58-hour full curfew imposed from tonight
(CNS): After receiving requests for more than 20,000 people in the private sector to be exempt from a ‘stay in place’ order, the premier has followed through on his threat to impose a full curfew. From 7pm on Wednesday night until 5am Saturday, Cayman will go on a full round-the-clock curfew for everyone except the most essential people. By that time the government hopes to have a manageable ‘shelter in place’ directive worked out.
Speaking at the regular daily press briefing on Wednesday, following news that two more people have tested positive for COVID-19, including one that was a false negative, Premier Alden McLaughlin said that during this limited period of considerable risk, the goal was to try to stop any community spread of this dangerous novel coronavirus.
During this two and a half day full lockdown all businesses will be forced under the law to close, including supermarkets, and only a very limited number of people with jobs in specific categories will be allowed out. Apart from those people who have requested and received exemption, the curfew requires every single person to remain in their homes for 58 hours, starting this evening from 7:00pm (Wednesday 25 March) when everything must shut down, until 5:00am on Saturday, 28 March.
McLaughlin said a ‘shelter in place’ order that people were just going to breach would be almost impossible for the police to manage and would have been futile. A curfew, however, will allow only a very specific group of people out and they will be required to have passes.
The premier explained that government had decided to take this drastic measure to try to prevent any community transmission of the disease, given that it can no longer be introduced from outside, and give Cayman a chance of getting through this with a relatively low number of COVID-19 cases.
McLaughlin said that if people stay home through the next ten days, we still have a chance of controlling the spread and will then have a better idea of where we stand, especially as we do not have enough tests to ever get an accurate picture of the transmission rate. The only way to manage the pandemic, he said, was to stop people mixing during this heightened time of risk.
Given the lack of cooperation from the private sector over closing businesses under a ‘stay at home’ general order, the premier said he had no choice but to force a curfew in the interim.
He said the Cabinet and the opposition will be working on the ‘shelter in place’ order over the next few days. This will be imposed on Saturday, when supermarkets will re-open and people will be allowed to leave their homes, still under restricted conditions but not as limited as the curfew.
The list of job categories that qualify people to apply for exemption during the imminent curfew is in the CNS Library.
Anyone who believes they fall into these categories can contact curfewtime@gov.ky to get a pass that will allow them to be outside during the 58-hour curfew.
See the full press briefing below:
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Someone tell Alden that, ‘You don’t set the timeline, the virus does’.
Dr Fauci.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that. Not Dr. Fauci
so we all locked down because is throwing a temper tantrum?
Yes.
Well well 1.32, seems we have a Darwin award winner, right here in Cayman.
No. We’re all locked up because of selfish dickheads trying to force people to work through a curfew, and more selfish dickheads who think they are invincible and don’t stop to think they could have or be carrying the virus around the community.
The busy-body dog gestapo needs to stop. Every nasty neighbour is glued to their window glass hoping to snap their nemesis doing something reportable. That’s not how we get through this.
No fan of this government at all but to be fair the Premier is stuck between a rock and a hard place… preventable deaths of a few vs the economy. No easy choices. Thw best thing we can all do is get behind them and pull together.
Construction sites should be closed, curfew applies.
Just saw a guy run down my street… looks like some still dgaf. Arseholes.
i live near governors harbour and i can hear gravel trucks at the construction site, so they aren’t effected?
Alden “there is no need to panic buy” …. and then you impose a 58 hour absolute curfew!!!
Some countries have implemented punishments for reposting panic causing information.
No one can say today that what is published is true. Not even numbers because they’re most certainly taken out of contest, not even experts opinions, because there’s none when it comes to COVID19, everyone is learning as situation develops. And certainly not WHO, who is just reporting statistics and fear mongering.
People’s minds have reached a saturation point. It can’t take one more opinion, one more “expert”, one more advise. You can’t blame them. Human minds need a vacation from information of any kind. Unless it is humorous and causes laughter.
Premier is unknowingly causing more stress and panic than necessary. Who is his PR assistant?
He could have reassured people that there is enough food in supermarkets and measures are being taken to prevent Saturday’s mayhem.
He could have said who to contact if one for any reason is completely out of food and needs help.
He could have reassured that a pharmacy would remain open for emergency cases.
He could have reassured there are crisis phones lines to assist those who are depressed, claustrophobic, suicidal, have family crisis etc.
There’s appears to be a couple of people who comment on CNS articles who are very angry and hateful spitting out vitriol. What is the purpose of publishing such comments?
People are confused and frightened with too much information. No one knows anything now, no one is genius or dumb. What is the point of publishing insulting comments? I never understood that, especially now.
