Isolators warned they must get official PCR exit test
(CNS): Health Minister Sabrina Turner said at Thursday’s press briefing that people who have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus who leave isolation before getting an official PCR exit test, regardless of how long they have been in quarantine, will be prosecuted. Those who have left isolation without getting the formal test are being selfish, Turner said.
The minister said those in quarantine are not free to leave home until they have received an official negative result, and that people must follow the procedures; they cannot self-release, as that is a violation of the rules.
There have been indications that some people, frustrated by the system, had taken a lateral flow test and then gone about their business and had failed to turn up for the official exit test.
Turner said that government has a list of all those in quarantine as a result of being positive and would come after people who flout the regulations and put the community at risk. She said there could still be deadly consequences because of the rapid spread of the virus.
“We are aware that persons took themselves out of isolation… without reporting to the exit PCR testing site,” she said. “Let me warn everyone who has done this that you are in violation of the Public Health Law and you may still be positive, carrying a high viral load, and you are putting the public and yourself at great risk and you are just outright selfish.”
The minister continued, “I am warning you, if you don’t show up by tomorrow, you will be reported to the police for prosecution.”
Turner claimed that government was being flexible in decisions but public safety was at the heart of the procedures.
“Public Health is behind, yes I know, and many of you are critical of them,” she said, before referring to the department as “my Public Health”, who she said were working very hard, despite the criticisms.
As she concluded her comments, Turner said she was concerned that people were developing an attitude towards the pandemic of not caring and were putting the entire community at risk.
Addressing employers who not paying staff members who are sick, even warning them not to report their status to Public Health and threatening to fire them if they do so, the minister warned them that reporting a positive test is mandatory and not an option. “Being COVID-positive makes you a public health risk,” she said. “We must remain committed to following the regulations.”
Turner also revealed that on Cayman Brac, enforcement of social distancing and other protocols would be stepped up and there would be more access to vaccines, given the increase in transmission on that island, where a considerable number of elderly and vulnerable people live.
After the press conference and numerous requests over the last week, Public Health officials released more up-to-date figures on the huge number of positive COVID-19 cases reported this week. There were 850 new positive cases on Monday and Tuesday, including 14 cases on the Sister Islands.
With an estimated 4,000 people in isolation and a great many people needing a PCR test to confirm a positive LFT or for exit testing, Public Health is stretched to its limits.
Government has now expanded the testing programme and has moved the daily walk-in clinic from the South Sound Community Centre to a drive-through service at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex parking lot, starting Friday, 21 January. The new drive-through clinic will be for exit testing and confirmation PCR following positive lateral flow tests.
“We are aware of the heavy traffic of persons requiring PCR tests at the South Sound Community Centre and have been working on alleviating this issue by identifying a more suitable location,” said Dr Medical Officer of Health Samuel Williams-Rodriguez.
“After the successful launch of the new drive-through clinic at Truman Bodden Sports Complex parking lot earlier this week, we have determined that this site meets the needs of this daily testing clinic and allows for better crowd control, a more streamlined process for patients as they will be tested from the comfort of their vehicle.”
Public Health directed PCR testing clinics are as follows:
Isolation/Quarantine Exit PCR Testing Centres – Open Daily
- Truman Bodden Sports Complex (parking lot drive-thru) – 7am – 10am
- Ed Bush Sports Complex – 10am – 12pm
- Bodden Town Civic Centre – 10am – 12pm
Positive LFT Confirmation PCR Testing Centres – Open Daily
- Truman Bodden Sports Complex (parking lot drive-thru) – 7am – 10am
- Ed Bush Sports Complex – 1 – 2pm
- Bodden Town Civic Centre – 1 – 2pm
People who test positive with a LFT must isolate immediately, report the result here and attend the next available designated HSA clinic for your PCR test. This confirmation PCR test is a Public Health requirement.
Results will state “Not valid for travel”. These confirmation tests are not conducted at the Cayman Islands Hospital, COVID clinic, or any private institution. Individuals who require PCR or certified LFT for outbound travel or other optional screening should attend the clinic at 131 Centre MacLendon Drive.
