are going to make it back or what is going on here, because incase you didn’t know, UK has been in the headlines for a new strain of the ronies.

Now to come here in the first place, there were hoops we had to jump through, in order to avoid not being able to leave the house for 10 days, we had to book a test on our 5th day here, which cost 100 pounds or about 130 dollars per person. That program just started a day before we arrived in the UK so we were lucky to even be able to do that. When we came last to the UK instead of staying in my mom’s house straight away, we rented an air bnb for the first 5 days and then on the fifth day took our test and also moved over to my mom’s house. Would have been better if we were at the air bnb until we go the result, but it was booked after that so we were out of luck. And at that stage we were confident we didn’t have coronavirus.

Then a day and a half later, I got my result….

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And yeah I didn’t have coronavirus. Strangely though, even though me and two kids got our test results, my wife never got her result back, the company we used is called Screen 4, I emailed them and they didn’t answer, I also phoned them and they didn’t answer. I will be doing a credit card charge back to get my money back when I get home. But that wasn’t the end of it…

Around this time the UK prime minister Boris Johnson, decided he wanted to cancel Christmas! Well not really cancel Christmas, here is what he said:

Crazy thing is in the UK people actually listen to and obey this, in the US people would just say no, and many police departments actually refused to enforce draconian restrictions on Thanksgiving gatherings from state governors last month. But saying that, if you are an older or vulnerable person, you should definitely take precautions and protect yourself, maybe you would want to adhere to these limits on your freedom, each person can make up their own mind.

But anyway, we were here to celebrate Christmas with Grandma credit shifu so, we didn’t really mind that the government was limiting different households from gathering, we were already staying at her house, so we had a great Christmas all together. Since all the stores were closed we went on a lot of walks in the hills around the town and it really is a beautiful town.

But just when we thought things were all settled and nice and we would finish up our trip and go home without incident, something else happened. The CDC decided Boris ruining Christmas wasn’t enough and they wanted to ruin my new year. The US now requires a negative COVID test to return home from the UK. Now even though I already had a negative test, it must be from within 72 hours before travel, so I had to go on the internet and book 4 more tests. The PCR tests I got when I was testing to get released from quarantine took about two days to get the result and even then that wasn’t guaranteed. So I was worrying whether it was even doable.

But the CDC says they accept antigen tests (don’t confuse that with antibody tests, it’s not the same thing), these are quicker and cheaper than PCR tests, so I booked four of those for the whole family at the airport testing center the day before our flight at a cost of 50 pounds each. So a total of 200 pounds or about 250 USD, my stimulus check will more than cover it, if we get a stimulus check….

And that is where we are now. So hopefully we will get back to US freedom soon and I think I won’t travel again internationally until this is all over, if it ever ends….

Guys please share your COVID travel stories in the comments below, if you want to see real time updates on my travel situation which still isn’t over, you can follow me on instagram, at the credit shifu. As always please subscribe, merry christmas and a happy new year and we will see you back in the USA!

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