COVID-19 in Trinidad & Tobago (Local Updates & Discussions Only)

[triniterribletim]

Some good news, as of now it seems the outbreak has been stopped mostly in China. This is nothing short of miraculous given the density and population of China's cities.
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Also, for many of you who are panicking about getting Covid-19, yes it's highly contagious, but at the same time, it's not super contagious compared to many other diseases.
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The USA is so far behind other countries in preparedness and testing that a severe outbreak there is just waiting to happen.
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That R0 figure is just plain wrong. Testing at Los Alamos in the US revealed an R0 of 6, which is on par with Smallpox. Furthermore transmissibility is much higher as it has several different vectors, which is almost unheard of for one specific virus. Italy's daily updates prove that the Chicoms were lying to the world like they always do. Italy is perhaps the one place putting out true numbers everyday and and even their total lockdown won't actually show a reduction until it's been in place for weeks. If the situation here becomes analogous in any way to Italy's, our death rate will be much higher.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239237647031242752?s=19

[gastly369]

Hire meh.. Double cough

I just going to random places and cough. Juss so.

I'm going to the bank tomorrw.
Revering straight through the front door and telling em load up the tray with money or I coughing on people.

[ruffneck_12]

Some good news, as of now it seems the outbreak has been stopped mostly in China. This is nothing short of miraculous given the density and population of China's cities.
china.JPG

Also, for many of you who are panicking about getting Covid-19, yes it's highly contagious, but at the same time, it's not super contagious compared to many other diseases.
rnaught.JPG

The USA is so far behind other countries in preparedness and testing that a severe outbreak there is just waiting to happen.
testing.JPG

It aint miraculous, they are civilized people who know when to get serious about things like this. (bat eating aside)


In trinidad, people riot for police killing known criminals, I have no faith in this place to handle anything. *cough1990lootingcough*

Oil spoil we. We accustomed to avoiding disasters so we don't know what to do when one hits.
Even that mass flooding scenario only hit civilized areas so it wasn't that bad of a public reaction. Let it hit beetham nah? See what wuda go on.

[ruffneck_12]

instead of posting sheit on tuner whole day , use your pc to help the cause na
https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/co ... ple-terms/

This is a good idea tbh

Post it in the PC thread too. Let those virgins use their GPU's for something useful for once.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Some good news, as of now it seems the outbreak has been stopped mostly in China. This is nothing short of miraculous given the density and population of China's cities.

china.JPG

Also, for many of you who are panicking about getting Covid-19, yes it's highly contagious, but at the same time, it's not super contagious compared to many other diseases.

rnaught.JPG

The USA is so far behind other countries in preparedness and testing that a severe outbreak there is just waiting to happen.

testing.JPG

There is a vaccine for measles. There is no vaccine as yet against the virus SARS-CoV2 and the disease it causes known as Covid 19

[Dohplaydat]

Some good news, as of now it seems the outbreak has been stopped mostly in China. This is nothing short of miraculous given the density and population of China's cities.
china.JPG

Also, for many of you who are panicking about getting Covid-19, yes it's highly contagious, but at the same time, it's not super contagious compared to many other diseases.
rnaught.JPG

The USA is so far behind other countries in preparedness and testing that a severe outbreak there is just waiting to happen.
testing.JPG

That R0 figure is just plain wrong. Testing at Los Alamos in the US revealed an R0 of 6, which is on par with Smallpox. Furthermore transmissibility is much higher as it has several different vectors, which is almost unheard of for one specific virus. Italy's daily updates prove that the Chicoms were lying to the world like they always do. Italy is perhaps the one place putting out true numbers everyday and and even their total lockdown won't actually show a reduction until it's been in place for weeks. If the situation here becomes analogous in any way to Italy's, our death rate will be much higher.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239237647031242752?s=19

I don't doubt it at all. I think it's definitely closer to 4 or 5.

Though I do think Italy is a special case whereby they waited too long and hit an early peak, same as Iran.

Many countries that were proactive started with similar numbers and it never escalated to those levels.

Also both Italians and Persians are a very touchy friendly culture with lots of social gatherings and kisses when greeting.

[screwbash]

the whole world gone to sheit and lock down the country,restrict movement trying to let the virus run its course and dont infect people and only in trinidad we have a mild virus. these people for real. young and old gettin it and the old dying and the young suffering, we should be stopping the spread not calling the ting mild about 10 times like she trying to convince she self. only primus talk with some sense yes.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

So wa we doing we going to work tomorrow?

