hey guys! my name is Victor and today it's just me
as you might know me and grace are apart i'm in canada
and she's in taipei so in today's video i'm going to share with you guys
my experience of flying during this world pandemic
and i flew over 14 hours straight from taipei to toronto i kind of want to
share with you guys what happened in the airport and some
precautionary methods that two airports have had
and these are main airports in Taiwan in Canada as well
so let's get started
okay so on the way to the airport, I thought
it would be a little bit, you know, normal because it's Taiwan
and people are a little bit flying in there within the country
but no it was a complete ghost town and no one was there
shops were closed
and also we were looking for food and in that situation
there was only one or two food places that was open
the lower floor...
i think it was the basement where you can take the train
there was shops open more food places and
there are people eating there so let's head to check-in when i was checking in
it was it was pretty normal and the only difference is that the employee asked me
if i had an arc card because i think she only saw my visitors visa
and that was like that day was my last day and
on the next page after that i actually had a stamp from the immigration agency that said
it was extended for another 30 days so i pointed that out and everything was fine
my luggage was actually heavy so that i took out a little bit of stuff
thank god grace was there to get it so
that i just don't have to throw it out
so that was check-in nothing too special and we just waited until about like 45 minutes
before boarding time and then i went in.. there's no lineup
nothing at all going through security it was like
one or two people at the same time and it was spaced out so
it was very empty it was very weird because at that airport i always had to
line up outside that security gate but no it was different
he checked and that was pretty quick as usual
and head to the gate i was in and again pretty empty no one was there and
everything and by the time i got to the boarding
area so if you've been to Taoyuan airport
there's a waiting area and then the boarding area is actually downstairs
and once i got downstairs i was appalled because
wow it's busy like that whole waiting area was packed
and i was like i wasn't expecting this flight to be this full
like everyone was there in one small room and i was i got scared
because some people were transiting from another
country and they haven't been screened yet
it was just a transfer so at that point i was like okay i'm just
gonna stay in my corner and not touch anything obviously uh
that's when i put on my face shield my mask and my disposable sweater
and that was when i was just like okay i'm gonna stay away i have my water here
like i'm should be good and i don't care if i'm the last one to
board so i waited till boarding time thankfully my
boarding area is one of the last ones so it's good
usually when they ask you for your boarding pass they scan it for you right
but this time no like they just point to here scan it
with the barcode and that was it but going into the plane
not much distancing but i tried to really distance myself from the person in front of me
i can't really help the people behind me but
so far yeah i just keep in mind where i am
and what i'm touching and got to the plane same thing i was like
it's this packed but thankfully i really asked for a seat
that had no one between me and another person
i guess that's how airlines are structuring the seating arrangements now during flights
because you really want to distance yourself to another person so
everyone who's not related or like flying together
had a space in between another person so that was pretty good but at the same
time it was still a little bit cramped up because
it was three airlines in one flight so i flew with eva airways and they
combined thailand airways thailand airlines
and singapore airlines as well into that flight going back to toronto so i was
kind of bummed i thought it was going to be an empty flight
but it wasn't it was busy and yeah so i sat down i sprayed
everything yeah i just made sure that everything my
station was clean i sanitize it as well
i know they sanitize it before boarding people but it's always nice to
do it just because you're exposed in this environment okay
so flying the actual flying part was pretty much the same only a few changes
the food you don't get a selection anymore
usually with eva airlines you have two options when they serve you food
but this time it was just one everyone
gets the same thing unless you're vegetarian of course
whenever i went to the bathroom i would always spray into the handle and then i
would open it and then same thing
i would use the bathroom make sure that everything i touch
i would wash my hands and same thing going back and i would do
the same again like spray spray spray
i had this little bottle that it's not almost empty and it really helps
and I think for me it's just the peace of mind when i do it
especially when you're in an exposed environment like that
just minor difference you're wearing a mask the whole time sleeping with a mask on
i had a face shield on as well so it was not too bad
because i think i slept 70% of the time okay so
arriving in toronto this my friends it's a little bit shocking
okay let me get to that but going out of the plane pretty much similar you
get your luggage you wait and you pretty much go out the airport
usually when you get to a destination you get an arrival card right
but this time you have a covid form where you
fill out your address, your name, just your contact information
and just you're really agreeing to the 14-day quarantine
and they contact you, they email you, they call you to check up
if you're doing the quarantine
actually before the flight
the government released an app to kind of like a form
so that it's like easy so i filled that up and all my information
and then the last step would be getting
a token from one of the employees there so that all i have to do once i get that token
i put the number and then all i have to do is scan the app
and i would go straight to the immigration after that
so it's like a very easy process but i asked people
i was like so how do i get the token?
and they're like they didn't know the employees were like
maybe that's in like the other terminal so is it only domestic or international?
as well like what was the point of the app?
that was useless
so we had to go through the places again where
you have to declare and if you didn't bring anything
you just you know keep it empty
okay so here's the shocking part
going through immigrations i thought there would be a lot of questions
so i was prepared for it i was prepared to answer
all the details that they would require but
i gave the immigration officer my passport and here's what happened
he asked me, how long have you been out of canada? so i said
10 months
do you have any covid 19 symptoms?
no i don't
do you know that there's a quarantine? a 14-day quarantine?
I said yes i do
and he says are you going straight home?
yep. okay here you go and i'm like..
that's it?
wait what
so i go straight thinking okay maybe there's another layer
of kind of interrogation or questioning or maybe screening usually after the
immigration officer you give your declaration card to be
checked by another officer and at that time you have two forms your
covid 19 contact form and also the declaration form
i gave it to her and she checked the declaration form gave it back to me
and then took the covid 19 form that was it
so i'm like okay now it's time to get my luggage right
and then before the exit there's another couple of officers there
to get your declaration card and i thought they would have more
questions but same thing they grabbed my declaration card checked it
okay didn't say anything so i got out
and that was it i was in canada
that was it all i had to do was go to the parking lot
find my dad pick me up and go straight home
so that was my experience at the airport and i thought
i thought there would be temperature check and i thought there would be more
questions about like where did you stay like why were you there
or do you have any like history of these symptoms and stuff or have you
ever been did you ever get covid 19 but no
nothing at all it was just that
so what's it like flying in a global pandemic?
well it's pretty scary because you're
going to be transiting with people you don't know
where they came from or what their history is or if they're infected or not
so you really have to be mindful of everything that you touch
everything that your surroundings and make sure to always sanitize wash
your hands and you know don't touch your face anyways
i am flying back to taiwan soon and i did get a special permit for covid-19
going into the country
and if you guys want to see a video like that in taiwan of me going
through the process of how taiwan handles foreigners entering the country
let me know in the comments down below
we'll see you guys in the next video