RicoGuapo wrote:
Not wanting to be the bearer of bad news, but today sets a record for new daily CV-19 cases in Costa Rica at 1222 in the past 24 hours, following four consecutive daily increases from 741 to 897 to 1121 to 1153 to 1222. What's perhaps more alarming is the simultaneous spike in ICU utilization to record levels and the continued high levels of positivity (>30%). It looks like this isn't going away any time soon as the numbers are going in the wrong direction, folks.
Could be 3,000 a day by the end of the month.
There are a lot of things going on you won't read about in the tourist oriented English-language media. For example, CRHoy.com reports social media postings of bounties on police officers and OIJ agents.
https://www.crhoy.com/nacionales/audios ... as-diablo/"(CRHO..com) In Guápiles, strong operations are carried out with the aim of finding the whereabouts of a man with the alias of Diablo, who supposedly announced millionaire payments for killing police officers and judicial agents in Pococí. The audios and photographs began to circulate on social networks in recent days. The recordings spoke of alleged payments of ¢ 2.5 million colones for each assassinated Public Force officer and of ¢ 5 million colones for each agent of the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ). Supposedly, too, the "reward" could be canceled in exchange for cocaine. Given this, the judicial police and the Ministry of Public Security carry out an exclusive mega operation to find alias Diablo. This man is an old acquaintance of the authorities, considered one of the main criminal leaders in the area and who has also escaped from several operations against him. The authorities reported that the police deployment will last for the next 3 days and agents from the Tactical group and various OIJ headquarters are participating. In the same way, it is about identifying members of the band in different parts of the canton of Pococí. It is expected that during the afternoon, the security authorities will refer to the operations."
Y'all come on down soon, bring ammo.