Vaccine take-up still stalled as Phase 2 approaches
(CNS): Just 92 more people stepped forward to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for the first time over the last two days. while 98 got their second dose. Just five weeks ahead of the proposed soft border opening on 9 September and less than one week away from Phase 2, when government plans to stop digitally monitoring people in home isolation who are vaccinated, there is no sign that the plan to re-open is encouraging people to come forward.
Just 68% of the estimated population is now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and 71% have had at least one jab, which means more than 6,000 adults and kids over 12 need to come forward for their first shot in the next couple of weeks if government is to meet the 80% target by 9 September.
Meanwhile, two more travellers in isolation have tested positive for COVID-19 over the last day and there are now seven active cases among those isolating, three of whom are suffering symptoms of the virus but their are no hospitalised COVID patients.
As of Monday, people arriving in Cayman with a verifiable, full vaccination course will be asked to self-isolate for five days on trust. This will significantly increases the risk of community transmission since, while the potential punishment of six months in jail or CI$10,000 fine remains, without the monitoring system there will be less risk of travellers being caught if they break the rules.
Government has said this small change is a first step that will allow officials to assess local impacts and build capacity to manage the increase in traveller volume anticipated with the opening of the borders in Phase 3. Few other changes will happen on Monday, though vaccinated front-line workers will now face weekly PCR testing, given the higher risk of exposure.
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MS-NBC is reporting that people arriving in Israel from the US and a number of other countries must quarantine for 14 days irrespective of vaccination because of the Delta variant.
Israel has been ahead of us throughout this pandemic. Seems like we are heading in the wrong direction by relaxing quarantine requirements starting this weekend.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/smart-living/the-latest-israel-reimposes-tighter-pandemic-restrictions/ar-AAMTjbQ
Israel has not been ‘ahead of us’. Their birder was never closed like here. Stop living in dreamland, COVID is not going away. The cayman bubble is not sustainable… if you keep the airport closed you may lose the expats forever and they pay for 90 per cent of the cayman economy
Get the vaccine for your fellow man and if you want to travel to the U.S. They announced yesterday no vaccination, no entry. So, no vaccination, no Miami trips, no Disney, no Vegas baby, no U.S. anything.
The US of A should be last place anyone should want to go to right now. I cannot see how this is an incentive.
But what if you ever need to travel to Miami for urgent medical care? You will need the jab. So go get vaccinated to cover yourself.
They can’t deny you for medical services with or without it.
But if there are no hospital beds in Florida they can deny you medical services. COVID patients only.
You will not get urgent medical care in Florida now. The hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID cases and you cannot get an ICU bed today unless you have COVID.
Actually it’s only in consideration it hasn’t been implemented as yet.
Health or Wealth?
With health you can enjoy the wealth, without it, wealth doesn’t mean a thing.
Unfortunately today’s press briefing left much to be desired. Where oh where was the Premier? We had Kenneth Bryan speaking of a 100k vaccine lottery and apparently a plot of land that would also be raffled off to a lucky vaccine recipient. Last I checked health was not his ministry. There was talk about pretty significant changes to WORC, again, not his ministry. Now, I’m no fan of his, but I guess giving credit where it’s due, we’re more enlightened with information as a result of the presser. But back to my initial question… where was the Premier?!
Disgrace. People should be paying for vaccines, not given prizes to take one
The government is removing the monitoring of those who are vaccinated arriving in Cayman within the next few days. Several hundred arrive each day most of whom are vaccinated and most of whom are law abiding.
However, not all are law abiding as we have seen and the breakthrough rate for the Delta variant is something like 1%. Therefore we will be having more and more infected un-monitored people arriving every day some of whom will skip quarantine and infect others. Personally I think that removing monitoring is an invitation to community spread.
They are just removing the wrist bands and phone. They will be doing live spot checks. You would be an idiot to risk prison because you can’t stay inside for five days.
They have to test this process out in advance of Sept 9th.
