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Recent COVID 19 Dashboards reflect a global picture, one of rising infections caused mainly by the Delta variant. Unfortunately because Barbados does not exist in a fishbowl, our tiny island is being ravaged by the the coronavirus. Given the perilous state of the economy before the pandemic struck, Barbadians should expect a period of economic hardship for the next many years, ten, twenty …it is left to be seen. We will probably be told differently very soon with 2023 rapidly approaching.

It is regrettable the one advantage our island has compared to larger countries we continue to squander. Come together, agree to a way forward , inspire residents to rally behind a sensible plan AND EXECUTE. Instead we see the same old, political opportunism, high class ignorance and panic.

Covid 19 Dashboard 1/9/2021

The blogmaster is hopeful this blog can be used to record constructive suggestions to help onlookers negotiate the ongoing Covid 19 challenge, now and in the long-term. To repeat – the blogmaster is hopeful.

One thing is for certain, it is going to be a bleak Christmas.

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439 responses to “Barbados: in the Grip of a Pandemic”

  1. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/06/68-new-covid-cases/

  2. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Canada on course for worst wave of COVID-19 yet, new modelling data shows

  3. John Avatar
    John

    This is a simple exercise in logic.

    It is like CLUEDO one of the many games children used to play to improve their ability to think.

    It is the marshalling of facts and arriving at the murderer, the room and the murder weapon by a process of elimination.

    Here’s how you play.

    So easy a child could play!!

  4. John Avatar
    John

    Cuhdear BajanSeptember 6, 2021 6:52 PM

    @John September 6, 2021 7:35 AM “So what’s your opinion on the number of affected children?”

    My opinion on the number of children sick with Covid so far for September is that 80 sick children is 80 too many. As a child I was sick with measles and I felt very badly, feverish, the light hurt my eyes, weak, no appetite, sorry that I gave the measles to a sibling etc. So I feel sorry for these 80 children. I wish them well. And measles has a kill rate of only 1 or 2 per thousand. Covid19 has a kill rate 10 times that one or two per hundred. I pray that we do not lose any more of our children to Covid19

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    So you don’t plan on trying to resolve the mystery!!

    No sweat, it isn’t necessary for you to participate for the revelation to occur!!

    It will proceed quite well without you.

    You are not even interested in the whereabouts of these children!!

    Did you know that children have a death rate of 0 to 3 per ten thousand from COVID?

    “In states reporting, 0.00%-0.03% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in death”

    If a child is afflicted with measles that child is more than ten times more likely to die from it than from COVID, at least in the US which has the highest number of total deaths in the whole wide Universe!!

    https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

  5. John Avatar
    John

    HantsSeptember 6, 2021 8:15 PM

    Canada on course for worst wave of COVID-19 yet, new modelling data shows

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    So Hants,

    How many models have been proven wrong?

    Canada is a bit bigger than Ontario which is a bit bigger than Barbados.

    Repeating what the media tells you ad nauseum isn’t going to solve anything, especially since the media usually gets it wrong.

    It is only going to make you miserable and anxious and we all know that anxiety and fear disorders are the killers in COVID!!

    Think critically, learn how to play CLUEDO and you will find you will get a better understanding of the spread of COVID.

    Occupy your mind.

    For example, I see somewhere in the media that First Nations People are 1.9X more likely to contract COVID when compared with the whole of Canada.

    But I also see that First Nations people are more likely to have water of the lowest quality.

    Using these two facts and looking at their sources to determine whether to discard or consider them leads to a similar hypothesis I have been stating for a while.

    So, I would next go to where are the majority of cases in Canada and what is the water quality like there?

    I would also look at where are the least cases and what is the water quality like there?

    I haven’t done that to any great extent in Canada but what I see from my preliminary searches is that where water Quality is concerned, parts of Canada are pretty backward.

    So I am leaning to the thinking that COVID cases will rise in Canada, to what extent I don’t know but if I were modelling it I would be looking to see how many people have water of low quality and how easy is it for sewage to get in.

    Poor water quality is not a guarantor of high COVID cases as it boils down to the likelihood of individuals actually getting the poor quality water and whether those individuals are susceptible to dying from COVID.

    Both probabilities are less than one so when they combine by multiplication (AND) the likelihood of death diminishes.

    Cases will however rise as more and more are exposed to the virus, whether in the water or in the air.

