Manila

[QUOTE=EscortFan;2443761]Questions to those on location, when do you think it will be realistic to return to Manila? I'm think late July / early August at best.[/QUOTE]What is your rationale for thinking that?

[QUOTE=RainMania;2443880]You might want to confirm when and if those bags of rice will be delivered. There is currently a 4-12 week delay for practically everything being sold on Lazada at the moment.[/QUOTE]I agree as some items that a cutie ordered is yet to be delivered and has been over 6 weeks.

And if it is rice are you sure it will arrive as many will this as an opportunity to feed their families.

[QUOTE=EngineDriver;2443847]He clearly says he ordered it on Lazada. The price and delivery details will come up when you search under "rice". Just giving you the advice you give other mongers on this board.[/QUOTE]No that answer would be marginally helpful his response would be more like "Limp Richards here have nothing to do but ask about delivery of rice by Lazada. Why? They live a pathetic pussy less life. Meanwhile stiffies will find a way to find it and to insert in some young babe".

[QUOTE=EngineDriver;2443847]He clearly says he ordered it on Lazada. The price and delivery details will come up when you search under "rice". Just giving you the advice you give other mongers on this board.[/QUOTE]Understand the question first before giving advise. Is my advise to you.

I know what Lazada is. There are many vendors on the site with different prices and different delivery.

I wanted to know what he paid for a 50 kg sack and the delivery method. I doubt google has that answer!

[QUOTE=EscortFan;2443761]

Some are so desperate that girls I talked to, a couple of years ago and didn't even met are asking!

Being a good boy, I bought all my regular girls a 50 kg rice bag on Lazada.[/QUOTE]Better than sending money, so not a bad call.

An estimated 450 to 500 families, according to the Bureau of Fire Protection, have been displaced by a Saturday morning blaze that razed through a residential area in Happyland, a slum in Tondo, Manila.

The Manila misery index just took another hit. No one is happy in Happyland.

[QUOTE=EscortFan;2443761]Being a good boy, I bought all my regular girls a 50 kg rice bag on Lazada.[/QUOTE]Did they receive the rice Fork Truck? Let us know.

[QUOTE=WickedRoger;2444387]Did they receive the rice Fork Truck? Let us know.[/QUOTE]Escort. Please confirm all received the 50 kgs am interested as if it works it proves that the delivery guys etc are not as corrupt as I think at times LOL.

Fork Truck = sorry my bad LOL.

[QUOTE=WickedRoger;2445089]Escort. Please confirm all received the 50 kgs am interested as if it works it proves that the delivery guys etc are not as corrupt as I think at times LOL.

Fork Truck = sorry my bad LOL.[/QUOTE]I can confirm that not all received the rice. In normal times it works flawless, Lazada has grown to be an efficient e-commerce plateform in the Phils. These days it really depends of location of vendor and location of the girl.

One girl didn't receive the 25 KG (not 50 KG) bag I bought for me. I got refunded of 1300-ish Pesos. 1300 was the bag + the delivery. Didn't even need to ask automatic refund.

Lazada being a market place some vendors will deliver to certain areas and not others. (she lives near TayTay / Rizal).

You should get your girls to call various vendors and make sure the vendors will deliver. Often I will be educational, girl will learn how to benchmark vendors and various kind of rice in order to seek for a deal with good value for money.

Then I get the girl to msg me her login / pass, all I need to do is log and pay (your card information isn't saved).

It's a good system to make sure the money is allocated to rice and nothing else. And each time she will eat her rice in the next month or two she will remember her kind sugar daddy.

[QUOTE=EscortFan;2443761]Questions to those on location, when do you think it will be realistic to return to Manila?

I'm think late July / early August at best.

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[/QUOTE]No one can be realistic on a possible return date. I am in lockdown in Cebu province so I have a lot of time to surf and read up on stuff. I have a good background and interest in statistics and mathematical models so would be comfortable if I could get some actual technical discussions on these models and have a look at them myself. So far all I can find is superficial discussions.

From everything I have read we cannot expect easy travel until several conditions are met. These include:

1) a vaccine available.

2) a reliable treatment available.

3) Sufficient numbers of people have had the virus so a limited herd immunity will develop.

4) Good screening methods be available to determine if someone has the virus, has had the virus and got has some immunity and who has not had the virus and is at risk.

5) good contact tracking is available to determine who a possibly infected person has been in contact with so that preventative and containment measures can be taken before the virus spreads.

6) sufficient hospital capacity and supplies are available so that a region can handle a localized outbreak of the disease.

Right now we don't know enough about the virus to determine its transmission patterns and methods reliably. We don't have any treatment available except palliative treatments (make the patient comfortable, put them on a ventilator if necessary until the either recover or die). Testing capacity is inadequate in just about every country in the world, there are massive shortages of hospital supplies and the best testing methods take days for results and are not all that reliable.

Now there is some overlap in vaccines and propagation and recovery from the virus in getting herd immunity I see that these conditions are 12 to 18 months away, even giving the possibility of accelerated development of drugs and vaccines.

Even once these are in place, expect that some places will impose 14 or more day quarantine on arrival requirements for visitors from selected places.

I have given up on the possibility of my annual trip to Canada this summer, I am even thinking I may not get home next year. Part of this may be that full travel restrictions will still be in place others are that if I had to do a 14 day quarantine on arrival in Canada plus another 14 days on return here that means my one week family visit will take 5 weeks and I simply will not do that. IMHO, a long weekend mongering trip into the Philippines is not realistic in 2020.

I would actually be happy if they relaxed the local travel restrictions so I could get one (or two) of my regulars here then I would hunker down, be a social hermit and fuck my brains out a couple times a day.

To make a long story short, I am guessing that we will not see a return to anything approaching the old normal in terms of travel and public assemblies of large numbers of people for at least a year, if not two or more. We will not see a return to old travel patterns for disease related reasons. There will also be economic changes in travel, many airlines, hotels and other travel facilities will go bankrupt, people will not be able to afford to travel. The new normal may not be established for a few years.

My hope is that since I am here have sufficient funds independent of working and the stock market performance, that I will be able to live well here. I hope that the surplus of cash poor local girls and the defect of cash rich foreign mongers will make this monger's heaven in a few months.

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From everything I have read we cannot expect easy travel until several conditions are met. These include:[/QUOTE]7) Donor countries allow Mongers' departure for international travel.

1 thru 6 are irrelevant if Mongers cannot even leave their home town. In many countries that may be well into 2021.

Enjoy. G.

[QUOTE=Goferring;2445596]7) Donor countries allow Mongers' departure for international travel.

1 thru 6 are irrelevant if Mongers cannot even leave their home town. In many countries that may be well into 2021.
[/QUOTE]8) Philippines BoI lifts its ban on tourist visas so that Mongers who are allowed to leave home towns can be admitted to Philippines.

Some hotels like Dusit Thani seems to be accepting reservations from 16th of May onwards. Let's take it as a positive sign.

J.

[QUOTE=TraderJ;2446983]Some hotels like Dusit Thani seems to be accepting reservations from 16th of May onwards. Let's take it as a positive sign.

J.[/QUOTE]Are there any flight and / or Visa changes to go along with the relaxing of the hotel restrictions?

G.

[QUOTE=Goferring;2447152]Are there any flight and / or Visa changes to go along with the relaxing of the hotel restrictions?

G.[/QUOTE]There is how ever new softened stance from minister of tourism so let's see what next 2-4 weeks bring. For government news I follow the government news agency [URL]https://www.pna.gov.ph/[/URL].

J.