Agreed but we have had a number of idiots breaking quarantine despite wrist band trackers so it is predictable that more will breach without.
Good. Seems only community spread will now get the anti Idiots to go get a jab
I wouldn’t take it even then.
You should be one of the first in ICU then
Better mind it isn’t you wishing sickness on people. Vaxxed or not you can still get it and die yourself, so I would watch your words before Karma bites you in your sour ass
For once I agree with a UK Cabinet Minister:
Transport Minister Grant Shapps “predicted people would be required to prove they had been fully vaccinated for some time to come, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It is a reality that in this new world, we’re living with coronavirus … I think double vaccination or full vaccination is going to be a feature for evermore, and probably all countries will require full vaccination for you to enter.”
Christians….bible say god help those that help themselves..get vaccinated as i did! PACT…you all better immobilize that field hospital ppm took down…cause i would estimate 98% of unvaccinated on this islands are caymanians…
If there is a deadly pandemic, why are we not readjusting ourselves, our lives, our habits?
We are! The airport is closed to normal travel. That is a huge adjustment – we are stuck here and can’t go anywhere. Most residents haven’t seen their family in well over a year. That is a massive adjustment to normal life. And when we open we will need to be careful with masks and social distancing, and the unvaccinated will face big restrictions on travel and entering various establishments. That is also a huge change.
Have you not been reading the news for the last 18 months? Literally everyone in the entire world has had to change the way they live.
Because we think we can shut it out by limiting flights in and out and quarantining the passengers. Which has worked very well so far, but is only a missed PCR test or an illegal canoe passenger’s trip to a crowded bar away from a community outbreak.
Huh? IF?! Bobo, you’ve been in your bubble too long.
And what about health-care workers? There’s a least a nurse on the Brac who said Covid a joke and won’t vacxinate. Don’t wan her there until vacxinated.
Gee, you must be a really good friend of hers to know that and feel free to out her informed decision.
p.s. genius — it’s “vaccinate”.
It must be obvious by now, to stop the spread, stop travel. Can we exist without travel?
No…
I can
I do not get the purpose of waiting till we reach the elusive 80 percent vaccinated mark.
Once the Island reopens the spread of the Delta Variant is inventible, it is super contagious even amongst some vaccinated persons.
The only comfort is that vaccinated persons seem to be having milder infections, avoiding hospitalization and generally fairing better.
So we can go ahead and reopen now and all those that have chosen not to get vaccinated will bear the consequences.
No point to even lockdown once there is spread, we will all get Covid at some point, just make sure you are vaccinated to have a better outcome, we are only delaying the inventible.
But, these same unvaccinated people will choke the health system, taking up beds where others (who may be vaccinated), need other kinds of non-Covid urgent care!
So selfish.
OP here. We are in agreement that all persons should be vaccinated, and that we can not keep the vaxx reluctant to keep us shut off from from the rest of the world.
The current situation is untenable, and there is this illusion that we will be able to prevent community spread upon reopening.
Perhaps unvaccinated persons should be asked to sign a waiver acknowledging that they are refusing this potentially life saving resource and thus will not have priority for treatment.
Removing the electronic mornitoring is a huge mistake noting everything going on worldwide with respect to the Delta variant. I am thinking of all the children scheduled to go back to school (especially those under age 12) in a few weeks and how devastating it will be if we end up in another lockdown. What’s the point of loosening the restrictions when we STILL have heard NOTHING from the government on what the reaction will be when we get COVID cases in the community again???????? The people deserve to know. No one wants lockdown and it is not worth reducing restrictions on quarantine if we’re going to give up our current state of life.
Our current state of life can not continue. We must adapt to living with COVID as it is here for ever.
Why the government needs to do is simply say we are opening to vaccinated people on a said day and watch all the holdouts come forward for their shots.
With out a doubt weather we change our isolation or not we will get it here one day just look at Australia and how it spread from the isolation hotels evan after some here there for 14 days.
Thank you for providing the vaccination schedule CNS.
