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

[DMan7]

Like them variants is newsletters / magazines, is every month 1 coming out.

[widdyphuck]

At what point do we consider the pandemic to have ended?
When everyone is vaccinated?
When everyone is dead?

[st7]

find out from google nah

[redmanjp]

Anecdotally, the cases seem to be the highest ever right now, but our MoH numbers seem quite low.

Trini efficiency again

US make 1 million per day

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-reaches-1-million-daily-covid-cases-spread-omicron-variant-rcna10866

that's like 5000 per day in T&T do we even have a quarter of the capacity to do the amt of testing required in the coming weeks when omicron explode on we?

if omicron is mild for even as much as 95% it means 5% of 5000 or 250 ppl per day getting hospitalized!

and remember, it doubling every 2-3 days!

[widdyphuck]

Predictions for today

[Les Bain]

Caseload turbo lag eh kick in yet. May not see numbers til the 2nd half of January.

Is Carnival on, or is that just idle social media talk?

[redmanjp]

Caseload turbo lag eh kick in yet. May not see numbers til the 2nd half of January.

Is Carnival on, or is that just idle social media talk?

there is no parade (which is what most ppl here consider carnival to be) but there may be safe zone events. i thinking perhaps calypso monarch and maybe some pan, but no soca monarch as that is like a fete.

[Dohplaydat]

Anecdotally, the cases seem to be the highest ever right now, but our MoH numbers seem quite low.

Trini efficiency again

US make 1 million per day

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-reaches-1-million-daily-covid-cases-spread-omicron-variant-rcna10866

that's like 5000 per day in T&T do we even have a quarter of the capacity to do the amt of testing required in the coming weeks when omicron explode on we?

if omicron is mild for even as much as 95% it means 5% of 5000 or 250 ppl per day getting hospitalized!

and remember, it doubling every 2-3 days!

UK is having the TT equivalent of 5000 cases per day, but deaths are merely 1-2.

We are under testing, right now I know an entire family of 6 where only 4 of them isolating, the other 2 say they have to work. Only one of them tested officially.

So it's a safe assumption that Trini cases are 5x to even 10x of what's reported.

[redmanjp]

of course UK is much more vaxxed than us especially their elderly population. more boosted as well. so out situation wrt deaths will be worse than that even if delta is displaced by omicron.

[widdyphuck]

637 cases.
15 dead.

[DMan7]

[Dohplaydat]

Not really liking the style of this new report, it looks awful. Are they still reporting the number of tests done anywhere?

[hover11]

Yet less than half the population is not fully vaccinated. Everyone made their choice

[st7]

interesting.

2,793 out of 2,951 people died who weren't fully vaxxed - 94.6%

let's hear it for the woke frothers

[DMan7]

interesting.

2,793 out of 2,951 people died who weren't fully vaxxed - 94.6%

let's hear it for the woke frothers

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

This new format is definitely geared towards helping to increase vaccinations

If more people were vaccinated we would have had far less hospitalizations and deaths and far less stress on the healthcare system and workers.

[adnj]

Anecdotally, the cases seem to be the highest ever right now, but our MoH numbers seem quite low.

Trini efficiency again

US make 1 million per day

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-reaches-1-million-daily-covid-cases-spread-omicron-variant-rcna10866

that's like 5000 per day in T&T do we even have a quarter of the capacity to do the amt of testing required in the coming weeks when omicron explode on we?

if omicron is mild for even as much as 95% it means 5% of 5000 or 250 ppl per day getting hospitalized!

and remember, it doubling every 2-3 days!

Not quite 5000.

[widdyphuck]

600+ cases today.
Tomorrow will be 900+

[pugboy]

not yet, i haven’t seen huge lines of cars at the popular test sites in woodbrook

600+ cases today.
Tomorrow will be 900+

[hover11]

Union tells unvaccinated public sector employees: Show up for work


https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/union-t ... 0b5d4610ac

If the employees are reporting for duty and the employer refuses to pay due to unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment then a strong case can be made for a constructive dismissal. I forsee taxpayers paying through their teeth in legal fees.