On one hand the lazy trini side of me want vacation on the other hand the motivating Anti Trini side of me want to go to work and make overtime money time and a half to move up in life.

What to do?

[bossmann]

So wa we doing we going to work tomorrow?

On one hand the lazy trini side of me want vacation on the other hand the motivating Anti Trini side of me want to go to work and make overtime money time and a half to move up in life.

What to do?

Call your employer and ask them.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

You all should watch live updates on aljazeera...yes there are less cases in China but it is spreading around the world like a wild fire.

MOH should note that 15% of deaths in Iran are actually people whose ages range from 20-30. So this thinking that it only affects elderly and vulnerable should not be harped upon...

Nat sec should also pay CLOSE attention to developments in venezuela

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

^ The true reality behind that containment in China is the CCP propaganda, they will lie and say anything.

I can't possibly see how they are containing it yet the rest of the world in chaos?

[MaxPower]

So wa we doing we going to work tomorrow?

On one hand the lazy trini side of me want vacation on the other hand the motivating Anti Trini side of me want to go to work and make overtime money time and a half to move up in life.

What to do?

Work must go on, money hadda make.

Dont be like these lazy ass disgusting Trinis.

Go to work, but be very careful around these stinkers.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

This is a TED Talk from 2015 with Bill Gates talking about the next viral outbreak

He says the next threat to humanity is not nuclear fallout or war, but viral infections.
He went on to say that Ebola outbreak didn't spread because as wildly because by the time the affected person is contagious they are already very sick and bedridden. he said imagine though, if there was a virus were the contagious person had no symptoms at first and as able to travel freely, unaware they are carrying and spreading the virus.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

So wa we doing we going to work tomorrow?

On one hand the lazy trini side of me want vacation on the other hand the motivating Anti Trini side of me want to go to work and make overtime money time and a half to move up in life.

What to do?

Work must go on, money hadda make.

Dont be like these lazy ass disgusting Trinis.

Go to work, but be very careful around these stinkers.

Solid advice I developed a habit to go to work over the years, I dislike staying home because as Dr Jordan Peterson says once you start the habit of laziness you end up in a bottomless pit and hit depression and mid life crisis when you turn 40 and that is a bad thing because by then you think it is too late to do anything meaningful in life when you have accomplished nothing, then you go down that lazy path until you die.

So I shall fight the Trini in me and go to work and keep my distance from the stinkers and sufferers.

[MaxPower]

So wa we doing we going to work tomorrow?

On one hand the lazy trini side of me want vacation on the other hand the motivating Anti Trini side of me want to go to work and make overtime money time and a half to move up in life.

What to do?

Work must go on, money hadda make.

Dont be like these lazy ass disgusting Trinis.

Go to work, but be very careful around these stinkers.

Solid advice I developed a habit to go to work over the years, I dislike staying home because as Dr Jordan Peterson says once you start the habit of laziness you end up in a bottomless pit and hit depression and mid life crisis when you turn 40 and that is a bad thing because by then you think it is too late to do anything meaningful in life when you have accomplished nothing, then you go down that lazy path until you die.

So I shall fight the Trini in me and go to work and keep my distance from the stinkers and sufferers.

I like your style.

[aaron17]

instead of posting sheit on tuner whole day , use your pc to help the cause na
https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/co ... ple-terms/

This is a good idea tbh

Post it in the PC thread too. Let those virgins use their GPU's for something useful for once.

Ah yes ..the ps3 days

[adnj]

Some good news, as of now it seems the outbreak has been stopped mostly in China. This is nothing short of miraculous given the density and population of China's cities.
china.JPG

Also, for many of you who are panicking about getting Covid-19, yes it's highly contagious, but at the same time, it's not super contagious compared to many other diseases.
rnaught.JPG

The USA is so far behind other countries in preparedness and testing that a severe outbreak there is just waiting to happen.
testing.JPG

That R0 figure is just plain wrong. Testing at Los Alamos in the US revealed an R0 of 6, which is on par with Smallpox. Furthermore transmissibility is much higher as it has several different vectors, which is almost unheard of for one specific virus. Italy's daily updates prove that the Chicoms were lying to the world like they always do. Italy is perhaps the one place putting out true numbers everyday and and even their total lockdown won't actually show a reduction until it's been in place for weeks. If the situation here becomes analogous in any way to Italy's, our death rate will be much higher.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239237647031242752?s=19

Dude signs up two days ago. Every post is rumor stated as fact in this thread.

