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[Adinga]

Hello Don Gringo,

I recommend the beach town of Bayahibe. Beautiful beach off the beaten path with all the perks near by. Its located 2 hours outside of Santo Domingo. Most of the chicas are located in La Romana which is about 20 minutes away from Bayahibe. Is this the DonGringo from the Havana board on WSA?

[Sawassdee]

Question. In August I will be departing from Cartagena Colombia for Dominican Republic however I have a 3 hour layover in Miami. I will get the PCR exam conducted 72 hour prior to departing from Colombia. Will the results of my test in Colombia be accepted in the DR even though I had a layover in Miami? I'm trying to avoid all potential problems. Any advice appreciated.

I just left the DR and as far as I know there is no test required to get into the country. Check their website to be certain. The only test I took was to return back into the states. (Antigen).

Ensure to fill out the Migration form online before entering the DR. And also for leaving. https://eticket.migracion.gob.do/.

[Adinga]

Question. In August I will be departing from Cartagena Colombia for Dominican Republic however I have a 3 hour layover in Miami. I will get the PCR exam conducted 72 hour prior to departing from Colombia. Will the results of my test in Colombia be accepted in the DR even though I had a layover in Miami? I'm trying to avoid all potential problems. Any advice appreciated.

[Purple Porkchop]

Try Casa de Campo in La Romana.

Gents,

I'm an old school hobbyist who's back in the game and could use help making my travel plans this year. I went to Rio earlier this year and had a great time! I love beach towns with great dining, and golf courses nearby, and Ipanema scores a 10 in all categories. I speak enough Portuguese and Spanish to get around. And the covid BS was minimal in Brazil earlier this year, which is important to me.

Where can I go in DR to get:

4 or 5 star accommodation.

A great beach experience.

Fine dining.

Golf courses.

And of course, chicas. I'm partial to UTR, SB girl next door types so I'll source them online pretty easily.

And will the DR not require any quarantine upon arrival?

Thanks in advance Gents!

DG.

[DonGringo]

Gents,

I'm an old school hobbyist who's back in the game and could use help making my travel plans this year. I went to Rio earlier this year and had a great time! I love beach towns with great dining, and golf courses nearby, and Ipanema scores a 10 in all categories. I speak enough Portuguese and Spanish to get around. And the covid BS was minimal in Brazil earlier this year, which is important to me.

Where can I go in DR to get:

4 or 5 star accommodation.

A great beach experience.

Fine dining.

Golf courses.

And of course, chicas. I'm partial to UTR, SB girl next door types so I'll source them online pretty easily.

And will the DR not require any quarantine upon arrival?

Thanks in advance Gents!

DG.

[Haokool]

Thank you all so much for the orientation.
And then it gets worse, this photoprepagos site for DR, chiviricas.com, it is empty! There is nothing there! And that one real deliciously looking Venezolana, I actually contacted this agency, and it is completely NUTS! They ask for 150 to 250 USD for one fucking hour! Imagine that! You end up paying more for these gals in DR than if you spend a relaxed evening in Panama at Habano's taking your pick among a huge number of options and pay 100 for an hour or 150 for two hours unrushed.
So I am afraid I'll be sitting there in DR dreaming of long black hair of a Venezolana who I won't see or if I see her being surrounded by loads of blokes and asking for boatloads of money.

DR is a trend, for brothers to flash their cash.

[MamaGuevos]

Your table is misleading. It mumbles about current daily averages.

All that matters is the final tally. How many people died total per capita. And NYT is fake news anyway. I get my data from the Johns Hopkins dahsboard https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboar...23467b48e9ecf6 you have to do the per capita calculation yourself, and those same numbers come out on some Google tool right in the search engine. There is no real doubt about any of this. You can only look at total deaths, the "infected pepole" number means nothing. Only a serology survey could establish a correct denominator to be able to determine the true lethality of infection but for unknown reason the pseudo-science worshipping CoViD tyrants and their useful idiots never did run large scale serology survey. I guess they preferred the panic generated by the fake news using squishy numbers.

I am not certain what medical school Stinky went to, but the "pseudo-science worshipping (sic) CoViD tyrants and their useful idiots " have been doing serologic surveys of COVID-19 in the USA for a long time now, and the data are available on the CDC web site. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#national-lab.