  6. John Avatar
    John

    Cuhdear BajanSeptember 6, 2021 7:22 PM
    .
    Delta could lead to ‘hyperlocal outbreaks.’

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    How many hyper local outbreaks have you experienced in your life?

    What is a hyper local outbreak?

    Would you class all members of your family getting flu in 1957 as a “hyper local” outbreak?

    BTW, if all we got were hyper local outbreaks it wouldn’t be long before water was proven the culprit!!

  7. John Avatar
    John

    … and people in the hyper locality would figure it out for themselves.

  8. John Avatar
    John

    Cuhdear BajanSeptember 6, 2021 6:52 PM

    So I feel sorry for these 80 children. I wish them well. And measles has a kill rate of only 1 or 2 per thousand. Covid19 has a kill rate 10 times that one or two per hundred. I pray that we do not lose any more of our children to Covid19

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    People believe COVID is lethal because the media tells them so and they are unable to think critically.

    Real doctors in India and South Africa prove it is does not need to be.

    People believe it is 10 times more lethal than measles to children when in reality it is 10 times less lethal than measles.

    Most children will never experience symptoms … that’s the meaning of asymptomatic!!

    They will not experience what SS/CDB/FCCV/CCHB experienced. Most will never write “As a child I was sick with measles and I felt very badly, feverish, the light hurt my eyes, weak, no appetite, sorry that I gave the measles to a sibling etc.”

    People have lost the ability to think and are programmed by a media which is peopled by people who simply do not think.

    They have become what my uncle used to be called …a “larmer”.

  9. John Avatar
    John

    Incidentally, Israel’s water is 55% from desal plants, as in real desal plants.

    “Israel’s current scope of desalination
    The Soreq plant provides 150 million m3 per year, the Hadera plant 127 million, the Ashkelon plant 118 million, the Palmachim plant 90 million, and the Ashdod plant 100 million.”

    If you glance at Google Earth and these desal plants you will see heavy development all around them.

    It may be that Israel is swamped with the virus in their water and the vaccine is of little effect.

    Ditto UAE!!!

  10. David Avatar
    David

    Scientific studies show that the Delta virus is causing breakthroughs, more importantly less people are dying and getting seriously sick because of the high level of vaccination administered. If children are now shown to be vulnerable it has implications for families, the older mother, father, grannies etc who are known to be susceptible to serious illness because of underlying issues. You may have the last word as usual on this matter. The bligmaster repeats: listen to your doctor. Ask your doctor for guidance.

  11. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Most of these COVID blogs have served no purpose
    Worst of all there is this cuckoo guy named John hijacking all the blogs with his nonsensical unscientific evidence of water in the blog

  12. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    About time for David to move away from these insipid Covid meanderings and place focus on the problems embedded in the economy which is hurting the bajan households
    E.g
    Govt finding economic policies to stimulate a dying economy

  13. David Avatar
    David

    In the same way you hijack the other blogs with your anti Mottley stance on every blasted thing?

  14. John Avatar
    John

    Go and look at the data and think for yourself!!

  15. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    DavidSeptember 7, 2021 8:51 AM

    In the same way you hijack the other blogs with your anti Mottley stance on every blasted thing

    Xxxccxccc
    Liar

  16. GP Avatar
    GP

    @ JOHN KNOX

    i am sure that as one who walked Barbados in the Sunday Morning National Trust walks, that you will enjoy this post.

    Maybe you should organize a BARBADOS COAST TO COAST WALK, which BU can promote, and for which influential folk who come here can help sponsor.

    The promotional propaganda might purvey pertinent information which we want our people to practice in what ever sphere of life deemed necessary, whether it be moral, financial, spiritual, medical, political, educational…vocational…..what ever.

    Perhaps rehydration stops can be set up for purchase of Plus and Banks malt PHD milk etc (selected Bajan products only. At these rehydration points appropriate literature should be displayed or passed out………made available in some way.

    https://www.bajanthings.com/st-bees-to-robin-hood-bay-in-the-footsteps-of-alfred-wainwright/

  17. GP Avatar
    GP

    no bullshitting must be permitted on these educational, health STOP & STARE type Nature walks
    some feature must be incorporated in the registration to enable any AC-esque person to be promptly removed from the trail.

