Post by jabberwocky on Mar 19, 2020 9:43:40 GMT -5
Got to Medellin on Friday ( via Copa) before stepping on plane called my dentist and MD and made sure it was OK to come - Friday at noon they assured me things were normal and to come on down - checked with a few friends also - same response - so headed out - everything was normal but slow Friday night at MDE - was out and about Medellin most of Saturday including Centro - it was crowded - the Metro was jammed - Sunday went out to Poblado for lunch - lightest traffic I had ever seen but things were clam - Sunday night got an email from my dentist that they had retroactively put in place a quarantine for anyone who had arrived after March 3rd - had not seen anything official and seemed a bit odd to do it retroactively - I had been all over Medellin by that point - first thing Monday morning went to Copa office across from San Diego CC - Changed my return flight to Wednesday - obviously did not get to La Pintada - could not get on a bus even if I had tried - by Monday afternoon the word was out - no one who had arrived after March 3rd could go out - although my hotel didn't seem to care - hung out in hotel all day - but got more worried about transport - so got on line and got one of the last tickets on the last JB flight out to FLL - did not trust Copa would still be flying Wednesday - although turns out they were - but canceling flights now.
We hope to be back by end of June - hopefully things will be better by then - but I would bet airline schedules will still be limited. I worry about or family in Pintada - more on the financial side - the locals there can't go out and hoard food - they don't have the money - if the country gets shut down - logistics of getting food around the country will get much tougher - they will first get food to big cities with the smaller ones to fend for themselves - hopefully it won't get that bad - but I do know one thing - most Colombians I know can survive on very little - rice and beans for a month - they will be fine.
We hope to be back by end of June - hopefully things will be better by then - but I would bet airline schedules will still be limited. I worry about or family in Pintada - more on the financial side - the locals there can't go out and hoard food - they don't have the money - if the country gets shut down - logistics of getting food around the country will get much tougher - they will first get food to big cities with the smaller ones to fend for themselves - hopefully it won't get that bad - but I do know one thing - most Colombians I know can survive on very little - rice and beans for a month - they will be fine.