The data are only as good as the means that re used to collect the data. Brazil and the DR have a shortage of testing and (unlike the USA), most people have to pay to get tested for COVID-19. So the true denominators of COVID-19 in these countries is hard to determine. On the other hand, my GF's grandmother died of COVID-19 in Manaus in January largely because they couldn't get her into a hospital or but oxygen. Things have gotten worse in Brazil since January (and Manaus may be having yet another wave of infection). I have head of no such stories in the DR from my friends there, including my main chica, who was hospitalized for one night with COVID-19. Even in the absence of detailed data, I would be a lot more comfortable in the DR than Brazil. Finally, the COVID tyrants convinced me to get vaccinated, and so far the RNA vaccines are performing great against variants in Brazil, India and the UK. I suspect a vaccinated individual could safely travel anywhere in the world right now.

[Tempoecorto]

Can't have politicians and their Media pals subject to the same rules, as the common folk, LOL.

That is democracy in action for you, in good and bad, as your Winston Churchill had spoken of: messy; But would you much rather live in China, or say, Russia or for heaven's sake, Kim Jong Un's fabled land?

[Tempoecorto]

Your table is misleading. It mumbles about current daily averages.

All that matters is the final tally. How many people died total per capita. And NYT is fake news anyway. I get my data from the Johns Hopkins dahsboard https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboar...23467b48e9ecf6 you have to do the per capita calculation yourself, and those same numbers come out on some Google tool right in the search engine. There is no real doubt about any of this. You can only look at total deaths, the "infected pepole" number means nothing. Only a serology survey could establish a correct denominator to be able to determine the true lethality of infection but for unknown reason the pseudo-science worshipping CoViD tyrants and their useful idiots never did run large scale serology survey. I guess they preferred the panic generated by the fake news using squishy numbers.

Big words. Serology and stuff but then you also come up with "covid tyrants" in the same breath. I am glad that your were not around during Edward Jenner's time. You would call that voodoo science.

[Oakie]

SS, you are right. I was comparing recent infection, based on the last one week's numbers. That is what is relevant for current travel planning. Current numbers.

If we want to compare the final tally, we will have to wait until the pandemic is over. Why? Because the pandemic did not start at the same time around the world. Brazil or India started much later than say Italy or USA. It is like a 60-year-old declaring that he has fucked more women than a 25-year-old, based on their score now. That will be unfair, right? The cumulative number are highly misleading, unless the pandemic in two country started roughly at the same time or until the pandemic is over. And by that time, neither of us will care about this.

Ah, statistics.

They can be cherry picked to show just what you want them to show.

I'm a Canadian citizen, who needs to get back for business and personal reasons for a couple of months, but no Canadian airlines are flying to or from the DR.

There's also a 3 day enforced quarantine at a hotel, before a 14 day home lockdown, for returning travelers, even though I'm a healthy individual coming from a lower risk environment in DR to a much higher risk, in Toronto.

Now here's the political bit.

There's a G7 Summit in the UK in June, where hundreds of government personnel and press folk will be attending.

Just in time for that meeting, a "Government Commission" has decided to lift the "onerous" 3 day mandatory hotel stay!

Can't have politicians and their Media pals subject to the same rules, as the common folk, LOL.

[Pinga 98]

Your table is misleading. It mumbles about current daily averages.

SS, you are right. I was comparing recent infection, based on the last one week's numbers. That is what is relevant for current travel planning. Current numbers.

If we want to compare the final tally, we will have to wait until the pandemic is over. Why? Because the pandemic did not start at the same time around the world. Brazil or India started much later than say Italy or USA. It is like a 60-year-old declaring that he has fucked more women than a 25-year-old, based on their score now. That will be unfair, right? The cumulative number are highly misleading, unless the pandemic in two country started roughly at the same time or until the pandemic is over. And by that time, neither of us will care about this.

[Oakie]

Your table is misleading. It mumbles about current daily averages.

All that matters is the final tally. How many people died total per capita. And NYT is fake news anyway. I get my data from the Johns Hopkins dahsboard https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboar...23467b48e9ecf6 you have to do the per capita calculation yourself, and those same numbers come out on some Google tool right in the search engine. There is no real doubt about any of this. You can only look at total deaths, the "infected pepole" number means nothing. Only a serology survey could establish a correct denominator to be able to determine the true lethality of infection but for unknown reason the pseudo-science worshipping CoViD tyrants and their useful idiots never did run large scale serology survey. I guess they preferred the panic generated by the fake news using squishy numbers.

