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Tuesday 12th of January 2021
Also, why do you continue to allow some posters to continue to post extreme anti-COVID statements and perpetuate anti-science hoax propaganda in the comments? Disappointed to continue to see the same comments in each post. You’re running a travel blog with a large platform and there is a sense of ethics and responsibility that comes with this. We all need to be responsible travelers during these times with hospitals and infrastructure that aren’t as strong as Canada & US. Not censoring some of these comments here really sends the wrong message to casual viewers on this page.
Kashlee Kucheran
Tuesday 12th of January 2021
We get hundreds of comments a day, left by some of our millions of readers a month. We ultimately try our very best to moderate any polarizing, political, or extreme comments as we truly don't want them either. We ourselves are pro-mask, pro-vaccine, and very pro-science, but we try and keep the website and its content as neutral as we can. Do some slip through the moderator's cracks? yes of course they do. Our #1 priority is to be researching and publishing useful and helpful articles, and that means we can't spend as much time in the comment section. As much as we really dislike any form of extremism, we also don't want to censor people's free speech (to a limit of course) If a mod goes through some comments and deem them as 'middle ground' or someone sharing their point of view in a reasonable sense, they will leave it up. Trust me, you don't even want to see the list of the hundreds of comments that don't make it through on a daily basis... they are something to behold!
David
Tuesday 12th of January 2021
Lots of articles leaking Americans are going to need a COVID test to return back to the states if they’re abroad. Any insight here? TPG & WSJ have sourced it supposedly beginning late January.
Kashlee Kucheran
Tuesday 12th of January 2021
Yes we have heard of the rumors as well, but until the decree is made, it's hard to speculate. Press is uncertain if it will include citizens or not, if a quarantine will be available in lew of people that can't get a test in time, and what date it will start. But yes, it will probably be happening very soon
blaquehart b
Thursday 7th of January 2021
Thank God I found this article.I'm not interested in finding the "safest" place to visit during this nonsense. What happen to people's sense of adventure? America is no longer the home of the free and certainly not the brave. I need a vacation to get away from these annoying and pitiful hypochondriacs. There is more to life than dreading death. I've been itching to get back to CR and now Mexico is also the list.
I need to do some serious research to see how the activity/tour business is doing in Costa Rica. Been wanting to get out to Acapulco as well. Thanks for this article!
Dean
Tuesday 5th of January 2021
Kind of irresponsible post at this point, eh?
Kashlee Kucheran
Tuesday 5th of January 2021
I don't think so at all. American citizens are still legally allowed to travel, and those 3 countries are actively campaigning for visitors. We are in Mexico right now and on the way here we wore masks the entire time, were religious about sanitation and social distancing, and were extremely cautious. Daily life inside of Mexico is the same... we follow all health protocols to a T. Many Americans returning back home (depending on state) will likely have to do some sort of PCR test on arrival, test to release program, or quarantine to keep their communities safe of any possible transmission.
Stephen White
Tuesday 5th of January 2021
I'm happy to see that Costa Rica dropped its PCR test requirement. We've been to Mexico (August/September) and plan to visit the DR soon. It's wonderful to see some countries welcoming travelers instead of forbidding them to enter. I have a pretty good hunch that these 3 countries will recover economically much faster than the countries that are in lock down.