Faith Hospital in Cayman Brac will provide exit testing for certified LFTs at the Aston Rutty Centre Medical Wing on Friday, 21 January, from 9am – 3pm for those eligible to exit quarantine based on the new changes to government regulations.
Certified LFTs are CI$25 and people being tested can pay by cash, credit or debit card. Test results will be availbale in approximately 1 hour.
People in Little Cayman can contact the Little Cayman Clinic at 948-0072 to schedule an appointment.
People attending the drive-through must bring their photo ID along with the QR code that will be provided in the email as proof of payment.
Anyone paying cash can visit the clinic at 131 MacLendon Drive location between 7:30am and 12pm, as the drive-through location is for pre-paid customers only.
The minimum age for the certified LFT exit testing is five years; children under five are not required to be tested.
See the new regulations that came into effect last night here.
Watch the press conference on CIGTV below:
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“I am warning you..” Lol.
Really?
What an idiot, think I am her child? How stupid can you get a test to go to CYB and a test to go from CYB to Little Cayman. East End and North Side have more elderly people than CYB. What next? test to go from WB to NS?
Idiots, plain and simple.
Does she know the “Sister Islands” have names?
If not, it’s Cayman Brac and Little Cayman.
And we would appreciate if we could have case numbers for each Sister Island.
9:16:
“And we would appreciate if we could have case numbers for each Sister Island.”
You mean enlighten the people? You desire an admirable thing; however, it is not possible for the benighted Panton PACT-less Clown Car passengers to enlighten anyone. They thrive in darkness. Like vampires, they shun the light. But this is what the people of the Cayman Islands voted in, denizens of the darkness.
So tired of being barked at by an incompetent joke of a politician that I have 3 times more credentials than. Sabrina when you have a Masters and two BSc degrees come to my level until then don’t speak to me please!
22 @ 7:00pm – I agree with you but, curiously, where are you professionally with 3 degrees? Probably still working your way up the ladder (hopefully). On the contrary, Sabrina has “arrived” (albeit perhaps only for 4 years, who knows?)
She’s achieved that without any degrees! Frightening! More frightening, some of her colleagues have achieved the same “success” with criminal records and without finishing high school! Speaks well, can’t write properly but popular as hell!
That’s Cayman of today! Sadly, despite people with your qualifications in our midst, morons are successfully in charge! Not much hope for the well-educated for now!
Pray for the future.
It’s elementary my dear 4.03.
Woters will wote for their own kind.
Proof is, look at the district , then look at their MP.
You think you’re a better person or more intelligent person because you have pieces of paper that say you are?
Congratulations on your pieces of paper.
No one gives a shit
True, A “Masters” from say, California Coastal University, is indeed a reflection on the holder’s intellect or education….it means they didn’t have the academic wherewithal to gain entry to a proper University.
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Really don’t understand tested positive on 10th jan confirmation pcr test on 11th been in quarantine from the 10th which is considered day 0 went for exit pcr test 21st jan 11 days later as protocol calls for rules change since didn’t opt for the early exit pcr test which i was intitle to did the exit pcr on 21st and still in quarantine waiting results got the confirmation test results within 24 hrs as said for the confirmation test but boy for the quarantine release results it takes 24-72hrs,would think would be quicker to release people from quarantine. 10 days can end up 13 days I’m on day 12 now then people wonder why the protocols and lft positives not followed/obeyed
Call the flu hotline to make sure your email is correct. That was my issue; the email in the test result was incorrectly entered in the system
PACT GOV: “Follow the science”
SCIENCE: (WHO) The updated criteria reflect recent findings that patients whose symptoms have resolved may still test positive for the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) by RT-PCR for many weeks. Despite this positive test result, these patients are not likely to be infectious and therefore are unlikely to be able to transmit the virus to another person.
PACT GOV: “Get an exit PCR or got to jail”
They’ve run scared of it since day one. No clue how to risk assess.
Science+politics=politics
Sabrina I need a work permit and I believe that is where your expertise lies, drop all this health nonsense which is so far above your head your feet aren’t touching the ground, and return to what you know best.
