Seven COVID-19 cases among weekend arrivals
(CNS): Seven travellers tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend, despite the ongoing requirement for pre-arrival testing and the inducement for people to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before they come home or visit these islands. There are now 23 active cases among the 623 people in isolation and quarantine, with two people showing symptoms of the virus. Meanwhile, the local vaccination programme received a boost this weekend when more than 100 young people took advantage of the vaccination drive and were given their first COVID shot. More than 50% of the population and 61% of adults have had at least one dose.
Public Health said 123 people aged between 16 and 24 received a vaccine at the drive designed to encourage Cayman’s young residents to get protected. The Public Health Department hosted the event at Camana Bay, where the Doctors Hospital provided use of their clinic from 3-7pm, with an after party and prizes.
Thanking all those young people who had come, Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee urged other young people still considering taking the vaccine to speak to their peers about the experience. “At the end of the day, being vaccinated against COVID-19 is perhaps the most important step that we can take to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from this disease and the risks that it poses to the future of the Cayman Islands,” Dr Lee said remarked.
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I cannot understand how so many people can be so wrong…Dr. Fauci has confused the issue!
Herd immunity is the only way to stop Covid…that is how it works. The death rate is not very different from a normal FLU so why have we shut down society.
This is the WORST policy mistake of our lifetimes and government think its working! cannot wait to vote people who destroyed the economy OUT! All for a flu that was easily managed by targeting high risk individuals not the entire population!
CNS: Can you explain where you get most of your news from and how you reach these conclusions? I’m just curious.
Agree on herd immunity comment
Disagree on flu analogy comment
Agree that lockdowns are not the answer
Of course lockdowns are the answer. It is how we came to be Covid-free!
Closed borders is different from lockdowns. That is how we became “Covid free”.
Locking down people that don’t have Covid does nothing for preventing Covid.
QOP is a helluva a drug…
Understand that covid is not going away in this world, ever. Understand that there is little chance that enough Caymanians will get vaccinated for herd immunity to take place. You will have to stay closed forever to avoid it. Good luck with that. In another year financial services will be moving somewhere they can come and go easily.
Oh shut it negative nancy.
What I don’t understand is why people really believe herd immunity is possible. It will most likely always be out of reach worldwide. Many countries will not have access to Covid vaccine anytime soon, and even when they have the vaccine how many citizens of undeveloped countries will actually get the vaccine? Unfortunately, many countries will continue in a cycle of covid infection.
If we are going to wait until herd immunity is reached in these islands to reopen the border we are in for a long wait. We are struggling to get 80% of people vaccinated and we have very few people with immunity from being infected (a good thing of course) but at some point, there has to be a plan for a true phased reopening of the border. Some folks do not care about the tourism industry, touting how it is not an important part of our GDP but remaining isolated from the rest of the world long-term is not much of an option.
You guys are going to be like the Indians when Columbus showed up. It’s only a question of when.
A very interesting read.
A ‘herd mentality’ can’t stop the COVID-19 pandemic. Neither can a weak vaccine.
Debates over herd immunity and natural infection arise with every outbreak. Effective vaccination always wins.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/natural-herd-immunity-mentality-cannot-stop-coronavirus-weak-vaccine-cvd
The KEY word is EFFECTIVE!
Mind boggling, the most unscientific “explanation” 🤯🙄🙄🙄.
“Vaccine side effects not signs of contagion.”
https://www.winknews.com/2021/04/13/vaccine-side-effects-not-signs-of-contagion/
“If you get vaccinated, what ends up happening is it’s like you’ve been vaccinated once already by having it naturally. And so what ends up happening is when you get that first shot, your body will more likely react to it as if it were the second shot, just because of the fact that you’ve already demonstrated immunity to it, and your body identifies the vaccine and reacts to it, which is a good thing.”… said …an administrator of the Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County.
Bermuda has a population similar to ours and a vaccination rate almost as good as ours. It is also an example of why quarantine must continue until herd immunity is achieved. They have a more lax quarantine protocol and now have rampant Covid. As of last evening in Bermuda;
There are 859 active cases, of which
• 818 are under public health monitoring; and
• 41 are in hospital with 6 in intensive care;
– the total deceased remains at 16.
https://www.gov.bm/articles/covid-19-daily-release-12-april-2021
Nobody is dead – they have all been placed in suspended animation by the aliens controlling the vaccination program.
That was sarcasm – I thought it humane to post this reply to save some antivaxxer the extreme labor of trying to breathe while mostly remembering to spell check.
From a Bermudian currently in Dallas:
Governments have gotten used to feeling like rockstars, pulling all attention away from their flaws, and if they give up the covid theatre production they will have to do real work cleaning up their ugly compounding messes…..
