Time for Barbados Government to Issue Mandatory Vaccination Directive
If the blogmaster were Prime Minister of Barbados the following edict would be issued as at 6PM today:
- Effective 15 October 2021 all persons entering banks and supermarkets will be required to show proof of being vaccinated for COVID 19 as well as adhering to existing COVID 19 protocols.
- Effective 1 November 2021 all medical personnel must be vaccinated as well as to adhere to existing COVID 19 protocols.
The blogmaster is aware the legislative framework will have to be tweaked to support. To manage a public health crisis prioritizing an amendment to existing legislation should command unanimous support in parliament.
It is obvious to all Barbadians community spread of the coronavirus is out of control in Barbados, confirmed by key medical personnel on the frontline. The virus is exerting extreme pressure on healthcare services in Barbados. The mouthings of a seldom seen or heard Minister of Labour should be punished in the context of the ongoing public health crisis on a trajectory to get worse. This is no time for rh political games.
It is times like now real leaders must stand-up for the good of country..
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Businesses especially the hotel sector will probably have a lot to say about the ability to keep people employed.
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The infection rate is climbing way too high, more and more people will present for vaccination, but there has to be something else in play that it’s now totally out of control..
and STILL the government refuses to DIVERSIFY the economy away from dependency tourism, they are GOING DOWN WITH IT…..good luck and happy DOWNFALL i say…
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In October 2020, I recorded a rainfall of 17.65 inches where I live.
I cold find no comparable month for the period 1847- 1983 in the BSTA data!!
Here’s what parts of St. George looked like on 15th October 2020!!
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COVID cases started rising in mid December.
This year the same sort of thing is unfolding.
It’s in de watuh!!
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So what do we do?
One alternative is to go through another month possibly two of rising cases then watch them fall as the dry season sets in for the process to be repeated again next year if the wet season is wet enough.
The other alternative is to track down the source of the public water supply that is compromised and shut it off now when demand for water is low and figure out what has to be done to ensure it won’t happen again.
If the clear correlation between rainfall and COVID cases is really the cause, we won’t get a recurrence next year if it is fixed and COVID will be eradicated.
The problem left will be preventing the virus coming in from the outside and spreading by face to face contact which I would suggest is a minor cause of spread when compared with waterborne spread.
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WHY DO YOU BOTHER JOHN? WHY?
I HAVE LONG CONCLUDED THAT I WISHED I WAS DUMB LIKE MOST IN THE WORLD
IT WOULD BE EASIER TO GET ALONG.
PEOPLE JUST DONT LIKE YOU WHEN YOU TOO BRIGHT.
PEOPLE JUST DONT LIKE YOU WHEN YOU THINK-
MANY MORONS COME HERE AND CRITICIZE OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, BUT IT IS NOT THE SYSTEM, IT IS THOSE WHO WENT THROUGH THE SYSTEM.
WE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM WITH FOLK WHO CAN ONLY COPY PRETTY-COLS AND RUBBISH FROM WITHOUT, BUT SEEM INCAPABLE OF ADDRESSING ISSUES FROM WITHIN.
SIR MAURICE BYER IS TURNING IN HIS GRAVE.
WHEN I WAS ASKED BY THE FIRST MANAGER OF THE CAVES TO LOOK AFTER THE ORIGINAL WORKERS IN 1981……..AND ANY WHO WOULD FALL SICK WITHIN, I WENT TO THE GRAND OLD MAN AND ASKED HIM FOR ADVICE.
IT IS INTERESTING THAT “”WATER”” WAS HIS FIRST THOUGHT.
YOU ARE MAKING GOOD PUBLIC HEALTH SENSE SIR, BUT YOU ARE PREACHING TO THE DUMB AND THOSE WITH HARD HEADS AND HEARTS LACKING UNDERSTANDING
UNLIKE YOU, I DO NOT SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY
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Vaccines may have prevented a quarter-million Covid-19 cases and 39,000 deaths among seniors
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/health/covid-vaccines-reduce-senior-deaths/index.html
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Fixing the water can end it!!