Real talk!!! You’re surely on point with this statement!!!
Really I would ‘t hire her to wash my car
Sabrina and expertise in the same sentence..? That’s a stretch.
They couldn’t even get that right.
The whole point of any covid restrictions is to prevent the hospital being too full.
Omicron does no harm of you are boosted.
So surely the fairest thing is end all tests and restrictions for the vaccinated (boosted) only?
How is anything else fair?
Vaccinated can catch and spread the disease as well, so exempting them makes no sense. the real question is whether the extent of these restrictions is proportionate to the impact of the disease now it has mutated.
Can’t prosecute what’s not reported. #bye
Ah PACT. The individuals we voted for and the Government we never wanted.
Individuals YOU voted for, some of us could see that a rag tag bunch of mainly uneducated unemployables , would not be able to govern responsibly.
Suckoo had the sense to not align with that bunch (all of Panton’s supporting cast) and you all voted him out and allowed Panton to take Premiership. I hope you all see how important your vote is now ? It wouldn’t be so bad if Panton had went back to the PPM but instead he made emotional decisions and we ended up with PACT smh
This is stupid now. Let’s look at the facts:
– vaccines available for a year
– everyone who wants to be is now boosted
– we should not prioritise protecting unvaxed – they have made their choice and they are the only ones who will die from omicron. Their fault.
– for the boosted pretty much every omicron case is no symptoms and harmless
So end the exit pcr tests, end the traveler arrival lft day 2, 5 etc. as it’s obvious anyone positive on last one is catching it here not elsewhere. Just leave it on the people to be trusted to isolate if unvaccinated and positive.
The UK have ended work from home guidance, masks etc. and no where else has these stupid exit pcr tests. The government are acting disgracefully now – imposing March 2020 pre vaccine style rules when for most Covid is no longer a concern.
Exactly. They’re over reacting. PACT one way or another you have got to let the Islands open up and fet rid of this nonsense.
What a lovely person you must be, wishing death on people who exercised a right different to your opinion.
This excuse for a so-called politician talks to people like we are her children, OMG I feel so sorry for her own smdh
News for you Sabrina, everything you’re threatening about prosecution can be challenged now because of human rights so get your facts straight and stop involving your petty feelings with lack of intelligence it really goes to show your incompetence and just plain stupidity.
She really does seem to not have been gifted with even average intellect.
Sabrina’s a joke period.
I wish I could shake your hand!!! She needs to go back to her Immigration business and leave the medical field alone, not to mention the idle threats!!
They are losing control of the situation and have no idea about what to do next. The USA and UK (among many others) have recently relaxed their overall isolation protocols and realise they need to be pragmatic. The civil service here believe they can continue to exert a level of control which is not realistic. They still insist of performing entry PCR tests (why??) and exit PCR tests. Allow people to register as positive and they take a certified LFT after 7 days. If they are negative let them go about their business. Threatening people like this 2 years into the pandemic when we have widespread community transmission shows how deluded they have become.
Well said. We must be days away from the first legal challenge. The traveler arrival tests alone should be abolished, let alone the stupid pcr exit tests. Just impose restrictions on the unvaccinated. For the boosted with omicron the pandemic is no longer an issue.
Boris Johnson released protocols because of his tenuous position holding parties in Downing Street while families had to watch their loved ones die through glass windows if they were lucky.
The British government is a disgrace and Cayman would do well to rid themselves of colonialism.
Hahaha…you’re a straight shooter.
And the British would do well to get rid of a banana republic
Honestly at this point I don’t care if he’s relaxing the regulations because he took a shit on a dying person on Downing Street. If you’re not vaccinated at this point that’s on you, we’ve done what we need to do so Move on
@11.48am. Please stop trying to twist this to suit your agenda. This isn’t about Johnson or anything else apart from generally what governments are doing around isolation criteria.
