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05-30-20 07:29 #5682
Posts: 1281Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
1) There hasn't been a shortage of ICU beds here in Colombia in decades. That was always fake.
2) Right now I'm getting photos of hospitals and Corferias where they've set up all those makeshift ICU units. They're all EMPTY.
3) They've been caught attributing deaths to this Wuhan virus (I'm never saying Covid), and then illegally cremating the bodies, and families are suing. It's all over the news and social media here.
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05-30-20 07:26 #5681
Posts: 1281Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
I was thinking of going back to the USA to work and get my money situation back on point, but I'd need to be sure I don't have that 14 day bullshit slapped on me.
If you come to Colombia right now, you will DEFINITELY have that bullshit slapped on you. And don't think you're just going to order escort room service. You wouldn't be the first person to wind up on the national news here if you did.
Where I live in the south of Bogota, enforcement isn't as strict as it would be for you coming in from outside and staying downtown, Chapinero, the north etc.
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05-29-20 17:01 #5680
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by Beavis [View Original Post]
https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning...efunds-at-risk
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05-29-20 16:01 #5679
Posts: 812Originally Posted by Zeos1 [View Original Post]
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05-29-20 15:07 #5678
Posts: 1089Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
And how many times have flights been shown as available, only to be cancelled closer to the time. Some have gone through the cycle of booking, paying, flight cancelled, now are trying to manage their refunds / flight credits / whatever the airlines are required to do, or willing to do.
Virtually every airline in the world is bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy. I'm not about to book anything where I have to pay and then fight to get my money back.
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05-29-20 05:25 #5677
Posts: 3234Originally Posted by DonCarlos1234 [View Original Post]
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05-29-20 05:21 #5676
Posts: 413USA to Bogota or anywhere in Colombia
Originally Posted by Questner [View Original Post]
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05-29-20 05:16 #5675
Posts: 3234Originally Posted by Paulie97 [View Original Post]
It is funny how I do not remember your opinion on anything.
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05-29-20 04:38 #5674
Posts: 1316International flights to / from Colombia to resume from September 1, 2020.
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05-28-20 06:18 #5673
Posts: 1680Well
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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05-27-20 22:07 #5672
Posts: 3234Originally Posted by BangoCheito [View Original Post]
I am still at the no one knows nothing stage, but I did see some studies showing masks are good, travel is bad, social distancing is good, and lockdowns were horrible and unnecessary but destroyed economies, but I think it has gotten to the point where there are so many conflicting reports, you can justify any POV.
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05-27-20 18:14 #5671
Posts: 5466Originally Posted by BangoCheito [View Original Post]
If someone is laying in an ICU, being kept alive by machines, with the doctors just waiting for a signature from the next of kin to pull the plug, and while the papers are being signed I walk in and shoot the person, what was the cause of death?
They had stage 4 cancer, they were already effectively dead. I only sped things up by a few seconds. Yet for some reason, I'd end up in prison. Strange.
While I can't speak for Colombia, there are no scandals in the US about deaths being wrongly attributed to COVID-19. There are a lot of conspiracy theories about that happening but not one shred of evidence and there is no motive for hospitals to do this. In fact, due to numerous laws, it would be incredibly stupid and expensive for hospitals to start wrongfully attributing deaths to COVID-19.
Have you ever visited a nursing home or assisted living facility? I've had to visit a few over the years. Not my favorite thing to do, but there are family duties. There are always a lot of residents who are approaching the end of life. It can be grim. Usually, every week or 2, one of the residents will die. That's just the way of things. They die from many different causes.
Now consider a small town nursing home. About 50 residents and roughly as many staff. One day, an otherwise healthy resident begins experiencing symptoms and a few hours later they're at the local hospital in ICU on a ventilator. They are tested for COVID-19 and 4 days later, on the day they die, results come back positive.
Immediately, everyone at the nursing home is tested, residents and staff. Over half test positive. Within 2 weeks 15 of the residents die. Four others lasted a little longer. 19.19 out of about 50 at risk people dead. All with symptoms of COVID-19, all with positive results for COVID-19.
Perhaps that doesn't sound serious to you. It's probably just some exaggeration, some conspiracy to topple governments and install a new world order. Perhaps.
To me it sounds serious. I knew those people. The first to die was my closest living ancestor. Several of the others were the mothers and fathers of my high school classmates. Others worked in the local stores and restaurants, when I was growing up. Four months ago I could have told any of them my name and they would know me, my parents grandparents and cousins.
I sincerely hope that you never have it shoved in your face, through personal loss, that this is serious. It is.
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05-27-20 10:38 #5670
Posts: 1281Originally Posted by Radar99 [View Original Post]
It's almost like they WANT this to be more serious than it is.
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05-25-20 16:30 #5669
Posts: 1089Originally Posted by Radar99 [View Original Post]
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05-25-20 03:02 #5668
Posts: 106Originally Posted by Zeos1 [View Original Post]