Positive travellers end COVID-free streak
(CNS): Two people currently in government mandated quarantine have tested positive for COVID-19. The individuals arrived in the Cayman Islands on different flights and the positive results emerged when they were tested on completion of their 14-day isolation period. Until these two people return two negative tests, they and the people they travelled with will remain in quarantine.
Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee said the remaining 181 tests carried out over the last day were negative for the coronavirus.
However, as well as increasing Cayman’s overall tally for positive cases since testing began to 205, these new positive results have also changed Cayman’s designation of ‘no cases’ with the World Health Organization to ‘sporadic cases’.
The travellers would have arrived in Cayman from London, Kingston or Miami but officials have not revealed from which of the three gateways they came from, though CNS has requested than information. According to the latest statistics, there are almost 516,000 active case in Florida, the highest number of any American state.
The news of the two positive cases serves to remind everyone that while Cayman may no longer be recording any community transmission, the virus is still being imported and is showing up two weeks after the asymptomatic individuals left their destinations.
At present there are 95 people still in mandated isolation.
Category: Health, Medical Health
Ok bored sports fans time to time to get real like the fires and smoke near my home…the virus is here forever just like malaria or polio. Until controlled Cayman like everywhere else will get infections. Time to protect the vulnerable people have a high chance of dying and live with the rest under 65. We now know it is no more dangerous than the flu for everyone else. Heck crossing West Bay Road is a bigger threat. Time to reopen with testing and isolation
This just proved that shorter bio button idea nit good. These people tested positive after FULL 14 day quarantine and im grateful they were quarantined. Lets not reduce the quarantine period please!
Most likely would have tested positive after the 5 days isolation as per the governments new plan AND may have even tested positive before departure and we would still be at NO ACTIVE CASES.
Let’s get real and pre test and isolate for 5 days and test again.
You dont know that. My point is that at Day 5, they couldve tested negarive and the virus still been in incubation.
Are we going to close the border until we eradicate influenza next?
It kills almost 700,000 people each year.
Why do those people lives not matter?
It’s not on CNN.
Jamaicans that are educated is fine people, but we got so many Jamaicans here that are not educated and they are down right rude and pushy and lots of other bad things
Based on your grammar, it looks like you could use some formal education. May I suggest the University of the West Indies.
Mac got his Doctorate from the UWI didn’t he..?
Clearly a fine selective institution of learning.
Mac certainly did NOT get a Doctorate from UWI. That was the University College of the Caribbean.
No. Mac received his honorary Doctor of Public Service Degree from the University College of the Caribbean (UCC), also located in Kingston.
However, UCC is not qualified to confer a real PhD upon anyone so it’s a bit puzzling how they could confer an honorary degree on Big Mac. This has led to some speculation as to whether he should be called Doctor Bush or Bush Doctor.
And we got you.
Some people are already quarantining at home. This is a fact, it’s been happening for quite some time and we haven’t had any outbreaks. If there was a press conference and the press asked the question, I don’t believe the head of Hazard Management would lie about it.
Wait, can I still get my pool cleaned or not?
Quick, close the post offices!
The easy way out is to hide behind the power of the official narrative.
There is a deadly virus among us. We need to destroy our lives (except for the government and the rich) so we can eliminate this threat.
The hard way is to call it what it is. This is a globalist scam to bring the world into subjection to accept without question, forced vaccines, economic destruction, unbridalled fear and fake, pseudo science all in the name of bringing in a New World Order (NWO). In this NWO, there can be no dissent.
If you disagree with the official narrative, you are a hater and a despiser of all that is good.
Criminals, wife beaters, liars and thugs now rule over us and we blindly accept it.
I sm so disappointed in our inability to sift truth from lies.
How is it that we think a person that can go home and mercilessly beat his wife to a submissive pulp can somehow make and champion laws for us to obey without question.
Ok. Masks back on. Your moment of free thought is over.
Spot on David!!
Thanks Bro!
New Zealand’s first lockdown ruled UNLAWFUL by country’s High Court.
https://www.rt.com/news/498430-new-zealands-lockdown-ruled-unlawful/
David. Do yourself and your family and friends a favour. Please get help for your delusions. Take care of yourself.
I was waiting for this “anonymous” comment.
Who are you? Do you have the courage to place your name behind your comment?