Sadly it seems that government is showing no innovation and even fewer options compared with what was offered before. Mondays everything is closed and for the rest of the month nothing is open on Thursdays. Why are there still no mobile vaccinations in all districts every week? Why are there no mobile facilities going to supermarkets and large work sites? This does not look like what was promised a few weeks ago.
Another jurisdiction is implementing an internal ‘vaccine passport’ system to minimize Covid spread and allow the majority to live relatively normal lives.
“Quebec will implement a vaccine passport regime in the coming weeks, Premier François Legault announced today.
Details of the regime will be released soon, Legault said. But he said the rising case numbers in Quebec, and the prospect of more hospitalizations and deaths in the coming weeks, has made the vaccine passport regime necessary.
The regime will allow the province to avoid the widespread closures that have marked its pandemic response to date, he said.
“People who made the effort to get their two doses should be able to live a somewhat normal life,” Legault said.”
Time to do the same in Cayman before any further relaxation of local quarantine and other public measures.
I did as Legault said but I can’t get a QR code on the accepted list. Does my vaccination not count?
Do you not see how that won’t work? It will be impossible to police. Restaurant and bar owners really don’t care who gives them money for their services. It is doomed to failure.
It has not been implemented and will have to pass before it is implemented.
Another cruise ship sailing produces Covid cases
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/carnival-cruise-line-covid-cases-mask-requirement/index.html
No one wants cruise ships again.
An important article on BBC today regarding whether people should get the vaccine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-58080116
So many people in the USA are now deciding to get the vaccine… only after their local community has been badly affected… or only after they have lost a loved one to COVID-19… or only after they themselves have become ill.
Come on Cayman… let’s not learn the hard way. Let us be proactive and take the vaccine to avoid this pain and suffering that is happening in other countries.
Contrary to what you think, MANY areas of the USA have a very high vaccination rate. Other areas are dreadful so it brings down overall rate.
For those interested in science rather than Facebook and troll-sourced information, a new large scale study of the incidence of Covid among fully vaccinated people has found that, ‘the rate of breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated individuals is “well below 1% in all reporting states, ranging from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.29% in Alaska”. That means breakthrough cases are very rare.’ The science is here:
https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/
Now that Canada is starting to re-open, their border officials are catching people trying to enter with fake US vaccination certificates.
https://people.com/travel/2-travelers-fined-for-entering-canada-fake-vaccination-cards/
Perhaps because Advent Health charges $175.00 per PCR Test.
Good news from France this morning. It turns out that requiring vaccination as a condition of entry into restaurants and bars is entirely consistent with human rights legislation. Lets get on with it Cayman!
“France’s constitutional court has just ruled that a new law requiring the public to hold a health pass to access bars and restaurants and health workers to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by mid-September largely complied with the republic’s founding charter, Reuters reports.”
the government doesn’t give me my rights. you think the North Korean government gives rights to their people?
Right – you got yours as a prize in a cereal box.
Good news for the unvaccinated, who eats out in a pandemic?
Not the unvaccinated in France going forward.
Who doesn’t? I’ve been eating in restaurants the whole pandemic….other than the two weeks when they were closed.
Do we look like France? Their legislation doesn’t apply to us.
Further evidence from the UK that the vaccine is the best way to prevent death and hospitalisation from Covid:
“The Covid-19 vaccine rollout in England is estimated to have directly averted more than 66,900 hospital admissions, according to new figures from Public Health England.
Previous estimates had put the figure at more than 52,600 admissions, PA news reports.
Estimates of how many infections in England have been prevented by the vaccine (between 21.3 and 22.9 million) and also the number of deaths (between 57,500 and 62,700) are unchanged.”
Hopefully the US plan to only admit fully vaccinated people will be applied to those in transit as well. That will limit some spread of the virus to Cayman.
getting vaccinated also works I’m told…….
The US plan to only allow people who are fully vaccinated to enter the country is very good news. If all countries on the planet did that, including Cayman, then the virus would spread far less.
