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But others should see it.  If you delete it you have something to fear.

The Covid-19 video has just been removed from the forum.  Over 35 people saw it in the last hour.  Why was it taken off this forum?

Mudgirl, yes the person was talking about the US, things are not as fresh up there and the Agricultural people have other agendas like making money vs feeding people.  I still am shocked to read about all the food being destroyed up there because of the two tier system, grocery food vs food for restaurants and schools. With all the restaurants and schools being closed now. If the food was destined to a restaurant or a school, since they package things differently than if it were going to go to a grocery store, it must now be destroyed because it is too costly to repackage it for sale in a grocery store.  If they can´t make any money off it, better to destroy it than give it away.  Hence, they are breaking millions of eggs, pouring out millions of gallons of fresh milk and plowing over millions of acres of fresh vegetables, simply because it would be to costly to repackage them now.  Today I read an article where Tyson foods was making the claim that since they have been forced to close many of their processing plants, they must now DEPOPULATE their chickens, beef, and pork livestock from the processing plants.  I shiver to think what that could possibly even mean.  Greed is one of the worst sins known to human kind.

5 hours ago, MtnMama said:

I buy bacon & eggs at the Tuesday Market. Eggs (farm fresh) are 50 pesos a dozen. Can't remember how much bacon is but since the pigs are raised on the family milpa, I don't expect a shortage.

Isn't 50 pesos roughly US $2.50?  The OP says with the price going up in their location in the US they are now paying 1.78.  I normally pay around 30  pesos or so for a dozen of farm fresh eggs, generally on the large size, at my local veggie market in centro Chapala.  But yes, we don't seem to be experiencing the shortages that they are experiencing in many parts of the US, as of yet, down here in sunny México, nor the high Coronavirus death toll, gracias a Diós.

I personally, have always wondered how living in Mirasol stacked up against the other fraccionamientos.  I have never been inside, just have passed by it on the carretera.  How different is it compared to, lets say, it's next door neighbor Riberas de Pilar?  Are the houses, lots, and/or infrastructure very similar?

Yes, you are exactly correct Ferret.  The death toll from the flu starts to render its toll usually beginning in November más o menos.  For the Coronavirus, the CDC began counting pneumonia type deaths in  around Februrary and automatically attributing all deaths to Coronavirus without testing all the bodies first.  And the truth is, since it is so similar to the common flu, nobody, as of today, really knows when it came out or even how long it has been spreading in the US.  We only know when it was first detected.  Just think about it.  A hundred years later, nobody today, even knows where the Spanish Flu came from.  It was first detected in Kansas, but where did it come from and how long had it been around before it was first detected?

The truth is, that this time around, the residents of Planet Earth were very fortunate that this pandemic was rather mild and nothing similar or as catastrophic as the Spanish Flu.  But yes, it could of ended up being far more deadly, and potentially might be in future waves.  But with this current strain or strains it seems to be on an almost an equal par as the common flu.  But again looking at the death toll of Covid-19, the 55 thousand deaths in the US alone, are roughly the same amount as the common flu this year.  The vast majority of the deaths were never ever tested.  They only have so many tests and they don't usually use the few they have on the deceased.  Anybody, that has died recently in the US, in at least the past two months, and if prior to death, they suffered from a fever, cough or any other flu or Coronavirus symptoms, hospitals mandated or highly encouraged that their death cerificate were to be stamped with Covid=19 as cause of death.  That alone should cause most people to think a moment.  Of course the Coronavirus is not a hoax and yes thousands upon thousands have died from it.  But, so also have they died in almost equal numbers every single year, since the beginning of recorded history, from the flu.  Both viruses predominately kill the enfermed elderly.  This is nothing new.  The number of confirmed cases is so huge and so wide spread, lock down will not stop it.  It will pass through the entire population regardless what the governments decide to do.  Lock down, to be effective, needed to be done on day one.

They are an internet provider located on Calle Morelos in Chapala.

https://www.spiderwebchapala.com/

I learned it in Venezuela, many years ago, as "v" de vaca and "b" de burro.

We had something delivered last week.  They generally use DHL or Estafeta.

Here is one of the articles:  http://semanariolaguna.com/50480/  According to the article Jocotepec is totally dry which includes the abarrotes selling cerveza.

The local abarrotes have been allowed to sell cerveza all along and most have been.  Read the El Semanario Chapala on line.  There are at least two articles from this week confirming this.

There were always stores selling liquor around here.  You just need to find the right abarrotes store.  And preferably off the main drag or Avenida.  Even on the Avenida here in Chapala you can purchase it at at least two locations.  But you must ask for it.  Even when the black curtain is hiding the liquor, they often are still selling.

That is my verbatim, nearly word for word translation after listening to the audio.  Maybe, Spencer will later come out with a closer English rendition.

I finally found it on youtube.

This is what it is saying, my translation.

Attention:  We are in a national health emergency because of Coronavirus.  Return back to your home, this is not a time to be out on the streets.  If it is not totally necessary do not leave your home.  The use of a face mask is mandatory in all occasions.  It is prohibited to use public transport without a face mask.  If you are going to the tianguis, the market, or the store, go alone and with a face mask.  If you are going out to get food, get it to go and wear a face mask.  If you go out to walk your pet, use a face mask.  There will be fines for those that do not follow these measures.  Stay at home, avoid contagion, fines, and deaths! 

Apparently they are now announcing a new or modified warning on the police trucks in Chapala.  I perfectly understand the Spanish when I am within ear range but I live a street over from the main Avenida.  All I caught was "please do not go out on the streets, now is not the time to be on the streets".  The previous message that they had been announcing for the past several weeks did not include those lines.  I wonder if anybody could find or post the complete transcription of this apparently new message from the Presidente.  Gracias.

Of course baby food is not exactly essential but it is convenient just like McDonalds is I assume.  We raised an American baby down here and she loved the Gerbers Chayote (although she want touch them today) but try finding that flavor in the States.  But imagine if baby food and formulas weren't available, do you think all young couples today would have the common sense to provide a balanced nutritious meal for their baby to develope properly?  Something to think about.

Many of the small tienditas and abarrote stores are still selling beer and some will even sell you liquor.  The Oxxos and 711's are not selling at this time.  The logic (if you want to call it that) the way it was explained to me in Spanish by Don Pancho the little store in the Chapala plaza, he said that it was only hard liquor that was not being allowed to be sold.  So, if a store like Oxxo that sells both, now they are banned from selling any.  And the little tienditas that sell only beer are still being allowed to sell in Chapala.

As far as I am aware the Oxxos and 711's are still selling.  I don't know for how much longer though.  Nor do I comprehend the reason why they would stop selling it.  Have the Jehova Witnesses finally taken over or something?

It was said to be the tianguis not the mercado principal which is currently in the plaza due to renovations.  The tianguis is the tianguis not to be confused with other mercaditos and tienditas.  In Chapala the tianguis takes place only on Mondays and in Ajijic it takes place only on Wednesdays.

And to think, that many deaths after a large percentage of Americans went and got their recommended vaccinations.

15 minutes ago, ibarra said:

happyjillin , where is Calle Mister Crowe?

In the Lourdes neighborhood in Chapala.

There is lots of people selling the grains on mercado libre.  I ordered some last night and will go pay at Oxxo today..

21 minutes ago, Cookie said:

Order Kefir grains.  It is soooooooo easy to make.   Just milk in a jar on the counter..add the kefir grains..the next day strain out the kefir grains.. and there you have kefir.

Cookie, great idea, thanks.  In fact I've already decided to do that.