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @GP
    This is a very good idea.
    If the start and end points at chosen carefully, I can see this as a selling point to some tourists.

    I remember some Geography trips that made me see some of the beauty of Barbados.

  19. John Avatar
    John

    Funny enough GP I was just on Bajan Things looking at the tribute to Richard Goddard and the walks.

    William is an old buddy from the hikes, always trying to get me back.

    Julian Hunte started the hiking for tourists starting in Speightstown and following the coast to his bamboo hut at Long Pond.

    A donkey carried the refreshments.

    They became internationally famous.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-12-29-8503300641-story.html

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-02-05-8903030292-story.html

  20. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Was just looking out of my window and saw cars parked as parents are waiting to collect their children. In my city, they’re back in class.

    https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/nj-information/reopening-guidance-and-restrictions/are-schools-open-what-are-the-safety-requirements

    NB: That is not an invitation for Lawson.

  21. GP Avatar
    GP

    THEO
    FOR AT LEAST 40 YEARS THERE ARE SERIOUS WALKS ON SUNDAY MORNINGS SPONSORED BY THE BARBADOS NATIONAL TRUST, AND ORIGINALLY STARTED AND LED BY THE LATE RICHARD GODDARD

    THE ONLY THING THAT MIGHT RIVAL THESE SUNDAY WALKS ON SUNDAY MORNINGS IS PROBABLY CHURCH MEEtINGS IN EVERY LOCALITY, BY VILLAGE BY PARISH ETC.

    IN FACT THE ADDICTS TURNED UP CONSISTENTLY AND RELIGIOUSLY WEEKLY FOR THESE WALKS ECEN AFTER HEAVY OVERNIGHT AND EVEN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. SINCE VERY FEW THINGS ARE MORE HIGHLY, THOUGH SIMPLY AS WEL ORGANIZED IN BARBADOS AS THESE WALKS

    I ATTENDED FAITHFULLYFROM 1994- 1998, DRIVING USUALLY FROM ST JAMES

    WITH LITTLE OR NO TRAFFIC ON THE ROADS AT 5:30 ON SUNDAY MORNINGS, IT WAS AN EASY HALF OUR DRIVE TO ANY/EVERY DESIGNATED STARTING POINT

    AND YES THESE WALKS WERE OFTEN VERY WELL ATTENDED BY TOURISTS–INCLUDING THOSE WHO CAME TO THE ISLAND EVERY TOURIST SEASONS

    THESE WALKS ARE THE BEST THING AVAILABLE WAY TO KNOW BARBADOS…ALL THE PLACES THAT EXIST BETWEEN ALL THE MAIN ROADS THAT WE KNOW WELL. AND USE WHEN WE SET OUT TO VISIT AN OLD FRIEND, OR ATTEND A FUNERAL OR SOME EVENT IN A REMOTE BAJAN LOCATION

    THERE WAS EVEN MORE CAMARADIE BETWEEN REGULARS THAN EVEN DIE HARD CRICKET OR FOOTBAL SUPPORTERS

    THESE WALKS WERE ORIGINALLY STARTED AND LED BY THE LATE RICHARD GODDARD, BUT AS THE WALK EVOLVED , THREE DISTINCT GROUPS EMERGED, NAMELY
    1- THE WARE/WEAR AND TEAR GROUP——THESE VERY FIT FOLK MIGHT COVER 9 OR MORE MILES IN THE THREE HOURS

    2 THE HERE AND THERE GROUP- USUALLY LED IN MY TIME BY OUR OWN JOHN KNOX (WHO LECTURERS PERSISTENTLY ON THE ROLE OF WATER IN COVID ON BU). THIS GROUP WALKED STEADILY WITHOUT STOPPING AND WENT AT A GOOD SOLID PACE.