No. They said it is “under consideration” that people may have to be vaccinated to arrive in the USA.
So far, when they’ve said they are considering something, it happens a few days/weeks later once people have had a chance to get used to the idea. So far, anyway.
The USA announced today that you will have to be vaccinated to enter the country, you already need to be vaccinated to enter most bars and restaurants and avoid extensive quarantine in many cities like New York and most of Europe. So basically if you are not vaccinated you are never leaving this rock to Miami or anywhere ever again, hopefully that pushes some of the anti vax fools to go get jabbed.
“you already need to be vaccinated to enter most bars and restaurants and avoid extensive quarantine in many cities” is an inaccurate claim.
NYC is one of very few cities to require this!
Very welcome news.
Will they accept our vaccine cards?
Who travels in a pandemic?
I do! Four trips since March 2020.
I applaud your embracing natural selection.
A lot of people.
It varies from people who must to people who wish to live their lives.
No. They said it is “under consideration” that people may have to be vaccinated to arrive in the USA.
If we have thousands of unused vaccine doses, hopefully our government will permit those at higher risk from Covid to receive a booster shot prior to the border re-opening. If they do not they are unnecessarily risking peoples lives as Israel has discovered. CNN
“Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is warning that Israelis over 60 are at risk unless they go get their third booster shot immediately.
In a recorded audio message meant to be forwarded to friends and family, Bennett said that in the next two to three weeks anyone who is over the age of 60 and has not yet received their third vaccine is six times more likely to become seriously ill from the coronavirus, compared to those who are five days past their third shot.
Bennett warned that all those over the age of 60 take extreme caution until they get their third dose, including not being in crowded places, and only seeing their grandchildren outside and masked.”
I agree. Priority should be given to those with no vaccination but with the quarantine rules being relaxed in a few days and the virus likely to arrive shortly thereafter, we should not allow any vaccine to be sent to the dump. Allow those who want a booster to get one.
It cant be 99 percent of entire population as children under 12 may constitute 10 to 15 percent of total pop. So may be 99 percent of eligible for vaccination. Ours also may be around 90 percent of eligible pop.
Gibraltar has learned that high vaccination rates significantly limit Covid and limits serious illness but even with high vaccination rates, it is necessary to limit large events and restrict access to public venues such as restaurants and bars to people who are fully vaccinated. If we are planning to re-open we need to put in place a system that restricts access to indoor activities in restaurants and bars to those that are fully vaccinated.
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/08/02/update-covid-19-cases-drop-in-gibraltar/
Absolutely. Restricting the access of those not vaccinated to places where we know the disease is likely to spread should be introduce quickly and certainly well before any further opening up.
It seems that the pandemic has indirectly benefited some of this planets creatures. We need to think about whether we want cruise ships bringing disease and polluting our environment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58032702
I can see COVID is not too fond of tourism. It is becoming obvious.
Actually Covid adores tourism as it tourism is probably the single greatest spreader of that disease.
Thank you. There is the answer.
To stop the spread, stop the traveling. God is great.
People should learn from Florida – BBC
“The number of Covid patients in Florida hospitals has risen to a new high, breaking records set during previous waves before vaccines were available.
US health officials say 11,515 Florida residents are currently in hospital. Many are younger and healthier than patients seen earlier in the pandemic.”
not so fast….
““But the mortality is different. Now we’ve got a better way to treat patients, patients tend to be younger now. So they have fewer CO illnesses, other illnesses,” Antonucci [Lee county, FL Health CEO and President] said. ”
CNS: Whatever point you think you’re making, here’s the full article: Lee Health responds to rising COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations
Antonucci said it’s dangerous to think that the mortality rate will not spike again. Deaths are climbing as hospitalizations skyrocket.
“Well, it’s showing that this virus continues to spread in our community, primarily in the unvaccinated community. If you look at the patients that are in the hospital right now, about 90% are unvaccinated. And certainly, none of the patients in the ICU have been vaccinated,” Antonucci said.