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Spoke to my cousin. She said she was put on B12 supplements for a few weeks and then told to return to eating her old diet which included a little red meat.
Take it up with the doctor!
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JOHN
YOU DEALING WITH DUMMIES WHO CAN NOT UNDERSTAND THE BASICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME
RE Vaccines may have prevented a quarter-million Covid-19 cases and 39,000 deaths among seniors
MAY? MAY?
NATURAL HERD IMMUNITY WILL AND HAS NO DOUBT PREVENTED DEATHS IN MANY MANY MORE
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CUTTERS AND PASTERS AND THOSE TRAINED IN PUBLIC HEALTH, IMMUNOLOGY VIROLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
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Looks like it raining alot in merry old England.
John Campbell has braved the rain and here is his latest on antivirals.
He is pro vaccine and pro antivirals.
He hasn’t twigged yet on the link to water.
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Spoke to my cousin. She said she was put on B12 supplements for a few weeks and then told to return to eating her old diet which included a little red meat. Take it up with the doctor!
DONNA
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING
I TAKE MY CHURCH MUSIC BIBLE TEACHING CRICKET AND MEDICINE VERY SERIOUSLY
I USED TO COME HERE AND POST INFO WITH DETAILED PPTS ON MEDICAL MATTERS UNTIL FOLK HERE THOUGHT THEY COULD MOCK AND SCOFF AT WHAT I SAID AND IT WAS ALLOWED BECAUSE IT WAS CLIQUE MEMBERS THAT DID IT.
SO I TURNED.
BECAUSE OF THE YEARS I SPENT TEACHING MEDICAL SCHOOL, I VIRTUALLY WENT BACK TO MEDICAL SCHOOL. I ENDED UP TEACHING NEARLY ALL THE BASIC SCIENCES, AND I GOT TO UNDERSTAND THEM AS THE BASIS OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN A WAY THAT I HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY DONE
I HAVE AN EXCELLENT STASH OF PPTS ON ALL THE BASIC SCIENCES WHICH I HAVE COLLECTED AND SORTED BY SYSTEM AND BY ORGAN
IN FORMER DAYS I WOULD HAVE LONGED HAD POSTED A VERY EXCELLENT PPT ON THE MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIAS INCLUDING B 12 DEFICIENCY WHICH I TAUGHT BOTH IN THE COOKS AND IN MEXICO.
AND I CAN TELL YOU WITHOUT FEAR OF CONTRADICTION THAT YOUR COUSIN DID NOT HAVE A B 12 DEFICIENCY FROM THE HISTORY AND INFORMATION THAT I HAVE GIVEN. B 12 DEFICIENCY IS A HAEMATOLOGICAL DISEASE THAT IS NEITHER DIAGNOSED OR TREATED IN THE SLAP DASH FASHION THAT YOU HAVE REPORTED.
I AM NOT ATTACKING YOU OR YOUR REPORTING BUT YOU DONT TREAT THIS AILMENT WITH B12 supplements for a few weeks and then told to return to eating her old diet which included a little red meat.
AND SANE SOLID SENSIBLE DOCTORS YOU DONT MAKE THAT DIAGNOSIS WITHOUT DOING A SERIES OF TESTS
IN MEDICINE……….IT IS TRUE THAT COMMON THINGS ARE COMMON
YOUR COUSIN OBVIOUSLY HAD IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
ONE DAY I WILL TELL YOU THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW ONE OF OUR MIGHTY DRS GOT REAL RICH CONNING SO MANY POOR BLACK WOMEN IN BARBADOS KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THE FLOW MURMUR HE TOLD THEM HE HEARD ON LISTENING TO THEIR CHESTS WAS DUE TO IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA, AND COULD BE CURED BY THE TAKING OF VERY CHEAP IRON TABLETS
WHEN BU FOLK CHALLENGE ME IN THE AREAS I KNOW WELL I WILL ROCK AND MOCK
YOU OUGHT NOT TO FOLLOW THE BU MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL. YOU SEEM TO HAVE MUCH MORE ABOVE YOUR EYES THAN MOST WHO COME HERE
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Interestingly, both Dominica and Grenada which had such an impeccable record were hit hard during this rainy season, like Barbados!!
