Acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw just declared in a national address that 45 positive cases have been identified infected with COVID 19.
Barbados NOW on LOCKDOWN
407 responses to “Barbados NOW on LOCKDOWN”
-
“So far this season, there have been 45 million flu illnesses, at least 300,000 hospitalizations, and up to 46,000 deaths from flu, of which more than 100 are pediatric–a higher total at this point of the year than any season in the past decade.
New York State is reporting 156,659 positive cases to date, according to the CDC. The latest data (ending March 21) shows a 45% decrease in reported cases from the previous week.”https://www.rochesterregional.org/news/2020/01/flu-season-2020
Deaths due to flu in the USA alone, 46,000 is almost the same as the worldwide number, 53,216 for COVID-19.
Deaths in the USA for COVID-19 at 6,088, more than 7X less than flu deaths.
New York has 156,659 positive cases of flu and so far, 245,184 cases of COVID-19.
To date there have been at least 300,000 hospitalizations for flu, about 30K per day.
There are currently 13,383 hospitalizations for COVID-19 in New York.
-
If you have money there are alternatives.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/king-of-thailand-isolates-from-coronavirus-with-20-women/
-
Ongoing studies..
“Some coronavirus patients may suffer brain damage as a result of the devastating infection, doctors around the world are warning.
One Florida patient in his 70s lost the ability to speak at least temporarily, The New York Times reported.
Brain scans of a woman in her 50s taken in Detroit revealed that some of her brain cells had died as a result of a rare complication of the infection.
And similar attacks on the central nervous system have been seen in Italy and China.
While neurological complications so far seem to strike a small subset of the more than 700,000 people who have the virus around the world, the reports paint a worrying picture of its potential for long-term effects.
Dark spots in brain scans (show by arrows) indicate cell death in patients with encephalitis, the brain swelling condition a 58-year-old woman treated in Detroit developed from COVID-19 (file)”
-
“Media body calls on Bradshaw to clarify statement This statement has the potential to give people the impression, especially at this time when the island requires information on the local situation, that they should not rely on the media for it.”
the governemnt better don’t try to cover up anything, especially deaths, because people will find out and send it to INTERNATIONAL MEDIA…whom they cannot browbeat nor scare…with their small island shite..they will know what for…just try it and see.
-
“We have 45 cases of the virus so we will close the supermarkets for 2 weeks.”
u now have 46 cases, try to keep up.
46 X 10…potential super spreaders…
-
Listen to those who are actually conducting real time studies…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8180793/Just-breathing-talking-spread-coronavirus.html
“Just breathing and talking can spread coronavirus, a renowned medical group warned the White House Wednesday night.
A leading member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and former Harvard School of Public Health dean, Dr Harvey Fineberg, told CNN that while surgical masks should be reserved for health care workers, he himself is going to be wearing a bandanna or other face covering.
Dr Anthony Fauci, a White House coronavirus task force member and leading infectious disease expert said that the subject of having Americans cover their faces in public is a ‘very active discussion’ among the committee.
Research remains mixed on whether surgical masks work as well as N95 respirators and whether cloth face coverings do much at all to prevent infection, but Dr Fauci noted that they might be protective, and certainly wont do harm – as long as medical workers have enough.”
-
hopefully there will be new respect for scientists. Prior to this out break the lawyers, economists, medical doctors, management and political scientists and accountants were the toast of the town. All of the above can only now cower hoping for a solution.
-
@Dr.Lucas
The political system we have require individuals from the society to participate. The objective of a politician/political party is to win popular favour with the electorate. If scientists want to influence the system there appears to be a conundrum?
-
DavidApril 2, 2020 6:29 AM
Obviously the woman will be deported when Jamaica opens its borders, until that happens she resides at Dodds
XxxcccccccccccccccccccccccHow come CAL is shovelling passengers from Mia to barbados but govt cant make arrangements with Jamaica to send the Jamaican woman back to her homeland travelling via CAL
-
@Mr Blogmaster, please clarify re “If scientists want to influence the system there appears to be a conundrum?” What is that conundrum or difficult proposition for scientist?
The world may be governed by politicians but for the entirety of my life and as far as I can grasp from reading history our life revolves around and is directed by scientific knowledge…abdolutely no conundrum !
Who has propelled us to understand gravity; force fed us to accept the horizon was not the end of the world or breathed new life into us with artificial hearts or bionic limbs… scientists, scientists, scientists and more scientists.
Who took us to the moon and created the bombs that blew us to radiation hell…scientists!
