Zacatecas, Mexico on the biggest tourism weekend of the year

[Adelante]

There have been no H1N1 cases, so far, in Zacatecas, but the economic effect is disastrous.

[mshasta]

1. what is going on ??

timeshares?? no trips to your luxurious vacation house and having Mexicans to clean up your mess?

[Adelante]

2. I'm not sure what you're saying? It sounds pretty rude, though

I doubt timeshares exist here. Zacatecas has mainly domestic tourism, in any case. This time of the year there are ordinarily tens of millions of Mexicans traveling around to national fairs and fiestas and hometown festivities. Not this year, because of the quarantines.

[damntexdem]

7. Ooh, Zacatecas without tourists! That IS devastating.

Already, half of the Zacatecans in the world have emigrated; now it will be an even-higher percentage.

[pansypoo53219]

3. good practice for when a real pandemic hits.

i bet this is much like it was in 1918.

we had a SOCILIST MAYOR in 1918 and he immediately closed down wherever people who gather. even churchs. THO, you could go into a bar for a drink, just had to stand, drink and leave. NO SITTING! can't close bars in milwaukee. 500 died, but we had the lowest death rate for a city our size. mexico is doing it right, but i don't think this is the flu we needed to worry about.

[Adelante]

4. If this was the beginning of the outbreak - this week, it might have been

one we have to worry about. I hate to think of how much more widespread it would have been in Mexico with so many people in transit around the country. The timing allowed the govt to slow it down with people staying in place. I think it made a big difference.

Thanks for the interesting story about Milwaukee.

[supernova]

5. That's their main drag I presume?

Wow, emptier than Hatteras during a hurricane. There's usually some nut out there with a surfboard at least.

[Adelante]

6. Zacatecas has a lively street life just about all the time

Zacatecans routinely are walking about, it's a very contained city, so it would have been semi-crowded with locals, but with the added thousands of tourists on a big holiday weekend as this would have been, the streets would be really packed. It's a sad sight.

[damntexdem]

8. Day and night -- especially night.

With musical bands leading groups of tourists, dancing through the narrow streets, up and down steep hills. And in the daytime, the streets are packed, without the bands, and no room to dance.

[Adelante]

9. Even Al Gore was supposed to be in Zacatecas

Yesterday and today for a climate change conference and that was canceled. :(