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

[Dohplaydat]

He already say learn to live with it so why would u say they locking down?

Well the doctors and epidemiologists want a lockdown, government does not and nor do they want to delay elections. So their decision will be interesting.

[redmanjp]

Did the CMO or other doctors suggest this?

[Dohplaydat]

Did the CMO or other doctors suggest this?

Inside sources there says they are in 100% favour of a short lockdown, don't know more details nor do I know what type of lockdown they're suggesting.

[redmanjp]

bars definitely have to close- how u could tell ppl wear a mask yet u could drink a beer with mask off? same thing for dining in.

[Chimera]

unc and their people now walk through my area,

they handing out fliers, representative happily shaking people hand and hugging people who he know

they pull up by my gate right when i was going to drive in, try to hand me a flier, i tell dem i eh touching nothing these days and dont come too close to me

they mention how d representative walking around meeting people. i tell them cool, and i drive and leave dem there.




i fraid to hear how much people have corona by the time election reach

[K74T]

7 new - 3 from Canada, 4 primary contacts of recent positive persons

[redmanjp]

unc and their people now walk through my area,

they handing out fliers, representative happily shaking people hand and hugging people who he know

they pull up by my gate right when i was going to drive in, try to hand me a flier, i tell dem i eh touching nothing these days and dont come too close to me

they mention how d representative walking around meeting people. i tell them cool, and i drive and leave dem there.




i fraid to hear how much people have corona by the time election reach

were they wearing masks?

[maj. tom]

7 new cases in 1 day?!
Yeah we hadda lockdown. Or allyuh prefer when the death toll start again instead?

[pugboy]

It’s really 4 on the ground,
3 were imported.

But it shows the spreading is there and easy.

7 new cases in 1 day?!
Yeah we hadda lockdown. Or allyuh prefer when the death toll start again instead?

[redmanjp]

but primary contacts are the family/household. so same amount of clusters, but still a risk if there is no security stopping them from breaching home quarantine.

[sMASH]

8000 thousand again to reach 1%. 38000 unique tests to reach 3%.
we have a long ways away to reach to find out what going on. hold on to ur hats folks, they managed it well.

[ST Auto]

Any now those who were primary contacts and tested positive have primary contacts. So the circle is getting bigger

[goalpost]

but primary contacts are the family/household. so same amount of clusters, but still a risk if there is no security stopping them from breaching home quarantine.

Remember these are not people who went willingly to get tested. Their friend/relative got covid and MOH told them they had to get tested. Who knows where they were when they didn't know they had it.

[pugboy]

that is the catch
the time between infection and them being in contact with others is the danger

but primary contacts are the family/household. so same amount of clusters, but still a risk if there is no security stopping them from breaching home quarantine.

Remember these are not people who went willingly to get tested. Their friend/relative got covid and MOH told them they had to get tested. Who knows where they were when they didn't know they had it.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Its safe to say given that people with flu like symptoms and treated worse than hiv from the 80s so they wont tell nobody. And then influx of venes ontop of that by the thousands every month

I would safely say this thread could easily read 1200 positive and it would be accurate

I know a girl who have diaherrea, fever every night. Vomiting etc she said she went to the pharmacy and the pharmacist gave her zentel based on these symptoms

I find this very bizarre not to mention her father had severe fever 2 weeks ago but it only lasted 2 days. He chalked it up as regular fever

[pugboy]

after all the boasting about some oxford university study which say we were #1 in managing covid.

how do our increasing stats compare to other caribbean countries ?

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

after all the boasting about some oxford university study which say we were #1 in managing covid.

how do our increasing stats compare to other caribbean countries ?

Pretty good actually we still number 1 but it will change as more vene come in via cedros and untested the cartel dont test nobody

[paid_influencer]

He already say learn to live with it so why would u say they locking down?

Well the doctors and epidemiologists want a lockdown, government does not and nor do they want to delay elections. So their decision will be interesting.

those of us in vulnerable populations want it too.

the fellas saying 'we goh ride it out' really doh care about people with diabetes, heart problems or history of stroke if we live or dead not a big deal for them.

why are the govt not locking down? they waiting for somebody to dead? they waiting until it get into SFGH patient population? what d mc they waiting on. why chuck e cheese open in the middle of a pandemic? why it have door to door campaigning right now? wdmc wrong with these people.

[Dohplaydat]

that is the catch
the time between infection and them being in contact with others is the danger

but primary contacts are the family/household. so same amount of clusters, but still a risk if there is no security stopping them from breaching home quarantine.

Remember these are not people who went willingly to get tested. Their friend/relative got covid and MOH told them they had to get tested. Who knows where they were when they didn't know they had it.

Exactly, and also what is the CMO and the MoH PR team considering a primary contact? Typically it's just family members, but co-workers I can confirm are also being considered in this boat.