Science is the alpha and omega of life and always has been! Whether it’s glamorous or rather its professionals get their due is a matter of generally uninformed opinion… we tend to focus on RiRi’s latest look or the latest BS in WH but none of that ever takes away from the fundamental gravity and importance of scientists.
Could never!
-
@Dee Word
If current political systems are failing as Dr. Lucas opines should the scientists develop a strategy to better influence the system? Become involved in political systems. Master the art of political manipulation to achieve their end in the interest of mankind? By any means necessary?
-
@ac
Jamaica closed their airports on March 21, 2020.
https://www.loopnewsbarbados.com/content/jamaica-closes-sea-and-airports-covid-19-cases-jump-19-1
-
@John, what is your reason for the continued push on the flu?
What is the point of citing: “So far this season, there have been 45 million flu illnesses, at least 300,000 hospitalizations, and up to 46,000 deaths from flu, of which more than 100 are pediatric–a higher total at this point of the year than any season in the past decade.[…] Deaths due to flu in the USA alone, 46,000 is almost the same as the worldwide number, 53,216 for COVID-19.[…] Deaths in the USA for COVID-19 at 6,088, more than 7X less than flu deaths.”… What is the POINT?
In the 2017-2018 season you could have also told us that the flu accounted for: an estimated 45 million illnesses, 21 million associated medical visits, 810,000 related hospitalizations, and 61,000 deaths.
Or that in 2016-2017 :The overall burden of influenza was an estimated 29 million illnesses leading to 38,000 associated deaths.
And in 2015-2016 there was an estimated 24 million influenza illnesses and 23,000 flu-associated deaths.
Is your point that these last two year has seen an explosion in flu illnesses and deaths and that that bears careful review on possible causes?
Because surely you CANNOT still be trivializing the impact of covid19 as compared to the flu virus based simply on the sterile numbers!
In which year did the flu virus wreck such havoc on the economy of every western democracy … or caused such rapid and crippling contagion?
Just wondering what (to revery to earlier post) as a scientist you are using your more informed thinking to resolve here!
-
April 3, 2020 7:22 AM
@John, what is your reason for the continued push on the flu?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The most I have talked about is the Spanish flu of 1918, the swine flu of 2009 and MERS and SARS … not the flu flu.
Why are there such great disparities between countries and states/provinces within countries with COVID-19 and not the flu flu?
Why is New York such a disaster area when none of the other states in the US come close to its experience?
Spain and Italy have 234 and 230 deaths per million, the US has 18 deaths per million for the COVID-19 virus.
New York has 2,538.
There are 25 states with less than 25 deaths.
The nearest state to New York is New Jersey with 513 deaths, 5 times less.
Does flu flu have such wide disparities between countries and states/provinces within countries?
Do you have an explanation?
“If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs ….”
The reason I appear to you to be pushing the flu is because I have kept my head and am watching ” … all around losing theirs …”.
Simple really!!
-
de pedantic Dribbler
April 3, 2020 7:22 AMIn which year did the flu virus wreck such havoc on the economy of every western democracy … or caused such rapid and crippling contagion?
++++++++++++++++++++++++
You may have stumbled on to something and I will watch and see if you are capable of figuring it out for yourself.
-
Why is the distribution of deaths/100K by state in the US due to flu flu and that due to COVID-19 so disparate .. or is it?
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/flu_pneumonia_mortality/flu_pneumonia.htm
-
John
April 3, 2020 9:03 AMde pedantic Dribbler
April 3, 2020 7:22 AM
In which year did the flu virus wreck such havoc on the economy of every western democracy … or caused such rapid and crippling contagion?++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Again, why if flu causes so many more deaths than COVID-19 and has been at it every year has it not been able to dent ANY western democracy?
What is the difference?
-
@David, be careful what you wish for… re should scientists “develop a strategy to better influence the system?”
Political opinions are many since the dawn of time …Ceasar, Marx, Mussolini, Lincoln, Hitler et al all acted on deeply held opinions about failing political systems of their day… so nothing particularly newly failing now!
But I would argue that we are already at the confluence of science and political manipulation and it’s already a grave privacy and human nightmare unfolding.
Let’s understand what “scientists develop[ing] a strategy to better influence the system” means NOW.
*That’s the internet of things (with 5G): or a fully connected always on world…step away from the commercial stuff for a moment, and embrace the realities of big brother geo-tagging and plotting our every step… having an ability for complete psychological control and influence!
