Hah - I spent a few days there on my trip. Love the place. Except for the electricity going off at 8 every day. But it forced me to get up and stop laying in bed.
Seems like if you get sick you’d have time to get to the mainland right? Just fly to Managua. Also it looks like there’s a decent chance the virus doesn’t like heat and humidity.
If I was on Little Corn I would absolutely ride it out.
Btw here’s my TR from Little Corn:
And my big crazy TR of getting stuck in Bluefields for a week with my car, and eventually having to talk my way through 4 tronques (protest roadblocks) to escape to Costa Rica:
Nice, I’m sure I’ll have time to check out your trip reports! But yes, I would have to go to Managua if I got sick, but Nicaragua is thus far electing not to do anything on this virus and might be setting themselves up for some big problems a bit further down the road. Plus I’m assuming Nicaraguas health care already sucks as it.
A friend of ours is stuck on Lipari, a small island off Sicily, in her boyfriend’s villa. She’s without her work laptop as she was on holiday when it became ‘impossible’ to leave, so home working is out (can’t get on the VPN). Hadn’t considered lack of easy access to healthcare, but she’s the person I know who’s winning lockdown so far.
With the long term potential of completely destroying the world economy, at some point should we transition to just quarantining older and people with other health conditions?
Yea I’m pretty happy here right now! Just hoping it’s not being shortsighted. And I play live poker for a living, so no chance of that happening anytime soon.
Prof Neil Ferguson , one of the government’s top coronavirus experts, has had to self-isolate after developing coronavirus symptoms and revealed he was probably infectious when he attended a Downing Street press conference on Tuesday
In China, schools and universities are still closed but workers unable to work from home have returned to work. Restaurants are still shut and passenger numbers on their public transport system are way down on normal.
Thanks for clarifying my understanding, I appreciate it. I am hopeful that if China is successful at modulating the level of restrictions and the spread of the disease that it will set a template for the rest if the world.
We have to bear in mind that huge differences between China’s cities and the west that mean OMMV: their apartment blocks have a vehicle/person barrier manned 24/7, making it easy to maintain quarantines, whereas in the west… well, say no more.
Then also there are cultural differences baked in over thousands of years of oppression that has led to Chinese people being extremely fearful of disobeying government instructions, whereas here…
I suspect that most of the restaurants that are packed that tight can’t operate profitably if people have to sit 6 feet apart, unless there is some government support to cover the cost of rent for small businesses or something like that.
It does seem like the one thing that gets their attention is a panicky public. If I were a rich person / public figure the images of people approaching mob violence over toilet paper would be concerning. There’s no doubt who is in line for the guillotine if mob violence escalates.
