678 new cases of COVID recorded over weekend
(CNS): An additional 669 people were found to be positive with COVID-19 over the weekend as a result of community transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as it continues is unrelenting spread through the Cayman Islands. Another nine travellers were also positive, making a total of 678 new cases since Friday from 3,696 test samples. The latest official figures, which were released just before noon on Tuesday, showed that as of 8am on Monday morning, there were 2,118 active cases of the virus across all three Cayman Islands, including 81 on the Sister islands, which is around 3% of the entire population.
Officials said that as of 8am Monday, 832 positive results came via lateral flow tests since they were rolled out in the community last month. Fourteen people are in hospital, 12 of whom are unvaccinated, and while none are on ventilators, several are being given oxygen. Government has not said how many more of the 2,118 people who are currently positive are suffering symptoms of COVID-19.
To date, Cayman has recorded 3,354 cases of the virus since the first positive test back in March 2020, but 2,631 of those cases have been recorded in the last two months since the virus returned to the community with the first positive case on 8 September.
Public Health has confirmed that 2,785 people are currently in quarantine, which includes travellers who tested negative and members of households where people are positive and they are unvaccinated. This means that even those members who test negative are unable to use the lateral flow tests to continue going to work or school.
Meanwhile, the number of people vaccinated for the first time inched up over the weekend by 166 to 57,074 people, or 80% of the estimated population 71,106. Currently, 54,838 people, or 77%, have had two shots, while 6,163 people have had a booster shot.
See the vaccine schedule on the HSA website here.
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A lot of grifters are becoming rich from COVID.
A lot of us have experienced huge financial losses. Some of us saw the writing on the wall and took the necessary action and some of us didn’t.
Personally, and these are my own conclusions based on what I see, COVID has been a carefully planned and executed operation to provide the result that we now see.
That is my opinion. I can only call as I see.
I do not trust the government at all.
What has enabled this situation is the classification of information.
Any information that is not classified as being in alignment with the official narrative is effectively quenched, but pro-narrative information is actively promoted.
This is incredibly unhealthy because it implies that the government is always right when in fact, we know this is not the case.
Nobody is always right. As human beings who have all made mistakes, we know this to be true from empirical data.
I am incredibly upset as to how people that I once knew and trusted have blindly gravitated to the side of the official narrative.
Perhaps it was not blindly, perhaps there was coercion or financial benefits too good to be true?
At the end of the day, we all have one thing that should never be sold or taken from us.
That one thing is our integrity.
#Deadly2Reopen
Your Vaccine does nothing to protect you.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/09/health/immunocompromised-covid-19-booster-wellness-trnd/index.html
CNS: Good grief! The article is about immunocompromised people, including “people in active treatment for cancers of the blood or for solid tumors, certain organ transplant and stem cell recipients, people with advanced or untreated HIV, and those who take high-dose corticosteroids or other drugs that may suppress their immune system”. It’s an interesting article. You should make an effort and actually read it.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear
CNS – Thank you for sharing the CNN article on immunocompromised patients and covid. I’m a sixty-something immunosuppressed with lupus nephritis, diabetes, heart disease and trying to live a normal life in Cayman by getting 3 vaccines, double-masking, personal sanitizing and other measures, including prayer. The article was enlightening and encouraging.
Nevertheless, I’m still going to put my affairs in order…just in case. As covid has shown, things can change quickly!
Good grief,are you MI5 or 6?
Such a load of utter bullshit as usual.
Wayne and PACT at this point need to push back from the desk and accept defeat. Nothing in place at this point is effectively going to mitigate the spread of the virus, (they could have) all they’re doing now is pi$$ing off everybody by putting them through futile measures with the facade they have it under control. In the Sun Tzu quote ‘The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself’ it’s assumed the enemy is Cayman itself.
