Prime Minister Mia Mottley will address Barbadians at 11:30AM, 02.02.2021. Her address comes on the eve of another ‘lockdown’ designed to combat the surge in COVID 19 infections.
Covid 19 Update – 02.02.2021
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More Power
Power of the Breath
Here is the first set of Lockdown Homework Assignments for Old Grandparents / Adults / Teenagers / Juniors / Infants Children / Babes and Sucklings on BU for Barbados Locals Only
More will follow once the protocols for Lockdown has been set
p.s. ignore Hal’s whining about Style of Presentation, Subordinating PM, Governor General, BLP politics of Covid and giving his brain (slang for head / blow jobs)
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I wanna be a swabber. Operation Seek and Save. Automatic extraction. Manual extraction. Covid Communications Unit. Is it possible to talk so much shite, with on so many buzzwords? Pause, Reflect, relax and renew. Pivot. Chief Compliance Officer. “My friends….” The Swabber is the higher force. Drink nuff rum.
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First of all…viruses either die off on their own or people build up immunity…all the drama and bullshit is unnecessary, one or two years from now can make a big difference….until it runs its course…
…easy to fool idiots or all the long talk won’t be in the air.
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Capt Sir Tom Moore is dead.
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SwabberFebruary 2, 2021 12:06 PM It seems that you are keen on this….I wonder why? Is this sort of thing your specialty?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9m9d/china-is-using-anal-swabs-to-detect-covid-infections
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@Tron, where is the mother country now?
It is India that has offered to send vaccines to Barbados. Not the UK, not the USA.
Pick sense from that.
The world is a changing.
In twenty years the three real economic powers will be China, USA and India. In that order.
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@Tron, where is the mother country now?
It is India that has offered to send vaccines to Barbados. Not the UK, not the USA.
Pick sense from that.
The world is a changing.
In twenty years the three real economic powers will be China, USA and India. In that order.
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AND WHERE WILL THE 2 x 3 ISLAND BE ?
20 YEARS LATER STILL AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TOTEM POLE BORROWING AND BEGGING BY FAT GREEDY DISHONEST POLITICIANS WHETHER DLP OR BLP WHILST FOOLING AND FLEECING THE BLACK BAJAN MASSES MAJORITY LIVING AT POVERTY LEVELS OR BELOW.
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Steuspe
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Waru
What of the third option. Killing everybody on earth! -
PM said govt to receive vaccine from India soon
Liz Thompson say govt in negotiation with PAHO and WHO and will receive vaccine soon
Which one of these two are right
Although i understand the need for good news
Bold confusion via media outlets is unreasonable -
Bare confusion as govt relies on PR to quell nations fears
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Are the Indian vaccines FULLY approved?
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PM the Japanese national sense of discipline is more deeply culturally bound than the experiences of world war two.
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Don’t forget to stock up on weed, Freewheeling Franklin says “Dope Will Get You Through Times of No Money, Better Than Money Will Get You Through Times of No Dope”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FSLv3V2RzI -
We need no sew n sew PM telling us bout praying!
Church must separate from state.
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“Are the Indian vaccines FULLY approved?”
Nearly it is just waiting for your approval bitch.
Why the fuck the FT did not employ an Indian man or woman instead of a black man like you is still a mystery.
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“What of the third option. Killing everybody on earth!”
uhhh…the problem with that, the engineers will die off first, they are only 12% of the earth’s population, they are the minority and dying off the most from the virus, the largest populations are India China and Africa…with 1. this and that billion people
so if 2 million died already worldwide , you can guarantee at least 1.4 million is neither black or brown..
.can’t include China, they’ve been lying about their numbers from the beginning…and they can lose 1/2 billion people easily and won’t even miss them…India the same, Africa the same…they can all replenish people within a decades…..everyone else will be at the verge of extinction.
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the largest populations are India China and Africa…with 1. this and that billion people…..EACH.
it’s a defining moment..
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You are confusing two issues. An arrangement my regional governments and a bilateral action by Mottley to purchase vaccines from India.
FYI, India s one of if not the largest manufacturer of vaccines/drugs in the world.
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@angela cox February 2, 2021 1:47 PM “PM said govt to receive vaccine from India soon
Liz Thompson say govt in negotiation with PAHO and WHO and will receive vaccine soon
Which one of these two are right. Although i understand the need for good news.”Of course both can be right.
Just like if I wrote
angela cox is beautiful
Cuhdear Bajan is beautiful.
Both of these statements are true and right.
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More mutations found in UK
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@WURA-War-on-U February 2, 2021 12:10 PM “First of all…viruses either die off on their own or people build up immunity.”
Your statement is NOT true. If I was GP I would call you a medical illiterate.
