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Re: Covid 19 infections in BVI
[Re: Will_L]
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07/10/2021 11:01 AM
07/10/2021 11:01 AM
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Posts: 4,557 Toronto, Ontario
gordaguy2
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Hi Will when I was there in May the drill was go to the old clinic and do the signup and pay then go to the new clinic for the exit test - arrive at the old clinic around 9:15 to get throught.
GordaGuy2
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Re: Covid 19 infections in BVI
[Re: gordaguy2]
#260254
07/10/2021 01:39 PM
07/10/2021 01:39 PM
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Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 2,390 Ill, USA
Will_L
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Gorda Guy. Hi Friend, thank you. We will be there early. We only brought iPad and phones and couldn’t fill out the online forms. Had a friend here print em out, Filled them out by hand and sent back...nada. So we called clinic on VG. We have a Wednesday departure. She argued that we needed test on Monday...I tried several times to get a Sunday appointment, she was having none of it. So made appointment. Then called Tortola office “To be sure sir you ought to do it on Sunday. “. So I called and the lady was very harried but moved us from Monday to Sunday. We will take our filled out pages and be there early. I never saw anything like yesterday’s parking ..lots full in and across the road and on the street at 130 and line out the side of new building. I thought later perhaps that was people getting vaccinated in which case would be a great thing. .
Our friends who left ten days ago and were told to show up between ten and 12. Took our Jeep from savannah bay and got back 3 hrs later.
Although they don’t have many cases here yet on VG I’m sure they are doing lots of testing . I’m hoping the demand doesn’t overcome the supply of testing, but feel better with 3 days now. I booked Cape Air down and Air Caribbean back to savea few bucks. I’m hoping they show up. I worry some that incoming passengers will cancel and they won’t show. Will cross that bridge Wednesday. So sad it’s not going better..island is unusually green for this time and weather and breeze is perfect.
Last edited by Will_L; 07/10/2021 01:59 PM.
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Re: Covid 19 infections in BVI
[Re: Will_L]
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07/10/2021 09:45 PM
07/10/2021 09:45 PM
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MIDiver
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Re: Covid 19 infections in BVI
[Re: ecm56]
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07/12/2021 12:08 PM
07/12/2021 12:08 PM
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Posts: 82,862 Central Florida!
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The most important lines from that release.. "There are currently no restrictions on first or second dose vaccinations. There are ample stocks of vaccine and more vaccine is on the way to augment stocks that are expiring on the 31st of July 2021. Please just bite the bullet and get vaccinated."
Carol Hill
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Re: Covid 19 infections in BVI
[Re: Will_L]
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07/12/2021 12:40 PM
07/12/2021 12:40 PM
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Will_L
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As I figured and the way it worked In every location in the US once the virus got a foothold, the government here has concluded that contact tracing and testing of asymptotic people is useless. This happens everywhere. A population believes the virus is not as transmissible or as deadly as it is. They believe they have been spared the ravages of the plague by methods other than vaccination. We have another vacation home on a lake in southwest missouri. Like the bvi they did not believe the virus would reach them. Many near our primary residence thought the same thing until it showed up with a vengeance last winter. Honestly short of total isolation which the bvis experienced for months, vaccination or being very lucky, this virus is going to find you. Mitigation efforts are the best we got short of vaccination. They are not even close to a substitute for vaccination. Everyone coming here should adhere strictly to the r7les and protocols. My point has been that those most vulnerable need to isolate as hard as they can until fully vaccinated. Nothing else works..not masks or distance when people congregate together away from public and are dependent on their housemates doing same. It fails It’s going to be a rough few weeks depending on the vaccination rates of most vulnerable. Then the combination of those recovered and vaccinated will be good enough to likely do better. It’s a hard lesson but it is being learned everywhere vaccines have been available and the population decided there was a better path. https://www.bviplatinum.com/news.php?articleId=32815Just to be clear this in no way condones visitors not following all protocols the government and local businesses ask of you regardless of your vaccination status.
Last edited by Will_L; 07/12/2021 01:32 PM.
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Re: Covid 19 infections in BVI
[Re: Will_L]
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07/12/2021 01:08 PM
07/12/2021 01:08 PM
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maytrix
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I hope they wake up and get the vaccine. Over 99% of the deaths last month in the US were from unvaccinated.
Matt
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