Shut up. Not clever. 👎🏼
Interesting 2:54, – obviously you’ve allowed yourself to be irritated by the comment but please expand on why. I initially had faith in Wayne but at each turning point it seems that the whole thing is about to implode. Highest case rate in the world, running out of vaccine, mass confusion on testing and re-entry, disappearing to Cop26 just as numbers are rising, extensive delays in announcing results of testing, and I’m sure there’s more. Maybe it’s a teenie weenie bit of a stretch but becoming our own worst enemy in an effort to get on the downside of this pandemic has to certainly be right up there. I look forward to your letters 👍
All gone quite at the CITA office. . . any comment on the current state of play, Mr. Langevin?
The government either increased the probability of a pre-20 November outbreak to limit the disaster that is dropping quarantine on 20 November and/or they deliberately did nothing to contain this outbreak in order to placate the cabal. Either way they are to blame for the present situation.
Gov’t is super quick to update the official count on a day when they have only 73 cases (69 community), but they never bothered to put the 678 case day up on http://www.exploregov.ky
You can’t really hide this information.
They can try!
These numbers don’t surprise me, given some of the eyebrow-raising policies put in place in highly trafficked public institutions like HSA. I’ve heard from reliable sources that HSA departments are allegedly running on the policy that workers should still come to work even if they have people in their immediate household (as in live-in family members) with Covid. And they should continue to report to work until they themselves test positive. In one alleged example of this, a worker in the housekeeping department had a live-in partner and kids with Covid. The manager of the department allegedly told that worker they still had to report to the hospital for work until they showed a positive test. 24 hours later after interacting with numerous hospital staff and visitors, this worker’s Covid test came back positive. Now, they can only hope that worker correctly wore their PPE the entire time on their rounds! I’ve also heard from reliable sources of nurses with in-house family members with Covid are still allegedly reporting to work and interacting with pregnant women, children, the elderly and other vulnerable populations. I’m not sure what strategy the HSA directors or the MOH is pursuing here. Seems like pouring oil on fire.
All part of ‘the plan’.
That, when the dust settles, looks like criminal negligence. ESPECIALLY if there is no vaccine requirement. That one person could literally shut down the hospital. Were they wearing PPE in the break room they shared with everyone else?
So much overreaction. We are 80 per cent vaccinated and the sensible ones among us will be 6 months since second jab soon, so eligible for booster, which gives you close to 10% protection against hospitalisation from the delta variant.
Follow the rules, be sensible, and you’ll be fine.
We are a year behind other counties. Stop this cabal nonsense. Everyone is the cabal.
Quick! Everyone check their bank accounts! We all rich now!
WTF with this cabal talk all of a sudden.
It’s so boring!
I mean 100%
Misleading graph. People may think since oct 24 cases were increasing but came down first week of nov and now increasing
That is not true. The graph reps the reports data . Instead better to report results based on sample collection date
Is the total over weekend is 669 results from Health and 882 from lateral tests.
Confusing stats.
I think the report should consist of one figure and public health can break it if they have details.
With this number just self responsibility and seeking help is the way. No use of public health monitoring as done in the beginning.
Public shld be educated of reasoning. They will understand.
Agree with you but providing accurate and intelligible information as you suggest is not in the plan.
You know what bugs me, what was the last 18 months of sacrifices, lockdowns, curfews, etc..was for?
It was to give us time to get vaccinated. We would be in a much worse situation if we didn’t have such a high vaccination rate.
OK that was 18 months what was the last 6 months for?
We waited 6 months to open to convince the last handful to get vaccinated just to get to the magic 80%…..This was a joke should have said April 1st this year and you had your chance.
In theory I agree 7.07am but I don’t think it was planned. Just good luck. The only thing transparent about the current government is that they occasionally have a Plan A but never a Plan B. PACT don’t seem to think of the consequence of any action they take. Everything is just reactive. Talks of a cabal and other conspiracies are way off the mark. They simply don’t have a clue. Most of them are new to politics and even experienced politicians around the world are struggling to make the right decisions. However, there is normally a fall back contingency if the ideas don’t work out as planned. Not in Cayman though. If Plan A doesn’t work there is a deafening silence until a new plan forms – normally hastily created ones following feedback from the community
Lockdowns and curfews yes. Sacrifices I drew the line at. I feel bad for your goat/chicken/small child.