What is your name?
Let us know who you are so we can decide whether or not to place our faith in you.
9:02 why don’t you do it?
He didn’t say anything I disagree with.
Just see what Gestapo Facebook is doing with freedom of speech. Facts checking partners? Give me a break. Who do they think they are? Do they think they can manipulate me with their debunking? I would trust to Kim Jong Un before I will trust Facebook debunkers.
There are no true or false scientific claims. Science can only observe. It can’t explain anything. Besides, there’s no true science anymore.
One of the consequences of this pandemic will be public distrust in science and scientists.. Scientific process is susceptible to corruption just like any other endeavor. Scientists can be bought like anybody else. Consensus is inherently pseudoscientific. Expert consensus doesn’t define truth.
So all the dead people were not real?
As real as the ones that died of other causes.
I want some of that thing you smoked dude
Dude, that is an easy comment to drop.
Totally anonymous and disrespectful to the original poster.
I am the original poster. I do not claim to be perfect, but I claim to be able to speak my mind without hiding behind an anonymous moniker.
What was your name again?
All truth my brother.
As a freemason, I have to say that your understanding of the NWO is very poor.
Really? I dont see a criminal or beater running NZ or Germany or Iceland or so many other parts. You’ve got a theory for sure, but it’s most unlikely to be true in 100%.
however, you are aware that we already subject most of the world to forced vaccinations? so that’s not new.
we’ve had economic destruction in 1929 and 2008, again, not new.
pseudo science? go back to the year 0 (zero), it’s been around for ever.
fear? again, year zero (see the Devil) and every day since, many people live in fear every day of many tings.
All good David, be cool man. Wash your hands.
You are still just Anonymous.
I suppose this will delay the return on civil servants to work? Look at the staff car park, its empty!
ha..all joking aside…
auditor general must complete a full audit and review of civil service performance since covid.
i heard they were caught organising a zoom prayer meeting asking for more positive results and a return to full lockdown.
it was all because some of them experienced anxiety at the prospect of returning to work, partime, 2 days a week.
#prayforourheroes
joking / mocking / making light of someone’s anxiety and other mental-health-related realities is super lame.
This means they are no needed because there’s no work for them to do, otherwise they’d be working already.
Civil service workforce must be reduced because jobs are no longer needed.
at this point… an extra terrestrial invasion or a hurricane would be a welcome distraction from this madness
get a life, it is fleeting while you’re obsessed and some are paranoid with the virus
@3:47 rebuke you and your stupid hurricane comment.
The aliens we are ok with.
More likely than a second coming.
cig back doing what they do best…
importing covid back into cayman.
2 days way from meeting WHO criteria for being declared covid free…..
anyway…if people are coming and going …even with quarantine…we will never be covid free….get used to it.
this changes nothing really….we are economically screwed until a vaccine is available.
So I hope the 2 positives were sent home to quarantine, just like all the others who tested positive in the community.
I think the article said they would have
To stay in quarantine until they cleared two additional tests. It also says the people they traveled with. Does this mean a family sharing a hotel quarantine room and were the other persons they traveled with clear?
I’d really like better details.
Understand protecting privacy, but it is key to know they are still in lockdown facility or released to home?
We can’t stay in lockdown forever. Perhaps we could allow those with holiday homes to enter with the understanding they must test negative before flying, upon arrival they’ll be escorted directly to their home to isolate for 14 days, under supervision of security guards, for whom they must pay, submitting to mandated HSA testing at the end of isolation. Fines of CI$10,000 per person per breach to be imposed. It’s not perfect but it may allow Cayman to slowly open our borders and give a boost to the economy.
As a second home owner in CI – you got to be kidding? 2 weeks imprisonment, and I get the privilege to pay for it? You will have a better chance getting the CIG to take a pay cut before we are escorted by security into our residences just to sit and rot. Further, the CIG is just one panic attack from slamming the borders shut if they hear someone sneeze.
Then you can stay in your first home. The vast majority of us have one home, here in Cayman, and we have earned our freedom with a tougher lockdown than I’m sure you had wherever you are mainly based. I am not saying I would do what the person you are responding to is suggesting, I would not, but if *you* are not willing to do whatever *we* deem necessary for *our and your* health and safety, you will not be visiting your second home here.