It is now well recognized that trying to enforce an unreasonable isolation period with unreasonable conditions is not viable in many countries. There is a recognition that while some restrictions early on were accepted by the general public, attitudes have changed in the past 6 months or so. This is not only normal but healthy when so many people have been vaccinated in different states and countries. The risks are much lower than they were a year ago due to the high vaccination rates. Cayman is part of this change but the civil service still believes it can dictate in the same way it used to. This is simply not going to work.
Yup! Wonder how much all those vaccines would have cost?
The motivations behind “do this and do that” messaging has always been muddled to those primed with and overconfident in bad info. Most of what we do right now is and should be for others, not ourselves, and we don’t have the discretion to cancel unpleasant or inconvenient aspects simply because we feel we might be well prepared. We wear a mask, sanitize, distance and LFT as courtesies to others. We vaccinate and boost ourselves to improve our own survival chances, while collectively reducing burden on hospitals. Those recovering from COVID should be wearing a N95 for the entire week following recovery, per NYT today. Not for you, for others. If these were policies, people might eventually understand what the task is, and for whom, and vaccinated could be released from quarantine with an LFT on the 5th or 6th day. More confusing still that PACT seem to believe discredited herd immunity is possible and aren’t doing any wider community testing while going defcon 5 on honest that had reported their positives and been rewarded with lousy support. So far, Sabrina hasn’t been the right person to communicate this, and demonizing the people she has let down isn’t going to get her there.
When the best you can do is pretend to enforce the laws the people will pretend to follow them and there is nothing you can do about it as you have lost all respect. Just keep pretending your doing your job and everything is normal and fine on the island.
Exactly the same with driving here.
Unbelievable. Is cayman now a dictatorship? Threatening the people with prosecution? On what basis? On what authority? Government has overstepped and the people are fed up! Enough is enough. The business community is fed up, the restaurant industry is on life support and families life has been changed for a generation.
Sabrina, when your people have arrested and prosecuted people for having personal training sessions during lockdown, and stealing employee pension monies, come back and tell me about my serious crime of failing to report my positive LFT and isolating myself for two weeks. I chose not to come to your mandatory PCR shitshow because attending would force me to expose others, a much more serious breach of the public health regime. Anyway, I felt like crap and requiring me to stand around in the sun for hours was nothing short of inhumane.
Ya though it couldnt get worse than Jon Jon, with his Donkey and full moon.
Im actually impressed by Sabrina and her utter incompetence.
Can they also actually prepare for these things? I never get why we should listen to them first time read of a script.
The exit tests make no sense and serve no purpose,
It is no surprise that people are flouting this law.
At least she could have made things a lot easier. A large proportion of the population are addicted to drive ins where the can pick up meals with maximum calories with a minimum of effort. Why not set up exit tests at Burger King and KFC where they can combine flab with a jab.
Is anyone actually fighting against these ridiculous rules?.
Enough is enough.
Yes. We ignore them
https://shows.disney.com/the-muppet-show
Any time my kids are being bad, I make them watch a few mins of Sabrina. They behave so quickly. Adults or children, nobody wants to listen to her. It’s literally like fingernails on a chalkboard. So condescending. Please please please bring back John John and the donkey.
Just the donkey please, beautiful creatures.
Considering that you can test positive with a PCR test for up to 90 days….personally I will not be reporting a positive LFT test. I am triple vaxxed, I wear a mask, I sanitize before going into a store, I social distance and avoid large crowds.
If I test positive on a LFT test, I will isolate for the required time and then go about my business.
I followed all the lockdown rules in 2020, I took the vaccine so that life could return to some kind of normalcy, and now you’re going to threaten me with police action if I don’t follow your rules that not only do they not make sense, but they violate my constitutional rights and have no scientific basis. I think non mon ami.
Also, why can’t you go to any hospital that offers PCR testing for an existing test? You have admitted that Public Health can’t cope with the volume.
What are the options for people without a car to get an existing test?
What are the options for parents that don’t have childcare?
What are the options for the elderly and sick, you want them to stand in line during the hottest hours of the day?
And you’re going to throw out threats? Get over yourself, do your job, follow the science and make it easier for people to get tested and get out of quarantine, not harder.