8:21pm ……I agree: as usual we are trying to be rescuing angels ! We need to halt these flights to one way – these people needs to go home immediately before the catastrophe hit. We are going to have big big problems if we don’t take heed! And start worrying about Cayman and CAYMANIANS!!!!
Why isn’t Opposition saying anything about the current COVID situation in the community? Have they also been bought out?
Why aren’t people protesting the lack of any restrictive measure to control the spread?
And we are trusting people to do the LFT tests at home and to report if positive. How many are actually doing it, especially when it is necessary for them, and how many are NOT reporting the positives, lest they need to,isolate.
no-plan-ppm had no plan in power and certainly don’t have one now.
Be wise it’s the communities fault, not the governments fault. Grow up.
Sorry: My take/opinion that it is the Governments fault!
Jamaica and England were raging with Covid this summer, but still the flights were going and coming.
The teachers, of which we know are mostly Jamaicans 😞 went to Jamaica and returned, what did they expect was going to happen!!!!
In conjunction to that, I understand, that Government/ immigration allowed 100’s and 100’s of children to come to Cayman. This shit should never have been allowed. It’s ones guess that many many of them are in our schools right now. Who would send their children back to a covid infected place ???? Damn we are in a mess. PACT wake up!!!!
What on earth… everyone had to quarantine for 14 days…. why would any one this matter?
No it went to an unscientific 5 days. I. The US they say you need to isolate for 14 days
I think the exit test is scaring people. In most countries, you quarantine for 10 or 14 days and then are done. But here some people are still testing positive at the end of their quarantine and ending up taking 21 days or a month. People feel that you’re better off just to quarantine yourself and not be monitored. I realize that’s a risk but that’s what I’ve heard.
People need to calm down with the hysteria. We have an extremely high vaccination rate, the hospitals are not backed up and no one is getting severe symptoms.
This is actually going really well if you look at the hospitalization rates vs. any other country.
Wait…isn’t it usually 2 or 3 weeks later that the deaths start rising? If it’s mostly unvaxxed in hospital than we should probably be seeing some deaths soon. Isn’t that what’s happened out in the real world? If we don’t, then Cayman truly is a remarkable place.
Yeah, the “live with it/cabal” leaves this part out in their “relax” drivel
I was one who thought – and still think – we should have waited a while longer to get more people boostered and the 5-11 kids vaccinated. But … you are right. So far we are doing very well when it comes to people getting severely ill in view of the high numbers of people infected. Let’s all hope that continues. The unvaccinated remain at high risk though.
Thank you! Absolute idiots on here blaming tourists who have not yet flown in and some imaginary cabal. Typical caymanians… never want to solve it themselves, just blame tourists and expats.
Siri, show me Reopen Cayman
Is the re-opening posse, happy now.
We had it so good, I thought we were so blessed and protected.
Welcome to reality.
Had what so good.? The reopening is on November 20, in 20:days time. You are all blaming something that caymanians created on a future event. You are ridiculous.
We haven’t reopened yet! So don’t blame that. We need to open and will on 20th.
This surge in positive results is a good practice for when we do.
My household is in isolation with my 6 year old having tested positive before school on Friday (lateral flow test). She’s sympathetic but doing well.
I tested negative on the LFT and so did my wife (after 5 days close with our positive treasure).
We are fully vaccinated and not fearful of becoming severely ill – Thanks to the vaccine.
We are of the view that although negative at say 10am, we could be positive hours later. Therefore our decision is to stay put, away from people, until we are sure that the risk to others has passed.
My country, The Cayman Islands, bought time with the boarder closure to get our vaccination % up. Well done to both Governments.
Now we are well placed to deal with and live with Covid – with caution of course to protect our venerable.
Hurry up and get our kids vaccinated. That’s where the spread is!