Funny – I never would have thought of sitting in my second home as rotting. I think I’d get a good list of food delivery options, stock the wine cave to the max, and fire up the 4-dimensional TV and 20-channel audio system, but that’s just me. I never leave my hotel room when I stay at a nice resort – at least not until I’m good and ready. 14 days would be too long but I would certainly not arrive and consider myself to be rotting from the start. I’d have at least a week of loafing about in me before getting antsy.
First of all – I am not telling you or anyone else what to do so the snarky remark isn’t needed. Second, there is no “what we deem necessary” at the moment either. And I have given up on waiting for that announcement. It is clear that the Corona fear in CI is worse than the economic turmoil it is bringing.
It takes a large sum of money to own a place in the CI and it takes a special love to put that money in a foreign country.
As far as visiting my second home – we don’t love it enough to imprison ourselves just to watch the scenery outside. Me and mine at Cayman will never turn on the TV and only go inside to sleep. I have no time regardless of where I am at to waste inside – life is too short.
The only positive thing about this shutdown is the amount of money I am saving by not going to CI 3 times per year.
Per trip: airfare ($3,500), restaurants (8 times at $150ea -$1,200), rental car ($650), scuba diving ($500), AL Thompson/Markson’s/Kirk’s Home Center ($600), Foster’s Food Fair ($750), and then gasoline, t-shirts, Botanical Gardens, soap shops, Pure Art (my wife dump’s money in that shop), road side fruit stands, lemonade stands, and I won’t count my contribution when I go to church because I am happy that the Lord lets me visit such a wonderful place. That’s easily $7,500 per trip.
We have introduced others to CI, I have friends who never heard of the place that now look forward to returning.
I just hope that all the things I love about Cayman are still there when I do get to come back.
Cayman Sense- I hear ya! I am not lucky enough to have a second home in Cayman, but I travel down 3x a year and have been doing so for 2 decades. I pay outrageous prices to travel down as I always travel on school vacation weeks. I have no choice in travel time. I have missed two trips this year and I am not planning on going this December (If the island even opens) as I do not like the idea of quarantine for 1/2 my holiday and do not want to wear a bio tracker. I am never in my room when on holiday except to shower and sleep. I can not justify spending so much money to stay inside on a holiday. I am looking into other travel destinations, have a list, and will decide by October. Sadly, it will not be Cayman this year. Hopefully, I will be able to return in 2021.
If we open in 2021 and get a plan!
Let’s hope!
hello wealthy foreigner! snidely boasting to the commenter about all the thousands of dollars you’ve saved by not providing that money to that commenter’s fellow residents reeks of privilege and insensitivity — exactly what your first sentence told them not to do. i’m with the local on this one. congrats on all the money you have, really happy for you, but rubbing it in someone’s face is real low, especially when they’ve just said that their country (which you are not a sovereign member of and therefore of a lower status than them when it comes to having a say in what goes on in that country) have put in a lot of hard work to ensure that the citizenry are safe and healthy. throwing all your privileged complainy whiny cash in the air is pretty petty in relation to the lives and health of the country’s true inhabitants who are there longer than two measly weaks. your vote doesn’t matter in a country that is not your own. the population decides. and they’ve decided that health is more important.
Please stay where you are.
Rude.
agreed
Listen, this isn’t how they are doing it in other places. That’s expensive and it’s not reasonable.
As long as we let people in from the outside we will have positive cases. No real surprise here.
AS long as you cut yourselves off from the outside you will have a economy in free fall. But you don’t see that as CIG has told you they can borrow all the money they need to keep it’s faithfull tribe in paychecks until further notice. And you will be living COVID free. We get it. Your good to go. Why change? Why think deep thoughts? The rest of us will be trying our hardest to survive COVID and have a great future.
I hope you realize that if you make us “outside “people your enemy Then you naturally become the enemy of all outside people. Is there a surprise there?
CNS, your reporting is usually excellent but your conclusion here is misleading. Unless these individuals tested negative before boarding the flight to Cayman (and I don’t believe there is currently a testing requirement?), there is no way of establishing that the virus only showed up 14 days after arrival. They could quite possibly have tested positive before they travelled or within a few days thereafter. These positive tests will be used as ammunition for those who want to retain the current quarantine arrangements and border closure – and I understand the nervousness – but it is entirely possible, surely, that the double test/5 day quarantine/bio button regime would have caught them too, and done so earlier.
