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As of today Zihuatanejo has registered a cumulative total of 1,342 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 100 that have resulted in fatalities, and 40 that are currently active.

It's looking like there will be no spike from the festivities of Día de la Independencia. A bit surprising but certainly not disappointing. Perhaps since it was mostly tourists who were not respecting the sanitary protocols, whatever infections occurred went back to their communities with them.

After not having eaten a hamburger for several months, the bacon cheeseburgers and fries from La Porteña today seemed to be the best I'd ever eaten. ¡Muchas gracias a nuestros amigos de La Porteña! We sure enjoy some fine cooking and delicious meals here on the Costa Grande of Guerrero. Even the gringo food is pretty darn good.

This weekend saw quite a lot of families visiting. The downtown beach and pier was full of families swimming, sunning and enjoying our perfect weather. It's good to see them here. As La Ropa seems to lean more and more towards elitist exclusivity, banning people who travel with their family pets, currently seeking to ban the beach chairs and umbrellas of the parastate Promotora de Playas that have catered to visitors on our beaches for the past 30 years or so, I worry that we are running off families who have always been the backbone of our tourist industry. When we start treating our visitors poorly, word gets around. The state and local governments only care about "cifras alegres", not local livelihoods or the reality here on the ground for us. Politicians and public servants don't live from tourism, and whatever lip service they give it is usually self serving. While I'm not a big fan of the ugly umbrellas and beach chairs of Promotora de Playas, the fact that visitors have come to count on them is important to consider, and in the absence of any kind of public facilities at any of our beaches, I believe it's time the community openly discussed the matter. I believe there should be free public parking areas, free public bathrooms, and an area of the beach at La Ropa where families can have their picnics and even use public grills or their own grills or hibachis. But we have never had those things. The few public bathrooms that do exist charge, so most people simply don't use them. We can do better, but short-sighted public servants seem to keep us from doing so by placing their personal ambitions above those of the community. We can do much better!

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