Be happy. We’re not in a bad place 🙂
Thank you. Hope you little one gets better soon, and you adults stay fine.
And thanks for being responsible and unselfish, if only others would follow your example.
Obviously you are still working full-time.
The current government is responsible for this chaos.
Caymanians need to stand up and demand actions.
This was done on purpose to accommodate business.
Reducing isolation to 5 days gave the virus an opportunity.
They should personally being accountable.
Id my child gets suck and dies, I know we’re to find them .
This has nothing to do with the reopening plan or tourists. This has everything to do with community spread. This has to do with people not following the covid protocols that have been mentioned over and over again since March 2020. You became complacent and thought there was no covid. You gathered in large crowds., You didn’t wear a mask. You didn’t social distance. Some didn’t get vaccinated. That is why there is community spread. Has nothing to do with the reopening plan or tourists or Jamaica or drug canoes.
Grow up and get vaccinated you shallow idiot
If you are looking for ‘where’ they are (not we’re) then look to the domino player locals ignoring quarantine restrictions.
Willingly created chaos by your government.
Wait for the first child to pass. Horrible.
I definitely blame the government too, but mainly for your hysteria.
you could be waiting a while….
If that happens they’ll have much more to worry about than wondering about opening the borders to line their pockets.
I can only imagine the level of disarry if something so unfortunate and avoidable we’re to happen it would be the spark this community needs to uproar.
Makes perfect sense that we’re being forced to catch it now. Can you imagine the jumping up and down if the tourists came THEN we all started catching it? People would be demanding that we shut borders immediately.
The wishy washy protocol and lack of preventative action by CIG make it pretty obvious this was the plan.
Yes exactly. Total inaction now from PACT to avoid future protests to close the borders. And guess we do know where the instructions are coming from!
What does Nov. 20 have to do w/ the community spread that is happening now and has been for the past few weeks? Nothing! Border opening has nothing to do with this. Place blame where it belongs. With a community that gathers in large groups without masks and believed Covid was something they were immune to. The world has been following Covid protocols for a reason whether Covid was raging or quiet.
PACT just letting this one rip and see what happens.
I can’t see the tourists flocking here when we’re topping danger lists!
No. The public are letting it rip. Likely unvaccinated and Caymanians not following the rules. Vaccinated visitors on Nov 20 are no risk. You are.
Seems like everyone is just letting it rip…SMH
Young expats enjoying the bar scene, too.
P-A-R-T-WHY? Because they got to!
Not just the young uns! The singles, young and not so young, are desperate to be out and mingling.
Cocktail week caused a big spike in new cases as people got drunk together and forgot about covid.
Cocktail Week was lit
We don’t care. We will be there when the quarantine and the rest of the useless restrictions are gone.
I’m on my way 12/1. Unless you start wuarantining again.
We are on our way, too. We are vaccinated and follow covid protocols. We will also not quarantine.
I hope you are careful with yourself and everyone here when you enjoy your getaway. I don’t think you want to be part of the problem. In your shoes, I think I would acquire some LFTs and use them during and after travel. Just for your own peace of mind. Enjoy!
Instead of bringing in restrictive measures to curb the spread, PACT is hell bent on bringing in the tourists without quarantine. Makes sense, of course – NOT!
Seriously – what difference does it make at this point? Cayman is crawling with Covid. Many people who have it don’t care and are knowingly walking around while being infected. If anything, we should warn tourists at the airport that they’ll probably catch Covid here.
You’re correct bunt there’s no point trying to educate fools. Most of these anti vax anti border reopening think their caymanian kids could do a expats FS job and that expats steal their jobs. They have absolutely no idea what is going on in their territory. Uneducated idiots,
This one has three degrees, has lived and worked internationally, and is very effective in a leading FS position. I am far from alone.
You are an entitled prick.
The expats came here after the hurricane with not much experience and were trained so that now through networking they have a lot of top jobs. Me as an expat trained some of these expats. The ones who had an idea back then were the Caymanians. They didn’t have the formal qualifications. Some were good and some were lazy but no different to anywhere else.