[rspann]

Is the pandemic leave with compulsory pay ? Is it legal. Can a law be made without parliament and the regular channels. Now the other benefits like pensions etc I understand , I'm asking about salaries. What about abuses ? What about parents staying to care for children , are they to receive pay too?

[MaxPower]

American Airlines suspends service to Guyana.

Clearly its not “mild” to them.

[mamoo_pagal]

She was probably using the word mild to describe the gov response....

American Airlines suspends service to Guyana.

Clearly its not “mild” to them.

[adnj]

Some good news, as of now it seems the outbreak has been stopped mostly in China. This is nothing short of miraculous given the density and population of China's cities.

china.JPG

Also, for many of you who are panicking about getting Covid-19, yes it's highly contagious, but at the same time, it's not super contagious compared to many other diseases.

rnaught.JPG

The USA is so far behind other countries in preparedness and testing that a severe outbreak there is just waiting to happen.

testing.JPG

There is a vaccine for measles. There is no vaccine as yet against the virus SARS-CoV2 and the disease it causes known as Covid 19

The measures for R0 and CFR comparison are typically made against pre-vaccine outbreaks such as SARS, H1N1, MERS, etc. After vaccine distribution, comparison is meaningless.

The trajectory in the US is complicated by a lack of aggressive central Federal management which is partly caused by no less than 50 different departments of health managed independently at the state level. That is not a necessary hindrance in the PRC.

So far as what happens next, there are three possibilities:
1. Disease dies out
2. Partial acquired population immunity
3. Seasonally affected illness

The epidemiologists are not certain what will happen but the CFR is apparently too low to burn itself out like SARS did.

[URL]https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-outbreak-end.html
[/URL]

[triniterribletim]

Some good news, as of now it seems the outbreak has been stopped mostly in China. This is nothing short of miraculous given the density and population of China's cities.
china.JPG

Also, for many of you who are panicking about getting Covid-19, yes it's highly contagious, but at the same time, it's not super contagious compared to many other diseases.
rnaught.JPG

The USA is so far behind other countries in preparedness and testing that a severe outbreak there is just waiting to happen.
testing.JPG

That R0 figure is just plain wrong. Testing at Los Alamos in the US revealed an R0 of 6, which is on par with Smallpox. Furthermore transmissibility is much higher as it has several different vectors, which is almost unheard of for one specific virus. Italy's daily updates prove that the Chicoms were lying to the world like they always do. Italy is perhaps the one place putting out true numbers everyday and and even their total lockdown won't actually show a reduction until it's been in place for weeks. If the situation here becomes analogous in any way to Italy's, our death rate will be much higher.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239237647031242752?s=19

Dude signs up two days ago. Every post is rumor stated as fact in this thread.

I can actually give citations for everything I post though, as I've been reading through all the papers since the outbreak began. Here's the paper and the methodology used to come up with that high R0 figure. Everyone knows that the Chinese Communist Party lies, and has little regard for ethics or human life. The only thing that is of paramount importance there is for the Party to not look bad.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v1.full.pdf

[MaxPower]

She was probably using the word mild to describe the gov response....

Or maybe due to her illiteracy.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

I still waiting to hear international reporters and doctors describe this virus as mild

[hydroep]

Oh where, oh where can Sh!tkicker be?...

Duke: Where are you, PM?
Andrew Gioannetti

PUBLIC Services Association (PSA) president and minority leader of the Tobago House of Assembly, Watson Duke, is asking the prime minister to do like leaders around the world and communicate with his people about covid19 in this country.

Duke spoke in an address live on social media on Sunday in response to a press conference earlier, in which several government ministers, the chief personnel officer and health officials spoke a range of issues facing the country, with the arrival of the pandemic.

On Friday, a day following the announcement of the first confirmed covid19 case, Duke held a closed-door media conference, announcing the closure of all PSA offices, at least until March 31, as well as for all public servants to take “a day off” on Monday and for the prime minister to shut down the country, inclusive of schools and university.

Within hours, the prime minister announced in Parliament the closure of all learning institutions for a week, “in the first instance.” Apart from this, Duke said, the prime minister’s input has been wanting.

“Where is the prime minister in all of this?” he asked, saying that leaders across the globe, including that of the United States, France, UK, and other countries affected by the pandemic, have routinely updated their citizens on their country’s status.

