NYT Reviews Dominican Safety Issues

[Lucky]

In today's New York Times, a lengthy look at the deaths in Santo Domingo:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/us/dominican-republic-tourist-deaths.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

[paborn]

Good article but until proven otherwise I see no increase in the number of deaths. Why the decision has been made for the press to harp on this is beyond me.  I'm old and my lifestyle might be the key to my feelings of safety. I have a cocktail or two an evening and wine with dinner. I don't go to party myself to near oblivion.

[SolaceSoul]

2 hours ago, paborn said:

Good article but until proven otherwise I see no increase in the number of deaths. Why the decision has been made for the press to harp on this is beyond me.  I'm old and my lifestyle might be the key to my feelings of safety. I have a cocktail or two an evening and wine with dinner. I don't go to party myself to near oblivion.

One thing that many of these articles do not discuss is that all of these Americans stayed at Dominican resorts — which are absolutely nothing like real life in the Dominican Republic. It is quite possible to party yourself to death, which I do suspect happened in some of these well-publicized cases. 

[paborn]

2 hours ago, SolaceSoul said:

One thing that many of these articles do not discuss is that all of these Americans stayed at Dominican resorts — which are absolutely nothing like real life in the Dominican Republic. It is quite possible to party yourself to death, which I do suspect happened in some of these well-publicized cases. 

I have never been to a resort set up to be as far from Dominicans as one can get. I stay in the Colonial zone,  eat in Dominican restaurants and buy my rum at the supermarket in the Conde. I avoid most Americans on general principals.