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JOHN
THAT IS HOW THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS PRACTICED
YOU OBSERVED SOME ISSUES AND TRY TO CONNECT THEM VIA A HYPOTHESIS
UNFORTUNATELY YOU DO NOT HAVE THE POWER OR ASSISTNCE TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE INDEED CORRECT
OUR PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS FOCUSSED SOLELY ON BUYING VACCINES….
AND NOW FROM THE NEWS ON BARBADOS TODAY …..TODAY ON MANUFACTURING THEM.
THE FOCUS IS NOT REALLY ON SOLVING THE PROBLEM
YOU ARE A MATHEMATICIAN AND YOU INSTINCTIVELY SEE PROBLEMS AS THINGS TO BE SOLVED
THE DUMMIES AROUND CAN ONLY SEE PRETTY-COLS WHICH WERE NOT EVOLVED ON ANY SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC BASIS……AND CONSEQUENTLY OBVIOUSLY DO NOT AND WILL NOT WORK
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Yall like to hide things. Everything is out of everyone’s control and nothing should hidden.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=328445012413838&id=100057450249820&sfnsn=scwspwa
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A team of researchers, including water quality, epidemiology, remote sensing and modelling experts, led by Dr Jamie Shutler at the University of Exeter, have developed a fast and simple way to assess the potential risk of water-borne transmission of the COVID-19 virus, posed by sewage spills into open and closed freshwater networks.
The new study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology — Water, identifies the relative risk of viral transmission by sewerage spills, across 39 different counties.
The study used information on the environment, a population’s infection rate, and water usage to calculate the potential potency of viral loads in the event of a sewerage spill.
The research team believe the new study could provide fresh impetus in identifying new ways in which to prevent the spread of the virus amongst communities and the environment.
Dr Jamie Shutler, lead author of the study and at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall said: “it’s important to identify and break all viable transmission routes if we want to stop any future outbreaks.”
Airborne water droplets have previously been highlighted as the main route for transmission of the virus which causes COVID-19, but we know that other forms of transmission are likely to exist.
Previous studies have shown that COVID-19 viral pathogens can be found in untreated wastewater, in concentrations consistent with population infection rates. While studies are still relatively early in relation to COVID-19, other human coronaviruses are documented to survive in wastewater, with colder water temperature likely to increase viral survival.
Using this knowledge and existing methods, the research team identified how the transmission risk from water contaminated with sewage reduces over time.
This issue is likely to be especially problematic in parts of the world with a large proportion of temporary settlements, such as shanty towns, favellas or refugee camps, which are less likely to have safe sanitisation systems. Or any densely populated region that has high infection rates that also suffers from a sewage spill.
Modifying established pollution analysis methods, the team were able to estimate the viral concentration in rivers after a sewage spill. This meant they could calculate the relative transmission risk posed to humans by contaminated waterways for 39 countries.
These methods, the team argue, provides a fast way to assess the transmission risk associated to sewage spills through the use of easily available population, infection rate and environmental data, allowing evidence based guidance following a spill.
Dr Shutler added: “we hope that water companies or NGOs will use our simple spreadsheet calculator, that is freely available, to estimate the transmission risk after a spill. They can then use this information to advise the public.”
This research was partially funded by the European Union project Aquasense, which is focussing on novel methods to study and monitor water quality.
The research resulted from a collaboration between the University of Exeter in Cornwall, the University of Glasgow, the Łukasiewicz-Institute of Electron Technology in Poland, and the University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland.
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Like me, others have reached the conclusion there must be other ways of transmission besides what the media tells us.
Like me, some have chosen to look in the water!!!
It is common sense.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210301133628.htm
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“Airborne water droplets have previously been highlighted as the main route for transmission of the virus which causes COVID-19, but we know that other forms of transmission are likely to exist.”
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https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20211005/michael-abrahams-addressing-glaring-gap-covid-19-management?fbclid=IwAR1owweVqqS3mi6qCBm4R1LNNL4wA8b_BGVJM4sv_x1h3L7uRLouY1kXzis
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This article summarizes many of the points posted to BU over the many months. The struggle is real.