Thank you CNS – I am not sure whether people are careless in their posts or whether there is a deliberate dis-information campaign going on that encourages our people to adopt stupid views and behaviours.
Or maybe people are just lazy and post things based on headlines without reading them…
If there is such a deadly virus, why do we travel, eat out in restaurants, attend gatherings, bars and public events. It is shown keeping the borders closed is one one way of eliminating the virus but how will people survive? Can they survive? Are there alternatives?
If we follow the science and get vaccinated, are we able to travel hassle free, eat out in restaurants, pubs and public events. Will the world go back to normal?
What is the evidence showing?
Would the government please host another press conference.
Many people have questions. For example, I’d like to ask why the quarantine period is different for vaccinated people versus unvaccinated people (including children) if both groups can contract and spread Covid?
Other readers will have their own questions. More regular discussions and dialogue with government would be helpful to many people at this stage.
I can answert hat for you. You clearly are incapable of researching basis thingsa bout Covid. The quarantine is shorter for vaccinated because the vaccine hugely reduces your chances of contracting or spreading the virus vs unvaccinated, and if you do get it you are unlikely to transmit it to others as much or get so ill that you need public health resources.
You are wrong. Even if you are vaccinated, you can catch Covid-19 AND transmit it to others that you come in contact with. Even more so with the Delta variant. You need to get your facts straight. That is why the CDC and even President Biden wants to impose mandatory mask wearing but there are radicals like the Florida Governor who is not keen as he’s only thinking about getting re-elected if he makes people happy.
I never said you can’t catch or transmit it if vaccinated. I said you ate far less likely to. Those are the facts
But you can only catch it possibly. It’s still a small percentage chance you catch Covid while vaccinated. So just forking get vaccinated and we could all move on.
What is known:
If vaccinated, and gets infected you are likely to spread the virus more, hence, the mask mandate.
This means everyone is likely to catch it once the borders are open but for those vaccinated the risk of hospitalization and death is greatly reduced.
What of the unvaccinated
People should not be told to get vaccinated to protect others and they believe they will be just fine, and they will not overburden the health system, they will not need to be hospitalized and may not die.
Why the call to get vaccinated if the people think they will do just fine without.
Are there evidence people can survive without getting vaccinated?
Sorry but that is so wrong. All the evidence is that people who get vaccinated are far less likely to become ill or spread the virus. It is true that social media sites spread garbage – but that garbage is no evidence of anything other than the effective use of click-bate against the ill-informed,
You are wrong. Even if you are vaccinated, you can catch Covid-19 AND transmit it to others that you come in contact with. Even more so with the Delta variant. You need to get your facts straight. That is why the CDC and even President Biden wants to impose mandatory mask wearing but there are radicals like the Florida Governor who is not keen as he’s only thinking about getting re-elected if he makes people happy.
This response makes no sense. No one said you can’t catch it or spread it if vaccinated. We are saying that you are far less likely to, which is a proven fact!
Please site your source which says you are far less likely to catch it?
Jesus, how many sources do you want? Would be a million Osage document of approved government real life data from around the world, how stupid are you?
The viral loads of both the vaccinated and unvaccinated are the same. Keep up, things changes with where Delta is concern.
Idiot
Idiot
Idiot this is for you. CDC FINALLY releases data behind mask guidance U-turn: Study claims vaccinated people infected with ‘Delta’ variant have same viral levels as the unvaccinated – but only four of 346 sick were hospitalized and NONE died
Before the vaccine. Most of the people that had it on island where asymptomatic and we had people from all age groups as well as people with cancer etc.
With around 33, 000 residents Gibraltar is the most vaccinated country on earth.
By June 1st, over 99% of Gibraltar’s population was fully vaccinated.
Since that time, new COVID cases per day have increased from 1 to 25 and the country is now going back into lockdown.
Similar stories are occurring in other countries with the highest percentages vaccinated; Israel, UK, Malta and Iceland.
Clearly, the vaccine does not stop infections or spreading.