@ Anonymous 26/03/2020 at 8:54 – he has provided that info, time & time again. The url to the info site is on a placard directly in front of the panel. btw instead of b#tching about it why haven’t you provided the links to the helplines and info sites?! Have YOU checked your neighbours are ok and have this info? FB, WhatsApp, texts from FLOW, neighbours, family, and the Compass all have this info too.
https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/03/14/live-blog-coronavirus/
https://go.shr.lc/3dyCGEn
https://www.hsa.ky/public-health/coronavirus/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cayman+islands+government+tv+live+stream
https://www.liveonlineradio.net/cayman-island/radio-cayman.htm
Can you provide links to these assurances:
Ensuring panic is not being spread.
Ensuring hate speech is not present in social media.
Ensuring enough food in supermarkets
Ensuring no stampede would take place at supermarkets once they reopen
Ensuring acutely and chronically ill, disabled and elderly won’t have to stay in lines under hot sun to buy groceries
Ensuring food supplies will continue coming from overseas should regular suppliers cancel contracts.
Ensuring assistance is available for mental crisis, child and family abuse cases
Working on obtaining tests, personal protection equipment for medical staff.
Ensuring exposed medical personnel is isolated from their families.
Ensuring medical waste is properly disposed of.
Ensuring essential functions workers are properly protected.
Ensuring replacement is available for emergency and essential functions workers should they become exposed and would require a quarantine,
Ensuring public places are in a proper sanitary state.
Many people would probably want to leave the island once air travel resumes. Making sure emergency and essential functions workers don’t plan on doing so. If they had enough and would want to leave, may be consider paying them double rates so they stay.
Is anyone else aware of this ongoing work?
https://www.pirbright.ac.uk/news/2020/01/pirbright%E2%80%99s-livestock-coronavirus-research-%E2%80%93-your-questions-answered
Excellent job Premier !
Vote yes, build our damn port!
2 thumbs down from me.
2 thumbs & 2 big toes all down from me!
nothing is going to built anytime soon.
Hopefully somewhere in the world a place to haul & scrap / re-cycle cruise ships.
alden putting the blame on private sector is the biggest lie ever…..and folks are swallowing it.
cig let a banned italina cruise ship in and then tried to cover it up….
cig then let all the residents(rich kids) fly back without any testing from heavily infected areas…
but yes… blame private business that has zero evidence of causing spread of the virus…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
…and arbitrarily punish healthy dogs that need a walk to get their poo out.
@ Anonymous says 26/03/2020 at 12:58 am – person having a heart attack, leave them to die?!;
not all were rich kids, many are poor Caymanians on scholarship, most are in isolation at home and hotels;
he didn’t blame private business, he’s trying to stop ALL people and businesses from spreading, and realised the fastest way for people to get the msg was to lock the place down, once everybody and their neighbour decided that THEY were essential and deserved the exemption.
Stop being an idiot.
Here’s an idea: if you have neighbours who got caught out without food, share your flippin’ food. Lay it in their yard so and don’t break curfew. We are our brothers’ keepers. We are supposed to share Christian values. Let’s help our neighbours in need instead of ridiculing them!
It’s every man for himself in Alden’s Hunger Games.
May the odds be forever in your favour!
Lawless behaviour will most certainly rear its ugly head. Is this the goal? It will result in even tougher restrictions and maybe boots on the ground courtesy of our “airbridge”.
Mexico and Egypt are both experiencing turmoil.
Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Mexico an Egypt have been experiencing turmoil for years.
Your idiot up north,. He is the one who will get turmoil.
Rationing on Admonition. Really?
Gun shops can open as they are essential?
What’s wrong with you?
Admonition?
I refuse to ration my admonition: You’re an idiot.
Potty train the animal!
It lives with you so be nice and let it use your toilet.
There’s that ego that had taken a few weeks off. Can’t say we missed it.
There’s an awful lot of protruding stomachs in Govt, but I suppose 14 days locked in their home will make no difference as they never exercise anyway. However I suspect they will start feeling mighty twitchy after 4 or 5 days in jail.
Except they are exempt from the lock down – read the list.
It is not a lock down can still get my take away delivered
Mr. Premier I applaud you on your decision to implement a 24/7 curfew. Hats off to you. Your decision probably saved a lot of lives. To those that still are taking this virus for a joke, soon or later when you or a loved one is stricken with this virus, just maybe then you will understand the brevity of the situation.
Brevity ?
