Poor Peru. If COVID has been a mess here, it's been much worse there. In addition to the syringe problem that is being investigated there was another scandal with well-placed politicians getting vaccines before the rest. They are still working on getting the elderly vaccinated there, unlike here. I read somewhere that nearly everyone in the country knows someone who has died from COVID. The official numbers from there don't show the true story at all.


Before all this started, we used to love to fly up to Lima for a week to eat good food and spend time along the coast. I don't know when we will be able to do that again.


Hopefully keeping the borders closed is helping us to keep out the Indian variant. The border closure has been extended to the end of the month. At least there are fewer connections between here and there, normally, unlike Brazil, which has been the most problematic variant here.

@AzulOscuro I see you are using your newly learned vocabulary.