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RE Previous studies have shown that COVID-19 viral pathogens can be found in untreated wastewater, in concentrations consistent with population infection rates. While studies are still relatively early in relation to COVID-19, other human coronaviruses are documented to survive in wastewater, with colder water temperature likely to increase viral survival.
Using this knowledge and existing methods, the research team identified how the transmission risk from water contaminated with sewage reduces over time.
WHO IS THE IDIOT NOW JOHN? CANT BE YOU BUT ……WAIT……
SORRY THAT IS A RIGHT WING ARTICLE UM CANT BE TRUE JOHN
YOU NEED TO RECANT LOL LOL MURDAAH
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Once the virus is in the input to the water treatment, chances are there will be circumstances where it can get through to the output.
No production process is without its flaws.
I’ve spent years in production processes and instinctively know from that experience.
If it does get through and is delivered to households there is a chance it can be taken up by the body in all the ways science says it enters the body.
Through the eyes during a facewash, through the mouth during a mouth wash or through the nose in the form of droplets.
If that can happen then the amount of viral load the body can face MAY be far higher than if it was facing airborne infection.
The result MAY make one conclude the Delta Variant is very contagious, not saying it isn’t.
Or, it could so swamp the defenses from vaccination that breakthrough infection occurs.
Perhaps that is why COVID now affects all age groups because all age groups face higher viral loads through the water they ingest.
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One country which treats waste water is ISRAEL.
55% of its water is produced by the desalination process.
The results of reinfection there could easily be due to the water!!
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I am just reading that Antigua & Barbuda wants to lift all Taliban rules against Corona at the end of the year.
And what do we do? The violent minority of anti-vaxxers is holding our country hostage. Vaccination progress is very slow, the economy is crashing.
Is this xenophobic discrimination against fully vaccinated travellers really going to continue for years?
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TronOctober 5, 2021 5:14 PM
I am just reading that Antigua & Barbuda wants to lift all Taliban rules against Corona at the end of the year.
And what do we do? The violent minority of anti-vaxxers is holding our country hostage. Vaccination progress is very slow, the economy is crashing.
Is this xenophobic discrimination against fully vaccinated travellers really going to continue for years?
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Vaccination rate in Antigua Barbuda is 54%, 7% higher than in Barbados.
They have 85 deaths compared with us, 81.
They also have 1/3 the number of cases that we have but they are still rising.
Why is that?
I’ll explain when I get back and you will see why we are in a good place, regardless of the designation by America!!!!
We just have to take one simple step!!
Touched on it already.
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… plus, end of the year makes sense, especially if it is dry!!
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Do you still think vaccine mandates are a good thing? I know you will say it is only one death and the vaccines safe. Was that poor boy at risk for COVID to need vaccinating or do you want to put our young children at more risk than catching COVID to protect yourselves and granny?
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/10/05/regional-boy-14-who-died-after-taking-pfizer-jab-had-heart-condition/
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I think all of them have a problem with losing strength ..no es bueno.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/pfizer-biontech-vaccine-effectiveness-wanes-to-47-against-covid-19-infection-after-six-months/ar-AAP9Afh?ocid=msedgntp
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Just imagine what counterfeit vaccines would do.
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Here’s what’s happening to one proponent of vaccine mandates
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If it is the water why would the CDC recommend regular hand washing along with sanitizing
JOHN you have been turning this wheel long enough
Time to bring proof
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… they also tell you don’t put your hands near your eyes or to your face!!
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Washed and sanitized or not!!
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“Empirical evidence is information acquired by observation or experimentation. Scientists record and analyze this data. The process is a central part of the scientific method.”
So if you tell me that a vaccination is supposed to stop the spread of COVID and I observe that it doesn’t, I can advance the scientific hypotheses that the vaccination is not 100% effective and move to measuring how effective it is and in so doing prove that the vaccination is not 100% effective..
If I see heavy rainfall and shortly thereafter the number of cases shoots up, I can advance the hypotheses that the virus is in the water and move on to prove it.