No doctor, no country, no one, absolutely no one has a cheat sheet on how you deal with this! Taking charge, like Alden did, is a brave and courageous move, Bravo! We are no longer the “Islands Time Forgot”, we’re in the thick of it, now is the time for us to unite, obey, and pray! 💗
It isn’t leadership, it is the only option, not enough test kits, ventilators or hospitals to deal with this.
why not manufacture some or donate
Let me crank up the West Bay factory… oh, wait a minute….
There is nothing to deal with.
Quick. You’re missing Conspiracies & Things on Fox News!
We need Johann, Mario and Alric to run this show!
True. And, this 24/7 is really about getting some Caymanians to get the gravity of this situation through their thick skulls. Alden can’t be that honest, so he has blamed business owners (who I sure are whining too). Just today, less than two hours before the 24/7 curfew started I went for a walk and crossed a big Caymanian gathering. Four big SUVs, four our five kids running around, mixed families – and judging by the looks, friends as well as family member – all having a grand old time and totally oblivious to what is going one. If just one of those people had the misfortune of picking up the virus, then four large families could find themselves in the hospital soon. Alden did the only smart thing at this point. There will probably be more cases arising, just like today, but if we have a lockdown, we can perhaps keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed and for people to die needlessly. Three days of 24/7 isn’t going to fix this, but it will hopefully at least get people’s attention enough to change their behavior big time. If we can bear this out for a while, we might be able to resume a somewhat normal life – in the context of a global pandemic – just as Alden said. If not – we are in for a much rougher ride.
Bayers!
You are correct and that’s why he made that decision. So, you can’t give him credit for doing the right thing? This isn’t about politics, this is about human life!
Ask the priests in Italy.
The praying stuff ain’t cutting it.
Pray, whether you believe or not, is a positive thing, it gives people hope. It doesn’t hurt anyone, it doesn’t cost anything, and blood Caymanians are a faith based society, it’s our culture. To mock it is unfair, rude and inconsiderate, try to be kind and accepting during this nightmare. Peace 💗
Blood caymanians? Meaning what exactly? Caymanians aren’t indigenous.
This is not original thinking from Alden, Caymans representatives are incapable of such. He is panicking after failing to impose his authority on Caymanian businesses who thought that they were essential and ignored his pathetic pleas.
We need a strategy that fits Cayman, not NY, we need thinkers, not local fools projected into power by the churches, the corrupt and the uneducated. Most of all, we need real leadership, but from what I see around this island, we will wait in vain.
You sound like one of those “local fools” you mentioned! What, are you an uppity better than the natives
ex-pat or paper Caymanian – shame on you, shame on you! I’m sorry I said that (it felt good) because I reduced myself to a low level – now is the time to put aside prejudices and unite – we are all in the same boat!
I see that a lot of government office staff are exempt. I assume that they are more able to remain free of the virus compared to the general public and thus do not have to work from home like everyone else.
don’t ask awkward questions…
Are you dumb
5.42pm Perhaps you should watch or listen to the press briefing where the reasoning. was explained
Speaking as CIG staff whose office is on the new exempted curfew list who is capable of working from home (and who has been doing so from last week), the protocol is that we are to work from home, IF SOME EMERGENCY OCCURS and we must go to GAB our names will be given to RCIPS and our access badges activated so we can enter the GAB … otherwise stay home … CURFEW for all
Agreed, and the extra cool part is that they get exempted so they can go shopping, but still don’t do any work.
I think if some of the people posting these comments were in New York or Madrid or Rome or London right now they might be a bit more tolerant and understanding and supportive of what our officials are trying to do.
you really think two days unser lockdown wlll prevent the spread. damage is done my friend. a little to late
Says who? Certainly not the WHO, which I trust to give me medical opinions much more than some anonymous jackass.
You have no idea.
If you dont have enough money or food in your house for 2 1/2 days, then panic and go to supermarket/atm….if you do, just go f*cken home and chill….we all have the best ideas on here and social media, but let’s be honest, the government had to lead and these are their decisions and we shoudl abide by them…they can take the 2 1/2 days to sort a proper lock down and let us know Saturday……if your dog sh*ts in the house, clean it up…you’ll be ok
Pet owners are allowed to walk dogs, so any interior fouling would be on them.
No they are not. This is not the previous set up where you could walk dogs and exercise – this is not stepping outside your yard unless you have one of the special passes for emergency services and MLAs. 58 hours inside the house. Saturday he may reintroduce dog walking, jogging and shopping runs. Till then nada.
So walk the dog in the yard. You worried about the dog going in your yard? Do people not clean up after their pets regardless?
Walking my dog on my property is nobody else’s problem but mine. So many busy bodies wishing for martial law quarantine that is different from a shelter-in-place.