Hear hear!
This is a great point.
There is plenty of infomation on the laboratory websites that state the accuracy of a RT-PCR test All of them say that 7 days after possible exposure is the most accurate time to do the test to prevent false negatives.
If these people where tested on day 7 we would have known a week ago and all all the negative people would have been free to go earlier.
Testing before departure and 5 days after is the way forward.
And what criteria allows people to quarantine-in-home as opposed to hotel?
I know 2 prominent locals that returned and not allowed to quarantine at home. Would that be because a spouse (was tested clear) was in same residence?
This also raises the concern of said returning staying at The Ritz when we are offering staycations in the same hotel?!?
Dr Lee needs to assure us this is safe?
what criteria allows people to quarantine-in-home as opposed to hotel?
Can we have an answer to this please.
Returning to the island to die after major health issues requiring treatment in the USA.
Your logic is severely flawed. They could well have tested positive one week ago, but the reason for quarantine is to insure that if a person acquired the virus anytime prior to travelling then it will show in the test after two weeks. There is no need to be testing after 5 days or every day as the virus could go undetected for almost two weeks. If the test is negative after two weeks then you are free to go, but if it is positive then you wait until you have two successive negative results.
If you want to see how the double test/5 day quarantine/bio button regime can screw up then take a look at this story out of Bermuda.
http://www.royalgazette.com/health/article/20200819/infected-tourist-sets-off-tracing-frenzy
Why are they marking it 8 days than in Bermuda IF you have no pre departure test………..because the laboratories say PCR test is less likely to give a false negative on day 7 or 8 after exposure.
Not 14 days incubation period! That’s to show symptoms
Ask Bermuda how that is working, when after 2 negatives a tourist tested positive at their 14 day check. They had been allowed out & about after their 8 day check & a restaurant is now closed after she visited it twice. A your boat is tracing 50 passengers & free bring tested. A personal trainer at a gym she went to at home got 14 days…
Cayman has been sensible to date in buying time, but it is simply not realistic for an island with an economy reliant on travel (albeit in conjunction with financial services) to maintain an elimination strategy. Even if Cayman makes a vaccine compulsory (which I would have no problem with, although I assume there will need to be exemptions), the prevailing view is that the vaccine will be far less than 100% effective. And it looks like a vaccine may only be available to the public in this part of the world in Q2 2021 (unless the UK can provide it sooner). That’s a long, long time to keep the borders closed.
Take reasonable steps to limit the risk of the virus being brought into the country, of course, but accept that it IS going to come and be ready to deal. It seems to me that the proposed new arrangements are as balanced as possible in the circumstances, but the 14 day hotel quarantine is excessive.
You had me until the first sentence
Why the secrecy, Govt should release information on the origin of these two positives.
Why?
Because we have to open up to lower risk countries.
Don’t worry Premier Alden, Jon Jon and his donkey are on way to save us !!!
🤣🤣🤣 that moment of comedy gold is not going away!
We should open up to Jamaica. Logic dictates the two cases are from Miami and London. Our two favorite places. No matter how bad those two places get we keep flying. It’s a disgrace the government doesn’t share the information. But totally expected.
Who’s coming here from Jamaica that’s going to spend any money?
If you had any sense of history, you’d know some of Cayman’s wealthiest families have direct ties to Jamaica and they still work together in one capacity or another. A decent portion of the private jet traffic is actually from Jamaica. So jump on your high horse, or donkey, and ride to the private airpot to check this out for yourself.
Air pot. Was that intentional? Makes sense.
We already opened up to Jamaica. In 2003. Have you not noticed?
It is official, we can add racism to the ignorance, fear and homophobia. What a gorgeous set of people we are turning out to be.
God comes to Cayman and says, you can either have 800 local deaths due to Covid or the immigration of 5,000 Jamaicans, which would you choose? Now some of those who die, maybe homosexual or on work permit, so I know it maybe tricky for you. Not only because there is a some “benefit”, but because some statistics maybe involved. But then again, some of the Jamaicans coming in maybe homosexual and have Covid-19. What do you do? Here is one fact for you – Not one Jamaican in 2003 gave away a status grant. And the Caymanians who did, gave it to those they knew.