The small pox VIRUS was around for more than 3,000 years. It did NOT die off. Human beings did NOT build up an immunity to it.
Small pox did not go away until it was chased away by vaccinations.
S0 we need a Covid vaccine, unless we are willing to wait for more than 3,000 years for humanity to build up an immunity, or for it to go away on its own, which may not happen even in the next few thousand years.
I am not willing to wait another 3,000+ years.
Are you?
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You are trying to compare small pox virus with a pandemic/plague like virus and calling me a medical illiterate.
the viruses that come around every 100 years or so…lose steam after a time….or people develop immunity….i said nothing about small pox …even typhoid ran it’s course…..even the one that lasted nearly a decade, went away eventually.
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In the 9th century, a Persian doctor published one of the first written accounts of measles a viral illness. 1,200 years later measles still has not gone away, neither has humanity built up an immunity to it. I had it when I was 10. It is a miserable illness which I would not wish on any child [or adult]. More than 140 000 people died from measles in 2018 – mostly children under the age of 5, but fortunately not your grandchildren nor mine, because our grandchildren live in countries where measles vaccination is readily available.
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The problem with this is one is the rate of mutation and the multiple variants….am sure some genius will come up with something for it just as they did for small pox and chicken pox….both of which are still around in bigger countries…haven’t seen them in the Caribbean in decades.
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And since Lawson’s boyfriend shut down the Caribbean and Mexico from flights and so did UK and US…..and as long as people follow all the protocols by protecting themselves, it should not last long on the islands…….a year, maybe 2 …as long as Mia don’t get it in her head to crave dependency tourism again to feed a bunch of crooked ass minorities…yall will be fine..
…..it’s the big countries have the real problems to deal with….small islands brought the problems on themselves.because they don’t want to diversify away…from dependency.
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“Before the rubella vaccination program started in 1969, rubella was a common and widespread infection in the United States. During the last major rubella epidemic in the United States from 1964 to 1965, an estimated 12.5 million people got rubella, 11,000 pregnant women lost their babies, 2,100 newborns died, and 20,000 babies were born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Once the vaccine became widely used, the number of people infected with rubella in the United States dropped dramatically.”
Rubella is also a viral which has not gone away on its own, neither has humanity built up an immunity against it. It is suppressed by vaccination ONLY.
Source: CDC
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We actually gotta thank Lawson’s boyfriend, US and UK for shutting down the flights….it will save lives.
The best thing i think/hope Mia has done, is open the borders to the other islands’ people, get some of the burden off the government. People will stimulate the economy and start businesses….know a few already putting steps in place…enuff with the disease choked tourism already.
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Cuddear…you do realize that all the viruses ya bringing up…ya can’t just put on a mask and a shield, social distance and protect yaself from any of them….right…🤣🤣😂😂
bubonic plague is making a comeback in certain areas, if a tick or some other carrying pest bites ya, dog eat ya dinner…no mask required…dengue is still here too…can’t wear a mask for that one either…
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Sippin On Some Syrup
Stay Fly
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@Hal Austin February 2, 2021 1:53 PM “Are the Indian vaccines FULLY approved?”
You told us that you have already received a vaccine.
If you received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, you know that that is made in India right?
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@Hal
As if today the Indian vaccine to the best of my knowledge has not been approved by the FDA under their emergency use guidelines
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These types of viruses gives you a choice, the others don’t…..and we have a ton of information out there to learn from.
“NEWS ANALYSIS
One Case, Total Lockdown: Australia’s Lessons for a Pandemic World
The country’s short, sharp responses have repeatedly subdued the virus and allowed a return to near normalcy. Now its model is being applied to Perth, its fourth-largest city.By Damien Cave
Feb. 1, 2021
SYDNEY, Australia — One case. One young security guard at a quarantine hotel who tested positive for the coronavirus and experienced minor symptoms.That was all it took for Perth, Australia’s fourth-largest city, to snap into a complete lockdown on Sunday. One case and now two million people are staying home for at least the next five days. One case and now the top state leader, Mark McGowan, who is facing an election next month, is calling on his constituents to sacrifice for each other and the nation.
“This is a very serious situation,” he said on Sunday as he reported the case, the first one the state of Western Australia had found outside quarantine in almost 10 months. “Each and every one of us has to do everything we personally can to stop the spread in the community.”
The speed and severity of the response may be unthinkable to people in the United States or Europe, where far larger outbreaks have often been met with half measures. But to Australians, it looked familiar.
The lockdown in Perth and the surrounding area followed similar efforts in Brisbane and Sydney, where a handful of infections led to steep ramp-ups in restrictions, a subdued virus and a rapid return to near normalcy. Ask Australians about the approach, and they might just shrug. Instead of loneliness and grief or outcries over impingements on their freedom, they’ve gotten used to a routine of short-term pain for collective gain.
