@Discombobulated - Yeah, we've had cases like that too. A well-known TV presenter with no pre-existing conditions was vaccinated when they were only supposed to be vaccinating health workers and people over 80. She's 63. There have been mayors that gave priority to friends and family who should be farther down the list as well. In the end about 35,000 people have jumped the line, I guess you could say, out of a total of 2.8 million.

In some cases, it was probably the most logical course. Some remote towns in Patagonia got more vaccines than they needed for priority groups so they started giving them to other groups as well. One town called Laguna Blanca has vaccinated everyone. It was probably more logical to do that than try to find other places to take them. My municipality is at about 10% vaccinated.

The mayor came out to say that it was one specific situation that led to the jump in cases we had and it sounds like it's being dealt with. Probably a clandestine party or similar. I really hope that is the case and our active cases start to go down again. They already fell by 10 between Friday and Saturday.

It is unnerving seeing the military on the streets like that. We saw them around after the uprising that started in October 2019 too.


A customer coughed on you?!? Seriously, what is wrong with people.

I was just reading that Uruguay is the one country on the continent that has not receive any vaccines so far. I am sort of surprised since in other ways they have handled the pandemic better than most other countries in South America. I wonder why. Maybe they got complacent about getting them because their numbers weren't so bad. Although, according to the article, they are doing worse than us as far as active cases per capita right now. They are supposed to receive the first delivery in March.