It took you 2 years to come to this conclusion?
How do I spell incompetent and clueless
S A B R I N A T U R N E R
Blah blah blah Minister of Health. You need to ensure that you legally have your act together because you will be challenged in court and you will be embarrassed and cost Government millions of dollars.
Remember readers you have heard it here first. The time of Caymanians being blind followers (sheeple) and following the incompetent clowns (Minister Turner, Public Health, etc) will come to an end.
Not sure when the Cayman Islands became a communist dictatorship – but President (Comrade) Panton has certainly failed to do any sensible actions to get Covid under control.
Yes we Caymanians wanted change, but damn things were not as bad under arrogant Alden and Mo$e$
Ok show of hands please. All those in favour of removing everyone, anything and everything to do with PACT from the current administration please raise your hand. Thank you
And let Alden, who’s afraid of pool cleaners, in again? hell no
Time to let PR holders wote and to let status holders run for office.
We’re so lucky that “public health administration” was part of the curriculum at DJ school. Where would we be without her guidance?
Such BS…what happened to all of the “caymanians who broke quarantine”..nothing absolutely nothing. SKylar because she was white had to do jail time…the precedent has been set. NOT ONE CAYMANIAN has been prosecuted…so alot of hot air and BS
Immunity by the bobo clause
It’s corruption and/or gross ineptitude. We should call it what it is, and demand Franz explain how this continues to be allowed.
9.15pm So true, not even a paper Caymanian!.
Lie!
Ummm her boyfriend? Simma down now not.
Based on the comments here and the coming long weekend, we should see a massive rise in positive cases, that is, if the government actually releases the correct data. Down the rabbit hole we go.
You have internet in your cave? Very progressive of you.
Startling data from the states: U.S. reports 3,896 new coronavirus deaths, highest since January 2021.
The omicron strain is in no way mild, nor is it a flu or the sniffles. The escalations in deaths is proof. The states choose economy over people and this is the end result. Don’t make the same mistake, Cayman Islands.
But these are unvaccinated deaths . With the booster omicron is usually no symptoms
Exactly. The unvaccinated die of stupidity more than covid.
There are 26,000,000 active cases right now. 9000 people die every day in the US from all causes.
Rolling 7 day average in the us “covid related causes” deaths 1700.
The freedumb gang is intentionally ignoring the massive rise in cases and hospitalizations outside of the islands and are also intentionally pushing for the same here based on batshit crazy conspiracy theories.
The cayman case rate is already far worse than most counties – all from internal locals spreading not incoming travellers. But guess what – none of the vaccinated are dying. So who cares about case numbers?
Anyone who thinks that the government all of a sudden cares about their health are the real conspiracy fools!!
Looks like your logic is lost on those reading. I learned long ago to not waste my time with the willfully ignorant. Yes, I fully expect a negative response, which is OK, I’m not commenting to them!
Freedumb is accurate! These loonies actually believe we live in tyranny here, LOL.
Not everyone lives are your level nor do they expect others to live at your level. Evidenlty your inner Pol Pot has enjoyed the past 2 years.
Three words come immediately to mind. “Piss up” and “brewery”
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At least, when the PPM govt. made rules, they stuck to them in the face of massive pressure from all commercial interests. We knew where we stood.
This lot so anxious to please everyone that they change every five minutes causing confusion and uncertainty.
Love internal sanitization, slurp!
No. I’m done with governments talking down to us like we are school children and trying to shame us with words like selfish and the like, while skating through their jobs with full incompetence showing.
No, Sabrina.
Well if you going to behave like school children then so be it..Why the hell are cases rising like crazy? People don’t give a crap and then complain about the rules.
Looking for a massive spike this weekend.
Oh sit down, sit down next to me.. Sit down, sit down..
Just get vaccinated and stfu
SHE TALKS IN ALL CAPS
LOL even my hearing aid switched itself off.
Imagine applying May 2020 standards in 2022. This is just the flu now. Stop the hysteria.
Just the flu…
Every 43 seconds, 1 American dies of COVID-19, according to the seven-day average
Every 8 seconds a child is born in the US.