You will be OK if you were one of those who bought up everything so no one else could have it. Panic buyers win. Everyone else can starve. Great plan to starve out the law abiding people on island.
It’s the Cayman Christian way!
Two dogs crapping and peeing in the house for 58 hours? Are you insane? I am taking my dogs out to do their business!
Just duck down low or crawl while walking the doggy. You could be arrested or face a year in jail – then who would walk the doggy.
Looking at the size of most people on this island, I think they can deal without stuffing food into their mouths for a couple of days…..
A very mean comment but as an overweight woman I know I can fast for a bit. Fast and pray for commonsense and selflessness for others. Fast for the continued firm leadership of the Premier.
Of course you can go without chocolate, cakes and snacks for a couple of days, we’ll done you – avoid diabetes and heart attack.
As for the praying bit, forget that nonsense. Ask all the priests in Italy if the holy one has helped one bit!
But will your oversized sense of self-worth see any reduction because of this? Probably not. Sad!
I don’t know what island you’re on but Cayman doesn’t have an excessive amount of fat people. If anything some of these kids need to eat
It should be a full 14 day shutdown and hopefully they will extend it.
We need to swallow the better pillow now. If we can get past the incubation period with no significant community spread then maybe just maybe we can start to loosen up a bit.
Unless you’re planning to starve it world wide, all you’re doing is kicking the can down the road and delaying the inevitable at devastating costs.
How successful have we been at killing off influenza?
Negative Nelly alert! (Don’t worry – he isn’t basing any of this on facts).
The better question is how successful has the world been in beating the other Coronaviruses? The answer: very successful. Stop your idiotic, right wing fear mongering that always hints that the best thing to do is let millions die to protect the economy. It is not they way to go and thankfully our government understands that. When, in two months the the US has the most deaths of any industrialized country because of the abominable response by the current administration and your precious economy is in ruins anyway, you should send thanks to this government for having the sense to put lives ahead of the shareholders. It will be tough times, but through a caring community, we can make sure no one starves to death
The first coronavirsu was identified on Jan 7th.
The WHO declared a global health emergency on Jan 30, where were they?
On Jan 31 the U.S. stopped all travel incoming from China or those that had traveled to China in the previous 2 weeks.
On March 11th, the WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandamic.
On March 11th the U.S. resticted travel from 26 European countries.
Care to give a comparison to our response here or for that matter a comparison to responses from Europe or Asia?
Your hatred for Trump doesn’t help anyone, maybe it makes you feel better.
Your right-wing fear mongering of how the economic ramifications are worse than the disease not only doesn’t help anyone, it put the lives of gullible people at risk. After the US experiences the worst death toll from coronavirus of any industrialised country because of inept leadership, come talk to us. The economy will be in shambles in any case, but we here in the Cayman Island might not have to deal with the same kind of mortality rate because of the steps being taken by our government right now.
If even one person in Cayman dies of Covid-19 it will be 600% higher rate than the current U.S. numbers. US infection rate is rising because they are finally doing mass testing. The US death rate is far below most European countries.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
When you’ve given up on your rainbows and unicorns mentality regarding the importance of the economy maybe educate yourself.
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/trade-and-poverty/effects-of-poverty
But by all means in the interim, continue to vilify.
So you want to play with numbers? Here are some from your own sources: Of the five countries that have had the worst COVID-19 exposure (China, Spain, Iran, Italy and the US) in terms of number of cases, the US has the most new cases, the most active cases and least number of recoveries. The death toll is just now starting to rise Come back to me in two weeks and we’ll see where the US is then. And I fully know the importance of the economy and realise it is tanked no matter what happens. But I also have the human decency to understand that if we move to “sacrifice” the working class like cannon fodder so well-to-do elites like you can continue having your fancy cocktail parties, then we’ve really lost our humanity. Human beings have been able to survive in poverty before and we will survive this. Sure, it will come with a lot of pain, but at least it won’t come with the stain that we basically intentionally let millions of people die to support the lifestyles of the rich and famous. There are no rainbows and no unicorns, but there is human decency. We do what we can do to save lives and for a long as you post your right wing drivel about how the economy matters more than lives, I will be here to counter you BS.
Are you still believing Chinese and iranian numbers? More fool you.
The problem is you don’t believe that economic conditions can and do cause death in the millions every year. You are a poverty denier. I cannot help you if you want you stubbornly choose to live in ignorance but I don’t have to participate in your ingnorance.
“swallow the better pillow”? WTF Did you mean swallow the bitter pill?
He said what he said
Man, you can not make this stuff up!
5.16pm See how you feel after 58 hours locked up in your house, then think about another 278 hours on top of that.