The community spread that is happening now has nothing to do with tourists. It has nothing to do with tourists quarantine. It has to do with the community gathering in large groups and not being compliant with their masks/social distancing. No one else is to blame. Not even the government.
You serious. The tourists pose no threat, it’s already here – look closer to home
I have heard some people saying if they find out anyone in their family is Positive, they won’t tell anyone, and the rest of the family will just go about doing their business without evening doing the LFT. Imagine how many such people might be out there doing the same, and spreading the infection. It may make sense if the employers and schools make the people do the tests in front of them or on video.
Welcome to the Covid Islands, where money and good times are all that’s important.
You must be simple to have such a simplistic view of a complex problem – that being living with a world wide pandemic in a sustainable way.
that is because the government has taken such an extreme view of locking people up indefinitely until they have a negative PCR… better to keep it to yourself and isolate so as not to spread.
What I find totally amazing is how the community isn’t up in arms with the Govt etc regarding these absolutely appalling numbers.
It’s a total shambles and everything is out of control- it’s a disgrace and National embarrassment.
Lee needs to have his OBE taken back !
The Govt is doing nothing.
All we hear is the pathetic narrative that ‘it was inevitable’ – NO it wasn’t! Not like this . Look at NZ, Australia etc… a little outbreak and they had a snap one week lockdown to curb things….
Our useless immature Govt have done nothing.
The media, too, must have PACT sympathies a they’ve not pushed back at all…
You want to be safe.?..then lock yourself down.
Compass is part of the Cabal
Who isn’t part of the cabal judging by comments from people like you?
Agree. A little more than a decade ago, it was considered almost seditious to question government, especially the Crown. Caymanians had loyalty to government, and they mostly earned it, or some of it. It feels like we are still in that zone, where people don’t stand up, or especially stand together. Agree that should change, and right quick.
I think the media are mostly constrained by legal boundaries. Conjecture isn’t proof and rumour isn’t savory, and media — or at least this one we are posting on — appears to honour an obligation to print verefiable facts, at least as attributable to a particular authority. CNS also appears to identify where they are rendering an opinion or editorial. That gray zone — where we all “know things” that we can’t prove — media shouldn’t dabble in that place,
And no doubt they will open the borders and AL Thompson will sell out of shovels so fast.
Listen im all for normality but this is anything but normality right now.
People are going to get sick. I mean SICK
Not vaccinated, and I’m doing just fine. Riding out the storm. Proud of my natural immunity status 🙂👍🏽
You’re doing just fine, but have you contracted Covid yet? There are always some people who do in fact have “natural immunity” to particular infectious diseases. Are you really willing to risk your life that you’re special?
Oh, he special alright
J. L. You also proud to be chronically stupid too?
Because of turkeys like you we are in the mess we are in today.
Blame the spread on the high vaccine rate. Every country with a high vaccine rate normally ends up with an outbreak.
You are so stupid I feel sorry for you. The definition of why expats do high paid jobs in your overseas territory.
Activate superiority complex!
How?
When vaccine wanes, break through cases occur.
Natural immunity status hey J.L. -, where can I sign up to be tested and hopefully get stamped for that ?
Thank you 3:57 for limiting what else I could have said
Yes , you can ride out the storm beautifully here, just don’t plan on travelling ANYWHERE . Enjoy your stay.
No need to be rushing to travel at this time.
Try never. No country is ever going to drop their vaccine requirements and risk introducing covid again. Instead even the countries without vaccine mandates right now will bring them in once their own population gets vaccinated. If you don’t ever want to travel that’s fine but these restrictions will never change. Just look at the countries requiring people to be vaccinated for yellow fever – that requirement stands whether there are outbreaks or not.
You are five times more likely to catch covid and then spread it to someone else but whatever makes you happy I guess.