Thats just from sex!
Out of 5 million cases. And those deaths are hugely weighted to the unvaccinated who died because of the their own darn poor choices.
Head cold…not even flu.
U.S. reports 3,896 new coronavirus deaths, highest since January 2021.
Just the flu, right?
Which part of they are 98 per cent unvaccinated so it is their own fault do you not understand and conveniently omit from your stupid comment?
The government sanctioned censorship of comments during the press conference tells us all we need to know about this lot.
@4:56pm Censorship of comments? Explain please?
The Press other than CNS do not even seem to ask any probing questions or questions from their followers. The Caymanian Times was actually only making statements and a complete waste of time and Reshma, well she’s Reshma..
PCR tests should never be used for exit testing. Even before that though, nowhere else in the world does exit testing as it is stupid.
Report a positive LFT and be subjected to a pcr?
Nope, not doing it, f*ck off.
Wait for a pcr exit test?
Nope, not doing it, f*ck off.
It’s all bullshit, Sabrina.
We know it.
You know it.
Everyone knows it.
We’ve had enough of your dumb rules. Don’t you dare try to threaten us. So shut up and go away.
If I could like this comment 1000 times I would
@This would be okay if only you were vaccinated..your behavior is the the reason why Omicron is spreading like wildfire.
Sure. How do you explain what’s happening in heavily vaccinated and very safety oriented Japan?
Japan reports 54,576 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record
Oh sit down, sit down next to me..
I wish I could like this 100 times.
I wouldn’t even let my wife talk to me the way Sabrina Turner talked at me and everyone else in Cayman yesterday.
“I’m warning you”
Really…?!
The last time I was spoken to like that was when I was tried putting biscuits in my parents’ VCR. When I was seven.
Literally makes Jon Jon look professional which many others have pointed out is almost certainly the pinnacle of Sabrina Turner’s career achievements.
She’s an utter embarrassment. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone so clearly out of their depth.
Pastor Alfredo
LMAO
But if you work for government you get 10 days paid leav as long as your vaxxed, If there was no PCR I would use the red sharpie every 10 days.
Love your comment
I’ll get mine done at a certain place down Dump Rd., comes with perks too!
I hope you get a happy ending.
If they actually have list that can tell them exactly when someone should come in for an exit test why can’t they report numbers daily with all relevant information including vaccination status of people in the hospital and those who have died?
The threat of prosecution is just that, a threat. I’d wager that no one will be prosecuted.
Making all of these crazy rules to protect the unvaccinated is dumb. If you choose not to be vaccinated you are the one risking your life and the people who are vaccinated should not have to be constrained because of a personal decision that you have made.
These pedantic rules are supposed to prevent the uncontrolled community spread we already have. There is no longer a sterile community bubble, nor is there a proactive LFT testing effort to screen for virus, therefore over 5% of population are already in quarantine from rampant community transmission! It’s like a bouncer sniffing someone’s lapel for smoke before allowing them into the cigar lounge. Pointless. Do one or the other.
They couldnt even prosecute people who had geolocators and breached quarantine.
And the defence to any prosecution should be self-defence: No-one should be forced to go to the dangerous South Sound Covid camp to get tested – high risk of serious traffic accident, and the overcrowding, lack of facilities and chaotic lack of organisation means it is extremely risky.
And public health is taking way way too long to process results – keeping people locked up while PH get their sorry disorganised asses into gear is unlawful.
So RCIPS, come at it if you want to. Come on, have a go if you think you are hard enough. And we will sue you and CIG into the ground.
Turner is quoted as saying, “…people who have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus who leave isolation before getting an official PCR exit test, regardless of how long they have been in quarantine…”
The end of the article states, “Faith Hospital in Cayman Brac will provide exit testing for certified LFTs at the Aston Rutty Centre Medical Wing on Friday, 21 January, from 9am – 3pm for those eligible to exit quarantine based on the new changes to government regulations.”
What is required to exit quarantine? Is it a PCR test or is it a certified LTF? This information needs to be clarified.
