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RIP Boytoy ...

Quite all right. I myself had to look up Fasano and some readers won’t grasp the cryptic Michelin reference. I thought you are American and would understand related idioms. Parenthetically, the public health guidance in USA and elsewhere is to not yet over-value vaccination protection capacity for yourself or make flimsy assumptions about transmission potential, at this juncture, and to avoid non-essential travel to regions with high coronavirus case incidence and with more contagious regional CoV variants that may escape previous immunity to the original predominant wild type strain of 2020. Powerball is a famous American number-pick lottery, an extension of the winning the vaccination lottery, your own analogy. Playbook refers to the activity plans in Rio, with you apparently likely not considering the kind of pandemic mitigation you may have otherwise followed at home in ... Palookaville, a Marlon Brando partialized famous movie quote (On the Waterfront) that refers to any obscure average place in USA, like I’m from Nowhere, Ontario. The free-style free-basing expressions are colloquialisms for behaving as if there were no recommended advisable restrictions aimed at protecting you and Brazilian locals from a serious contagious disease, notwithstanding you may have the ‘non-home’ visitor partial advantage of early vaccination uptake. You seem, like many, to simplistically equate vaccination in the early stages of minimal overall community immunization as a ticket to unbridled tourist behaviour in a city like Rio that is so poorly organized that COVID mortality statistics are almost as high as daily reports of new infections. The city has pretty much given up on tracking diagnosis. You are basically a desirable commodity there due to your influx of personal resources where locals are in survival mode without the luxury of perhaps fully comprehending or heeding infection control guidance. Affluent visitors break from science-grounded advice for other reasons. Altruism is not one of them. Vaccination is only as good as its sterilizing immunity capacity. It does not have that capacity for novel coronavirus. The threshold for responsible foreign tourism is coming in due course, if you are willing to be patient. It is based on reductions in case incidence as vaccination progressively drives up herd immunity. What is also likely coming eventually is a vaccine nasal spray that complements intramuscular injection because the virus is both systemically and mucosally replicated. Go ahead and ask typical tourism questions, though there is little that in my view hasn’t been exhaustively asked and answered here ad infinitum. But don’t expect wimpy radio silence from everyone here when thinking that the current state of vaccination is a magic bullet that already flings open the portals to safe travel. There is such a thing, maybe still (?!), as common sense steerage to the relevant questions of the day. My eyes are fatigued from constantly rolling them with regard to the endless rampant COVID misinformation and denialism everywhere I look. Exhausting and daunting. Take or leave what I have to offer. If you simply cannot or will not postpone, you can consider some sound risk mitigation strategies when there. As the cumulative infection/recovery rate to date in Brazil is relatively high, perhaps even up to 40% among vulnerable subgroups, many hires will have reasonable CoV immunity. You can try to maintain small social bubbles that still enable you to interact meaningfully. However, you will need to assess a few things, trading off some extra effort to gain health security. This likely means steering clear of congregate sauna/brothel settings. If those settings cared about staff and clients they would screen the trade for immunity in the first place. It is far less onerous than the repeated viral swabs that should, by the way, be a standard of practice as well. Knowledge is power. There are likely as many garotos de programa that have proportionally recovered from infection as the same proportionate venue capacity reduction dictates anyway. You yourself can pay for rapid serology tests for private hires in order to assess for protective antibodies. If they do not meet the immunity criteria, you can give them something for their trouble anyway and they will exit with a possibly valuable piece of personal information. This task will also greatly reduce your potential for carrying and transmitting virus or actually getting sick yourself.

Speaking of the Amazon, 850 new cases daily in the small state of Rondônia, and ...

No petal, 2 days prior, for example do it Wednesday daytime for a Friday 23:30 AA departure. To be within the 72 hours. Bear in mind the new curfew 23:00-05:00 may extend beyond March 14th ... I don’t know your dates. The curfew would affect a plan to go for the viral test late Tuesday night in the above example. I assume you have immunity with respect to novel coronavirus.

What lottery is that now? The playbook sounds like powerballing behaviour at about a 10-fold increase of novel coronavirus exposure risk in one of the riskiest cities worldwide with one of the highest lethality rates and intervention fails, while (presumed format) mRNA vaccination reduces real-world infection risk by about 90%. Any net protective effect of inoculation? ... one minute please ... clickety clack clickety clack clickety clack ... erm, compu-ah says naow. The 90% reduction in chances of acquiring CoV infection is relative only to your baseline exposure risk where you’ve been for the past year or so. If your free-styling in Palookaville approximates the existential free-basing to which we punters are accustomed to in Brazil, then your fortuitous vaccination may offer some comparative benefit.