    3 THE STOP AND STARE GROUP, WALKED AT A GOOD PACE TOO, BUT THEY STOPPED, AND ENGAGED IN SERIOUS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PLATT BEING WALKED. IT MIGHT BE THE FLORA IN THE AREA, THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OR PLANTATION AND ITS GREAT HOUSE AND OTHER BUILDINGS. AND PLACES IN THAT PLATT OF SIGNIFICANCE

    THE EDUCATION INCLUDED INFORMATION SUCH AS THE UNIQUE PRODUCTS PRODUCED BY THAT PLANTAION….E.G HARROW SENT TEIR CANE SYRUP EXCLUSIVELY TO CANADA FOR USE ON PANCAKES… OR COLLETON, WHOSE SUGAR WAS CRYSTALLIZED IN A SPECIAL SIZE TO BE SENT TO A SPECIFIC COMPANY IN THE UK FOR USE ON THEIR SWEET BISCUITS. ETC ETC ETC

    IT WAS AT MY FIRST SUCH WALK THAT I FIRST LEARNED ABOUT THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF THE CANE HOLE, INTERCROPPING AROUND IT, AND THE ROLE OF THE KHUS KHUS PLANTED AT THE EGES OF CANE FIELDS TO PREVENT SOIL EROSION- TECHNICS BROUGHT HERE BY OUR AFRICAN PREDECESSORS..

    WE WERE TAUGHT HOW ONE OF THE LABOURERS AT HIGHLAND IN ST THOMAST DISCOVERED THAT CANE COULD BE GROWN STARTED FROM SEEDS RATHER THAN BY VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION BY CUTTINGS..

    THAT ALOE VERA ORIGINATED IN BIM AND SO DID THE GRAPEFRUITS. WE CERTAINLY MISSED OUT ON BRANDING HERE..
    AND THE PROMOTION OF OUR MANJACK IN THE CONSET BAY TO BATH STRETCH……THE SAME PRODUCT USED IN THE PAINTING BLACK OG HENYRY FOR’S FIRST MODEL CARDS.

    WE LEARNED TOO, HOW THE TRINIDADIANS SABATAGED THE SERIOUS BANANA INDIUSTRY THAT WE ONCE HAD
    IN MY TIME THE STOP AND STARE GROUP, WAS LED BY NONE OTHER THAN THE BELOVED END HIGHLY RESPECTED D
    DR COLIN HUDSON

    THE SERIES OF WALKS I AM PROPOSING IS COAST TO COAST

    AND WOULD FOLLOW DIFFERENT ROUTES BUT WILL BE STOP AND STARE
    LIKE

    –

  22. GP Avatar
    GP

    EARLY OR OVERNIGHT HEAVY RAIN

  23. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Bringing a herd.

    “Tourism authorities will be intensifying their global marketing efforts to lure more visitors here, “.

    Tourism authorities will be intensifying their global marketing efforts to lure more visitors here, .

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/09/07/pr-drive-on-as-home-bound-visitors-left-behind-by-late-test-results/

  24. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    The things as Bush Tea would have opined a body has to do when prostituting themselves.

  25. GP Avatar
    GP

    ON ONE WALK THROUGH THE BAY LAND WE PARTICULARLY WALKED THROUGH WALCOTT’S AVENUE SO THAT THE ENGLISH TOURISTS AND CRICKET ENTHUSIAST COULD SEE WHERE THE GREAT SIR GARRY SOBERS LIVED AND GREW UP
    THE ENGLISH ALSO REVELLED IN DISCUSSION ABOUT NELSON AND WASHINGTTON HOUSE NEAR THE GARRISON WHERE THE FIRST US PRESIDENT RESIDED ON HIS SOJOURN IN BARBADOS

    WHY IS THE PRNOUNCTION OF THE TOWN IN ST PETER NOT THE SAME AS INDICATED BY ITS SPELLING?

    WHY IS THAT TOW IN CH CH CALLED OISTINS?
    WHAT WAS ITS SIGNIFICANCE?

  26. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Hants
    “She however advised those who call the hotline directly regarding test results, that they should have information readily available on the name of guest, name of property, indication of arrival or departure test query, date of arrival or departure, date test sample was taken, facility where test sample was taken.

    Myers also explained that samples taken more than 48 hours prior to the customer query will be prioritized for resolution.

    “Each case will be assessed individually based on the customer data provided and specific circumstances,” she said.

    This still reeks of a pen / paper /phone solution and with government getting in the way. Testing centers should be getting customers email addresses and sending the results directly to customers emails.
    Testing facilities should have to provide daily/ weekly response statistics to the government. There should be a timeline to receive these data and a penalty if not met.
    Number tested
    Number of tests analyzed
    <48 hours,

    =48 hours
    If a test is out of some acceptable window, monies must be refunded and a penalty paid.

