Posted on 10/13/2021 1:54:21 AM PDT by blueplum
After being shuttered for 17 months, the upmarket Hujan Locale restaurant in the Balinese town of Ubud is slowly coming back to life...
...‘We do not want backpackers’ The pandemic has prompted a debate about the role of tourism in Bali, with some arguing the island should become less dependent on the sector and instead develop other areas of the economy. Reports of foreign tourists who remained on the island during the pandemic but refused to follow health protocols has added to such sentiments. This week, Bali’s governor said that tourism had benefited “a handful of people, especially foreign investors”, but not the general public. He said he instead planned to promote areas such as cultural crafts, agriculture and fisheries.
Government officials have spoken of the need to alter the tourism sector to focus on attracting “quality” tourists. Luhut Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment, said last month that the authorities would “filter” tourists. “We do not want backpackers,” he said....
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Oh by gosh by golly
It’s time the tourists went to Bali
Just in time for an international climatard conference.
Indonesia went to Ivermectin, so they’ll be fine opening up to tourists.
Denpasar in Bali is one of the most polluted cities I’ve ever seen.
All the 2 stroke motorcycles.
too hot 4 me
Yea it was pretty hot too.
Indonesia has sold ivermectin black market over the counter since April of last year. So maybe some invermectin champ can explain why, a full year later, with warehouses of the stuff being widely and cheaply distributed (even free in some areas), did they have a hospital collapse so severe people were suffocating to death outside of hospitals from lack of available oxygen in July 2021?
Or why demand for vaccine was so high that Jakarta is now 78% fully vaccinated and Bali is now 67% vaccinated? Or why they insitituted a double-vax, PCR test before flight and after flight, and, a 5-day mandatory hotel quarantine prior to starting one’s vacation. If a magic pill was the answer.
With the vaccination rate of Bali, you’re probably safer there than Los Angeles. :)
memory lane:
https://news.yahoo.com/indonesia-hospital-33-covid-patients-125802457.html
“, imported black market Ivermectin was being sold over the counter as early as April 2020”
https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/indonesia-jumps-the-gun-on-ivermectin-as-covid-cure/
Since Ivermectin wasn’t approved in Indonesia until mid-July, 2021, even with a black market it still wasn’t mainstream (after all, do you REALLY think a statistically significant number of Americans actually eat that horse paste crap?). Of course the case plummeted just after Ivermectin was approved, just as in India, so no surprise there.
https://en.tempo.co/read/1483423/bpom-approves-ivermectin-as-covid-19-therapeutic-drug
By the way, when the virus did peak (just prior to Ivermectin approval), the fully-vaccinated rate in Indonesia was about 10% and no more than 20% when the virus was pretty much wiped out in early Sept.
Also don’t know who’s feeding you the vaccination rate numbers. This site shows no more than 25% fully vaccinated as of today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Indonesia
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