Kaberi Dutta ChatterjeeDirector, KAA Media · Narrative Architect | Director, KAA Media Inc.

COVID TIMES: From Canada to #kolkata Covid rules 🤯 Live travel. All you need to know. Part 2.

8 Jan 2021 · 3 min

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This content was created by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This content was uploaded by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. This is a YouTube travel vlog titled "COVID TIMES: From Canada to #kolkata Covid rules 🤯 Live travel. All you need to know. Part 2." (uploaded/recorded 2021-01-08). The excerpt is a first-person live monologue from a single speaker at Montreal airport who is traveling to Doha and then India. The speaker describes long, slow socially-distanced queues, confusion about COVID test timing requirements (mentions 76 vs 96 hours), stresses about not being stranded, and offers practical travel tips during COVID (carry a pen, lighter or matchbox, be aware of differing test-hour rules). The speaker also notes being Bengali/Kolkataan and intending to socialize with a fellow Bengali passenger. Overall it is a solo travel commentary about navigating airport procedures and COVID-era travel constraints.

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You see that counter over there? This is in Montreal, and we're like moving 1 inch. This line is moving 1 inch to keep 2 seats apart. It's very hot, off my jacket and everything. We've come to Montreal, and here we are getting our All our papers because apparently nobody knows how many hours it takes for you to have COVID test and how many hours is needed for you to have the COVID test. 76 hours and 96 hours, nobody knows. So you have to take your— this is the place which are trying to make sure that we are getting all our tests done. I've got all our tests done so that we don't get stranded halfway around the world. So we are Almost standard here because it's 18:24, which means 6:24, and our flight is at 8 o'clock. So most of the passengers here are on the same flight. From here, uh, we're going to India, and, uh, Doha and India. So it is pretty stressful just to wait over here, but at least there's, there's no, no need to stand. There's a lot of seats over here so you can sit. Okay, this guy is looking holy. I think I'll make friends with him. I am a Bengali and a Kolkataan by nature, so whenever I see a Bengali, I try to make friends. Nothing much to report, but this is ongoing information, so if you just keep watching, this is live from Montreal, so it's all information. If you keep watching, you will know a lot about how to travel and what to do during the COVID time. For instance, nobody will give you a pen or a lighter or anything. So it's difficult to get a pen from somebody because people don't trust you, obviously, for obvious reasons. So you have to carry a pen, your lighter if you're smoking. And I think lighters are being allowed, matchboxes at least are being allowed. So try to hide a matchbox strictly if you're smoking, because I know what pain smokers have. So that is, that is one thing. And also it is pretty stressful, but people are being very helpful and very nice and trying to, you know, find out for each country wherever they're going what is the exact hours they have, exact hours we need to be traveling. I'm just, I just hope that my hours are not calculated then and I won't be sent back home from here. Keep watching.