And no one paid a bribe under the table, and no one had criminal background, and all have added to the welfare and economic success of the Cayman Islands. The incredible increase in NAU obligations, the lack of adequate school places, the quality of driving and ongoing wage depreciation are all unrelated to those status grants.
Who accepted the bribes? No matter how you cut this, it was Caymans doing.
I love the fact that you do not seem to consider that paying bribes is a serious problem.
Guess they must have money then. Or Caymanian’s sold out cheap.
Wtf are you talking about, Jamaica and Cayman’s history goes way back before any of you driftwoods, Cayman has and will always be under Jamaica, both born under the Caribbean sun and salt, it’s only since you all imports have come in and spill all your hate towards Jamaica infecting simple people minds with the said hate.
One things for sure covid is a foreign pandemic it was not made here and it can’t survive here so it needs to go back to which ever shithole it came from.
7:10am I call BS on you idiot. The hatred towards Jamaica is from our own Caymanian people, not from the driftwood. Which rock to you live under? I know this for a fact because I grew up surrounded by it. Some of my relatives still blame Jamaicans for all the drugs and crime as they sit and smoke a spliff..
9:17am let me pop that bubble you’ve been living in, like I said simple minded people who always tends to listen to anyone more clearer than their own skin colour and the hate that is put on Jamaicans is only because most of them are black when in fact that the first set of caymanians where descended from Jamaica, so yes it’s the majority of driftwoods that comes here and see them and started the influence into simple minded people who are just ignorant, don’t you see what’s going on with the rest of the world and the hate these people have for each other and now they have drifted to our shores with the same B.S.
P.S. they bring the drugs here because of the caymanians and the ferrous appetite of the said driftwoods.
The Boddens and Watlers may have come here from Jamaica, but that makes them as Jamaican as it makes the Brits that get off the flight from Miami American. And the slaves that were brought in from Jamaica probably didnt consider themselves very Jamaican either!
Caymanians are not descended from Jamaicans. Period. There were native Jamaicans, and they were hunted down and replaced by Englishmen with African slaves. Modern Jamaica was born entirely out of slavery and so were its people. Caymanians are descended neither from Native Jamaicans nor from Modern Jamaicans. Bodden and Watler may, if their story is true, have come here from Jamaica, but only because they’d just finished capturing it with Cromwell, who was leading an English army, hence they were English.
Err, unless you come from an indigenous tribe of ancient Caribbean peoples, you’re all ‘driftwood’.
And actually, the islands were both founded and settled by Europeans, mainly British and Spanish, (as was most of the Caribbean).
Africans were forced into slave labour, (not governance) and were the product of a trade that had long been used by African tribes to expel their enemies or punish their own. The Chinese, Arabs and others had long taken Africans from Africans in exchange for tradable goods, such as gold, guns and even mirrors.
Forget your victim inspired modern history, read from African history and learn that slavery has been a feature of African culture for centuries, perhaps millennia.
Jamaica may have been granted independence 50+ years ago, but what has it done with it, apart from export its criminality around the world and murder it’s own? Nothing has really changed in the last 300 years, but heaven forbid those that still persecute, rape, mutilate, murder and YES, enslave, accept the blame.
There’s no doubt that it’s a beautiful island, populated by a (generally) peaceful and gentle people. But to say that ‘imports’ are the cause of Jamaica’s problems and bad reputation is beyond stupid and possibly delusional.
…and as a result we are becoming Jamaica. Thanks Mac.
I’m done commenting because I can literally feel my iq dropping lower by just reading some of your comments.
Rather it be like Jamaica and not like America which looks like the path we headed down anyhow.
And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason we need to keep quarantine. Imagine if these people had been wearing bio buttons in a grocery line near you.
Now can we please have enough quarantine facilities to meet demand?
The only possible way to meet quarantine demand is if people are allowed to quarantine in their homes.
We have hundreds of empty hotel rooms and thousands of empty airb’nb’s.
We know that allowing people to quarantine unsupervised is unsafe.
Agree – home quarantine – but if people break home quarantine, a $5,000 fine plus they then have to go straight into the Govt. Quarantine facility for 14 plus days (and pay for it).
We can’t deny access to Cayman to our own citizens, for any reason, let alone “no space at the inn”
The fine in Canada is $750,000 and still tens of thousands have broken self isolation. $5,000 is a comparative parking ticket and totally out of step with the damage that could so easily be done.