*It means citizens being injected with nano-particles that can be used to help detect/cure brain tumours, for example… but for every good use of nano tech is also bad: they can be triggered to create a response in our body to cause a heartattack, for example.
Two simple examples.
Science and politics or scientists “mastering the art of political manipulation” is also Cambridge Analytica or the Internet Research Agency … it is scary and dangerous… be careful what you wish for!
-
@Dee Word
Do not agree with you. Take climate change as one example.
-
The virus may not have been manufactured …. but …. it’s spread has been.
-
I understand that Supermarkets are very busy and the parking lots are overflowing, the very thing that the Gov’t sought to prevent by shuttering the Supermarkets to avoid close contact by shoppers is happening as people in the parking lots are so close one may think Kadooment Day came early.
The Bajan public has extended a lot of goodwill to this Gov’t, it may have squandered it “bigly”.
-
A very interesting exchange wrt to the roles of the scientists and the politicians. Why do we need to separate them? Are we not all a little bit of both? Mainly at the applied levels?. This crisis requires specialist at every junction. It is not simply a scientific issue, however we define science.
-
@ Sergeant at 10 :21 AM
You seem surprised at the crowds at the supermarket. I am not. We should know by now the crisis psychology of Barbadians. Prior to the escalation.the shoppers were queuing in an orderly fashion. The only thing amiss was space control in the queues. The six feet space needed to be demarcated for 200 feet long queues. The queues were that long.
Secondly I would not have closed Supermarkets. -
@Vincent
How time flies. In my youth a similar discussion was dominated by C.P. Snow’s lecture, The Two Cultures, Read it. It still dominates British intellectual life.
At the same time, read anything by Chris Christakis, a Yale professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, sociology, medicine, statistics and data science, and biomedical engineering. I have not read it yet, but have read reviews of his Blueprint: The evolutionary origins of a good society.
What a man? -
@David, what about “climate change”?
I argue to you that there is already a confluence of politics and scientific influence and you cite climate change…EH!
You are making my exact point, senor!
Our ENTIRE overwrought (good and bad) perspectives of the effects of fossil fuels on our environment and climate is due to the heavy influence of scientists…without their deep input where would we be and what would the pols rely upon to drive their narratives.
So I have NO idea how your remark validates your disagreement!
-
We have Trump who rubbishes climate change, a politician. We have mainstream view of scientists who support man’s behaviour of negatively affecting climate change. Any way moving on.
-
@ Hal Austin at 10:43 AM
Thanks very much for your suggestions. I am still in the process of understanding the mechanics and methodology of complex systems. I am sure that the authors cited will assist my progress.
-
Another reason to shut down the borders, people can be very dishonest and it could cost lives.
Never wait until it happens then rush to stop it.
“Grenada’s Health Minister Nickolas Steele is incensed after a COVID-19 patient who was confirmed last weekend left the island undetected on the same day he was supposed to get his results.
The individual is now in the United Kingdom (UK).
According to Minister Steele, the patient was tested on March 26 and the results were returned on March 28, which was when health officials attempted to contact the man without success.
The matter was reported to the police and it was then confirmed that the individual and his family left the island onboard Air Canada before he got his results.”
-
John
April 3, 2020 10:17 AMThe virus may not have been manufactured …. but …. it’s spread has been.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
If somebody has willfully spread the virus, somebody else is going to retaliate!!
…. and not in tweets!!
-
So fast Mr Blogmaster, you are moving on…having NOT made your point 🤣
Of course Trump, Bolsonaro and a host of other conservatives voices shout down climate change … so your point in context of this is what: that scientific voices are not heard. Really!
This started when you asked “should the scientists develop a strategy to better influence the system?”…how does the fact that the current POTUS and his political party being climate deniers, negate all the heavy influence of scientists under the previous administration or how their studies and work influenced Greta Thunberg at 16 to be invited to address the UN on Climate Change!
Are they not many anti-vaxxers out there who decry the validity and efficacy of vaccinations with their political syncophants… is it not the heavy influence of scientists with their own political synchophants who counter that!
I simply say to you that scientists are fully vested in most deep political fights..the doc’s argument about their (or his) influence conveniently overlooks the reality that there is a continuous nature of who’s up and who is down…science is always there and always used as fit for purpose to influence.
