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06-28-21 00:32 #5675
Posts: 271PCR Covid Test. Question
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.
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06-18-21 16:43 #5674
Posts: 72Casa de Campo
Try Casa de Campo in La Romana.
Originally Posted by DonGringo [View Original Post]
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06-15-21 05:13 #5673
Posts: 3DR vs Rio in 2021
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.
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06-09-21 20:41 #5672
Posts: 180Originally Posted by StinkySquid [View Original Post]
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06-06-21 21:57 #5671
Posts: 262Serologic survey of COVID-19
Originally Posted by StinkySquid [View Original Post]
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.
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06-06-21 19:54 #5670
Posts: 2116Originally Posted by Oakie [View Original Post]
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06-06-21 03:41 #5669
Posts: 2116Originally Posted by StinkySquid [View Original Post]
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06-05-21 09:54 #5668
Posts: 1908Originally Posted by Pinga98 [View Original Post]
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.
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06-04-21 14:21 #5667
Posts: 148Originally Posted by StinkySquid [View Original Post]
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.
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06-04-21 08:02 #5666
Posts: 1908Originally Posted by StinkySquid [View Original Post]
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.
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06-04-21 06:00 #5665
Posts: 314Originally Posted by Pinga98 [View Original Post]
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.
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06-02-21 21:57 #5664
Posts: 148Originally Posted by StinkySquid [View Original Post]
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.
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06-01-21 18:48 #5663
Posts: 314Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
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.
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06-01-21 17:59 #5662
Posts: 15815Originally Posted by StinkySquid [View Original Post]
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06-01-21 16:08 #5661
Posts: 314Thank you all so much for the orientation.
* Explaining a little "glitch" with the Alicia beach hotel.
* The Boca Chica vs. Sozua comparison.
And now we're talking Brazil, haha.
Originally Posted by Bliadun [View Original Post]
I am living most of my time in Brazil nowadays. I have a fateful history, with this country, haha. I was mostly in relationships. But I need to detox. Right now what's stopping me is that I don't have enough days on my visa allowance, and always try to avoid stepping into the trap of being considered a tax resident.
About that entire CoViD and Bolsonaro and Trump discussion, gents please, don't be pussies! Here is the thing, Bolsonaro is a jerk. Trump was doing some good but ultimately he was too weak and lost so many stand-offs where he needed to be strong and goddam say "YOU ARE FIRED" over and over just like in his show. Trump was spot on to so many things, but he was his own biggest obstacle, not because of Tweets or grabbing pussy talk but because of ultimate weakness and lack of leadership. Just that debacle of Jan. 6, it was his fault for not giving the people enough instructions to use their presence productively and not protect them from infiltration. As for Bolsonaro, he's a jerk and really a political insider. He wants to be Trump but he isn't. He is weak on China. The only good thing was he pushed back on the CoViD Tyranny which the state governors were as keen on unleashing as the several US state governors. And that kept Brazil relatively free. 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. And we are all coming down from the peak. India is a bit behind on their vaccine production hence there is some shortage to move ahead faster with vaccination in Brazil, but it's only Brazil's socialist shithole condition that prevented them from being more innovative and develop their own. But overall CoViD is on the retreat.
Forget that CoViD shit, in Brazil it's nothing because it doesn't restrict your options and movements.
In Colombia and even DR CoViD is much more of a problem because it actually restricts what you can do!
I love how you say enthusiastic service as characteristic for Brazil. And this is where I am getting at now.
I have second thoughts about DR. Serious doubts in fact.
I went to some Youtube videos of guys walking through and shily direct their camera at women who walk by. But man, what I see from DR and Sozua in particular is turning me off! I don't know if it's real but I don't really find much of any of these women there attractive. They tend to be fat and they walk around with these absolutely awfully disgusting "leggins shorts" for lack of a better word to describe it. I mean WTF! I do not feel turned on by this.
Here's another thing, looking at Photoacompanhante for Brazil or Photoprepagos for Colombia, you just have loads and loads of delightful pictures and though a good number of them are outdated (women posting their own pictures from 5 years ago) or many outright fake, still they give you an overall correct impression, because I do look at the girls standing around at near the cathedral of Sao Paulo and they match more or less and I have seen my small share of real world instances, where, despite almost always some of a let down, there is potential. And same for Colombia.
But when I look at DR pictures I find myself frantically searching for "Venezolana" or something to see something that I would like.
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.
Yeah, I'm heading back to Brazil pretty quick it seems. And can't wait for Colombia quieting down. Or I will just anyway go to Baranquilla for beach.
I also looked at these all inclusive "sex vacation" which are crazy expensive for the hotel part, but hey, you get additional girls for less than 400 for the entire day at attention rather than haggling 250 USD for an hour of "meh" service. So it's something to consider just for the experience if you can afford it. Certainly not going to pay 250 USD for some flake shit from an agency if I can pay that for an all-nighter in Brazil or 250 BRL for a nice 2 hour session with some enthusiasm.
I might still stop in DR for a week, just to confirm my suspicion. But I have my eyes on Venezuela. Can't wait for CoViD lockdowns to finally be a thing of the past.