All that means is that we're having lots of local spread and fortunately identifying and isolating some, but how many are we missing? At our testing rates and the prevalence of asymptomatics it's far more likely we're missing more cases than we're identifying.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

^ I mean I have hypertension and diabetes but I also understand more lockdowns will destroy the country and still kill us anyways because it is possible there may never be a vaccine for this that is a real possibility no matter how promising things currently look.

I wish the government would just pay us to stay home but we know that isn't sustainable. In a big country like America the people becoming homeless, dying from diseases and suffering immensely because everything is shut down and everything besides life and death surgery is put on hold.

So if America is useless in handling this, what does that say about us? could we really expect the government to shut down and pay us? how much oil and natural gas we exporting and how much is the world paying for it? we have to be realistic here.

Now I would love to blame Rowley and accuse him of being Trump who bailed out corporations in the tune of Trillions and told the people to fck off. But I don't know if Rowley bailing out big business or if he thiefing the money or what he doing.

[pugboy]

^just keep your distance from other folks and sanitize the usual stuff

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Could we make a case that Rowley is putting businesses first and sacrificing the life of everyday citizens?

Could we make the case that he bailed out big banks and other businesses and told the average citizen to fck off?

If we get another lock down are expected to fill out another form and get new letter of recommendation to get money for self employed? how will it work exactly?

What are the odds of Rowley paying people another $4500 to stay home?

How much money have they paid in total so far?

[paid_influencer]

^ED, your posts are the lifeblood that sustain me in this dark time. I do appreciate them. I have hidden my umbrella from Rowley. I'm not suggesting we go all the way back to phase 1, but how about we roll back to phase 4? Close down the major public gatherings, let public places fall under the 10 persons limit. People still in work but the contact tracing gets easier and the spread, the "r-naught" gets cut down.

[Gladiator]

I hope they new COVID plan is not to let it take its course.... lick up who it have to ... then burn out itself and let the place go back to normal.

[pugboy]

most definitely the banks posted some serious losses this quarter so economics at play here

caribbean airlines must be losing plenty too with zero flights and paying salaries

[zoom rader]

^ I mean I have hypertension and diabetes but I also understand more lockdowns will destroy the country and still kill us anyways because it is possible there may never be a vaccine for this that is a real possibility no matter how promising things currently look.

I wish the government would just pay us to stay home but we know that isn't sustainable. In a big country like America the people becoming homeless, dying from diseases and suffering immensely because everything is shut down and everything besides life and death surgery is put on hold.

So if America is useless in handling this, what does that say about us? could we really expect the government to shut down and pay us? how much oil and natural gas we exporting and how much is the world paying for it? we have to be realistic here.

Now I would love to blame Rowley and accuse him of being Trump who bailed out corporations in the tune of Trillions and told the people to fck off. But I don't know if Rowley bailing out big business or if he thiefing the money or what he doing.

Why should PNM pay you to stay home?

They already paid 1% and Tobago hotels big money. You not important

[zoom rader]

most definitely the banks posted some serious losses this quarter so economics at play here

caribbean airlines must be losing plenty too with zero flights and paying salaries

But PNM achievement say CAL make money

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

^ED, your posts are the lifeblood that sustain me in this dark time. I do appreciate them. I have hidden my umbrella from Rowley. I'm not suggesting we go all the way back to phase 1, but how about we roll back to phase 4? Close down the major public gatherings, let public places fall under the 10 persons limit. People still in work but the contact tracing gets easier and the spread, the "r-naught" gets cut down.

I support you 100% I have been saying it for weeks now, shut all them bars the fck down stop dining in let people buy their food and go their way. Close down all the cinemas close down all the beaches.

Anything that encourages useless socializing shut it down we won't die if we don't get rum to drink.

Women won't die because they can't do the donkey wine for the next year or 2. As we speak women are still doing the donkey wine in bars that I have visited when I say visited I mean I just pass by and take a quick gape from outside

[pugboy]

must be the only airline in the world that could say that and sitting tight paying salaries while staff home and airplanes parked up

most definitely the banks posted some serious losses this quarter so economics at play here

caribbean airlines must be losing plenty too with zero flights and paying salaries

But PNM achievement say CAL make money

[sMASH]

after all the boasting about some oxford university study which say we were #1 in managing covid.

how do our increasing stats compare to other caribbean countries ?

the study was misinterpreted. its not a measure of how well they managed it, it was measure of their stipulated policies... NOT THEIR IMPLEMENTATION. i and a few others had seen that as a tongue-in-cheek post of how some govts were covering up their actions. then u saw rowley them boasting, then the next week oxford posted a clarification that its not a rating of how good a country is.
think of it like they was mocking the policies as, ' well if allyuh numbers so low, might as well reopen. weh allyuh stressin the people for.'