Yeah, I think you may be mixing your metaphors here – swallowing a bitter pill is one thing; whereas pillow biting is a whole different game altogether…….
Yeah and In Cayman you cant go around recommending pillow biting, or Anthony Eden will pay you a visit – remember he is not in lock down. .
If the Financial sector and law firms had simply cooperated and not tried to have all their employees considered exempt we wouldn’t be under 24/7 curfew. This curfew is 100% on them.
wherr i understand employees are suffering how on earth as s tour operator no business at all due to xocid 19 pay severenxe. i am sure i am not the obly one the govt is out of their minds and will bankeupt compabies. release theie pensions its their money and put a atop to have to pay come on look whata happening common sense has to prevail
? How are you able to work ?
What has being able to work got to do with it? His point is he cannot afford to pay severance as he has no income coming in. Of course that doesn’t affect his legal obligation to pay it, but that’s a different story.
nonsense…and you have no evidence to prove that.
Did you obtain a list of the claimants for exemption, if so someone is illegally leaking information. If not, you are guessing, do you really think no Caymanian employers applied?.The curfew is on Covid-19 and your Premier, not the financial industry which keeps Cayman afloat.
@9:02 – I’m sorry, where did I mention anything about ex-pats or Caymanians in my post? Or are you saying that Caymanians don’t work in Law firms nor the financial industry. If you had actually listened, the Premier called out the financial sector for this.
If that was true, Alden should name them. Otherwise, it’s just fake news.
Of course he could have just said no to the requests instead. Or told us yesterday it would shut down tonight so we had 24 hrs to get supplies in.
Funny how when I looked around and saw all the many people out and about it wasn’t financial and law firm people I saw. It was mostly the entitled ones trying to buy out the stores. But at least he didn’t Blame it directly on Expats.
Can we please discuss facts on this forum?
https://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/emerging-diseases/news/online/%7B85a3f9c0-ed0a-4be8-9ca2-8854b2be7d13%7D/fauci-no-doubt-trump-will-face-surprise-infectious-disease-outbreak
Just like Trump said: it’s all Obama’s fault. And the Chinese. And the jerk New York governor. And Nancy Pelosi’s fault. And the media. And that turncoat Mitt Romney. And That overrate Meryl Streep. And the Mexicans. And the Muslims. And all those unAmerican commies who want the virus to win because they oppose Trump.
this makes no sense. cayman has now introduced a restriction on its people harsher than anywhere else in the world. no reason why or given… our number of cases do not support the measure.
what will happen between now and sat to make him lift this….a few more positive results?
Boy, you are seriously dumb and ignorant. Where have you been for the last week under a rock? You better climb back under it, keep listening to Fakebook and stay there for at least another six months.
We don’t know how many cases we have, that’s the purpose of isolation. If you develop it, then are not likely to have or to infect anyone else.
This is what you get, the government has asked you to stay at home and self isolate, placed a curfew with only essential businesses can remain open after 7pm
Thousands of people call and complain, we guess what CLOSE!
Very simple. Alden you have some great B@LLS and we stand by you in this discussion.
You should have locked the country down for 14 days, with only emergency services, real essential businesses be allowed to remain open and supermarkets, farmers for delivery.
Oh why the donkeys @ss are you filling your cars up, you can’t go anywhere for three days.
I was wondering though, does full curfew mean I can sleep on my boat fishing for the next three days?
…and now, the ridiculous stampede to resupply before 7pm.
Except it’s 6 since the supermarkets close before the curfew to let people get home. Unless there is a really big q like Kirks yesterday in which case it’s 430. But remember – no need to panic shop – you have a whole 3 hrs to compete with everyone else in the island to get through the front door of the shop before it closes because CIG didn’t think it may be an idea having told everyone not to stock up as it was panic buying and the shops would be open 7 days a week that they were going to lock them down for 58 hours.
Are prostitutes exempted if they do home delivery?
Hahahaha
Definitely an essential service
4.24 Ask that Caymanian pimp recently jailed.
That’s because pimping is illegal, prostitution isn’t. Cut out the middleman for the best prices!
Prostitution without a license is illegal.
So glad I started buying extra groceries two months ago. An extra bag of rice, pack of ramen or few cans of beans every week. The writing has been on the wall since January.
No hoarding and just smart planning that didn’t cause undue financial strain. Well done!
So I bet the LA could not decide between them so Alden asked the chief of poilce to make the curfew longer. He is punishing the people for not wanting the 10 day shutdown. The LA can decide anything now we have a joke of a shutdown that won’t achieve anything except more panic at supermarkets today and Saturday. Oh and shut the airport even to just leaving flights now people cant escape even if they wanted.