-
@VC
I am not surprised, I will be surprised if there are no altercations among those in the queues. Everyone accepted the original curfew, they knew they would be inconvenienced but it was in the country’s best interest and they would still be able to go to the Supermarket and purchase their groceries. When you give people 8-10 hours notice that this shopping is being curtailed that is a recipe for disaster. I read where some Supermarkets were going to be open early to accommodate Health care workers and immediately I thought how about those workers whose shifts overlapped the “early” hours that the Supermarkets was supposed to be open for them?BTW there was a rumour making the rounds that there was more to come, ah wonder if some people (politicians) knew in advance and took advantage of that and stocked up prior to the announcement.
-
@Dee Word
Because if scientists become active in the political parties for example they stand a chance of leading the thinking of the political class.
-
@ David BU at 12 :11 PM
“Leading the thinking of the Political Class?” Why? These are two distinct skill sets. Their diverse approaches and contributions to the functioning of human society are equally essential. Scientists, as understood in this blog ,think linearly. The politician usually has to think non-linearly. The latter has many constituencies to satisfy and must factor these into his decision making.
-
@ Sargeant,
CP24 and CBC. Doug Ford about to give the “scary” projections.
-
@Vincent
Agreeing with you. It means there will always be tension AND the political class winning the final argument.
>
-
This government has FAILED miserably, a cluster fcuk and cockup all rolled into one, people have to look for food now if they can’t get supermarket delivery and they and their CHILDREN ARE HUNGRY….imagine going 2 weeks without food.
On a sad note, am sure many loved Bill Wither’s music as much as i did.
“Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time – including Lean On Me, Lovely Day and Ain’t No Sunshine – has died from heart complications his family said in a statement. He was 81.”
-
My lord! This thing has backfired! They should have definitely given people more notice! The huge crowds at the supermarkets may very well speed up the spread of the virus. People are practically on top of each other!
Major mistake! Should have been anticipated.
-
Wura,
And Just the Two of Us. Really good.
This one is quite appropriate in these trying times.
-
John, you really need to give it a rest. Who spread the other pandemics???
-
The lockdown presents and opportunity for representatives to do what they were voted in to do, serve their constituency. Right now they aren’t and some weren’t doing anything as Ministers anyway.
What some don’t understand is many citizens don’t have the luxury to buy in bulk because of a number of reasons; the way they shop, their financial situation, lack of storage space. This is why the supermarkets seem overrun everyday.
I visited Cheapside market to day, was in and out in under 20 mins. Meat, ground provisions and vegetables. Zero stress.
Unfortunately we have adopted the american lifestyle of shopping in supermarkets and buying processed or ready done foods, many will not see Cheapside as an option. We therefore have to find a way to organise supermarket runs.
30 constituencies, 14 days.
Using a seven day cycle, lift the curfew on four constituencies per day (8 -12 and 12 – 4). Those with smaller populations can double up (St. Andrew, St. Joseph).
Distribute specific arm bands for constituents who intend to go out. Police will check arm bands and control access to stores.
Organise the ZRs and transport board to transport to specific supermarkets, pharmacies etc and back
I doubt Ryan can mess this up -
Back fired is the understatement a more appropriate word is Madness a 26 minister cabinet govt and not a valuable idea to stop this madness
Now a picture of a banana republic in fright -
@Redguard
Agree with you. The blogmaster did the same recently.
-
And of course here is someone reviving the cousins from the Palace talking UTTER SHITE from as far back as 2018, a wicked sentiment they all still hold…they can’t stand that the African population is exploding….according to them it will endanger wild life…the nerve of these bloated self-serving clowns….steupppss..
“Prince William has warned that the future of wildlife is under threat from rapid population growth, as he prepares to welcome his third child.
The Duke of Cambridge, 35, made the comments at the Tusk gala dinner in London on Thursday night, saying: ‘In my lifetime, we have seen global wildlife populations decline by over half.
‘We are going to have to work much harder and think much deeper, if we are to ensure that human beings and the other species of animal with which we share this planet can continue to co-exist.
‘Africa’s rapidly growing human population is predicted to more than double by 2050, a staggering increase of three and a half million people per month.”
-
so many links posted….this how cell phone use is being tracked in Bim
https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_BB_Mobility_Report_en.pdf -
@Hants
scary? Sounds like a CYA exercise in underway at all levels, which unfortunately means the apparent cohesion of public levels will now be challenged. -
Fellow Canadians
I am starting a campaign to press the government in to putting forward Keith Sandiford’s name for a knighthood. If we all write a letter to the president she may be swayed. We also need the support of other Bajan-Canadians. He is the greatest living Barbadian historian and public intellectual.
The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.