The contrast with the United States and Europe — sharp at the start of the pandemic — has become even more marked with time. Fewer Australians have died in total (909) than the average number of deaths every day now in Britain and the United States.
“We have a way to save lives, open up our economies and avoid all this fear and hassle,” said Ian Mackay, a virologist at the University of Queensland who developed a multilayered, or “Swiss cheese,” model of pandemic defense that has been widely circulated. “Everyone can learn from us, but not all are willing to learn.”
Australia is just one of several success stories in the Asia-Pacific. The region’s middle powers, including New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, are essentially getting better at managing the virus while the great powers of the World War II era are getting worse.
The center of confidence, if not gravity, continues to shift east, especially as China roars back to life. With successful public health, some argue, comes not just wealth and more stable economies but also national pride and the practical expertise that mutating viruses demand.
“I’m not sure we’re being looked at with enough interest,” Dr. Mackay said.
Australia’s geographic isolation offers it one great advantage. Still, it has taken a number of decisive steps. Australia has strictly limited interstate travel while mandating hotel quarantine for international arrivals since last March. Britain and the United States are only now seeking to make quarantine mandatory for people coming from coronavirus hot spots.
Australia has also maintained a strong system of contact tracing, even as other countries have essentially given up. In the Perth case, contact tracers had already tested the man’s housemates (negative so far) by the time the lockdown was announced and placed them under 14-day quarantine at a state-run facility. The authorities also listed more than a dozen locations where the security guard might have touched or breathed on someone.
Australia’s fight against the coronavirus has not been flawless. The case in Perth illustrates a persistent soft spot — a number of outbreaks have been linked to hotel quarantine, including one in Melbourne late last year that led to a 111-day lockdown. The strict border rules have caused hardship for many people, including thousands of Australians stranded overseas.
But the evidence of the country’s success has been building for months, and it’s been shaped since December less by a complete absence of the virus than by a series of rapid responses that have quashed small outbreaks.
Before Christmas, it was Sydney’s northern beaches, which were locked down as a few, then a few dozen, cases emerged. Holiday plans were ruined, as anyone from greater Sydney was barred from traveling to other states. Testing surged. There were few complaints, and it worked: The city of five million has gone two weeks without a case of community transmission.
Brisbane followed suit in early January with a brief lockdown after a cleaner in its hotel quarantine system became infected with a highly contagious variant of the virus first identified in Britain. It was the mutation’s first known appearance in the community in Australia, and officials moved quickly. Annastacia Palaszczuk, the top official in Queensland, which includes Brisbane, announced the lockdown 16 hours after the positive test.
“Doing three days now could avoid doing 30 days in the future,” she said.
Brisbane is now back to Covid-normal, like all of Australia beyond Perth. Across the country, offices and restaurants are open, with rules mandating physical spacing. Masks are recommended but not required. And large gatherings are in the works. The Australian Open, after facing a series of challenges from infected arrivals, expects to seat 30,000 tennis fans a day when it begins on Feb. 8.
Vaccines are rolling out and will reach many of us by spring. We’ve answered some common questions about the vaccines.
Now that we are all getting used to living in a pandemic, you may have new questions about how to go about your routine safely, how your children will be impacted, how to travel and more. We’re answering those questions as well.
So far, the coronavirus outbreak has sickened more than 95 million people globally. More than 2 million people have died. A timeline of the events that led to these numbers may help you understand how we got here.
Dr. Mackay, who has worked closely with Australian government officials, called it “the hammer and the dance.”
“The lockdowns give everyone in contact tracing and public health a chance to catch their breath, to make sure they interview everyone, that no one forgets then remembers something — and that lets them really stop transmission,” he said.Europe and the United States seem to prefer, in his words, “the half-baked lockdown.” He said they put too much faith in the vaccines, failing to recognize that their impact on transmission would be glacial, not instant.
Much of Europe in particular points to fatigue, then failure. An analysis of 98 countries’ responses to the pandemic by the Lowy Institute, an Australian think tank, found that many European nations topped the Covid performance rankings a few months ago. Britain, France and a few others are now closer to the bottom, along with the United States.
“They didn’t go far enough,” said Hervé Lemahieu, a Lowy research fellow originally from Belgium who led the study with Alyssa Leng. “When they did make gains, they relaxed too soon.”
As of Monday afternoon, no other infections had been found in Western Australia. Inside the shuttered area, residents quickly adapted. Masks purchased months ago were put to use. Workers in nursing homes called the families of every resident to go over protocols.
Allan Thompson, an investment banker in Perth, said he was one of many racing back to their houses on Sunday to do their part.
