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GOV page covering many issues
#232170
08/13/2020 01:19 PM
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Posts: 18,698 Auburn, WA
SXMScubaman
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
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#232182
08/13/2020 04:13 PM
08/13/2020 04:13 PM
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Carol_Hill
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#14 is new. What next? You have to check in by email every day? What about people who don't have email while on island?? BS..
Carol Hill
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: Carol_Hill]
#232183
08/13/2020 04:21 PM
08/13/2020 04:21 PM
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Joined: Mar 2001
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They need to just admit, they do NOT want tourists. Pretty simple.
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: wilsonck]
#232198
08/13/2020 06:50 PM
08/13/2020 06:50 PM
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As far as I know, no one else is requiring everyone to send an email EVERY DAY for 14 days, with their temperature. That is ridiculous.
Carol Hill
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: wilsonck]
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08/13/2020 07:46 PM
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I guess I do think it's a big deal. If you are going on vacation and you have to check in every day with big brother by EMAIL, which many people don't even have on island, to say that you are Covid free, I choose to not go.
Carol Hill
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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08/13/2020 08:54 PM
08/13/2020 08:54 PM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 867 Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Bermuda is now requiring visitors to take their own temperatures twice per day and check in through an on-line portal. You have to be tested at the airport on arrival and self isolate until test results come in. You have to re-test on day 4, day 7 and day 14.
Last edited by Southshore; 08/13/2020 09:00 PM. Reason: spelling errors
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: Carol_Hill]
#232218
08/14/2020 07:06 AM
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I guess I do think it's a big deal. If you are going on vacation and you have to check in every day with big brother by EMAIL, which many people don't even have on island, to say that you are Covid free, I choose to not go. Totally agree.....
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: sxmmartini]
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08/14/2020 08:50 AM
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I can't really say that I am happy where I am right now, but right now, there is no way I would book a trip to SXM, as it is impossible to know what will be required next. I just hope that things will be somewhat normal by next summer.
Carol Hill
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: Carol_Hill]
#232232
08/14/2020 09:13 AM
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Posts: 128 Phoenix, AZ
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#14 is new. What next? You have to check in by email every day? What about people who don't have email while on island?? BS.. They have been doing this the whole time. We have received an email every morning and have to check our temperature and answer if we have any symptoms. It takes about 10 seconds to complete, once you check your temperature. It's not a burden at all. However, I'm not sure what you do if you don't have access to email.
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: BeachBumz]
#232234
08/14/2020 09:16 AM
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Huh. I certainly don't remember seeing that requirement before. But as you said, what happens if you don't have email?
Carol Hill
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: sxmmartini]
#232235
08/14/2020 09:23 AM
08/14/2020 09:23 AM
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Joined: May 2004
Posts: 128 Phoenix, AZ
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I agree... We never had wifi at the villa and only brought one phone with limited data use for emergencies. Honestly this is such a big game changer for me. I remember back in the day staying at Club Orient in a chalet with No TV, No phone (the front desk had a phone for emergencies), No microwave! No wifi etc. I am so happy to have those memories. Most restaurants have free wifi that you can use to check in and it only takes a few seconds.
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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08/14/2020 09:25 AM
08/14/2020 09:25 AM
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Huh. I certainly don't remember seeing that requirement before. But as you said, what happens if you don't have email? I think almost everyone these days has a smart phone and there is plenty of free wifi around. Worst case, I'm sure your favorite waiter or waitress would let you use their phone to login to your email. Honestly, this part is not that burdensome at all.
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: sxmmartini]
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08/14/2020 09:54 AM
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Don't worry, by the time you finally arrive on the island, the Greenhouse will probably be out of business.
Be Happy! Simply because you deserve to be. 😁
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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08/14/2020 11:11 AM
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" I'm sure your favorite waiter or waitress would let you use their phone to login to your email" Not a good idea. Once you log into another private phone that password most likely be in there for good and susceptible for hacking. That's a bit of a stretch Scuba. You can logout and not save the password plus I doubt most waiters/waitresses are in the business of hijacking your email and almost everyone has their own smart phone. I'm just saying that of all the restrictions, this one really is the least burdensome and fairly easy to work around.
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: BeachBumz]
#232260
08/14/2020 01:01 PM
08/14/2020 01:01 PM
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To me, that might be the case, if it were ONE time, but every day for fourteen days?? What happens if you're so happy to be on vacation, that you actually don't check your email for a couple of days and forget?? Will they send the gestapo to come get you? I really doubt it, but it's something else to stress over. Going on vacation should not be this much work. I'll just stay home, thanks.
Carol Hill
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: boucharda]
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08/14/2020 03:24 PM
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Agreed. We are in a couple of different high risk categories anyway, and at least if we get sick at home, we don't have to worry about trying to get back home, and medical care in the meantime. Once there is a vaccine available, hopefully a lot of things will change.
Carol Hill
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: BeachBumz]
#232292
08/14/2020 07:55 PM
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Huh. I certainly don't remember seeing that requirement before. But as you said, what happens if you don't have email? I think almost everyone these days has a smart phone and there is plenty of free wifi around. Worst case, I'm sure your favorite waiter or waitress would let you use their phone to login to your email. Honestly, this part is not that burdensome at all. Count me in as one who does NOT have a smartphone nor do I want to take a laptop out to dinner with me.
J.D.
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: GaKaye]
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08/14/2020 08:54 PM
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Usually, when it works that is.
J.D.
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Re: GOV page covering many issues
[Re: SXMScubaman]
#232346
08/15/2020 02:06 PM
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Posts: 42 N42.8 W78.8
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Still hoping to go early November. Without the EUA restriction, test results and turnaround time shouldn’t be an issue here in WNY. I know that doesn’t seem to be true in all regions of the USA, unfortunately. Anyway, the requirements by the SXM Government are fine. Even a daily email wouldn’t have been an issue in any places I’ve stayed on the island. Plus I usually have a smartphone with travel pass on it for such things. The biggest concern for me is the status of the border and businesses not being open or their use restricted. Was going to book airfare last week but in more of a wait and see mode now. Takeout only and border controls would make me look elsewhere. We’ll see how it goes. Hope SXM can get through this.
Formerly " Parrotfish" approx join date .. sometime in 2001 SXM lover since 1999...
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