Clever, well-paced, tightly written French drama mini-series with Omar Sy in the title role. I viewed it in a measured fashion in order to savour rather than binge.

In addition, it appears that since there may be a merger-type ‘handshake’ between the two Latin America fora, when logged in the open forum’s recent posts are not listed in the Recent Updates field on the major page. The login-boundaried forum posts are. When not logged in, one would expect the open forum’s recent contributions to show in the Posts field but they do not, similar to the closed forum version where we were accustomed to seeing those posts signalled in Recent Updates but not Posts.

I noticed that a recent new topic I started in one Latin American forum migrated to the new additional forum, or vice versa, one open and the other login-walled. Therefore, duplicated. Are posts going to automatically copy between the two fora? So far, it seems that my one example depicts twin headings and some overlap of posts, but not all of the posts are conjoined between the duplicates. Tracking topics could pose a lot of hassle. Does not make a lot of sense. I suppose that since the entire board is transferring soon, the complication does not merit much attention or re-adjustment. Nevertheless, I am a bit mystified. I hope this was not a capitulation to the few members bellyaching about the login criteria.

You might consider checking out some penthouses to get good value for the more exorbitant amount of money spent at a luxe grande dame hotel. As they can be buried deep within thousands of rental platform listings, you can consider a Google search: penthouse (or cobertura) Rio de Janeiro AirBnB.

Pour ce que ça vaut, vous et votre invité êtes obligés de porter du couvre-visage dans les zones publiques du CP. Cette seule réalité incitera probablement la direction de l'hôtel à des examens/vérifications plus minutieux et rigoureux. Le personnel peut également observer vos habitudes d'interaction au sein du service de plage intégré, bien qu'il puisse rester inactivé lors de votre visite.

As of today (Sexta 26th), back to Phase 3 Orange. It happened quite precipitously though a bit of telegraphing ahead considering the new curfew. As this suggests closure at 20:00, it may put a damper on Fragata’’s weekend relaunch, timing of stage show, etc.

Le groan. The above site indicates that their rapid test targets detection of antibodies through serology. This is not a qualifying test for boarding a flight! The result will not be branded as “negative for COVID, SARS-CoV-2, etc”. It will likely indicate non-reactive or positive for IgG/IgM antibodies. Technically that would be indicative of a person not likely transmitting infection, but it is not the required viral test, NAAT or antigen category. If they in fact do offer antigen tests, I have somehow inadvertently missed it. For those considering the viral antigen test format and hoping to acquire one quickly at a drug store chain, with possible losses in language translation, caveat emptor that antigen may be incorrectly conflated with antibody because either are available rapidly. The proprietor may think that your agenda is in common with that of many locals, that is, folks ponying up cash occasionally to assess CoV exposure history but not wanting or able to spend money frequently for a point-of-care viral antigen test that is really only useful for current infection status over a relatively short period of time. In that context, avoid the term ‘rapid’. Ensure that you are getting a nasal-pharyngeal swab as opposed to having your finger jabbed for a minuscule blood sample.

I would likely also do the 2-day advance plan at GRU, taking the Metro ... some of the departures on the airport line are more express than others. If one wants to offset some of the cost of this task. I forget which terminal it intersects but all terminal connections are walkable. CR Diagnostics at GRU apparently also offers the viral antigen test, a bit cheaper and faster, ie, they indicate 4 hours and 2 hours, respectively. Because many travellers may bank on that semi-rapid format, if accepted by their international carrier, and just do it all same day as their flight by turning up a few hours extra in advance, it may be busier. Perhaps the Albert Einstein Hospital option also at T3 would be less busy as I believe they are doing RT-PCR exclusively. In any case, if there is a daunting queue at CR one might scurry over to the alternative. Be grateful and suck up the cost. I can only get to Brazil by Copa thru Panama because foreign nationals cannot transit through USA from Brazil. The COPA connection timings have changed and currently suck with impossible airside wait times. Canada has scuppered flights to Mexico, Caribbean, and Latin America. I would also be dinged $2000CAD for obligatory hotel quarantine upon return to Montreal. I won’t be able to obtain a vaccination passport when they gain traction and when flights resume because I was inoculated with vaccine in a placebo-control trial but my vaccination status won’t be officially unblinded until February 2022. The vaccination passport is a lame and shortsighted idea, too specific. Better to have a broader CoV status document with more equivalency bandwidth that covers states such as recovery with antibody evidence, and maintain stringent negative test verification for the subset of people not vaccinated. Not all folks unvaccinated in the long run would be representative of hesitancy or refusal. There will likely be the need to continue large vaccine research trials, and recruitment of volunteers will be greatly impeded by putting them in limbo without official vaccination certification. Who wants to be a research subject if subject to too many restrictions? There will be whinging and whining about privacy and right to decline vaccination. To me, that is not the problem worth wasting time on. It is more about considering all the practical angles. Defining vaccination as the gold standard for freedom privileges when breakthrough infection can occur just seems silly.

