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04-28-21 09:19 #14132
Posts: 405Ray of hope? "fully vaccinated foreign tourists" the holy cow theory I have about allowing vaccinated tourists seems to be becoming a reality. I have a few personal reasons why I don't want to travel to Cebu but if it happens there the whole country should fall in line.
Lapu-Lapu, Cebu mayor wants fully vaccinated foreign tourists allowed entry in city.
https://www.cnnphilippines.com/regio...sts-entry.html
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04-28-21 03:53 #14131
Posts: 6836Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
In your Residence or hotel (lets use Birch Tower as an example). You have, say 4 elevators. Each has a stated capacity of 15 persons (recently saw smaller elevators with capacity 20 -- yikes). That's 4 x15 = capacity 60 persons moving in elevators at one time. But its Covid, and the DOH limits capacity to just 4 persons per elevator. One day, one of the elevators needs maintenance and stops working. It is being repaired for several days. Capacity has gone from 60, to just 12 (3 elevators x 4 persons). If you've been to Birch Tower, you know the pre-covid long waits (not enough elevators). Current Covid means that it might be easier (or faster) for you to walk down rather than take the elevator.
A (bad, but not uncommon) example. You are on floor 10, wanting to go downstairs to pick up your Grab food, or grocery shop. You call the elevator. You can hear it rising from below. It shoots past you, going up, carrying 4 persons upward, to floor 20. Those 4 persons depart the elevator and 4 new persons enter the elevator, now going down. The elevator stops on 19, but no new passengers as its full. It also stops on 18,17, 16, and so on, all the way to the ground floor. After a while, you abandon the ride, or you walk down the stairs.
Another. 25 persons are waiting at the ground floor elevators to go upstairs. As each elevator arrives at the ground floor and exits 4 passengers, 4 of your lobby-mates board it. You hope everyone is queuing, hoping that since you are the 13th person to arrive at the elevators, you will be on the 4th elevator. But the crowd is growing downstairs, and new arrivals are crowding the doors. Good luck!
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04-28-21 03:48 #14130
Posts: 6836Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
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04-28-21 02:53 #14129
Posts: 405Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
Back up plan: Main reason I have been so cozy with the bargirls and women online is I know of a few bar girl enclaves in the provinces in the south. I was mulling over renting a house from one of the respective other foreigners who own homes for rent in the province. The islands in the south seem to have their own bubbles for the most part so if you can make it into the bubble. It seems as if they let you live relatively unhindered. This would be my back up plan if AC is not fully or even partially open in a few months.
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04-28-21 02:48 #14128
Posts: 3398Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
How about mobility and physically moving around town? Are taxis / Grabs / Jeeps running?
I'm guessing the provinces are a lot better off but it's certainly not what we wanted to hear.
Stay safe. G.
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04-28-21 02:02 #14127
Posts: 6836Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
First two pics, are the Red Planet requirements for all RP in the NCR. The chain has gone to quarantine-only (and some business travelers who can prove they are on business travel). The last two pics are also common in both hotels and residences in Manila.
Related current story. Recently I happened to take a walk down Mabini. Passing the Red Planet Mabini, I inquired with the guard about getting a room for the night. "No sir, this hotel is quarantine only. Not open for the public". OK, I will maybe book with a different RP. "No sir, all our hotels in NCR is now quarantine only". Check. I walked further up Mabini to chain Go Hotel. Four heavily armed police were milling about. I inquired with them. "No sir. Hotel not open to the public. Quarantine and hospital overflow. You should not be here". Check. Walked further up Mabini to City State. The guard said its closed. Looked across the street at Manila Lotus. "That is closed also". Are there any open hotels in Malate for the public? "I think only Eurotel sir". By Robinson's? "Yes sir". I called Eurotel, the girl asked if I wanted to reserve a Studio room. Yes, for me and my GF. "Oh, no sir. One person only per room. You want additional room for your girlfriend?" Sweetie, I am looking on Agoda, and all your rooms show good for two, three, or more persons. "Yes sir but its one person each room. Management orders". For reference, almost all biz on Mabini, del Pilar, and Adriatico are closed (including the vast majority of hotels and pensions), except convenience stores and the occasional Korean food takeout. Its a tomb out there.