“The statements that are made by different groups within the government, are those statements well-thought-out statements, or are they ad hoc, knee-jerk reactions to what we fear?

He took issue with the manner in which one or more of the ministers and health representatives present at the press conference addressed the public.

“We have people to coming to us and speaking to us like we are unintelligent, as if we were dunce, as if we were dumdums, as if this thing called corona was a special science and that they had a special handle on it.

“Let me tell you now, that there is no place in the world where they have rid themselves of the corona. Once corona moves into enemy territory, it remains there.

Duke said the message transmitted from the media conference was disrespectful to senior people, who are most vulnerable to severe symptoms of the virus.

“What we’ve been battling with is this knee-jerk reaction by the minister of health, who is looking more and more unintelligent on the subject… All around people are taking serious precautions, banning flights left, right and centre.

He also addressed Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus’s advice not to carry children to work. “She is correct about that.”

But, Duke said, with regard to her advice for parents to use “support systems,” while they work, he said, “I want to reject that as poison and say that unless this government is giving you money to pay a babysitter...or whoever to babysit your child, you cannot say that you are going to expense yourself. They have given us no salary increase in seven years.”

https://newsday.co.tt/2020/03/15/duke-where-are-you-pm/

[MaxPower]

Duke hadda understand that this is a serious issue.

We have no time for his mickey mouse comments.

DF he is someone important? Steups.

He is a laughing stock in the eyes of many.

[hydroep]

Makes you wonder what Sh!tkicker and dem waiting on...

BPTT closes offices for one month
Curtis Williams

The country's largest natural gas producer BPTT has decided to close its offices for a month as it response to the COVID-19 threat.

In response to questions from Guardian Media BPTT said for the past week its Health and Crisis Management teams have been working on our response to COVID-19.

It noted that in keeping with the rest of the BP Group it had decided to close its Port of Spain and Galeota offices and staff not required at work will be allowed to operate remotely.

BPTT said: "BP Group has announced that any staff not required at a work site for safe and reliable operations, will transition to working virtually from home until at least 15 April 2020.  As a result, our Port of Spain and Galeota offices will be closed during this period."

It said as a multinational organization with global operations and large movement of staff across regions to support operations, the company has taken this measure to minimize the risk of exposure to COVID-19 while maintaining critical operations.

BPTT produces half the country's total output of natural gas.

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/bptt-closes-offices-for-one-month-6.2.1079654.ef40f103f9

[sMASH]

they woudl be operating pending UK guidelines.

i really feel if they really want to stop people moving about, they need a state of emergency lock down.
people restricting themselves, but not all. and plenty people harden.

[triniterribletim]

they woudl be operating pending UK guidelines.

i really feel if they really want to stop people moving about, they need a state of emergency lock down.
people restricting themselves, but not all. and plenty people harden.

Louder for the people in the back. My cousin who living with my grandmother and aunt, both people who are immunocompromised head straight from work to a party. He say if he have to get the virus he will get it, doesn't give a damn at all. The only thing people here respect is a man with a gun barking orders, and even that isn't enough sometimes. Right now the situation is a papercut you can put a plaster on. Are they waiting until it is a cutlass wound to try and put a plaster on things?

[hydroep]

BIR adjusts services amid further COVID-19 threats
CNC3 Editor

The Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) has announced adjustments to its services in light of the threats posed by COVID-19.

The following is a statement issued by the BIR on Sunday:

In light of national guidelines recently issued to safeguard the health and safety of the nation’s citizenry in relation to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) wishes to advise members of the public of the following adjustments beginning tomorrow, 16th March, 2020 and continuing, in the first instance, until 20th March, 2020.

Cash and Linx payments will only be accepted at the registers of the following locations:

• Port of Spain Regional Office, IRD Tower, Cashiers’ Unit
• Tunapuna District Revenue Office
• San Fernando Regional Office, Cashiers’ Unit
• Tobago Regional Office, Cashiers’ Unit Cheque payments will be accepted via deposit boxes labelled for that purpose at all offices, with the exception of the aforementioned Tobago Regional Office, which will also accept cheque payments at the register.

While the Board of Inland Revenue stands ready to facilitate the full range of services offered, in line with social distancing recommendations intended to minimise the spread of COVID-19, the public is advised to refrain from accessing any non-essential services at this time.

The Board apologises for any inconvenience caused as a result of these measures.

https://www.cnc3.co.tt/bir-adjusts-services-amid-further-covid-19-threats/