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07-02-20 00:55 #37746
Posts: 3801Originally Posted by SJobs [View Original Post]
This is a rough topic for everyone right now, with lot's of differing views depending on how much risk somebody wants to take.
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07-01-20 23:59 #37745
Posts: 134Originally Posted by SJobs [View Original Post]
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07-01-20 23:36 #37744
Posts: 4015Overdose on drugs?
Anyway, yes, there is room for doubt since even recognized experts don't agree completely about transmission vectors. If it's true that you can catch coronavirus from droplets in the air from as much as 2 meters distance, that would mean you are as likely to catch it with a Centro girl as you are passing a nun on the street. More than anything I am holding out hope for a vaccine and effective treatments. Without those, the world economy will deteriorate more than it did in the late 1930's. That would lead to all sorts of health and social problems. We don't want that.
Originally Posted by SJobs [View Original Post]
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07-01-20 23:32 #37743
Posts: 1749Well said.
Originally Posted by SJobs [View Original Post]
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07-01-20 23:25 #37742
Posts: 3801Does A Bear Shit In The Woods
Originally Posted by Balboa [View Original Post]
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07-01-20 21:24 #37741
Posts: 1065Originally Posted by SJobs [View Original Post]
When the girl that I believe gave it to me said Sorry to me, I told her jokingly that I’d do it all over again for her Kiss.
All joking aside though, even though I've recovered, it still wasn't an enjoyable ride, and I had that fear that it could have taken a turn for the worse.
So unpredictable.
I actually have been pretty careful in general, not socializing really, wearing a mask, keeping clean and sanitized, even seeing this apparently healthy girl.
My weakness for a sexy and pretty girl got me I suppose.
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07-01-20 21:10 #37740
Posts: 1065Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
However, with her testing positive, and me not really socializing much at all, besides hanging with her, chances are I did get it from her.
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07-01-20 21:06 #37739
Posts: 1065Originally Posted by Surfer500 [View Original Post]
I feel fortunate having recovered fairly easy and I don't recommend the virus to anyone (obviously).
Like you said, its very unpredictable how it will affect each individual.
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07-01-20 16:37 #37738
Posts: 1680True that
Originally Posted by Zeos1 [View Original Post]
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...untry/germany/
Americans do a lot of things very well, but pandemics isn't one of them. For afterall, masks are "unconstitutional". Here by the way are two studies, one from April, and the other very recent on the efficiency of cloth masks. Yes, they do shorten the distance that the effects of coughs and sneezes / droplets & aerosols spread. But not all cloth masks are created equal. Tighter weaves and double layers are superior, and even better is quilted versions.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
https://www.livescience.com/face-mas...-covid-19.html
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07-01-20 16:33 #37737
Posts: 1792Originally Posted by Zeos1 [View Original Post]
The Tall Man.
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07-01-20 15:47 #37736
Posts: 1084Originally Posted by TimeKeeper281 [View Original Post]
Two negative tests maybe 5 days apart. One before you leave, then one after 5 days of quarantine. May work. But countries are not generally going that route because of the cost and basically it kills tourism anyway.
And as for numbers spiking. It's still basic biology of the virus. If you can keep people from literally breathing on each other (I. E. 6 ft plus), wear masks, and wash hands always before touching face. The virus will not spread and there will be no spike. That has not changed since this thing started, and countries / places that get people to cooperate with this have a declining rate of infection, or in some cases no active cases. I'm not in Europe so can't observe what people are doing, but my impression is that Europeans are observing those things to a much much higher level than in the USA.
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07-01-20 12:55 #37735
Posts: 4015You may not have gotten it from the girl.
Originally Posted by Balboa [View Original Post]
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07-01-20 10:03 #37734
Posts: 2512Originally Posted by Surfer500 [View Original Post]
In "my" island (Amorgos, I bet 99.999% of those who will read this does not even know where it is), there's plenty of small traditional family tavernas where to eat fish of the day, goat, traditional dishes, "ola sta karvouna" ("all on the charcoal") grilled meat and fish, YUMMMMYYYY. Few people, mostly couples, zero mongering, lonely cultivated fields dry for the summer, steep mountains, crystal blue sea: it's true paradise for me.
Originally Posted by Surfer500 [View Original Post]
About getting sick far from home, I tried to imagine and it's much worse than risking to not be treated adequately.
How to be isolated for 1 or 2 months? Where? Hotel? Rented apartment? Just this expense will raise much above the amount planned initially (which was deemed affordable).
Then, who buys food and medicines and everything for 1-2 months? Will the insurance (assuming the wise traveller has a good insurance) assist also for this?
Alone without any friend and family to help in Colombia or anywhere far from home?
If getting sick of COVID in my country is a nightmare already, I cannot imagine what ordeal it would be 10,000 km away from my home.
I read with greatest sympathy and participation the posts of Balboa and of others who found themselves sick in Colombia. Good to know that it does not seem bad, but it's like walking on a steel blade. All my best wishes guys. Be strong and careful.
Originally Posted by JjBee62 [View Original Post]
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07-01-20 09:12 #37733
Posts: 469Allow me to drop a Feather in you Hat
Originally Posted by SlapShot10 [View Original Post]
Many of these girls and their mothers are opportunistic, they will do anything to extort a gringo if the opportunity is there. If I give you no more advice, allow me to give you this, obey the American laws if you are a foreigner, the stigma attached to anything of the such is so horrible that even if you are not guilty of anything your fight to return to normal would be so expensive and embarrassing that the chances that you may be taking are just not worth it, don't do it. The amount of 18 yr old and older chics in this country is so plentiful that doing anything that goes against 18 yrs and older is plain stupid. If this country's men like chics, allow them to do what is normal for them, and you do what you know is legal for your, 18 and older! Pollo Negro is out!
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07-01-20 07:55 #37732
Posts: 471Originally Posted by Surfer500 [View Original Post]
Getting covid should be the last thing a monger care about, rationally, the amount of other risks involved in mongering in Medellin, especially in el centro, is much more severe both in terms of degree and likelihood. To corroborate my point, here is a short list:
Getting basic STDs.
Overdose on drugs.
Getting a girl pregnant.
Getting robbed.
Getting someone who is under age using a fake ID.
Getting blackmailed.
Getting hit by innocent boyfriend who doesn't know their girl is working.
The girl steals from you.
The girl drugs you.
The girl works with cops to extort you.
Just to name a few. Anyone of those will have a chance to make your life worse than having covid.