Not a good analogy. First you have to be exposed, then you have to get symptoms, then you have to get really worse before anything happens. Remember I said < 1/100, not =0.01. So yea, I'll take those chances anytime given my health profile.
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Not a good analogy. First you have to be exposed, then you have to get symptoms, then you have to get really worse before anything happens. Remember I said < 1/100, not =0.01. So yea, I'll take those chances anytime given my health profile.
I like to look at it this way. If someone gave you a bag of 100 peanuts and said one of these peanut inside this bag can make you ill. Would you eat it? Most people would throw the whole bag away.
I'm arriving tomorrow. I hope I don't eat the bad peanut. I'd throw the bag away but it's the same situation here in Florida and every bag here has a bad peanut (or three). We gotta eat!
If I end up taking a dirt nap, the DR is as good a place as any. I've gone through my mid life crisis, now I'm dealing with an existential crisis!
You are right. You won't see my white ass down there until this virus is over. If I was the DR government I would restrict travel from the US. Thanks to the federal government in the US it keeps getting worse up here.
Checked flightaware for PUJ and it looks like arrivals departures are back about 50% of normal. Not seeing Canadian arrivals departures, virtually everything is USA traffic. The charter flights, Sunwing/Allegiant, not seeing those yet either...booking websites show departures for those 8/1.
Maybe there under the circumstances is a small boom now. Pent up demand and residents, home owners and family travelling in.
Yep, looks like as soon as it opened up demand was pretty strong. Also did the Airfare/hotel search and it looks like pretty much all of the Resorts are open. (August search date).
Even if you get unlucky and get that one out of 100 peanut, there is still only 1 or 2 percent chance that that peanut will kill you. 100 x 100 is a 1 in 10,000 chance. Its probably the same to get killed in DR traffic or catch Malaria/Zika/Chickinguya/or Food poisoning or some other tropical disease.
Again, not a good analogy. I don't crave peanuts. But I do crave going out and about with a known risk magnitude of < 1/100.
Hmmm... by the end of this there will be from 60 to 80 covid peanuts in the bag unless there is a vaccine. It's unlikely you'll avoid the bad peanut. It is likely you will avoid the deadly peanut if you are in good health.
Estimated that 33% of U.S. pop is a bad peanut that can make avg. of 2.5 other nuts go bad. In a room with 100 nuts with 33 of them being bad, how many others could be infected in that room? What's that old saying about 1 bad apple?
Perfect analogy but odds there are 20 bad peanuts is more analogous.
HOMS is posting on social media that they are buried in Covid19 and to please STAY AT HOME.
From HOMS.
Not according to the president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Asonahores), Paola Rainieri....
Despite the reopening of Dominican Republic few tourists arrive at the hotels
<p>Santo Domingo, DR After the closure of its operations in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the hotels of international and local chains opened on July 1, but a week later they remain with few tourists. The president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Asonahores), Paola...
dominicantoday.com
RIF I posted "(August search date)". The article you posted never mentioned Punta Cana once. The PUJ arrivals and departures are about even now, suggesting tourists. Also the article you posted mentioned July 1 and 1 week thereafter which would be 2 days ago. "He said that 26 hotels have scheduled to reopen for the rest of July, seven will open in August" That is the exact # Apple Vacations showed for PUJ for August, although the article does not specify for this area and they only mention a few by name for SDO.Not according to the president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Asonahores), Paola Rainieri....
Despite the reopening of Dominican Republic few tourists arrive at the hotels
<p>Santo Domingo, DR After the closure of its operations in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the hotels of international and local chains opened on July 1, but a week later they remain with few tourists. The president of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Asonahores), Paola...
Impeccable timing.
Depart the Dominican Republic as campaigning ends and before the elections were held last Sunday. Just as airports start receiving flights and the DR opens to tourism which is right now almost 100% from the worlds MOST INFECTED COUNTRY and from the world's MOST INFECTED CITY.
Planes arriving here with who knows how many asymptomatic contagious passengers for whom these ridiculous, randomly administered temperature checks which mean absolutely nothing, are then processing through immigration and customs with almost zero social distancing and collecting their luggage in areas with even less. To head out and mix with a population whose steady increase in the daily infected rate as well as the increase in daily death rate is exponentially higher than when they initially closed the country to tourism and is STILL INCREASING.
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