I guess it's fitting that the lockdown announcement came today on the one year anniversary of the declaration of the state of constitutional exception. Without the constitutional exception they can't use lockdowns or give tourists preferential treatment, because it's not constitutional to essentially create different classes of people, some who have more rights than others.

They closed the borders to all but legal residents and citizens a year ago too. Honestly, I think they never should have opened them. We'd be better off right now.

And, those people that want to come here? Half the time they asking for advice about finding a loophole around the quarantine upon arrival and PCR test requirements. So, I am sure a lot of tourists come here and don't respect the rules.

And don't start me on the lying. At a press conference the other day, the health undersecretary flippantly said that we shouldn't be concerned about the Brazilian variant because the vaccine works just as well against it. I have seen several articles discussing this. Brazil is mainly using the same vaccine as here, so they have been studying if the vaccine will work on the variant. There's no final verdict, but initial findings seem to indicate that it is less effective. They lie and lie. I am sick of it.