When does this lighten up, or re-open? When numbers of new infections or deaths fall. Does that happen just because foreigners have vax passports?
This is West Coast, ASB-CGQ News, reporting from Manila.
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04-27-21 09:00 #14126
Posts: 405Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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04-27-21 08:47 #14125
Posts: 405Originally Posted by Drbombay [View Original Post]
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04-27-21 08:01 #14124
Posts: 443Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
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04-27-21 07:56 #14123
Posts: 6836I have just thrown cold water on it
Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
Here are several conditions. The US opens up (or other countries, say, in bubbles). Philippines vaccination rates takes much longer to get to any herd immunity (as per recently reported government vax numbers and MM's analysis). Phils welcomes vax-passported travelers. Willing Filipina. Those are all separate things. In chatting here in PM, or with others outside phils, there seems to be thinking that as soon as you can get your vax-passport and be allowed entry back into Phils, you are going to magically be back in P-paradise. Maybe yes, maybe no. Many of the Board gents are frequent guests here (as I was for more than a decade). They come / go for a week or a month, depending vacation time. They are dependent on hotels, apartments, and condos.
Just because the Phils allows vaxed travelers to come back does not necessarily change the ECQ / GCQ situation here, which is determined by the Government (not me, dammit). The 'CQ' situation determines what businesses are open. Regardless of location (Manila is the most strict), hotels / apartments / condos are still living under very strict rules (sometimes governed by fear), many allowing in only owners and registered guests who actually live there (no transient or temporary guests, as we are so used to bringing in ST / LT ladies. You might find yourself using ST hotels a lot.
I will guess that your vax-passport will get you into the country at some point, but you will have trouble finding a living arrangement where you can point / shoot this or that honey and bring her back to your place at will.
Other gents who live here feel free to weigh in, especially NCR members.
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04-26-21 21:01 #14122
Posts: 405Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
"Philippines seeks to lift medical capacity as Covid-19 cases top one million".
https://mvariety.com/news/philippine...3d4a9f55d.html
"Discriminatory, you say? ".
https://manilastandard.net/opinion/c...-you-say-.html
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04-25-21 16:41 #14121
Posts: 1562Perhaps not Arabic number system
Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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04-25-21 11:47 #14120
Posts: 419Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
Rather than questioning the govt's figures, my suggestion would be the following:
-Mobilize the western "work force" still in PHIL.
-Assign them to deliver semen COVID vaccine to a minimum of 2 filipinas / day, 7 days / week. If the word is spread to these young filipinas, they will line up for the vaccine.
-Again, each girl needs at least one dose now and one dose in 30 days. Preferably delivered intravaginally or anally.
-No need for a placebo group.
I bet I could write a very convincing letter to the editor of a Manilla paper touting the benefits of semen delivered COVID vaccine hahahahaha.
You do need to publish some results (with more pics) on this board.
GG.
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04-25-21 06:07 #14119
Posts: 6836Dr Westy is confused
From today's newspaper The Sunday Times. The Phils vaccine Czar is saying he expects herd immunity by October of this year. I nearly fell over this morning when I saw the headline in the newspaper. Is that possible?
According to the article: Another 100 k doses have arrived, bringing the total to 3. 525 million. The government says it needs to innoculate 70 million people to reach herd immunity. 1. 6 million have been inoculated, front-liners and seniors. The government expect a steady supply of vaccines starting third quarter of this year. They have a mass-vax simulation planned where they will be able to vax up to 120,000 persons per day. Multiple companies will be delivering jabs: Sinovac mostly so far, then CoronaVac, Sputnik V, and Moderna. In total, about 9 million doses with future arrivals.
How does that get to 70 million people inoculated?
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04-24-21 15:35 #14118
Posts: 6836Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]