Agree 100% with your post
We're going to see most all the densely populated cities be hit with this virus over the next couple of months, then move on to rural cities. The only way we slow it down is a nationwide lock down coupled with mass testing. Otherwise, it's just going to move from one community to the next and continue to disrupt our lives til there's a vaccine. We lost a lot of time down playing the severity of this virus. Like you said, there will be no reason to risk exposing a countries population to this virus by allowing Americans to enter until you can document you don't have it.
[QUOTE=Surfer500;2438023]I am of the opinion that we will be lucky to be get back into Colombia by June 2021 and I hope I am dead wrong on this.
My prediction is that several Countries will not allow visitors into to their Countries until there is a proven vaccine for the virus, no different than the Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate required by several Countries now.
Hopefully I am wrong on this, and besides a vaccine a miracle cure would be great as well.
I am planning on the long haul for the time being.[/QUOTE]
Coronavirus Is Hiding in Plain Sight
[QUOTE=MojoBandit;2438420]I post these numbers with a caveat; as most people know there are nowhere near enough people getting tested to know actual numbers.
This article title says it all "Coronavirus Is Hiding in Plain Sight" In it is this statement: "If we have 3,500 confirmed cases in the USA, you might be looking at 35,000 in reality," said Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University and the senior author of the new report, which was posted by the journal Science. [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/health/coronavirus-statistics-undetected.html[/URL].
[/QUOTE]I received a message the other day that someone went to the same school as me died from the virus. He and his wife went to a class reunion last month with classmates from different states and different counties. Some of them went to Europe after the reunion. Late last month he went to see his doctor because of a fever. The doctor told him it was a flu. He went on his daily life as usual, went to church and did all the things he normally do. He was told a few days later to get a test by his classmate oversea who was tested positive for the coronavirus. He and his wife both tested positive and now he is dead.
CDC has an important job to do and they failed this time. If they had delivered test kits that worked or try to get it from elsewhere after the failure quickly , I think it would have given us a few weeks head start.