No breach of isolation, officials confirm
(CNS): Members of households in home-isolation appear to be obeying with the COVID-19 related quarantine rules, and a reported rumour of one of them leaving the geofenced boundary was investigated Tuesday and found not to be true. As he reported on the daily test results, Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee also confirmed there was no isolation breach.
There were 420 results Tuesday, all negative, which included tests that were carried out at the additional drive-thru service on Monday morning. This adds to the weekend’s reassuring results, which indicate that, despite the isolated case at Red Bay Primary School Friday, the virus does not appear to have re-emerged in the community.
Cayman public health officials have now conducted around 1,500 tests in four days with only one positive case of coronavirus being reported in a traveller who was in quarantine.
There are currently nine active cases of the virus, two of which are people showing symptoms, including one person who remains in hospital in a serious condition on a ventilator. The other symptomatic patient is the young Red Bay student, who is understood to have only mild symptoms.
Meanwhile, officials were not able to give details on the number of people in isolation at present, though at the last count it was said to be around 400, with the majority now isolating at home.
While today’s rumour of a breach was investigated and found to be false, fears of people breaching isolation persist, even though there has been no evidence of further rule-breaking following last week’s incident. In that case one person was arrested and the household was moved to government quarantine.
Category: Health, Medical Health
The home quarantine breaches have to be reported for them to register. The cleaners, housekeepers, mobile spa staff, and nannies can’t be anonymously coming and going as they might be normally. Cohabitants can’t just whip off to the store thinking they can just blend in. There are big holes in this honour system, as it is applied in volume to the privileged skeptics devoid of self-control and trustworthiness. That’s going to translate into community transmission cases in the weeks ahead. The $10,000 fine should be scaled to $100,000 to measure with that crowd. Another arrest last night in Gov Harbour area.
At this point starting to wonder what kind of game this government is playing. Let’s give the media some fake news so that we the government can scare the community in thinking there was a breach and that those visiting cannot be trusted. Let’s brain wash the local population so that they stop complaining about opening up but rather rely on us for everything (pay checks, food, made up freedom)….the scary part is this government is actually winning and ruling like a communist regime. Protecting what exactly? COVID-19 (btw COVID is the flu also) has been and continues to be on the island whether you want to believe that or not. Think about it, the whole population has not been tested so no one can sit here and say it’s not within our community so the point is the government wants you to believe we are safe and sound in our bubble while we are not as the risk is still here. All we are doing is destroying the lives of so many and having our free will removed. The safest approach is to wear our mask, wash hands and practice social distancing while allowing the island to move forward with tourist etc. this folks is the reality of the situation, there is no vaccine to wait on or magical pill or eradicated method of getting rid of COVID-19. The truth hurts but it’s the fact.
Okay, the sounds fishy but whatever nothing to see per usual.
What I really want to know is how many that have quarantined tested positive after arrival? If that number is very low then we really are going to need to take a step back and relax this crazy requirement. Wearing masks and social distancing are really where we should be and open the borders to more people.
Great Question and what should be asked is of all the people that tested negative on arrival how many of them tested positive on day 14.
Zero
how do we know if family/friends/lovers are visiting the folks in home-quarantine??
truth hurts but it has been proven…people cannot be trusted.
Well then let’s just lock everyone up. Anyone who wants to get tested let’s lock them up whilst we wait for their results – after all why are they being tested, no smoke without fire.
All those little kids and their families who are self isolating let’s lock them up too. Definitely the alien travelers who took their kids back to school and university and went to see their families, they need locking up too. If we build big detention Centre’s we can put the whole darned lot of them in one place, armed guards outside and then the rest of us can stay disease free until everyone has received the vaccination in 2022 or maybe that’s 2023 or even 2024! I see quite a few of the vaccine trials have been halted due adverse side effects, let’s hope they re start soon.
Including yourself obviously as you are a person?
Here is what I don’t understand. How do they monitor to ensure that no other people from the community try to visit those who are in isolation?
its a legitimate question…how can people thumbs down this?
Because you’re a Memaw.
Because we are not paranoid
Shush, it’s called transparency, PPM style😉
Today – The other symptomatic patient is the young Red Bay student, who is understood to have only mild symptoms.
4 days ago – A quality control on the positive sample taken from the student also came back negative, suggesting that this could be a lingering case of the virus but that the child is unlikely to be contagious now. However, given the gargantuan efforts Cayman has made to keep the virus at bay, Dr Lee said that, in line with WHO safety protocols, the family will remain in isolation.
Another article stated the child, sibling and father may have a cold, but the doctor’s couldn’t be sure.
Conclusion. False positive. Child has a cold. Lock the family up.
If the doctor really cares about us, how about detailing the following to the public:
1) What is a low viral load?
2) What is a weak positive?
3) What is a false positive?
4) If one tests negative after testing “positive” why isn’t the person treated as a negative?
5) What levels of viral load and positive actually warrant lockdowns?
Answer. They do not want to line out any hard rules as this will leave them no room for discretion and present too many questions from, most likely Wendy as shes the only one with the fortitude to put Alden on the spot!
So we just accept our fate under this regime?