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GoSherpaSM Continues Safety In Travel

With an eye on COVID and its variants, GoSherpa employs the following safety protocols:

Vaccination or Negative Test Result Required

Continued Facemask Requirement

Health Screening

TravelPodsm Safety

GoSherpaSM places you in one of the safest travel spaces currently available in the travel industry. We do this by:

  1. Having all GoSherpa passengers attest to having received a COVID vaccine and submit proof of that vaccination. (See Pre-Trip Health Screening section for details.)

  2. Transporting no more than 7 or 8 Riders aboard our 13-passenger vans to maintain a small group travel 

  3. Using partitions to provide your party a Protective TravelPodSM (a protective “mask” around your seating area)

Where You Sit Matters

To ensure that each Travel Party has its own Protective TravelPodSM and to optimize safety, comfort, and convenience for all Riders, GoSherpaSM will assign you your seat(s). The seating arrangement will be determined based upon the number of Travel Parties on the van, the number of Riders in each party, and, if possible, the preferences of the Riders. Examples of possible arrangements are as follows:

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Pre-Trip Health Screenings

GoSherpaSM  requires ALL RIDERS to undergo health screenings prior to boarding.  This entails the submission of a health questionnaire.  Each Rider will be asked -

  1. To attest to having
    received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine within the last 12 month or
    tested negative with respect to Covid-19 infection
    (Proof of vaccination or negative test will be required)

  2. Whether s/he is currently under a quarantine / self-isolation order

  3. Whether s/he has been ill from an influenza-like condition

  4. Whether s/he has spent significant time with someone answering “yes” to questions 2 thru 3 above

GoSherpasm Travel Is Safer Than The Alternatives

The collective impact of GoSherpasm’s door-to-door transport and COVID19 counter-measures is to significantly reduce the risk of exposure to the COVID19 virus making GoSherpasm a safer means of travel than the alternatives. The matrix below compares the exposure risks related to the various means of travel between Boston and New York City (The factors that went into these risk determinations are described after this matrix):

 

Without GOSherpasm

  1. Taxi To Airport/Station (HIGHER Risk):
    You make contact with surfaces that have transported many before you

  2. Check-In & Security (HIGHER To LOW Risk):
    Traveling by Air, you and your clothing & belongings touch security bins and other public surfaces & persons

  3. Boarding (HIGHER Risk):
    You pass near many passengers seated by the aisle or many passengers pass near you seated by the aisle

  4. Infectious Fellow Passengers (HIGHER Risk):
    You share your flight/ride with a herd of passengers – any one of whom may be infected with the Covid-19 virus

  5. Be Infected During Transit (HIGHER Risk):
    You are seated too closely to passengers to your sides, front, and back

With GOSherpasm

  1. Taxi To Airport/Station (NO Risk):
    Not Applicable - You are picked-up and dropped-off at addresses of your choosing^

  2. Check-In & Security (NO Risk):
    Not Applicable - You do not need to check-in or pass through security screening

  3. Boarding (LOW Risk):
    Your small travel group allows you to maintain social-distancing as you board.

  4. Infectious Fellow Passengers (LOW Risk):
    Totaling usually 6 to 7 Riders in the van, all Riders undergo a pre-trip health screening.

  5. Be Infected During Transit (LOW Risk):
    You get social-distance seating and your own curtained-off Protective Travel Space

^Pick-up and drop-off at Storrs (CT) are undertaken in Downtown Storrs. Pick-up and drop-off at Framingham (MA) are undertaken at the LoganExpress parking garage.

 

The Risk Remains

GoSherpaSM believes that the door-to-door nature of its service together with specific COVID19 safeguards that GoSherpaSM has implemented reduces the risk of infection by the COVID19 virus while traveling.  However, they can not, and GoSherpaSM does NOT, guarantee that such an exposure will not occur.  Exposure to the COVID19 virus can happen while traveling with GoSherpaSM , while using another means of travel, and even when not traveling at all.  Hence, each Rider should assess the risks associated with traveling, in general, and doing so with GoSherpaSM , in particular, and determine whether these are risks that he/she are willing to accept and assume.

TravelSafe with GOSherpasm