The first step is proving it can get into the water supply which is done.
So, the hypothesis is on the way to be proven.
We know that masks, social distancing and sanitization have not stopped the spread so we can develop the hypothesis that they do not work and move on to proving how effective they are.
BUT IF THE VIRUS IS IN THE WATER, IT CAN BE ERADICATED.
MASKS AND VACCINATIONS CAN’T!!
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JOHN
AS SIMPLE AS YOU ARE EXPLAINING THINGS YOU ARE WAY ABOVE THE HEADS OF FOLK HERE FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM. CANT YOU TRY SOMETHING LIKE DAN IS THE MAN IN THE VAN?
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New Zealand has also experienced flooding this year leading up to their surge of cases.
May, July and August!!
Australia too!!!
Singapore too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Almost certainly it is the water that spreads it.
The countries which get control over their public water supplies will eradicate the virus.
No need for vaccinations!!
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Taiwan also had floods too.
A surge in cases and now getting back to normal.
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The US also got hammered.
La Nina is a bitch!!
Hopefully next year is drier.
Got to control water supply and sewage disposal.
Can you imagine if we had South Coast Sewage all over the streets!!
https://floodlist.com/america/usa
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Yep, definitely time to boycott that OLD DUMP on Roebuck street and the obese CEO of it.
https://www.nationnews.com/2021/10/06/marshall-time-boycott-hill-businesses/
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The best break down about this conundrum seen so far, and whether or not ya want to admit it, it is a conundrum.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10161592175562729&id=726182728&sfnsn=scwspwa
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New Zealand recorded its 28th death, the first since February this year.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/new-zealand-records-28th-covid-death-only-the-second-since-february/ar-AAPbZJI?ocid=msedgntp
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New Zealand also recorded serious flooding in Aukland which is also the epicentre of the COVID outbreak!!
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Ooops, wrong un!!
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Once you get to the realisation that it is in the water you also get to the realisation that it is the Governments around the world who are spreading the virus!!
Quite a sobering thought!!
Do they know it, or not?
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JOHN YOU HAVE TO CONVEY YOUR HYPOTHESIS FOLLOWING THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
I DO NOT KNOW HOW YOU WILL CONVEY SUCH . IF PICTURES DONT WORK, AND SOUND U TUBES DONT WORK, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO RESORT TO RIDDLES OR NURSERY RHYMES OR ANANCI STORIES, OR JUST CALYPSO LIKE SPARROWS DAN IS THE MAN IN THE VAN
REMEMBER THIS?
THIS IS A VAN
THIS IS DAN
DAN IS A MAN
DAN IS THE MAN IN THE VAN
YOU NEED TO USE SIMILAR PEDOGOGY
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@ Tron
I think it’s too late already to save the first part of the winter season, that is the December to January period. This government should of acted 2 weeks ago. Word from the hoteliers is that cancellations are coming in fast. The reasons being given is the high percentage of covid infections percentage wise, coupled to the fact that travellers worry that the island will be moved to red after they arrive. This would involve major additional expenses for them to then reenter the UK.
Not looking good at all for we Fx inflow in Dec and Jan.
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Minister of Tourism was heard to say on the news today Barbados has received a high number of cancellation and inquiries re: hotel staff vaccination status.
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@ david
Yes they uk people are saying they will not come unless they are ensured all staff are vaccinated. Its a mess unravelling this week up there. I have a friend in the industry there and he doesn’t know what will end up happening. You see booking means nothing its paid passages that count. So when you hear the politicians say ” oh the hotels report heavy bookings ” that means nothing as they have until 2 weeks before to pay for the booking to be turned into paid accommodation. Even with all that it still means nothing as the industry has mostly moved now to either 48 hour cancellation with no penalty or the more hard up players to no penalty for cancellation.
So when you here the fowls clucking about how heavy the booking is that is like a car salesman telling you how many people drive by and look at the car in the showcase.
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@John A
When the dust settles the vaccine hesitant working in the hotel sector will have to reconcile putting food on the table with taking the vaccine. For some this is difficult given their fears, for others ignorance based on their news sources about covid, others principle positions.
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