Nicaragua – The Country That Didn’t Swallow the Covid Blue Pill

I live in Nicaragua along the border of CR (hence the CR flag).

The virus has devastated tourism, but we have had several dismal years of tourism since the violence in 2018, so at this point we are kind of used to it.

I live in a rural community with less than 10 foreign residents/winter visitors. Our little pueblo had protocols. Even the chainsaw repairman in the jungle had a bucket of water, soap and alcohol for his customers to use before entering the property. We took it seriously, but without laws and lockdowns.

Costa Rica shut down their beaches (with police checkpoints to prevent access) and banned foreigners from driving until Aug 1. Nicaragua is the best place to be in a lockdown (especially for me as I have 263 acres of mountains, jungle, streams and waterfalls, and a lakeside beach with a view of an island made of two volcanoes).

"No curfews, no lockdowns, no “stay at home”, no psychosis, no covid-calamities. There has been much talk about the Swedish corona strategy but the strategy of Nicaragua has been by far more successful, with many fewer deaths, no “economic rescue” for big banks and only limited damage to small and medium sized businesses.

In the midst of the worldwide economic debacle caused by covid hysteria, food self-sufficient, small business based, impoverished Nicaragua, has seen its exports grow over 10% the past 8 months because it did not shut down its economy.

Precisely because it sustained its economy, it has not had to take on huge loans in order to face the emergency.

Thus, its foreign debt levels remain within a readily manageable range, below 50% of GDP. (On the other hand, the economies of neighboring countries such as Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, are hurting badly with debt levels soaring)."

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