As of today, since April 18, 2020 Zihuatanejo has registered a cumulative total of 2,093 confirmed cases of Covid-19 (3 more than yesterday), 166 that have resulted in fatalities, 33 that are currently active, and approximately 1,760 that have recovered. The numbers continue looking good, though there are probably 3 times as many active cases as reported at any given time since most people who get ill neither report it nor see a doctor. They simply weather it out at home as they've always done.

In spite of the ambitions of unscrupulous politicians, Zihuatanejo remains a lovely tropical paradise with a tight community almost like family. Though many of us miss seeing our friends, thanks to modern technology (especially WhatsApp) the older families keep in touch and share goings on, good news and bad, all of us anxious to return to life as we love it.

The smell of smoke has been in the air for the past couple of mornings in the downtown area, and wisps of smoke marked the sky and the hillsides at daybreak today. I fear an early burning season as is common during a La Niña year. Some of it from burning parcelas for planting and some from election year squatters manipulated by slimebags clearing land they will steal.

The political campaigns have barely begun and I'm already sick of the blaring speakers driving around touring the same old tired promises and phony party fervor. Whoever will remove all the damn concrete being poured on our beach and plazas will get my vote!

Late in the afternoon near the pier.