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I know several private schools in Santiago that have given small discounts like 5-10% on the monthly cost. Way too little in my opinion. These schools have been raking cash in for years and will continue to do so. They should easily be able to provide real discounts like 50% or more. Yes, that might...

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Sensible Sweden https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120805778/coronavirus-to-swedes-its-the-rest-of-the-world-engaging-in-a-reckless-experiment Time will indeed tell. Currently, it seems like Stockholm is reaching peak capacity in their hospitals. Comparing with Denmark and Norway s...

Banmedica just sent me an email saying that COVID-19 test will be provided free of charge at my preferred clinic. For anyone that wants one? Say you had no symptoms and no reason to think you might have it... don't know, but I assume your doctor has to indicate you actually need a COVID-19 test.

Banmedica just sent me an email saying that COVID-19 test will be provided free of charge at my preferred clinic.

7 comunas in Santiago to be locked down tomorrow at 22.00

I seen an interesting opinion piece in the paper, about development and the virus. got me thinking. essentially, this is the time we find out which countries really are developed, and which ones are just pretending. my friend in peru is saying the numbers are not remotely accurate, because they are...

Anybody that can explain what is happening on IPSA? Crazy movements today

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Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:37 am

342 cases, 103 new. but they screwed with reporting time, so is that 36 hours? 12 hours?

half the frigen news channels were talking about other crap and not even covering the press briefing.

I understood it as new cases in the 24 hour period from Tuesday 21.00 to Wed 21.00.

I am seeing a lot of random reports of confirmed cases around the country in the last 24 hours or so. I get the impression the next official count later today will be a big jump. https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-de-los-lagos/2020/03/17/seremi-de-salud-de-los-lagos-confirma-primer...

The other question here is now that tourists have been excluded, as well as most business travellers, how full will the flights be? Will the airlines cancel them? They will be making a loss running flights at 10%-20% full. They might lose less money by cancelling the flights and providing a refund,...

I think that is highly optimistic and way too rational in this situation. What will happen when companies start to fire people and report losses or bankruptcy?