When a traveller tests positive on day 2, 5, or 7 is the person still being fitted with a wrist monitor?
I am a resident of the US. My county has 360,000 people with about 550 positive cases per day. Cayman has 1/6 of the population with a least 400 cases per day. Why do I have to be tested 3 times when I come to Cayman when my risk of catching Covid is 6 times greater in Cayman,
For the love of God can we have John John back please????!!!
LOLOLOL Nooooo… Just switch her off!
For entertainment? It’s amazing how every press conference under him and Alden, and now pact, has been a global embarrassment. I don’t think I’m the history of mankind has any country ever had continuous, over long, pointless, rambling press conferences as the cayman Covid ones with such incapable idiots rambling on forever with such nonsense. They have completely embarrassed both successive governments,
Also why is there now some comments in lft exit tests instead of pcr and day 7 vs day 10 inbound traveler tests? Both are not true, just again the incompetent press conferences making more problems than actually ever answering things, no press conference should ever have been over 45 mins long.
If they implement ridiculous, unnecessary stupid rules and lock up non-syphomatic boosted people for 10 days because of a positive test, then they shoulde xpect people to break the draconian rules. No other country is doing this. The whole point of the vaccines was to give us freedom, not lock us down to protect the selfish unvaccinated idiots. The rules should be to help vaccinated, not unvaccinated.
As the original poster I hope the government are reading tis. Overwhelmingly it seems the island think the rules are a joke. In any other country they would not have these restrictions by now.
Ridiculous. Just allow LFT’s. With Omicron this covid is over as vaccinated with a booster means you will be fine. Stop locking people down to protect the selfish unvaxed. If you die unvaxed it is your own fault, no one elses. Why should I isolate until negative PCR if positive on an LFT just to save selfish unvaccinated people who didn’t do their responsible duty?.
EXIT PCR TESTING IS WRONG!
You may show positive for 90 days, Move on CIG get with the times!
@2:51pm ..stop being dramatic..Who the hell has stayed positive for 90 days..
I Know of a few people here on island.
Idle threats.
It’s a hard no for me Sabrina.
Agree. Complete bullshit. Nobody gets prosecuted for any “infraction”. Pure smoke.
The lack of prosecution in general is exactly why we are going into an EU blacklist again. We are corrupt. #Leggewasright
The coming blacklisting is no surprise when you look around at all of the luxury homes and condos here.
Particularly given the overt unfettered conduct of some of the developers and their civil servant and political enablers. Well done “robust” law enforcers. Your inaction is destroying us.
I notice she loves to use that word SELFISH alot. Hmmmm … however, some people’s ethics are distorted. They equate being selfish for refusing to be vaccinated ! Yep … true!
Maybe because, barring a valid medical reason, not being vaccinated is selfish. It prolongs the pandemic and puts vulnerable people at risk.
Exactly. The only selfish ones ate the unvaccinated
So you like to eat the unvaccinated? smh … broken record player!
You left out the vaccinated with a superiority complex who are pushing for a return to a normal that on longer exists just as the unvaccinated do
You are selfish if unvaxxed
Agreed. Being unVaxed is no worse than drink driving.
Drunk driving is both selfish and irresponsible imo
I’d agree with you if the “vaccine” actually did what it’s supposed to do.
It prevents death. What more do you need?
It CAUSED my family member’s death! Had COVID, recovered and was forced -vaxed to keep his job. His widow is suing the company, along with the other three fatalities’ families!
details please. How was this linked proven?
I’m triple vaxxed and currently suffering from symptoms of covid. they would be 10 times worse and I possibly would end up in the hospital without the vaccine so don’t spout bullshit when those dying in the hospital are Overwhelmingly unvaccinated
Taking $1500000 a day in wages from the people of Cayman is selfish CIG.
She should use others words correctly. Grammar pitiful.
Lol. I’ll report when I can test out after a negative lft. Till then. Sorry not sorry.