    Set up some metrics for these labs

    Let’s stop pussyfooting around.

  27. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @GP September 7, 2021 12:44 PM “THEO: FOR AT LEAST 40 YEARS THERE ARE SERIOUS WALKS ON SUNDAY MORNINGS SPONSORED BY THE BARBADOS NATIONAL TRUST, AND ORIGINALLY STARTED AND LED BY THE LATE RICHARD GODDARD…”

    All true.
    I walked with the stop and stare from about 1987 to 1994 until family commitments stopped me.
    As GP says except for church, a wonderful way to spend Sunday mornings. I enjoyed them so much I sometimes I went to church on Sunday morning, had a quick lunch and and joined the Sunday afternoon walks starting at 3 and ending just before sunset.

  28. John Avatar
    John

    Edward Oistine gave his name to Oistins.

    He bought 1,000 acres for 100 GBPs and that land stretched from Ridge Plantation to Oistins Town, also known as Charles Town after King Charles I who was beheaded.

    He was a merchant and had a storehouse somewhere in Oistins which passed to Samuel Newton.

    Edward Oistine was a wild man. Ligon describes him in his book.

    His son, also Edward Oistine, became a Quaker and is buried c.1669 in “his garden” which I believe historians think is a slave burial ground.

    https://imgur.com/PH4ZCvU

    Source: Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn

    https://imgur.com/QLI2uIJ

    Source Katherine Cook: NEW WORLD MEMORY: IDENTITY, COMMEMORATION, AND FAMILY IN TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITIES BY KATHERINE ROSALIND COOK, PHD, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, ARCHAEOLOGY, DECEMBER 2015

  29. John Avatar
    John

    We hiked rain or shine.

    Even if there was a hurricane on our doorstep a small core hiked.

    I remember such a morning going from St. Thomas Post Office with the lightning flashing and thunder rolling.

    I also remember a morning at Haymans when the rain started falling at 6 and poured till 7 non stop.

    My group went up through Black Bess, Mangrove and Rock Hall and heard the gullies roaring with the water going down to Speightstown.

    The rain pored for a solid hour and after passing through Indian Ground the sun came out.

    We went back down past Portland and crossed a gully at Mile and a Quarter with water flowing above my chest.

    I would think twice about doing that now but then it was most natural!!

    Then along Highway 2A and back to Haymans.

    Bare sport.

  30. John Avatar
    John

  31. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    I was always accompanied by at least one child on the hikes so I did not do the “water up to my chest thingy” but “yes” the hikes were great fun. I remember one through Graeme Hall swamp with water almost to my knees and where I saw a Barbados yellow warbler, only one of two times in my life I have seen one of those. It was worth it.

  32. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Since Elsa I’ve started seeing gaulins in my yard again, not the common white cattle egret, but the brown/grey gaulins. I hadn’t seen any for years, maybe decades.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    What we are not seeing is rhe bubble bee and doctor boobie.

  34. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ TheOGazerts September 7, 2021 1:13 PM

    The public test system has now completely collapsed in Barbados. Currently, fully vaccinated arrivals are waiting 3 to 4 days for their results. This makes up to 800 USD with the usual hotel costs of around 200 USD per night.

    If you want to avoid this madness, you have to book at the Crane and get the result there within 6 hours. However, this costs around 1000 USD for an evening flight to Barbados including 2 nights at the site.

    As I predicted in August, the riots of the vaccination opponents in the inner city were the perfect superspreader event. It will take at least three, four months to iron out this event. In the meantime, our hotel managers will execute mass layoffs.

  35. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Cuhdear
    I remember one through Graeme Hall swamp with water almost to my knees and where I saw a Barbados yellow warbler
    You sent me researching as I have never heard of this bird- so thanks-
    ++++++++++++++++
    There was a chap named Max Pontiflex (hope I have the spelling right) but he lived in Graeme Hall Terrace and he had all types of birds in an aviary I wouldn’t be surprised if he had one of these. I believe that the swamp was a source for many of the birds.

    A few years ago, I came across what we called “sparrows” but are bullfinches endemic to Barbados. This one was extremely smart as he found his way into our kitchen by accident ( he had to come through the family room) and he would make his way every day through the same path because the first time he came in he got some scraps that was left on a table.