QUASI Safe zone is BS

[The_Honourable]

If I was MOH, I would have fully vaccinated in Green, Partially Vaccinated in Blue and Unvaccinated in Red.

Had to deal with an anti-vax taxi driver today who said the partially vaccinated dying out more than the unvaccinated hence he not getting no shot.

I was like "ok no problem" and done.

[st7]

wonder if jtum gonna be paying any lawyer fees... all that money they could keep for themselves as they do all the time

[wing]

Union tells unvaccinated public sector employees: Show up for work


https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/union-t ... 0b5d4610ac

If the employees are reporting for duty and the employer refuses to pay due to unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment then a strong case can be made for a constructive dismissal. I forsee taxpayers paying through their teeth in legal fees.

QUASI Safe zone is BS

I would like to think that the government would have obtained high level legal advice before embarking on the action. However with this government, there's no guarantee of any proper plan or foresight. However, the ease with which they were able to close down petrotrin and caroni suggests there's maybe more in store for the antivaxxed public servants.

[hover11]

wonder if jtum gonna be paying any lawyer fees... all that money they could keep for themselves as they do all the time

When you are part of a union you don't pay legal fees....Ignorance again. Industrial matters are held in the Industrial court which is not a court of lawyers but where trade unions and judges reign

[j.o.e]

wonder if jtum gonna be paying any lawyer fees... all that money they could keep for themselves as they do all the time

When you are part of a union you don't pay legal fees....Ignorance again. Industrial matters are held in the Industrial court which is not a court of lawyers but where trade unions and judges reign

But will they pay their members mortgage ?

[hover11]

Union tells unvaccinated public sector employees: Show up for work


https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/union-t ... 0b5d4610ac

If the employees are reporting for duty and the employer refuses to pay due to unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of employment then a strong case can be made for a constructive dismissal. I forsee taxpayers paying through their teeth in legal fees.

QUASI Safe zone is BS

I would like to think that the government would have obtained high level legal advice before embarking on the action. However with this government, there's no guarantee of any proper plan or foresight. However, the ease with which they were able to close down petrotrin and caroni suggests there's maybe more in store for the antivaxxed public servants.

Closing down petrotrin is all well and fine , the employer ceased operations but what they are doing here is completely illegal and goes against rule of law. Then again is the government , is the taxpayers gonna feel it not arse wari or Impsbert. High legal advice from whom, the AG who never win a case before .....yeah ok

[hover11]

wonder if jtum gonna be paying any lawyer fees... all that money they could keep for themselves as they do all the time

When you are part of a union you don't pay legal fees....Ignorance again. Industrial matters are held in the Industrial court which is not a court of lawyers but where trade unions and judges reign

But will they pay their members mortgage ?

Lemme ask you something , you want ppl to willingly take a vaccine or you want them to take a vaccine because you taking away their bread and butter....if the latter is your choice , you no better than Hitler

Anyway PNM could never see power in 2025 this will have a backlash

[paid_influencer]

apparentl the popular symptom for this particular christmas outbreak is diarrhea. covid making ppl shiet dey pants

[st7]

wonder if jtum gonna be paying any lawyer fees... all that money they could keep for themselves as they do all the time

When you are part of a union you don't pay legal fees....Ignorance again. Industrial matters are held in the Industrial court which is not a court of lawyers but where trade unions and judges reign

post yuh source for meh

[st7]

wonder if jtum gonna be paying any lawyer fees... all that money they could keep for themselves as they do all the time

When you are part of a union you don't pay legal fees....Ignorance again. Industrial matters are held in the Industrial court which is not a court of lawyers but where trade unions and judges reign

But will they pay their members mortgage ?

Lemme ask you something , you want ppl to willingly take a vaccine or you want them to take a vaccine because you taking away their bread and butter....if the latter is your choice , you no better than Hitler

Anyway PNM could never see power in 2025 this will have a backlash

but your mc want ppl to not take the jab with yuh antivax self... sufferer behaviour again oui