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MEXICOWANDERER
Aug 25, 2018Explorer
You are what your parents were as far as genetic defects are concerned.
Travel in Mexico is a risk. Covered wagon emigration in the 1800's was a thousand times the risk but they did it.
Some alarmists really need to buy a place next to Johns Hopkins university and construct a fire station pole outside their window that dumps directly into the ER room.
It's all percentages. If a KenMex decides to play "Kiss Me And Flee" then no amount of money will work wonders. Less than five percent of Mexican drivers have liability insurance. Have medical problems halfway between Marfa and Alpine Texas and kiss your butt goodbye. Same for the Baja transmeninsular highway. Around Cataviña an ambulance trip to the IMSS CLINIC in Vicente Guerrero is a (not a typo) NINE hours after someone drives to a telephone.
Such is life. It is the deniers who have problems in Mexico but the BS that (too) many people feel is necessary so soothe other people's concerns makes things much worse. Research. Come up with realistic answers, and deal with things the way they are. Not as they "should be".
For instance, with Alaska Airlines, they carry a notation on their flight records of me. "May need assistance in boarding" I use a Canadian crutch. When I was having an AFIB event in 2005 they had to help me climb the tall tall boarding stairwell. Had they known about they AFIB I would have watched the plane take off from the passenger lounge.
Travel in Mexico is a risk. Covered wagon emigration in the 1800's was a thousand times the risk but they did it.
Some alarmists really need to buy a place next to Johns Hopkins university and construct a fire station pole outside their window that dumps directly into the ER room.
It's all percentages. If a KenMex decides to play "Kiss Me And Flee" then no amount of money will work wonders. Less than five percent of Mexican drivers have liability insurance. Have medical problems halfway between Marfa and Alpine Texas and kiss your butt goodbye. Same for the Baja transmeninsular highway. Around Cataviña an ambulance trip to the IMSS CLINIC in Vicente Guerrero is a (not a typo) NINE hours after someone drives to a telephone.
Such is life. It is the deniers who have problems in Mexico but the BS that (too) many people feel is necessary so soothe other people's concerns makes things much worse. Research. Come up with realistic answers, and deal with things the way they are. Not as they "should be".
For instance, with Alaska Airlines, they carry a notation on their flight records of me. "May need assistance in boarding" I use a Canadian crutch. When I was having an AFIB event in 2005 they had to help me climb the tall tall boarding stairwell. Had they known about they AFIB I would have watched the plane take off from the passenger lounge.
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