Quote Originally Posted by rtitle View Post
What if the virus gets into the place pictured in the video in the preceding post (Downtown Kingston)?

What happens? Think about it.

"protect yourselves with masks/sanitizer/etc" => most can barely afford food
"isolate yourselves" => in a crowded apartment with no indoor plumbing?
"see a doctor" => most of them don't have doctors
etc

... or any similar place... (Port Au Prince, Mexico City, Rio, Mumbai, Dakka, Manila, ...) (how many people? "bottom billion"...)

Think about it.

More later...
haiti's already been through a cholera epidemic. same thing will happen to the people if corona virus lands there, and they will probably fare better than they did during the cholera epidemic, since it's not water-borne or food-borne.

i just got back from port au prince- they were doing some sort of screening at the airport upon arrival. all visitors had an ear examined by flashlight. not sure what they were looking for, but that's what they're doing.

and honestly, if i had a trip to the carribbean planned for any time between now and july, i'd go.

we're actually planning a 15 day visit to jamaica for late july, because we have a friend from haiti who is really excited to go there.