Exactly – especially if you consider that there will be even more damage to the economy if we have to go back into lockdown because of a surge in cases.
Well Canada will be rich at over 7.5Bil in fines then.
You seem to want to ignore the fact that humans are selfish and stupid. While you may be more than willing to isolate and cope with the inconvenience for a short time with the long-term view to staying alive, many aren’t. As has been displayed to great spectacle around the world.
Remember it just takes one to spread the virus.
Yep, like what happened in Belize.
The test prior to travel followed by a test after 5 days would very possibly if not probably have caught these cases too, and therefore they wouldn’t have been wandering around the supermarket.
AND maybe they would have been picked up on the test before travel and never even got to the Islands…… and even then they would have certainly been picked up on the second test after 5 days of arrival while in home isolation with the Bio Button Geofencing to alarm if they left their place.
Thats why we can do it and they would not have been at the grocery store!
Were they seen in the supermarket?
That is why masks and social distancing is so important
What about other members of their household who are not required to wear this? Could they not give covid to them unwittingly and they then go to the grocery store? What if they have visitors over who then go out into the community? How would that be monitored?
A lot of what if’s
What if they don’t make a successful dafe vaccine for 3 years?
Stay locked down?
You have to control the risks some how but there still is risks.
Exactly you do have to control risks somehow. It’s just that CIG has decided that given the state of the pandemic worldwide, the Bio Button isn’t worth the risk yet. And maybe having people return home and the few tourists willing to use it, doesn’t have enough of an impact on the economy to really warrant taking that risk at this time.
We should open up to Jamaica. Logic dictates the cases are from Miami and The U.K.
Open to no one.
I wonder what all our Canadian expats think of their new found lack of freedom.
I guess at least we didn’t screw up like Bermuda (positive case allowed to leave quarantine, went to gym, boat party, restaurant)…
What is now clear is that quarantine must be ruthlessly enforced, whether it is at a CIG facility or at home. Challenge is that those wealthy arrogant morons making the most noise about wanting to quarantine at home are precisely the group of people most likely to disregard quarantine requirements.
Rich – check.
Live in Crystal Harbour or some other offshoot of expatistan – check.
Think the rules don’t apply to them because they are “chosen” – check.
Alternatively, they are responsible members of society who have much to lose. My understanding is those who broke quarantine in the beginning where teenagers. Back in the day when masks weren’t mandatory, even on planes. On the whole, Caymanians, Residents, and Expats are NOT going to break quarantine. One, food can now be delivered. Two, even if we don’t watch CNN, we know there is a global pandemic. In March, many were in disbelief. People like you need to stop living in March 2020!
And yet a tourist in Bermuda, after 2 negative tests, went out on a tour boat with 50 others, went to see a personal trainer at a gym & dined out in a restaurant. Surprise! At their 14 day test they were positive. Now scrambling to contact trace 🤦♀️
Ever heard of false negatives??
That’s why they say test on day 7 to minimize chances.
More chance of getting a false negative on day 14 and some one being freed.
There are many people who believe the rules do not apply to them and spout nonsense about this virus being “fake”. As I was grocery shopping the other day. I overheard this lady on the phone telling the other person that they do not believe in this virus. It is fake and if they “caught” the made up virus they would live their life and keep working because they need that “bread”. That is the ignorance floating around here and I have no doubt if she was to quarantine at home she would discard the rules.
I know two unrelated grown women, one a retiree. One a Caymanian, one an expatriate. Both full time residents. Both promised to isolate (under threat of criminal sanction). Both carried on life as normal within hours of landing. You expect a MAGA visitor to respect the lives of our grandparents? You are betting lives on being right. You understand that…???
How could they “carry on life as normal within hours of landing”, when all arriving passengers must go into government quarantine?
This was the period when people coming in were being ordered to self isolate at home. They didn’t.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED!
You are making up BS they get locked up in a hotel!
Exactly – or they were “quarantined” at home but then had people stop by for a visit.
March 2020 again?
Less than a month old – found that one in four with covid not home when checked on. And these were people that already knew they were positive and not travellers who “feel fine.”