The COVID narrative was politicized from day 1.

They even named the virus, TrumpVirus in his last year of office, blamed him for killing 600,000 citizens, but hid the fact that the USA per capita death rate, was consistently lower than its EU counterparts.

But, hey, it worked.

From Jan. 20 to April 28, Biden's first 14 weeks in office, the CDC reported 156,096 new COVID-19 deaths. John Hopkins reported 160,540, because it uses a slightly different methodology. But Joe gets a pass from the MSM.

Politics as usual. LOL.

[Stinky Squid]

However, I disagree with your observation regarding Covid. Based on the data compiled by NY Times as of June 1, 2021 (see the attached table), the Covid death rate (per 100,000) for Brazil was 0. 88, based on seven days average. The same number for USA and DR were 0. 12 and 0. 02, respectively. That means Brazil's average death per 100,000 is 7 x that of US and 44 x of DR. If you compute the mortality rate for Covid patients (I. E. , chances of dying among those who get infected), the numbers for Brazil, US and DR are 3%, 2. 3% and 0. 2%, respectively. That means that the mortality rate for infected people in Brazil is 1. 3 x those in USA and 14 x those in DR. Brazil is a cluster fuck of even greater magnitude than USA. DR is amazingly safe until now, but the disease is on the rise and worse may be yet to come. Thankfully, things are improving in USA rapidly and Brazil somewhat slowly.

Your table is misleading. It mumbles about current daily averages.

All that matters is the final tally. How many people died total per capita. And NYT is fake news anyway. I get my data from the Johns Hopkins dahsboard https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboar...23467b48e9ecf6 you have to do the per capita calculation yourself, and those same numbers come out on some Google tool right in the search engine. There is no real doubt about any of this. You can only look at total deaths, the "infected pepole" number means nothing. Only a serology survey could establish a correct denominator to be able to determine the true lethality of infection but for unknown reason the pseudo-science worshipping CoViD tyrants and their useful idiots never did run large scale serology survey. I guess they preferred the panic generated by the fake news using squishy numbers.

[Pinga 98]

The CoViD mortality is not much worse as in the USA and really any western country. Don't be pussies looking hysterically at these numbers. Compute per capita death and discover that it's not that much difference to USA or France, etc.

I share your observations about the perception of beauty and service in Brazil vs DR. Beauty is in the eye of beholder and some of those DR asses are too big to behold.

However, I disagree with your observation regarding Covid. Based on the data compiled by NY Times as of June 1, 2021 (see the attached table), the Covid death rate (per 100,000) for Brazil was 0. 88, based on seven days average. The same number for USA and DR were 0. 12 and 0. 02, respectively. That means Brazil's average death per 100,000 is 7 x that of US and 44 x of DR. If you compute the mortality rate for Covid patients (I. E. , chances of dying among those who get infected), the numbers for Brazil, US and DR are 3%, 2. 3% and 0. 2%, respectively. That means that the mortality rate for infected people in Brazil is 1. 3 x those in USA and 14 x those in DR. Brazil is a cluster fuck of even greater magnitude than USA. DR is amazingly safe until now, but the disease is on the rise and worse may be yet to come. Thankfully, things are improving in USA rapidly and Brazil somewhat slowly.

[Stinky Squid]

Have you looked on skokka?

Sounds like you are thinking DR is something that it is not. You will be getting the long hair weave that came from a Venezuelan but is now attached to a Dominican.

If you are going to Barranquilla for a beach, then you are going to the wrong place. Muddy shoreline is what you will be getting.

I really enjoy this conversation because I learn so much.

I had my doubts about Baranquilla yesterday as I looked at the map. There appears to be no viable beach. Yet, the mix of beach and good supply of WGs is the sweet spot trade-off. Bogota is bet for the supply, but not for the beach. As always I am open to recommendation. I assume nobody beats Rio de Janeiro again.

As for long hair vs. Weave that's the key issue about the ethnic difference between the Venezuela / Colombia / Brazil morena vs. The afro descendant. While most Colombianas are using some form of straightening agent on their hair, it's not as bad as the more afro descendants Dominicana ... and even more so Haitiana, who have the fine-curly thick hair and when it is straightened it doesn't even flow but remains stiff like in a manga cartoon, hehe.