@AzulOscuro - I definitely think this pandemic has brought out the worst in people. We have a lot of Peruvians living here and I know several who are very concerned about family living there who haven't had the chance to get vaccinated.

@Discombobulated - Yeah, here the border closure was way to late to help with the Brazilian variant, but at least it should have an impact on the latest one. I imagine our President didn't want to piss off Bolsonaro, so they waited until it would look like it wasn't directed just at Brazil.

We are supposed to vote this weekend. There are elections for municipal offices and the people that are going to write the new constitution. From the ads I have seen, no one running has a clue what should be included in a constitution, so I was not inspired to vote initially. When you add in almost 7,000 new cases the last few days and over 300 active cases in my municipality, I have less interest in risking it. Here there is a map you can view to see where the active cases are concentrated. It superimposes squares over the map. White squares are zero cases, yellow and orange refer to moderate numbers of cases and red is the worst. You can also see exactly how many cases there are in each square.Where we are, it's white, zero cases. However, where we have to vote, which is several km away, the map is all red with double digit active cases in every square around there. The Health Minister said that by the election we should be seeing around 3,000 new cases a day. Boy, was he wrong, again! I feel another spike of cases coming on in a week or so.


Interesting, I looked at the area where we used to live on the map and there were quite a few active cases. 4 in the immediate square and areas to the north and west had 11 and 16. Yet, we are locked down and they aren't.