Planning to go to Toronto for New Years to see the folks. Mother-in-law due to the border closures has not seen the kids in person for 2 years now and wants them over for New Years.
But, in order to go to Canada, you need a PCR test within 72 hours of your visit there, even if you're vaccinated.
Yesterday not a single facility in the entire area was doing drop-in tests and all appointments were booked. The closest facility with any openings was Toledo, Ohio a solid hour drive away.
I managed to find a place doing tests today in a parking lot of a local synagogue.
Testing opened at 9, we got there at 8:40 to see a giant line up of cars.
Apparently, lots of people are both traveling thus needing a test, and per the testing nurses many more are now getting tested for Omicron because of all the fear-mongering about it. They're getting tested because in general you won't even know you'll have it as the symptoms match a cold, so if they have a cold, a lot of them fearfully line up to get tested.
Heck at this point, if you count died with Omicron the same as died from Omicron, then in the US, Omicron is currently tied with Alec Baldwin and Ted Kennedy for total number of kills.
3 hours later, we were done and tested, hopefully the results will be ready by our departure, but they might not be which will be an issue.
Great use of time. I expect that testing line up cost the economy tens of thousands of dollars in lost time and productivity for all the workers in those cars.
Sheesh.
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