They are vocal on all whatsapp groups, facebook communities and blog posts. Criticizing the government’s laws, quarantine is too long, kids should be exempt from travel testing, the lines are crazy, there shouldn’t be a need for an exit PCR. They use their own judgment, they think for themselves, they will even do some research and upload supporting articles to their posts. They are educated, well rounded, and of course, know better than the government what is good for the people.
Their child is sick, 17 kids in a 20 children class got it slowly over a week while doing daily testing. None of the kids is sent to school with a mask, their parents claim “medical exemptions from wearing a mask”.Their kids are sick, they live in big houses on the water but will not separate the healthy siblings from the sick child. They send their “healthy” children to school after a negative morning LFT test, and after they gave their sick sibling a big kiss in the morning. And of course, without wearing a mask to school. It’s the law. They are not breaking it. This is exactly what the law allows you to do. They don’t question it. They don’t upload any posts saying how this law makes no sense, look, a whole class that was negative every morning is sick now. Research shows we are contagious for days before the positive LFT test, and definitely many days after. Masks protect us from spreading the virus. Where are all those posts? Where are the CDC articles showing this makes no sense?And the first sibling becomes positive, and then the second, and the third, and another class is out.
Asking a single mom with a positive LFT to leave her 2 young sick kids in the car when she takes a PCR is incredibly insensitive, so people break the law, and don’t report positive tests. But they will never break the law, and even consider keeping a sibling at home, or the worst of all, send them to school with a mask. It’s the law.
Prove that masks prevent the spread of the virus. You can’t.
It can definitely help slow the spread. I just can’t grasp why people are SO OPPOSED to masks mind blowing…
Conspiracy theorists following the alt right script
2:59:
Prove what you ate for breakfast this morning. You can’t.
The best you can do is offer evidence and testimony. So sit quietly and let the adults handle this.
Oh give it a rest. Going to be prosecuted? No one takes any notice of the laws here because they are not enforced. This attitude of never punishing anyone has ruined the country, because everyone now knows they can break the law and nothing will be done about it.
Especially if you are well connected to a certain politicians.
Boris for Premier!
In your dreams. A legendary capable politician who gave us our vaccines before most countries in the world, has opened up the UK safely earlier than anywhere else in Europe and delivered consistently on COVID? If only we could have that level of intellect amongst these unqualified idiots running Cayman.
The idolatry for Boris is akin to the same for Trump. Two elites who wouldn’t give a damn about their fans
Replace them all with direct resident voting using technology.
When the exit tests are run with incompetence it is no wonder people are self testing – Sabrina should be more worried about the govt being sued for human rights violations.
Yet another reason why only an idiot would report a positive LFT in the first place. Not today BoBo.
And how many people were prosecuted for breaking curfew in 2020?
One. And she wasn’t a local. 😂
The Bobo clause
and what nationality was her boyfriend..or he doesn’t count since he is local.
I reported mine and after 2 weeks I am seriously regretting it !
I have had my 3 shots and have no symptoms and have to keep wasting everyone’s time every couple of days going for another test.
Yeah right. We are smarter than that Sabrina.
Heather needs to realize that she does not have the power. The people do. What is she going to do, have everyone arrested and given criminal charges? Her puffed up chest and hard word fell so flat. The people have suffered enough and indications are we are not following the UK or science on this. She will be a one term MP.
CNS: I believe the commenter meant Sabrina and not Heather.
But Sabrina along with the Premier thinks they are FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE.
And it takes up to 90 days for the body to clear the dead virus that the PCR test. This is why so many fully quarantined and previously positive COVIDs are having to continue an extra long isolation.
Only in Cayman do you do a PCR test to exit isolation after positive.
Waste of money.
Waste of resources (manpower/testers & people running testing equipment/tabulating results)
Cause of mental health issues, current & future
Stop this madness.
Release after negative LFT / even if you want your make it certified.
Not the science followed elsewhere in the world. STOP the exit PCR. Maybe then you will be able to get actual confirmation of LFT positive results quicker & update the data (statistics) in a timely manner.
It is amazing Sabrina can come across so condescending and hateful at the same time. At the very least it is counterproductive, besides the threats being not legal nor credible. Pls stop.