Genius!!!
We need a two week total shutdown. Not two days. Do it right or not at all.
6.04pm Well genius, why not a 1 month lockdown, that will surely stop Covid-19 in it’s tracks, as we will all be dead from starvation or suicide.
Poor boy! This is so hard on you. Go talk to mamma. She will make you a hot cup of cocoa and rub your head to make you feel better. Then she can make you a nice corned beef sandwich so you don’t starve. The world has turned so evil, but mamma will help you.
A few questions, are we allowed to walk the dog around the neighborhood, is exercising around the neighborhood allowed and can we go outside on the front porch or yard for some fresh air?
As I understand it by listening to the Press Conference, no, you are not allowed to be on the streets with or without your dog, however you are allowed to walk your dog outside on the property which you own or rent.
You can watch the Press Conference again on youtube: I would give you a link, however they are still processing the video. https://www.youtube.com/user/CIGovtInfoServices
No. We are required to stay in our yards.
Yard yes, street no.
I heard Dwayne say we can walk the dog as long as we don’t walk on the road. Can we hop, skip and jump?
Scooter
Another idiot heard from. Let the dog crap in your own yard and not your neighbors front yard. Sick of people doing this all the time.
What if you live in a condominium on the beach and do not have a “yard”? The beach is my yard.
Walk dog, exercise, do it all in your yard. Do not leave your yard.
So I live on a private gated road, we all own a share can we use the road? 6ft appart etc.
I am assuming yes but haven’t seen an answer to this question. Same goes for all those living in a condo development I would assume.
Dumb move. Just to try to prove he run tings.
Hope you get fined and locked up! That’s what you might get for being so dumb.
Thank Gid he run things and not the other honorable fella.
Dumb move. You just proved you know nothing.
I have no issue with this idea in principal but there should have been more warning. There is not enough time for everyone on island to get some groceries in. Also I’m in self quarantine until tomorrow so am basically screwed for food until Saturday as supermarkets aren’t delivering. Not well thought through.
You might have seen this coming yesterday or before but everyone is crying foul. For your own good and for good of your fellow residents, deal with it!
if he is self quarantined he was not allowed to go out yesterday or I’m guessing the last 12-13 days, hence why he is out tomorrow…..or not in this case.
Thank you 4:52 that is exactly the case! 🙂 Hence why i am now concerned that I havent got enough food in. 4:11 not everyone can just “deal with it”. Not everyone has the support of friends or family to rely on to keep them stocked up.
Order food from a restaurant. Some are still delivering.
4:11 I hope you never become a doctor or have to visit anyone in hospital.. Your bedside manner would be awful. I understand its necessary but that doesnt mean they could have verbally given us more warning. we went from curfew to lockdown very quickly.
You must have missed the implication yesterday in the Premier’s update. Seems some just don’t understand the gravity of the situation and so just might get it and spread it. This is not about bedside manner, it’s about forcing the ignorant to do the right thing. Sorry, but not sorry you had ample time to prepare.
5:27 there was not ample time to prepare. I re-iterate that I have been in quarantine for nearly 14 days. As a sensible member of the community I have adhered to that. Government have been very quick at escalating this and have not given people time to prepare accordingly. It is quite something to go from a 7pm – 5am curfew to full out lock down in a matter of days. You seem to think the general public has the ability to predict governments every movement which we do not. Again I do not disagree with the lock down but they should have given everyone at least 24 hours to prepare for this. Particularly when supermarkets immediately ceased home delivery which many people who cant leave their homes were relying on. To say “sorry not sorry” is an utterly childish response to this situation.
Why don’t you ask the Coronavirus to wait until you get your dumbass ready? It might wait for you, fool.
Yea, and you can go from healthy to corona very quickly too.
Sorry to hear. The supermarket offer delivery service or get a friend or colleague to pickup the necessary for you.
I’m in quarantine also as I was off island on business. Ordered last Saturday & first delivery available on Friday. Now I’m not getting that food?
And restaurant delivery services are exempted. See http://www.gov.ky/portal/page/portal/cighome/pressroom/archive/March%202020/Extended%20Curfew%20for%20the%20Cayman%20Islands
4:32 unfortunately many supermarkets have ceased their delivery service for the moment. Thankfully I have good friends who have offered to help me out! 🙂
If you are in self isolation due to travel you need to stay that way until at least 30 March as the 14 day period came in on 16 March. If you came in before 16 March then you are not legally required to quarantine.
I came in from Italy on the 14th. Yes I need to self isolate, morally – for the health of my family & friends. Everything doesn’t have to be about the law!!