I don’t really care how many people have symptoms. Just like I wouldn’t be interested in how many people have a bad cold or flu. The only ones of concern are the ones in hospital. And it seems most of them weren’t vaccinated. Not much government can do to help them at this point. If they choose not to listen that’s their prerogative.
GET VACCINATED!!
why?
Why what?
Why what when?
We are #ReadytoOpen and Cayman tourism is finally featured prominently in the world news again! Let the tourists come!
Oh… wait a minute:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/11/09/cdc-avoid-travel-warning-covid/?sh=71e6e9676977
https://www.newsamericasnow.com/caribbean-travel-news-us-warns-against-travel-to-the-cayman-islands/
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/cdc-very-high-risk-travel-destinations-november-8/index.html
https://bestlifeonline.com/news-netherlands-cayman-islands-cdc/
https://observer.com/2021/11/cdc-new-travel-advisory-covid-19-update-netherlands-cayman-islands-high-risk/
Get boosters+
Israel beat the Delta outbreak via mass booster program, we must do the same if we want this to get under control.
Stat safe and get your booster if it has been 6 months since your 2nd dose.
I’m gonna just pull around a trolley with an IV bag full of booster.
I wouldn’t calling it beating Delta, it was totally out of control and their worst outbreak yet DESPITE being 80% vaccinated as a country at the start.
That being said, get vaccinated to increase your likelihood of mild symptoms.
Israel only had a vaccination rate in the mid 60’s when they were hit by the Delta wave in June/July.
They brought in under control with Boosters not lockdown.
Eh, Cayman should never be in this position.
We were being featured in news articles about the little country that stood up to Covid and now we’re in the news (New York Times) for being the worst. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Well done CIG!
This is because of a very weak and no back bone government.
Oh my, would you ever calm down people. LAteral Flow tests are known for mistaking Covid with a strong cold. If you’re +’ve on a lateral flow, ask yourself are you dead? If not, calm down and just check your symptons. Are you running a 103? 99.999% of you are not.
if you really think you’re struggling for normal breath or something worse than a mild headache or similar, then call for a PCR test and see.
But most of you +’ves simply have a cold
Calm down. Please. This is insanity what you’re doing to yourselves. Go for a walk. Smoke a doobie. Anything. Calm down.
You don’t appear to know shit, Sir. Please don’t project your opinion as fact. The LFTs test for the SARS-Cov-2 antigens and nothing else. Inform yourself.
https://www.exploregov.ky/lft-policy/what-lateral-flow-test-results-mean
Great – another nutty know-it-all know-nothing. Go watch a YouTube video and do some more “research.”
It seems that every person who attended a Cocktail Week event has Covid. That’s not very good marketing/PR for Jacques Scott or the participating establishments.
Yes, attending such events at a time when cases were rising! They’re still testing positive, and in denial of how they got it (“must have been somebody at work”).
Amazingly, some of these morons are already making plans to go out and socialise madly once they’re given the all clear, because they’re feeling invincible.
Watch out for them!
Quite shocking that some of the servers were positive! This was quite a super spreader weekend.
With Thanksgiving parties and pre-christmas events coming up, are the merchants/restaurants stepping up testing of their staff? Will the govt reduce the size of gatherings?
So much for the +19 months of closed borders ,quarantining & restriction’s. ” We will show the World ” .
We are showing the world right now – 2,100+ active cases and zero deaths because of the high vaccination rate. Cayman is the poster child for showing vaccinations work. I’m sure we’ll eventually have some deaths, but I think the rate will be very low compared to other places – and they’ll be mostly unvaccinated adults over the age of 40 (the age group that makes up 97.6% of deaths in the U.S.). Most at risk are those over 60 (85% of all Covid deaths in the U.S.).
What a time is was! The golden months. Staycations and Gatsby living to now the real Alcatraz. Never had to worry about quarantine unless you were traveling, and now? Well, may the odds be in their favor for negative PCRs just in time to jet away.
We all had the ability to do staycations. We were just smart enough not to gather in large groups w/ out masks.