Bermuda government obviously knows exactly when and where covid is active and when it’s not , they know covid isn’t active with 10 ( was 25) people or less but deadly at a party above those numbers, but not active at a march with thousands of participants, but very deadly between 11 and 5 am , but not so much between 5 am and 11 pm, but 10 people from different households can sit at a table in a restaurant with no covid around, but becomes deadly when they approach the bar . Government just follows the science as some say.
Is anyone able to explain to me why a boat on the water past 8pm is worse than multi-person, indoor grooming businesses?
This has been exactly my thought process… LOVE it.
Here, it is the 200th person that starts the Covid.
Also, if you get on a bus without a mask, you get the Covid.
But tomorrow, no masks are required to vote. We’ll see the outcome of the Covid on Thursday.
You can’t travel as borders are closed, but gather in large groups for weddings, elections, etc.
Makes no sense.
Makes perfect sense! Borders have been closed for over one year therefore unlikely that Covid is in community so no need for masks.
There is a SMALL likelihood of someone being positive and breaching quarantine and spreading but highly unlikely.
Bermuda is as 🤬, as the Cayman is.
“People are asking why we are listening to politicians primarily rather than the experts. Why are the Chief Medical Officer, the head of the hospital and the Bermuda Health Council relegated to secondary roles when this is a health emergency?”
https://www.royalgazette.com/opinion-writer/opinion/article/20210413/sickness-death-and-economic-ruin/
Bermuda cases are mostly due to locals having large parties at Easter. Locals.
“Pentagon unveils microchip that senses Covid in the body.”
So they are working on a microchip to detect Covid, which is 99% harmless, while cancer diagnostics and treatments remain barbaric. In other words, what we hear is not what is happening behind the scenes.
I personally don’t care, for I am old enough not to worry about this. But who would want to bring children in this world today? And it saddens me that young adults and teenagers, who are practically immune to covid, are “proudly vaccinated”… frogs being slowly boiled alive
Hahaha hahaha, just like clockwork! If you blast “conspiracy theorists” and are one of the people who thinks we need to silence people who have FORSIGHT and CRITICAL THINKING, you better pull your head out your cavity soon because we are heading for a global dystopian nightmare and you’ll be feeling pretty ashamed of yourself when you realise you were one of the people who encouraged it to happen by ridiculing those who predicted ALL of this scenario years ago and tried to warn you. Microchips, no rights for the unvaccinated, “checking in” to every venue (being tracked 24/7), facial recognition and other biometric data used to control our movements, these are not ideas pushed by benevolent entities. The average person does NOT want any of these things and those companies and governments pushing it now will be getting something out of YOU later on.
If you have to put ‘critical thinking’ in capitals to try to make a point then I doubt that you are capable of it.
Bermuda is an example of why we need to keep quarantine until we have reached herd immunity.
Nothing is happening in Bermuda. Just an exercise in controlling masses.
Vaccinated Bermuda Premier allegedly has very low traces of Covid-19.
Nothing is happening!! Two people DIED last weekend and another 2 the weekend before – in hospital with covid. 6 now in critical care & over 40 in hospital.
Before you say this is ‘normal’ their population is the same as here.
They have over 800 active cases. If that was happening here would you still say nothing is happening? SMH
Right – and traffic lights are part of a socialist plot to restrict the rights of patriot anarchists – and the earth is flat –
Herd immunity is a pipe dream.
I have a bridge to little Cayman i’d love to sell you.
Herd immunity happens when nearly everyone was exposed to a pathogen and either got sick or not, being naturally immune.
CNS: According to the scientists at John Hopkins (see here) and all other experts in the field, herd immunity includes those who are immune because they have been vaccinated. This is why there is a push all over the world to get everyone vaccinated, not just so that they don’t get the current strains of covid but so that the virus is contained, thereby preventing new and more virulent strains emerging due to mutations, which can happen in people showing no signs of having the virus.
Every party animal that brings Covid back to Cayman after a weekend in Miami ought to be quarantined at their own expense for at least 90 days.
With thoughts like this, you can see how dictators have historically obtained power
While the borders are “closed”, all travel for non-essential purposes should require person to pay for quarantine in government monitored facility.
People NEED to travel for medical reasons and education (at the end of semesters not every time they want a weekend at home).
Even business travel should NOT be deemed essential since so many businesses in Cayman have been shown they aren’t essential by being forced to remain closed due to closed borders.
Bermuda’s lax approach to quarantine and now hundreds of Covid cases, dozens in hospital, and 4 dead in just the past 10 days or so. I am so glad that we rejected that approach.
https://www.gov.bm/articles/covid-19-update-premiers-remarks-11-april-2021
Bermuda is back in lockdown. Let’s not follow their example. Keep quarantines in place.
Bermuda became lax in their policies over the Easter holiday. Locals attended large parties. Read the full article or talk to those in Bermuda. Those at large parties were not social distancing or following the gathering limit and had super spreader events.