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COVID across the border: A very dire picture in Mexico
American Thinker ^ | 02/08/2021 | Silvio Canto Jr.

Posted on 02/08/2021 6:52:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Over the weekend, I met with a couple of Mexican friends passing through Dallas.  They were on their way to visit their daughter in Houston.

To say the least, they painted a dire picture of COVID in Mexico, from access to the vaccine to hospital beds.

It confirmed something that I read at Mexico Pulse News last week:

Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported on Wednesday, Jan. 27, that 44.9 percent more people died of covid-related issues from January through August of 2020 than initially reported by the Mexican government, adding another layer of discord to the nation's dismal handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The government previously reported that deaths during the first seven months of the pandemic reached a total of 75,017, while Inegi now says the real figure for that time period was 108,658 deaths.

Inegi's report also disclosed that Mexico's mortality rate had increased by 37.9 percent since coronavirus found its way into the country at the start of last year.

Edgar Vielma Orozco, the general director of socio-demographic statistics at Inegi, said that more than 58 percent of covid-related deaths occurred outside of hospitals, hence the mismatch in numbers between the Inegi and the federal government.

In short, it's a mess in many ways south of the border.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; covid19; mexico
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1 posted on 02/08/2021 6:52:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
The obvious question for America:

What's happening in Central America, or the place where many of these caravans are originating? What happens when these people step on Mexican soil? Who is checking them for COVID? It appears that many will come because the Biden administration is canceling the Trump agreements.


2 posted on 02/08/2021 6:53:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And Biden is opening the border....taking down the wall...

There are no words for this level of incompetence.

Hmmmm...global genocide?


3 posted on 02/08/2021 6:55:02 AM PST by EBH (Deer in the headlights get killed)
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To: SeekAndFind

People in poor health tend to have problems with viruses. Mexico doesn’t strike me as a country with great healthcare and medical treatment.


4 posted on 02/08/2021 6:55:41 AM PST by bcr100 (ht)
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To: SeekAndFind

And Biden has re-instated the catch and release program into the U.S., the one Trump put an end to.

This will further spread the virus and any other diseases illegals are bringing up with them, such as TB.

Good job Biden voters! (and yes, I am well aware the election was stolen, but still, as Rush pointed out, tens of millions of people still voted willingly for this disaster).


5 posted on 02/08/2021 6:57:57 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: bcr100

People are even more likely to be obese in Mexico than the US.

Freegards


6 posted on 02/08/2021 6:58:37 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: SeekAndFind
If COVID is any small sliver of what it's being made out to be, all border crossers would be quarantined for 2 weeks.

This isn't about your health

7 posted on 02/08/2021 7:01:02 AM PST by null and void (We're the MSM, we decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, but don't call us Not Sees)
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To: SeekAndFind

And we should care, why exactly? These are anti-immigrant creeps who come here and change our country for the worse.


8 posted on 02/08/2021 7:02:29 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: EBH

“Hmmmm...global genocide?”

I have been saying it since it started it’s the elites plan to get rid of the old and sick to shore up the near bankrupt Social security and pension plans in nearly every country around the world.


9 posted on 02/08/2021 7:23:40 AM PST by setter
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To: SeekAndFind
This is a direct result of the endemic and systemic corruption of Mexican society and Latin American society in general. Bribery, political and societal corruption and violence are a way of life that is ingrained in Mexico and Latin America and that was just fine with these animals until Covid hit. Now they're unprepared to deal with it and everyone who can is heading here to make it our problem. And Biden, that corrupted, dementia addled pustule will let them all in.
10 posted on 02/08/2021 7:29:50 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And what happens when the millions of these filthy diseased illegals from countries with no control of COVID and other diseases swarm over our borders, invited by JoeHo, and infect millions of Americans? Racking up untold millions of dollars for American citizens’ medical care as well as that of this human trash? I guess all that misery and all that money is worth it to the soulless minions of Satan masquerading as human members of the Dimmocommie party so they can collect more D votes. It’s all about votes. No caring about America required.


11 posted on 02/08/2021 7:36:01 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind

Well lets throw that border open.
What could go wrong?


12 posted on 02/08/2021 7:39:42 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Dismal handling”? It’s called poverty.


13 posted on 02/08/2021 7:47:01 AM PST by Tacticalman
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To: SeekAndFind
Another day another Covid fear porn story. My wife's panic stricken sister called her up the other day sobbing in despair over the phone because she was so afraid of all the new strains of Covid now being “discovered”. My wife explained to her that Covid "cases" have been dropping off dramatically in recent weeks. But her sister wanted to hear none of that.

People get addicted to doom and gloom. There has been no finer example in my lifetime than this never ending “pandemic”. Every morning people wake up wondering/ hoping/ dreading/ take your pick that they will or will not get the virus. We have a virus that around 90% of people need a test to realize they either have it or had it. We live in the part of Washington that was the first "hot spot" in the country. We have numerous friends and relatives who have now had tests that confirmed that they had it and multiple times more who suspect that they had it. Yet the only two people we know who had serious cases of pneumonia tested negative for Covid multiple times. One of them died and was counted as a "presumptive" covid case despite the negative tests. That is the way the numbers are tabulated these days.

It would seem from this breathless article that Mexico is starting to figure out how to use the same accounting tricks that authorities here have so successfully employed. This is not what I am hearing from friends and relatives who travel to Mexico frequently. I have two cousins and their spouses currently residing in their condos in Mexico.

The reason they chose to go down there was to get away from all of the nonsense that we still have going on up here. And they are having the time of their lives. And guess what? Despite the never ending hype on this from the doom and gloomers, there are no restrictions where they are at and life appears by all measures to be going on in a completely normal way.

This article is nothing but pure unadulterated BS. What is becoming of American Thinker?

14 posted on 02/08/2021 7:48:08 AM PST by fireman15
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To: EBH

Biden’s decision to open our borders and halt construction of the border wall is not incompetence. Incompetence suggests the person is not equipped to perform the task assigned. Biden and his minions know exactly what they are doing on immigration and the impact it will have on our country and way of life. They are executing the plan with speed and efficiency.


15 posted on 02/08/2021 7:50:26 AM PST by JGPhila
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To: null and void

Thanks for posting, it’s a keeper.


16 posted on 02/08/2021 7:56:14 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, with the Schools shut down all those Trump hating Suburban Soccer Mom’s won’t have to worry about their Kid sitting next an Illegal Invader’s Kid who might have Leprosy, Polio or any other shithole Country communicable disease.


17 posted on 02/08/2021 8:00:56 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: SeekAndFind

And Joe Birdbrain is telling them to “Cmon in”. We’ll take care of you and screw our legal citizens that need help.


18 posted on 02/08/2021 8:02:29 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: fireman15

Thank you for that report ...I knew this must be full of bull...makes me want to go to Mexico


19 posted on 02/08/2021 8:02:44 AM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: bcr100

Mexico has HQC and Ivermectin. As does Central America.


20 posted on 02/08/2021 8:14:06 AM PST by zek157
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