We were showing the world, then this woke bunch lost their grip and failed to enforce quarantine measures against their friends. Thanks Mac as well.
It’s shocking that CIG is not doing anything to slow the infection rate. Capacity limits, mandated social distancing in restaurants, a curfew from 1 – 5 am, and vaccine passports could all be tried before things get worse.
You mean we should do all of that because 2,104 people out of 2,118 have mild flu?
Can’t fix stupid.
To be fair, capacity limits are technically in place.
Technically, yes. But events like cocktail week where servers were positive indicates that the size of gatherings should be reduced again, and that waiters and other frontline workers have to be tested ahead of such events! With Thanksgiving and Christmas events coming up, we need to be very careful .. as it is, hospitalizations are up .. at last count 26 people were/are in hospital since cases began rising. Soon regular procedures will be curtailed as the numbers grow.
vaccine passport is the obvious one….but they are obviously afraid of their own local anti-vax peeps…
Not sure what the point of curfews are and in particular one from 1am?? As it is only a few bars are open until 2am anyway.
If you wanted to make a difference restrict indoor capacity in restaurants and bars and mandate social distancing.
At this point it’s too late for that anyway. By the time they get around to doing that we’ll have peaked in terms of number of cases per day anyway.
You can’t make this stuff up. The only thing that’s going to make them act is when the hospital hits about 30 people, which at this rate will be in 2 weeks.
26 people have been hospitalised at last count. Some have been discharged, but total count is 26 so far.
Events like cocktail week where servers were positive indicates that the size of gatherings should be reduced again, and that waiters and other frontline workers have to be tested ahead of such events!
How often are they actually being tested .. ???
With Thanksgiving and Christmas events coming up, we need to be very careful .. as it is, hospitalizations are up .. at last count 26 people were/are in hospital since cases began rising.
We’re vaccinated.. that’s all you need. Back to your regular programming.
Don’t forget the COP Byrnes storm troopers to yank a few innocent motorbike riders to the ground.
Fine some innocent women $1400 for swimming on a deserted beach , that’s going to stop the spread – Obviously.
Where did the graph come from?
My quick maths say: It’s Friday then, then Saturday, Sunday what?
3 days by me count. 669 divided by 3 is well over 200/day. So where is that on the graph?
Even if there are four days in the count it would be 167 per day and THAT WOULD STILL BE THE HIGHEST POINT ON THE GRAPH!
I’m shocked and embarrassed, shocked and embarrassed.
Can the Minister of Finance please do di maths and inform what he tinks da COVID numbers are?
Last time I heard the Minister of Finance speak he said $50m was not material to the budget so rather not hear him speak ever again.
As Scooby-Doo used to say – Ruh Roh!
Test positivity is up over 18% now. That is also know as f’n bad…
In fact it is probably 20% or more in the community if we back out the travelers who are testing at far lower rates.
Most place would have closed bars and indoor dining by now etc. etc.
Instead we have Wayne of Marl Road trying to explain away not wearing a mask in Scotland because “everyone was vaccinated”, “a lot of testing was going on” and my favourite “the ceiling was so high it was almost like being outdoors”.
Either he is stupid or he thinks the voters are stupid. Maybe both.
Also said he came back after 3 days because he was needed here and couldn’t be away so long. No sh!t dumbo, you couldn’t figure that out before you left?
I couldn’t make it through the whole interview but he did say he was starting to get concerned about the community spread. So they might have to add some restrictions. You don’t have to be too smart to have realized that the time for restrictions was back in October.
But to all the “cabal” people please don’t blame this on reopening. We should be doing that in a sensible manner, unfortunately Wayne, Dr. Lee and the rest of the brain trust are not inspiring much confidence in this happening.
Firstly, if you’re vaccinated you’re unlikely to have serious symptoms. Secondly, whether or not you are vaccinated, you are going to get Covid at some point (if you haven’t had it already without knowing). Lockdowns made sense (at least to a point) before the vaccines were available. Now we just need to get on with life as normal.