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.sbs.com.au/v1/news/article/simply-unacceptable-one-in-four-victorians-with-coronavirus-not-at-home-when-door-knocked/ced16679-fadc-4121-95e4-28e7848ec09a
Ok. Now follow me. The subject matter is two ladies in Cayman. This is exactly the problem Cayman has. Hearing a story, then searching the net for the worst case scenario world wide and applying it directly to Cayman. There is zero connection between the two stories and until the idiots in Cayman wake up to this fact, Cayman will free fall.
Sorry – extrapolation can be difficult. The point is that even though it is no longer March of 2020, and everyone across the globe should know the importance of quarantining by now, people continue to flout the rules. Why would it be any different with people returning here?
So with no penalties 3 out of 4 stay home. I’m impressed.
Bermuda is open and shows us just how it can be done and your comment is BS.
Check their paper. The Royal Gazette. Not going so well. Debt increasing. Going to the polls in Oct (2 years early.). Restaurant closed after tourist tested positive & had been out & about – after 2 negative tests.
Why do all the morons on CNS comment section think closing Cayman off forever and having no covid cases is a realistic or even remotely good goal?
Nobody has EVER said forever. You are engaging in extreme hyperbole. Perhaps the “morons” are closer to you than you realise?
You didn’t address my point. And closing cayman off and destroying the economy can be considered as “forever” when it has never even been shutdown for a single day prior to this flu known as covid.
As well as quarantine please start testing travellers before they get on a plane, that way we can keep our “no cases” status.
Get real, your putting in jail for 14 days minimum is that not enough!
If you’d ever really been in “jail” you would not characterise quarantine as such.
You are apparently viewing this as a grand inconvenience that you are forced to suffer. How about looking at it as a practical application, a policy designed to keep us all safe? You look at it in that light, and you’ll see that 14 days is the bare minimum.
Don’t they put people in jail to keep us all safe?
Its a joke and there are better options.
Can’t stay closed for ever
Guilty until proven innocent. Greeted at airport by persons in Hazmat suits. Put on bus, escorted by police, to a facility that is guarded 24/7. Those are facts!
Sounds like jail to me BUT in jail you get an hour outside to exercise!
They can be negative when they board & test positive after arrival ( 10-14 days after exposure)
And in some cases, even longer.
Incubation has nothing to do with detection via PCR testing.
You can show positive generally 4 days after exposure but they say the best day is day and after that there is more chance of a false negative..
What is certain that you where all fooled when CIG tested the people in the apartment complex in George Town in the early days. They tested them after 1 day of possible exposure It was all pointless.
As long as the world isn’t Covid free, either will be Cayman. Wear a mask & social distance.
Time to clean the machine again
Could have tested them after 7 days of arrival we would had know earlier!
Some positives do not show up until 10-14 days after exposure.
You can only say that if you know these people were tested on days 7 to 9. Do you?
Not True.
Best time to test is not after 14 days of possible exposure its 7 days.
Tell that to Bermuda who are frantically contact testing the visitor who had 2 negatives & then tested positive in day 14. After she had been on a boat with 50 others, a gym & a restaurant.,,,
They also have 2 policemen who tested positive. One a returning traveller & the other with source unknown.
This reminds us of the need for caution when opening up our borders. We need to be very careful with how tourists enter our island.
For the foreseeable future, it’s only by plane. Planes are sanitized prior to flights. People wear masks. People are seated apart. Distancing are kept for all lines. Airlines have adapted.
Yes, they have adapted, however consider for a moment a scheduled flight that has dozens of transits per day. Consider how well it is “sanitised”. Also consider how an airborne virus fares in recirculated air within an airplane cabin.
What is being done is not overkill. It’s the bare minimum acceptable standard.
False positives most likely. Test them again tomorrow
Would be the prudent thing to do. Shall we place bets that they won’t?
Doesn’t suit the cause.
Quick, lock her down! Curfew time baby. 800 will certainly perish!
Brilliant – lockdown please, the traffic is a joke again!!
But Wasn’t New Zealand saying they were covid free when they supposedly had 21 cases in quarantine?
The general populace was covid free. People arriving from overseas are placed in mandatory monitored quarantine. What part of that do you not understand? People arriving from overseas do not walk out of the airport and go home. They’re bussed to various hotels or facilities to be isolated from the general public and are released after 14 days on return of a negative covid test.