Vivir ComplaZIHdo

Do any of you ever take the time to read old postings?

Not for fun, but I've just spent some time searching for your Nov/Dec posts on Zihua's COVID numbers, trying to track the increase in Zihua's confirmed cases due to Omicron.
We left Canada by car for Mexico on 10 November, BO (Before Omicron). We were in Zihua from 19 Nov. - 10 Dec. and returned home on 21 Dec. We don't recall seeing or hearing anything about Omicron until well after we'd left Zihua. Looks like the first Canadian Omicron cases were confirmed on 28 November. The first mention of Omicron on your Board looks like a 14 December post by "maggie" and your first mention of it appears to be in a post dated 21 Dec.

A selection of your posts noting confirmed Zihua COVID shows:
18 December......2 cases
23 December.....22 cases
27 December.....29 cases
31 Decemver.....35 cases
4 January...... 17 cases
9 January...... 48 cases
13 January.....214 cases
20 January.....433 cases
22 January.....553 cases

In spite of the numbers, we're coming back to Zihua for 6 weeks, starting in late February. Hopefully, for all our sakes, the decline in cases starting to be seen in other jurisdictions will soon be experienced in Zihua and the rest of Mexico.

I was referring to much OLDER posts, but yeah. When the vacation season began modules for testing for Covid-19 opened in Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo. Previously the only testing had been done when people showed up ill at the hospital or local clinic. With the increased testing, while still incomplete and restricted to very few locations, a more complete picture emerged. The previous low numbers were due to the lack of testing more than anything else, a bit of manipulation so as not to scare away vacationers during the peak Christmas vacation holiday season. Apparently it was more important not to alarm those vacationers than the current ones. Go figure. While their high numbers of hotel occupancy (mostly all-included) look good for the politician's images, the truth is we've enjoyed better sales in the local restaurants, shops and boutiques since those tourists left and our high season began.