Will you say that when the hospital is full? Which is going to happen within a month.
How do we control that?
You don’t have a choice, chief. Normal isn’t an option until we get through the wave. Like it or not.
Agreed except for this: Now we just need to get on with life as normal.
We should not be acting as if things are normal. Precautions should still be taken. “Normal” for the entire world is going to take at least two more years (unless you consider all these testing and mask requirements when travelling normal.)
Lot’s of pretty pictures, no actual updates to the critical pieces (looking at you TravelCayman)
With 2,100 confirmed active cases, and assuming that around 25% to 33% of actually infected people have gotten tested, there is likely perhaps around 8,000 in Cayman currently infected. So very likely at least 1 in every 10 people have a current active infection.
The confirmed cases are as of end of Sunday night, so more confirmed cases will be tallied in last couple days.
We are in the heat of it folks!
Assuming, perhaps, very likely all encouraging words when doing statistical analyse or in this case – guessing 🙄
Even worse, assuming only 1% are being tested that means 210,000 in Cayman currently infected. With a 100% death and disability rate, it’s clear why bodies are piling up in Cayman’s streets. Sad
Troll.
Unbelievable that this has 15 likes as it is absolute garbage. Is this audience so uneducated?
8,000 infected and only 14 in the hospital? Definitely good news!
Thanks CNS! … for the needed and extra information. Would it be possible to find out the main age range for the hospitalizations on your next follow up?
CNS: We can ask.
You have to love CNS’s enthusiastic resilience 😂
CNS – can you please also ask how many of the unvaccinated hospitalized have underlying health issues? Last week Dr Lee had mentioned the 2 who were vaccinated and 8in the hospital had underlying health issues. Why couldn’t it be true also for the unvaccinated? Can unvaccinated not have underlying health issues? May be that was the reason they couldn’t get the vaccine in the first place.
It is far higher than that, I think. I know two people sick at home fighting a “bad cold.” Is it Covid? Probably, but they aren’t going to get tested. They are staying home though.
Nobody in their right mind would voluntarily test given current government overreach.
Unless they would rather work from home and stay clear of the zombies.
Or not work from home!
#worldclass
Holly Smokes!
At this rate we will al be infected by Christmas. I wonder how many times can 1 person get Corona before it really affects the system?
I think you need more bottles of Corona than 1 before you are affected? Maybe having a lime in the bottle exacerbates the affect it has on you? 🤷♂️
That’s the idea, I think. Once the resident population has all had COVID – and mostly survived because of high vaccination rates – tourists will no longer pose a threat to us. We will be the world first place to kick Covid’s butt. We are sending Covid into isolation.
I think that’s got to be right. Wouldn’t surprise me if Gov / the Gov medical team / the Governor understand that with the high vaccination rate it’s best to just let Covid burn through the community (it’s probably been here all along, but noone was testing). Once the panic is over and the penny drops for the public that Covid is now an endemic disease, then we open up. The political situation here may be complicated by the fact that a vocal number of the tiny electorate may be quite happy being isolated from the rest of the world.
Tourists aren’t your threat. Your family and friends are that you party with.
Get vaccinated, otherwise a few of you denial experts won’t be around to downvote these kind of comments.
Well….slightly over 99% of us will. So I would not hope for too much.
We have 80% of the population vaccinated. Right about now the main issue is that the vaccinated (many and the government isn’t saying) are testing positive and in mandatory isolation and not being released until they test negative even though symptom free, for some that is well over 21 days and a month for others. Vaccinated to still be locked up and forgotten.
We on a new chapter, eh.
Yes, when covid runs rampant.
A week and a half past the peak already. #science
Madness. Shortly to become Murder and Mayhem (OK, technically probably only Manslaughter and Mayhem, but Murder rhymes better).
Get a grip.
Get a basic understanding of math and the lag between infection, illness, hospitalization and death… Bermuda’s Covid experience is a good places to start.