It’s not ‘instead of’, it’s either/or, aka viral antigen as an alternative to nucleic acid amplification ... that may be what you meant. The decision weighs convenience versus accuracy. Someone may want the more accurate RT-PCR to safeguard against transmission while travelling or following USA arrival, accepting of the inconvenience. If you are playing in a high infection incidence setting you may also want to know your status a bit sooner in case you can somewhat forecast possible emerging symptoms that may disrupt your flight plans anyway rather than be caught off guard at the last moment. Just about every flight contains one or more infected passengers and the odds are higher for the traveller having engaged in ample intimacy. Viral antigen format is less accurate, leaning towards more false negatives. But more popular for its convenience in the rapid point-of-care formats. One liability given the greater sensitivity of RT-PCR is that it might essentially detect residual but inactive viral particles, say, you were infected earlier in your trip (possibly unaware) but recovered. Therefore, if going the RT-PCR route and the result is positive you could have had a backup plan to do a subsequent viral antigen test (ie, know where to do it) in order to elevate the chance of a satisfactory qualifying test result in order to make your flight. Then you have the chance that a positive RT-PCR was due to hypersensitivity balanced against “cheating” with the less sensitive antigen test that may yield a false negative when the RT-PCR had actually detected truly contagious viral status. I am not suggesting that it would be highly inappropriate to fly in such a case because the knowledge yet uncertainty of infection along with extra precaution seems no worse than the random inevitable naïvely infected passenger (ie, false negative) behaving with caution thrown to the wind.

The block ... de-leite-d, at least compared to the degree to which it had been accustomed for decades.

Hahaha ... I know. The poster shoulda used the search function, as much has been written here on the forum. But I would personally take the RT-PCR, even if options, because it is gold standard and I don’t follow the American lead on CoV matters. I also don’t know if the OP is going to USA specifically or may be inappropriately grouping the two test versions when most nations require RT-PCR. Additionally, not all antigen test versions are rapid. In fact, the CDC clearly delineates the turnaround range for both versions, antigen or NAAT (umbrella for RT-PCR) as 15 minutes to 3 days because there are so many approved variations on the market. In the unlikely event a flight is diverted and lands elsewhere, also best to have the version universally accepted. I don’t know if tips for finding viral antigen test centres have been provided here. Or if such a version is offered at the airport. But Google search ‘coronavirus teste antígeno São Paulo’ should bring up several options. Be mindful that hundreds of CoV tests are ANVISA-authorized and, again, some antigen tests go to a lab (ie, not rapid) in the same way that NAAT formats are sent to a lab. Parenthetically, I think the USA FDA will grant EUA to the Johnson&Johnson vaccine tomorrow. Yet 1 in 4 infections at the study’s primary endpoint occurred in the vaccine group.

There are probably many options if you dig. Along with CR Diagnostics at GRU T3, Albert Einstein Hospital has also opened up a testing clinic in T3. Make sure you ask for a discount that may be associated with your particular airline. Personally, I would find it a hassle to go there two days ahead of the flight ... Therefore, the CR Diagnostics branch a bit closer to town, at Shopping Mooca Plaza, might have less of a wait and be more convenient. Probably also right at Albert Einstein Hospital in town.

This project is planned for the part of the block where Lagoa and one or more adjacent properties stood ... replace the ‘o’ with ‘e’, what do you get? Home Spot.

This project is planned for the part of the block where Lagoa and one or more adjacent properties stood ...

Gov Doria seems to be trying a bit of trade-off bargaining. In a few days a state-wide curfew commences, 23:00 - 05:00, hospital capacity again the predominant worry.

While CoV infections taper globally, an opposite trend is spreading across Brazil. Natal is also struggling.

Yes, for at least 2 months now. Could not sustain a profit at the enforced reduced capacity.

More of Pardo and Mayans MC, 2 consecutive episodes FX channel Tues March 16th.