Why is the goal to vaccinate everyone if the most vaccinated countries on earth are going back into lockdown?
Your seriously flawed logic is akin to arguing that dogs are animals therefore all animals are dogs. It is true that Gibraltar has had breakthrough cases in vaccinated persons but it is also true that the vast majority of those vaccinated breakthrough cases resulted in only mild symptoms. The only person to become seriously ill and die was someone who was not vaccinated.
https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/government-confirms-death-from-covid-19-5802021-7155
Because the vaccine can decrease the volume of spread, and for those who are vaccinated who then contract COVID-19 there is less chance that those individual will be seriously ill or require hospitalisation. This means the hospital systems are less likely to be operating at capacity and can provide those who are hospitalised (numbers from the US and UK are showing hospitalised patients are predominantly unvaccinated) with better care.
Please don’t get aggressive with the answer to this but with all the information I am confused and stick to the CDC, WHO and Govs websites. Where are you seeing the vaccine can decrease the volume of spread?
The last I saw was from the CDC Director Rochelle Walensky which has been posted lots of times stating ” recent studies had shown that this vaccinated individuals who do become infected with Covid have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others.”
I am vaxxed but need to get this straight in my head. I thought it only stopped severe symptoms and death? Where is the CDC ( not opinion based ) showing that it reduces the actual volume of spread. Even my doctor when I asked was not 100% on this, it’s getting confusing. Thank you.
As Florida and Dr. Death DeSantis continue to be stupid, now restricting new oxygen supplies there, while here we still have low levels of people vaccinated, we should prepare not to open until next year.
We make our own beds and we sleep in it. No one to blame but our own stupidity.
Fake news! #DeSantis2024
It seems insults are coming from vaccinated people only…I wonder why.
CNS: Florida Hospitals Fighting to Get Oxygen With ‘Hand Tied’
Florida hospitals are struggling to get oxygen due to a rise in Covid-19 cases attributable to the delta variant and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s decision not to declare another state of emergency.
2 responses to than those your question. First vaccinated people are far smarter than those who are voluntarily non-vaccinated. Second stating the factual is not an insult.
9:31, You really want to see Dr. Death become President when he blocks his own Florida doctors in hospitals from getting more oxygen?
Immigrants and Biden also responsible for the COVID problems in Florida today?
You truly are a delusional individual.
We’ve never been closed to FL. Cayman Airways is back and forth to Miami. Apparently Miami is the only safe city in the US to travel from. 🤪
Bunch of stupid policies we’re stuck with.
Please don’t allow CITA and other non experts to tell us when to open. CIG got this.
Maybe the borders should just open and forget counting numbers one by one.
Read how US going to require foreign passengers to be vaccinated. Smart! The first comment on another site from resident says they are going to borrow someone’s vaxx card- so maybe the illegal vaxx cards will be going both ways.
The vaccines aren’t working and you all are clearly not up to date with your info. Lambda variant has recently been found by Japanese researchers to evade the vaccines.
https://www.newsweek.com/lambda-covid-variant-1000-cases-us-shows-vaccine-resistance-1615668
“The only way to protect yourselves and the people you care about from the deadly new vaccine-resistant variants is to go out and get vaccinated right away.” – Experts
what a joke
The vaccines are clearly working. They’ve saved at least 50,000 lives in the uk so far.
If you had bothered to read the link prior to posting you would possibly understood that the article does not state or otherwise provide any basis for stating what you have claimed. Either that or you read the article and are simply a Troll.
Have you even read the article?
“May be more resistant to the vaccine” does not mean that the vaccine does not reduce the risk of infection, or the risk of serious symptoms.
The only joke here (and it’s a pretty unfunny one) is your efforts to find support for a scientifically unsupportable position.
Thank you!
The government is putting the demands from the tourism sector and their lobbying entity ahead of the science. The delta variant should have changed the proposed reopening date but the government is running scared at this point. Lockdowns have just been reimposed in parts of China and a similar thing will happen in Cayman in the absence of competent leadership.