  36. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    The other time I saw a Barbados yellow warbler was at Gibbes, St. Peter. Also decades ago I saw a wild hare there. A living one. No swamps there as far as I know. Sadly I’ve also seen one killed by a vehicle at Apes Hill. And “yes” apparently Graeme Hall is a good place for bird watching.

    Pre-Covid Oistins was also a good place for bird watching on weekend nights.

  37. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/09/07/81-of-patients-in-isolation-are-unvaccinated/
    81 % of patients in isolation are unvaccinated

    This report gives a breakdown of the categories of people in isolation as at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, September 6, 2021. There were 542 people in isolation. Of these, 438 patients (81 per cent) were unvaccinated and 97 (18 per cent) were fully vaccinated. Five of those fully vaccinated patients (1 in primary and 4 in secondary) were in need of care, and the other 92 were in tertiary isolation. Seven people, all in tertiary isolation, were partially vaccinated for COVID-19.
    Primary and secondary isolation for COVID-19 patients in Barbados are units which accommodate those who are very ill and need close monitoring and treatment, with primary isolation being designated for the most severely ill. Meanwhile, tertiary isolation houses patients who are only mildly ill, or not showing illness.It is important to note that the number of people in isolation changes throughout the day as people are admitted and discharged.
    Source: Barbados Government Information Service

  38. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @David September 7, 2021 5:03 PM “What we are not seeing is rhe bubble bee.”

    Saw a big, fat, black, beautiful bumble bee yesterday morning when I was pulling cassava. But I am not seeing enough of them, and of the small brown honey bees since the volcano. I have a sweet basil in the garden and there used to be dozens of honey bees on that plant. Now only a few. I hope that the bees recover. My pumpkins did not flourish this year, but a friend, farming in St. Michael has had an abundant harvest.

    I am not a scientist, but I think that the volcanic ash killed off many of our bees.

  39. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/09/07/covid-19-update-69-new-cases-569-in-isolation/
    COVID-19 Update: 69 new cases, 569 in isolation

  40. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    September 7, 2021, 1303 tests done, 69 new cases including 20 children. Positivity rate 5.29%
    September 6, 2021, 1118 tests done, 68 new cases including 7 children. Positivity rate 6.08%
    September 5, 2021, 2827 tests done, 101 new cases including 26 children. Positivity rate 3.57%
    September 4, 2021, 2139 tests done, 65 new cases including 15 children. Positivity rate 3.03%.
    September 3, 2021, 1557 tests done, 31 new cases including 6 children. Positivity rate 1.99%.
    September 2, 2021, 2544 tests done, 80 new cases, including 15 children. Positivity rate 3.14%.
    September 1, 2021, 1665 tests done, 40 new cases including 11 children. 1 death. Positivity rate 2.40%.

    569 people are in isolation.

  41. John2 Avatar
    John2

    More news on the effectiveness of being vaccinated

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-5-000-real-chances-183201138.html

  42. John Avatar
    John

    JohnApril 26, 2021 5:45 PM

    As an insecticide Volcanic Ash seems to work.

    https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158828318.pdf

  43. John2 Avatar
    John2

    What is the latest on the private sector funds to purchase vaccines?

    How many vaccines did we receive so far / how many more do we need to MAKE AVAILABLE for 100% vaccination of pipülation?

  44. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    My bees have returned.

  45. John Avatar
    John

    What is Taiwan doing that is so different to Vietnam?

    https://imgur.com/M1DXPNq

    https://imgur.com/7F9DIKj

  46. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    I am a Bee lover because there work assignment is vital to protecting our ecosystem
    Included in bees multiple work load is pollination of other plants like trees and flowers
    All vital to the survival of all living things

  47. John Avatar
    John

    Vietnam population is 4X that of Taiwan.

    Does this explain the difference in response?

    I doubt, because Sri Lanka is about the same population and it has serious issues with Covid.

    Both are also islands.

  48. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    re ” the effectiveness of being vaccinated ”

    I have had 1 pfizer and 2nd dose Moderna, If I die I will let you know. lol

  49. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    “Member of Parliament for St Lucy, Peter Phillips, is on the move once again.

    Today, the Cabinet Office announced Phillips was reassigned to the portfolio of Minister in the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Maintenance with effect from August 30, 2021.”

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/07/peter-phillips-reassigned/

  50. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Was there a lot of damage to houses in St.Lucy ?

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