No more COVID-19 positives recorded
(CNS): The Public Health Department processed 131 tests since the last report on Sunday and none of them were positive. Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee reported on Tuesday that a total of 1,097 samples taken over the weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) had been tested and only one was positive, as officials dealt with a suspected case of the virus at Red Bay Primary School. With no sign of a resurgence of the virus, as everyone who had been in contact with the child were negative, the additional negative samples were even more reassuring.
The only positive case this weekend was in one asymptomatic traveller who is one of nine active cases at present in Cayman. Only two are symptomatic, including the child from the primary school who is said to have mild symptoms.
The other symptomatic patient, who was hospitalized with the virus earlier this month after becoming ill while in quarantine, remains in hospital on a ventilator, officials confirmed Monday. There are also around 400 people either in home-isolation or in government quarantine.
Officials reminded everyone isolating at home with the use of geofencing technology that they are not permitted to have visitors or anyone else on their property or in their yard. The only exception is delivery personnel, who can promptly drop off essential items while everyone in the isolating household remains inside.
Property owners returning to the island are reminded that any maintenance and repairs required should be postponed until the end of the quarantine or isolation period and the household has returned negative results for COVID-19.
If maintenance or repairs are deemed absolutely essential, all those isolating in the property should move to a government isolation facility to enable the work to be done. Failure to comply may result in a criminal prosecution to any party involved.
Category: Health, Medical Health
Thankful for no more positives!
The WHO said yesterday that they no longer endorse lockdowns, because all lockdowns do is “make the poor poorer.” Well no —-, Sherlock! I could have told you that back in March when media induced panic over this virus started. The numbers might be rising in the US, but the fatality rate is consistently falling. That makes perfect sense. As time goes on medical professionals are learning more about this virus, and how to properly treat the virus. So it’s common sense that the fatality rate is falling.
When it will get through people’s heads – COVID will permanently circulate like the flu! We just have to live with it.
If death rates start to soar after the annual flu vaccine event, I would question its role. Pneumonia is still outpacing corona in year-to-date deaths. So maybe corona is just something we will have to live with for a long time. Pneumonia has been around for ages. Older people die from it every day.
What really does bother me is that humanity was given a chance to re-evaluate the “way of life”. Environmental destruction, pollution, over consumerism…BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED, not a single thing, not a very small, but wide spread thing, nothing…
It just added new source of land and ocean pollution- PPE, face masks, cleaning supplies bottles as well as cleaning solutions ending up in the environment.
Meantime The Ocean Cleanup project run by 26 old Dutch man since he was 16 still remains unheard of, unsupported. He is this planet’s true HERO, yet, 99% of world’s population never heard of him. Media is not interested. It only runs “end of the world” and “daily obituary” stories. https://theoceancleanup.com/milestones/how-it-all-began/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwoJX8BRCZARIsAEWBFMKh-WCor0exIxc0qVA2gx8q0PPb7f0Qy_fc0L2I4DdhXMtMmRTIRLcaAtI-EALw_wcB
Pneumonia caused 50k deaths in the US in 2019, and can be treated and prevented much more easier than Corona as well as the existence of vaccination against several tipes also help.
Pneumonia can be caused by different virus (like flu), bacterias and fungi. Corona is caused by one virus alone and caused more deaths so far in the US than pneumonia in the last 4 years (and year is not finished yet).
Also transmission of Corona is much easy.
If you are going to compare at least choose the same fruits.
Pneumonia caused by bacteria or virus. The pneumonia causing bacteria and virus are contagious. A healthy body either kills or deactivates these pathogens before it attacks ones lungs. Older people bodies, bodies of people with comorbidities have hard time fighting pneumonia causing bacteria and viruses. What is different here? The mechanism is the same even thought the viruses differ.
No Covid19 has not CAUSED more deaths than pneumonia in 4 yrs in just 9 months, what has happened is that 200k+ deaths have been recorded as having died either from or WITH corona19. It’s a massive difference that so many fail to recognize which boggles the mind.
In the UK, they tell you cases are surging! SURGING! When infact the ICU’s are way below max, they are moving people INTO ICU’s becuase they can, not because its vital to do so. They are telling you that X amount of people were admitted to hospital today with Covid19 when infact all that happened is that X amount of people were admitted to hospital today who tested positive on a PCR test in the past 28 days.
It’s a tragedy that people are dying. But no more people are dying statistically of any noteworthy #’s than at any time over the past 10 years.
if CNN or Fox or whoever you wish to believe would only show the continuing death rates of the top 10 killers rather than just the current newsy Covid19, you’d stop worrying about it.
and yes, Covid19 is super contagious. So is fear.
Historians are going to look back at 2020 and wonder what in the actual f*ck was wrong with us.
CNS: You haven’t given any sources but the figure to look at is excess deaths, and there is no doubt that this is very high. For example, just to look at the US, see here or here for papers on excess deaths in the US. Now, there’s going to be a lot of discussion among scientists about the demographics, the long term pattern and what proportion of those who died did so as a result of lockdown as opposed to covid itself (for example, people who didn’t seek medical help because they were afraid of catching covid, which the second paper linked refers to). But the starting point in any meaningful discussion is that a million people around the word have died. In the US, this figure is over 200,000 and maybe as much as 225,000
Your assertion that “no more people are dying statistically of any noteworthy #’s than at any time over the past 10 years” is just wrong. There is a nice graph to illustrate deaths due to covid v deaths due to pneumonia here.