You are still required to.
Welcome to third world. By law if you have no food or not enough to last 21/2 to 10 to ? days then you must starve yourself because the government here could not see fit to give a warning of closure. Of Course the only ones who have a lot of food are the ones who disregarded Government asking people to not panic buy. Everyone who listen to this is now screwed. What is the lesson here.
There is no good reason why they cannot allow the grocery delivery service to continue…. Why can a restaurant deliver, but a supermarket cannot?!???
The lesson is that we are swarmed with selfish Prima Donnas like you. You have no idea what real hardship is, so just suck it up buttercup!
Go to your “first world” on the first flight out of Cayman and stay there.
Okay next time we will ask Mr. Coronavirus to hold off a little bit to give you time to get to the grocery store and do your shopping..
I have come to the conclusion that some of us Caymanians don’t have a lick of common sense or don’t understand the severity of this virus..Understand people, if you get it, it could kill you and even if it doesn’t you could give to one of your friends or family members and they could die from it.. Do you want to live with that guilt for the rest of your life if you survive..
Stay unna ass home! Fosters, Kirks and Hurleys will be there Saturday morning stocked and ready to go and you can buy to your hearts content..3 days ain’t going to kill you!
Just passed the gas station, people queuing to fill up with gas, where exactly are they going on lockdown? Lmao don’t panic don’t panic, charrrrrrrrrrge
Because every day the Premier seems to decide to tighten things up even further – remember how yesterday he said there was no need to panic shop then decided to close the supermarkets today with 4 hours notice – no one trusts that it really will be 2 days.
My opinion: It is the psychology of how people try to control their environment. We all cope with stress and change in different ways. I think the binge buying and gas buying might be caused by triggering our “emergency” button, which, in the past has been tripped by impending tropical cyclones. Those people I’ve observed stocking up seem to be buying much the same kind of goods.
Another possibility is that some people might wonder if they might need to use their generators if the power goes out. I don’t see any reason why the power would be any more vulnerable now than any other time in the year, but again, there are those ‘fight or flight’ responses that we all feel and adapt to.
Covid-19 is a complete unknown to the medical community, hence it’s characerisation of “novel virus”. It’s impact globally is not fully realised and therefore unknown, and this situation is new to most of us, regardless of age. I think we can forgive people for being unsure or frightened. Those that can buy more are doing so.
I hope all this social distancing doesn’t draw us apart in a selfish way. We still have to row together. Let us not forget the value of our neighbors, even while we are distancing ourselves from them. ;o)
“unknown to the medical community”… This is completely false. Please don’t spread false statements that you are totally incorrect on.
I could have perhaps said it better, but that is essentially true. “Novel” coronavirus means “new”. Human beings have never yet had an immunological response to it. Is it a shifting antigen? Will it abate or return? Will the R0 remain around 2.5 or increase or decrease? NO. BODY. KNOWS. There is not yet nor has there even been a vaccine for Covid-19. There may be one in a few months.
Doctors and other health professionals around the world have died of complications relating to Covid-19 infection. Those are facts. It’s current CFR is somewhere around 5%, up from 3.5 last month. The pneumonia that often results, particularly in the elders who’ve contracted Covid-19 is atypical of the usual pneumonia.
The health and medical staff around the globe are frantically trying to characterise and discover methods and substances to treat those afflicted with it. I feel that they are getting a handle on it, but, sadly, that is just my opinion.
be safe.
Beaumont for Premier!.
For real I would like to know where they going and any that get catch on the road should be prosecuted as you hve no reason to be there only in emergency situation
Should be 1 week let’s rid this virus fast
Maternity wards are going to be Ras busy on Christmas day.
3 days stuck inside with the family, think the morgue will be full by easter and not from corona
I hope nobody names their twins Covid and Corona….
Covid Bryant Ebanks
more like the divorce courts are going to be busy….
How about just saying “no” to those you don’t think should be exempt?
@ Anonymous says 25/03/2020 at 3:55 pm – doesn’t work because they all think it doesn’t apply to them. This is the only way to make people understand.
Useless. Sunday we can make each other sick again.
100% lock down for 14 days will work.
It’s just a muscle flexing exercise. Chill.
How are you going to feed yourself in a 14 day complete lock down with no notice to stock up? Guess the panic buyers are laughing now.
You have had two months to stock up, or have you been under a rock?
Yep I have enough toilet paper for the year, just wish I got more food.
Barter on Saturday
I heard curried toilet paper is good.
My dog likes to eat toilet paper after he’s had a good play with the roll. It hasn’t killed him yet!
How much food do you really need? What many of us eat in a week could serve some families for a month. Just eat less…eat for survival not for comfort and greed.