“You know that John Prine song — ‘It’s half an inch of water and you think you’re gonna drown,’” he said. “To paraphrase that, we’re only in a half inch of water, and we don’t think we’re going to drown. We think we’re going to get on top of this. We know that good comes from doing the right things for the right amount of time.”
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Cuddear…hope that article helps you understand the difference between viruses.
i was following this one from day 1.
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@John A
Both vaccines have been approved under emergency guidelines, not full approval..
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@CrusoeFebruary 2, 2021 12:38 PM
Agreed. The white hemisphere is in decline. The U.S. is today where Great Britain was in 1945. What is missing is the Suez crisis.
We need to reorient ourselves and learn Mandarin instead of Spanish in schools. Learn from the winners!
Now, back to my rice bowl.
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Cruelso
I swabs. Wherever I am directed. #allhandsondeck #wepausin #staythecoursebarbados #wegotthis -
Again…for those who don’t understand the differences in virus profiles…..
“lockdown in Perth and the surrounding area followed similar efforts in Brisbane and Sydney, where a handful of infections led to steep ramp-ups in restrictions, a subdued virus and a rapid return to near normalcy. Ask Australians about the approach, and they might just shrug. Instead of loneliness and grief or outcries over impingements on their freedom, they’ve gotten used to a routine of short-term pain for collective gain.”
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Scientists now say Sars CoVid has been found in saliva. A good mouthwash is now part of the protective drill for the virus.
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Hal AustinFebruary 2, 2021 5:46 PM
Scientists now say Sars CoVid has been found in saliva. A good mouthwash is now part of the protective drill for the virus.
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The Chinese claim it passes through the bowels and appears in the rectum, where they test for it.
Dodd’s perhaps explained.
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UK Daily Mail…Fabruary 1, 2021
Coronavirus vaccines could be tweaked to spark immunity against new variants in just three weeks, a top scientist has said.
Professor Robin Shattock, an Imperial College London scientist who is working on booster shots, said experts could rapidly adapt the current crop of jabs, allowing them to be rolled out within a couple of months.
He added antibodies triggered by jabs based on the old virus would still be effective at preventing serious illness, should someone catch a new variant.
Scientists fear new variants — which can contain dozens of potentially dangerous mutations — may be able to dodge vaccine-triggered immunity, and possibly cause re-infection or serious illness.
No10’s top experts are most concerned about the South African variant — which has sparked a door-to-door testing blitz across England — and a Brazilian strain which have sparked international alarm.
And today fears were raised over the Kent variant that is widespread across the UK after it emerged it may be evolving to include a key mutation that may make it better able to resist Professor Robin Shattock, who is working on booster shots to fight the new variants, said tweaked jabs could be in the arms of patients within three months.
US February 2, 2021
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s top medical adviser, said current Covid-19 vaccines should still be effective against new variants of the virus, and the U.S. could approach a “degree of normality” by fall if most of the country is vaccinated by summer. Photo: Al Drago/Zuma Press (Originally published Jan. 21, 2021)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITIONThe findings are similar to an analysis by U.K. government advisers and regulators on which they based their policy of spreading out shots of the vaccine to reach more people quickly with first doses. At the time, U.K. authorities said that after three weeks, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was around 70% effective up until the second dose, even if that was 12 weeks later.
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@ John A February 2, 2021 3:34
As of January 4, 2021
OPINION: No matter what Bharat Biotech says, Covaxin is just not ready for FDA approvals.
The drug regulator’s approval for any new drug or vaccine is based on the understanding that the drug or vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks. However, considering that he admitted that Phase-III trials are still underway, there is no final estimate of Covaxin’s efficacy, and without that number, the approval should not have been granted.
Benefits like how effective the vaccine is in preventing disease, and risks such as high mortality rate if the vaccine is not given or vaccine side-effects, are critical data that inform the approval. -
@ Tony
That is the risk with the emergency use act. Not enough is known about the product but due to the covid threat permission is given. I guess they figure it is the lesser of 2 evils.
Truth is none of them have FDA approval only permission for use under the act.
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@AMERICANS FOUND guilty of breaching Barbados’ COVID-19 regulations should not look to the United States Embassy to bail them out.
US Ambassador Linda Taglialatela said yesterday Americans on the island “should obey the protocols and if they don’t, they should obviously pay the fine . . . or however the Barbados Government deals” with the transgression.
She warned: “The American Embassy is not going to bail them out because we really believe that if there are rules and regulations and laws in place, Americans, as well as visitors to your country, should abide by them.”
Source: Nationnews.com of 2 February 2, 2021
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When is White History month?
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I see the number of cases in Barbados has taken a nosedive, even before the Paws.
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