What is the cost of crippling the domestic economy that we do have so that some entities can have a few weeks of tourism activity?
I applaud your thinking.
Because people are stupid and selfish. Those people really dont care about cayman.
Every Employer needs to step up and do what ALT just did..
I am very surprised that the major grocery stores have not stepped up to ensure that there is a program put in place for their unvaccinated front line staff. When the outbreaks start and stores start closing, I guess that is when they will get some balls.
Customers hold some power in this game too….reach out, continuously, to the business owners requesting a safer environment in their stores/restaurants. If one steps up first to require the vaccines, all can show support by supporting them and boycotting others. Hit ‘em where it hurts!
I am definitely on board for that. I don’t want to come home with Covid because I went to the store for milk.
They wear a seatbelt and put up hurricane shutters, but won’t get a vaccine. So strange. Let’s hope there are enough hospital beds for them when we open.
Lets hope there are enough hospital beds for people with other illnesses or involved in accidents, and not all occupied by Covid sufferers who could have gotten vaccinated but chose not to.
I didnt know we had so many stupid people in Cayman
Really ? All I see is stupid people everyday ! Smart ones too. But lots of dumb ones …
Welcome to planet Earth
There are other ways to limit Covid. Hopefully we will not allow cruise ships back until at least 247% of the total population has been double vaccinated, – and hell freezes over.
The US White House statement today that proof of vaccination will be required for people entering the US is welcome news. Hopefully they will apply it to US persons arriving and departing as well.
No problem with that. Should have been that way all along. Walmart really shouldn’t be that important to some.
It will not apply to US citizens. It’s is for foreign visitors.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-us-developing-plan-require-foreign-visitors-be-vaccinated-official-2021-08-04/
And it also has NOT been passed nor implemented at this time.
this is the true plan which does not involve any plan for re-opening:
cig are planning/waiting for limited community transmission which will then result in some type of lockdown measures, the community gets angry and wants borders fully closed again….cig will gladly go backwards.
win-win for cig as they don’t ever have to face the reality if dealing with covid.
there is no plan to re-open. 80% is virtually impossible.
the real plan/truth is that cayman will fully re-open when the rest of the world is back to normal and covid has been declared simlilar risk to that of seasonal flu…..which will likely be next spring.
thanks for nothing pact.
10:07, How in Lord’s name can we possibly reopen with what is going on in Florida today?
Dr. Death, the Governor of Florida, needs to get his act together. To blame everything on Biden and immigrants as he did today is pure and utter B.S.
Oh, and now they are running out of oxygen in hospitals too.
The stupidity overwhelms me.
This is GREAT NEWS!!!!!
Sensible news from the US today
“Future travelers to the United States will have to be fully vaccinated a White House official has said. The new requirement is being discussed as part of a phased approach to easing restrictions for foreign visitors.”
Licks! No weekend shopping trips for unvaccinated Caymanians. People don’t even care enough about our own community to get vaccinated but I bet this will matter.
Mmm or order online…no biggie
“ … is being discussed… “ Stop spreading false news.
still no “plan b” when we don’t reach the 80% vaccinated by Sept. 9, Premier Panton has only said he will NOT back down from the 80%–but no further word as to what will happen when it isn’t met.
There is no plan A.
There was an article a week ago saying he would back down from the 80% if that number could not be reached by Sept. 9.
How many of the active cases are vaccinated?
No border opening date, no vaccine.
“As of Monday, people arriving in Cayman with a verifiable, full vaccination course will be asked to self-isolate for five days on trust. This will significantly increases the risk of community transmission since, while the potential punishment of six months in jail or CI$10,000 fine remains, without the monitoring system there will be less risk of travellers being caught if they break the rules.”
Trust lol. They are going to let the virus in. Get your shots while you still can.
Why have we received no info from government on the reaction once we have COVID in the community? We deserve to know! I don’t want to go through another lockdown, homeschooling, etc.