Sure like 4:04 pm said, with forewarning and planning but not like this ad hoc change it everyday approach. All you get is confusion and panic and people bunched together for hours in lines. Totally counterproductive
This a panic and hopelessly punitive measure derived from his lack of authority amongst his business buddies. 58 hours is pointless, it must be a minimum of 7, and preferably 14 days lockdown. If his Caymanian dead heads don’t get it, arrest their greedy ass’s.
Don’t hoard! But, be prepared for a sudden and potentially long lockdown were you can’t buy food or get your life saving medications
Even in Europe you can go to food stores and pharmacies, stop your stupidity and educate yourself.
Europe, with all its neighborhood corner stores serving a small area, and its tens of thousands of cases and thousands of deaths. Yeah, that model of lockdown is working just great, NOT!
If we do not have the tests and organization to act like South Korea, we have to go full Wuhan and do it now!
And who’s fault is it we don’t have the tests!
Thats right the government that is claiming to be ahead of the game!
Maybe back in January they should have got ahead of the game and sorted 100K of tests!
They didn’t. Sue them. But until it is safe to go to court, a full Wuhan style lockdown is the only way to go.
Even in Europe – but not here, which was the posters point. Calling them stupid ironic.
Well if he had stopped the cruise ships earlier, and now its a mad panic in the supermarket and will be again saturday, so badly thought out.
Feels like a punishment for business not wanting to accept 10 day shutdown, so how many small business are going to close, I got a letter last night saying 1 months pay then thats it unless goverment helps not holding my breath.
Wish I could leave the island now, stuck in paradise no food, no job soon to be no where to live.
You have not seen the worst yet. 🤯🙀
You should have left last Sunday! More where you came from.
Let’s not forget the thousands of people allowed to arrive from infected countries with no checks or quarantine orders after the ships were stopped.
Glad to see that after we were told “do not hoard groceries” that they are now closing all grocery stores. What are we supposed to do for food the next few days?
I ordered online from Kirks, and now told those will not be delivered either.
Going outside, getting exercise, all the things we need to do to stay healthy… nope don’t do that either.
What about people that don’t read the Compass or CNS? Will they just be arrested? How is government planning to notify people?
Lesson number one. Do not accept everything you are told, especially by amateurs. Lesson number two. Think for yourself. Lesson number three? Don’t know yet.
To 3.35 “Going outside, getting exercise, all the things we need to do to stay healthy… nope don’t do that either.” False. 1) You are allowed outside, just stay on your property and off the roads. 2) You may exercise inside or in your yard.
Great for those with a yard or garden. Living in an apartment, not so much.
@ Anonymous 26/03/2020 at 12:19 pm – turn your ac off and open up your damn windows!
Kirk’s just called to flippantly relay that the order our household placed on Monday for delivery tomorrow is now cancelled, or deferred until sometime next week, contrary to the assurance at the press conference that deliveries are exempted services.
Kirk’s should have been shut down from the dump fire. I wouldn’t eat food from there.
Sir, Mr Premier Sir, I get the logic but unless a full curfew is imposed for 14 days (incubation period) its hard to imagine we’re really achieving anything unless all of the current cases (including unknown) are on the outside of 10 days… – whats the long term plan ?
For all their talk of “fake news”, it was notable in today’s press conference that Alden and Dwayne were talking about a 5-6 symptom incubation period, like they are dealing with some other virus unlike the one everyone else is dealing with on the planet. Elsewhere, we know the virus can be asymptomatic for 14+ days, though 14 seems to be the medical consensus figure used by WHO/CDC. That would infer that someone could become symptomatic on the 14th day and then fall ill, to a varying degree for a period of 4-8+ weeks.
It is called pragmatism.
and that’s called elective dialogue, – which one are you talking about
Is garbage collection suspended during this time as well ?
No.
Will anyone notice?
Step away’: How to not kill your kids during coronavirus lockdown
Child protection professionals express considerable worry over risks with families locked up 24/7 together for an indefinite period.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-to-not-kill-your-kids-during-coronavirus-lockdown/
I take no pride in saying this… common sense and cooperation did not work – look in the mirror to find blame.
why…confirmed cases are mainly through travel history…
I have said it very rarely in recent years, but WELL DONE ALDEN!!! Thank you!
I take pride is say I support the Premier and his colleagues in this uncertain time. Well done sir.!
yes well done for crippling the county!
And what do you suggest @4:53? Kindly note, Covid-19 crippled then world economy in case you missed the news worldwide
Go buy some crypto – you’ll be fine. On second thought, you had better make that Krypto.