Landed today via UA at 8:50 at the gate at 9:00 filled out Health form on plane. Walked off the jetway 2 guys in scrubs taking forms 1 looks at mine, said to pass, I then smiled for the gal with the heat sensor viedo machine, pass immigration, get bag ( priorty tag ) tell guy going to global exchange its a rip off 3.20 vs 3.72 then went myself to bank of nation right outside bag check to get pesos, buy manuel tienda leon ticket.. board 9:30 bus. This was record time.. all went well..
40 minutes from tarmac to bus..

So there're people actually doing this? More than once I was tempted to tell someone going to Global xchange to back off, but I was afraid they might take it the wrong way, like I'm a tout or something.
But I think I'll do it next time.

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Yes... the checks will still be there.

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I do this all the time.

I arrived yesterday morning and would like to provide an update to the health screening. They are now passing out surgical masks and requiring all passengers to wear them through the screening area. Plan on this procedure adding 30 minutes to your transit time.

Thanks for this update... ^

Same on UA this morning. But it only added 30 seconds to the time for the heat photos.

UA passed out makes to all pax, and made all pax put on the mask BEFORE they got off the pane.

Have a photo off all in Biz Class with these idiotic little blue masks on! Have a photo too of the FAs wearing them which is pretty funny!

60 seconds later when you get to customs (none of who were wearing masks ... duuurrrrhhhhhhh) the guy tells us to take the masks off so he could see our faces matched those on passports.

Bureaucratic insanity gone MAD.

Swine flu is like any flu .. if you get it, you are a bit woozy for 2 days like the last 20 flus you have ever had.

They'd be far smarter doing a HIV screening of pax where folks can and do die for sure, and not this little bug. @:-)

Glen.... chill out doode... remember you are on vacation, not haggling with some loonie stamp collector, ok..??? BTW, I will take this porky flu any day... just steer me away from an HIV pandemic...

I have never seen a nation so obseesed with a flu .. which millions of folks get each year under some name or other.

At check-in at El Calafante for gawdsakes all the agents had the thick plastic hard masks.

Get to Sheraton Liberatador tonight, and there is a note from Operations Manager in room, with a warning AND a free mask to use.

You folks are treating this tiny nuisance like it is the Bubonic Plague!

I thought the idea was to better be safe than sorry.... or is that not a 1st world concept....?

Great pics btw... ^

Well, I had the same deal on arrival June 12 - forms, masks, thermal imaging, the works. And WHO has declared "pandemic."

So, is it paranoia, or infectious Kirchnerismo at its worst? I don't think so, and experienced much more thorough "works" last month in China (they'd like to keep this flu from spreading in 1.3 billion people, many in very densely populated cities, or in remote areas underserved by health care.

A little history may be in order: this is an influenza A H1N1 variant. Another variety of H1N1 reared its head in the world in Spring of 1918 (or possibly earlier, but it was not clearly documented)- it had a somewhat distinct characteristic of hitting healthy young people with presumably intact immune systems pretty hard, though initially it appeared mild and went away rapidly as summer invaded the northern hemisphere.

It returned in winter, and in about 18 months felled perhaps 40 - 100 million people before it faded away. It was called, probably incorrectly given we did not have the global communications and public health monitoring we have to day, the "Spanish" flu.

Flu viruses mutate quite rapidly, and H5N1 flus got worse each time they appeared. If H1Ni "Spanish" "swine" flu caused the worst pandemic in recorded history, I can't say I blame the medics and health authorities for being slightly worried. And it is definitely getting chilly (winter is coming) in Bs As.

Malbec presumably has high levels of resveratrol, so perhaps it will help...

I arrived in UA on the 12th June to the same thing, though luckily the screening wasn�t as intense when returning back from an overnight in Colonia. Note the same form has to be completed even when returning from Colonia for a night stay.

Sadly I read in the paper today (Herald) another Argentine has been claimed by this virus.

While cause for some inconvenience... I think that with all things related to this flu its better to be safe than sorry.

More folks die a year from Kangaroo bites than this.

A total nonsense.

EVERY year there is flu and EVERY year a few folks die from it.

Get over it.

Typical Latin panic for no good reason.

In their defense, they just had a dengue fever outbreak that some thought the government didn't react strongly/quickly enough over. I bet you that many skittish travelers who just got off their de lujo cruises were relieved to see a mask in their room.

And yes, I will probably be P.O.d if next month, when I'm there, I have to go through "the special terminal" and disembark with my mask, when the clerk who last year didn't even want to let me declare imports I needed to and wanted to declare, will be scanning me for fever.

Besides, if "Typical Latin panic" didn't exist, the futbol games would be very boring.