COVID-19 in Trinidad & Tobago (Local Updates & Discussions Only)

[Dohplaydat]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

[zoom rader]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

Trini Covid management is next to nutting under the red government

[Habit7]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

[adnj]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

[lionofzion]

Is there any truth to public gatherings (outdoors) being reduced to 10 people again? I was looking for some official correspondence/statement from MOH or PM

[K74T]

[De Dragon]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

[zoom rader]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

[adnj]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

[Dohplaydat]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

I mean the obvious thing needed to reopen schools would have been on vaccines, but like a true victim, Rowley and co. prefer to blame everything except themselves.

And was it 1.5BTT or USD withdrawn from the HSF?

I imagine a good portion of that was used to pay salaries and subsidies, but clearly, that is unsustainable.

[De Dragon]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

I mean the obvious thing needed to reopen schools would have been on vaccines, but like a true victim, Rowley and co. prefer to blame everything except themselves.

And was it 1.5BTT or USD withdrawn from the HSF?

I imagine a good portion of that was used to pay salaries and subsidies, but clearly, that is unsustainable.

The entire LFD RFD PNM economic plan is unsustainable. They steal/dole it out to their similarly corrupt friends like nuts.

[adnj]

Bidens priorities were getting kids back in school.

With our vaccination plan I can't see schools reopening till September.

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

I mean the obvious thing needed to reopen schools would have been on vaccines, but like a true victim, Rowley and co. prefer to blame everything except themselves.

And was it 1.5BTT or USD withdrawn from the HSF?

I imagine a good portion of that was used to pay salaries and subsidies, but clearly, that is unsustainable.

The entire LFD RFD PNM economic plan is unsustainable. They steal/dole it out to their similarly corrupt friends like nuts.

PNM vs. UNC is irrelevant. TTO curently lacks the necessary economic depth to provide social security nets and corruption payoffs while spending funds to compare with how the US is handling Covid-19.

[De Dragon]

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

I mean the obvious thing needed to reopen schools would have been on vaccines, but like a true victim, Rowley and co. prefer to blame everything except themselves.

And was it 1.5BTT or USD withdrawn from the HSF?

I imagine a good portion of that was used to pay salaries and subsidies, but clearly, that is unsustainable.

The entire LFD RFD PNM economic plan is unsustainable. They steal/dole it out to their similarly corrupt friends like nuts.

PNM vs. UNC is irrelevant. TTO curently lacks the necessary economic depth to provide social security nets and corruption payoffs while spending funds to compare with how the US is handling Covid-19.

So yuh mean all dat money for Machel and soca stars was in vain?

[Dohplaydat]

It was never expressed that anything other than that would be happening though.

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

I mean the obvious thing needed to reopen schools would have been on vaccines, but like a true victim, Rowley and co. prefer to blame everything except themselves.

And was it 1.5BTT or USD withdrawn from the HSF?

I imagine a good portion of that was used to pay salaries and subsidies, but clearly, that is unsustainable.

The entire LFD RFD PNM economic plan is unsustainable. They steal/dole it out to their similarly corrupt friends like nuts.

PNM vs. UNC is irrelevant. TTO curently lacks the necessary economic depth to provide social security nets and corruption payoffs while spending funds to compare with how the US is handling Covid-19.

No one brought up UNC here. My critique was simply that we needed to prioritize vaccines and vaccination rates so that we can go back to normality.

Given how poorly online classes have been going, I would think restarting schools would be a priority. We are looking at September as a best-case scenario.

Habit7,

As the PNM mouthpiece can you provide us with how many vaccines we've secured and their ETA?

I believe it's:

- 140k from India and China.....due mid 2021?
- 460k from the African Union....no idea when due?
- 100k from COVAX.....due end of April supposedly
- 300k Ansa Mcal?.....no idea

That's roughly 1M of 500k persons. Enough to return to normality, but not enough to be secure from Covid-19.

At this rate though, we'd have to vaccinate 500k persons by the end of 2021, and that may not be enough.

[De Dragon]

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

I mean the obvious thing needed to reopen schools would have been on vaccines, but like a true victim, Rowley and co. prefer to blame everything except themselves.

And was it 1.5BTT or USD withdrawn from the HSF?

I imagine a good portion of that was used to pay salaries and subsidies, but clearly, that is unsustainable.

The entire LFD RFD PNM economic plan is unsustainable. They steal/dole it out to their similarly corrupt friends like nuts.

PNM vs. UNC is irrelevant. TTO curently lacks the necessary economic depth to provide social security nets and corruption payoffs while spending funds to compare with how the US is handling Covid-19.

No one brought up UNC here. My critique was simply that we needed to prioritize vaccines and vaccination rates so that we can go back to normality.

Given how poorly online classes have been going, I would think restarting schools would be a priority. We are looking at September as a best-case scenario.

Habit7,

As the PNM mouthpiece can you provide us with how many vaccines we've secured and their ETA?

I believe it's:

- 140k from India and China.....due mid 2021?
- 460k from the African Union....no idea when due?
- 100k from COVAX.....due end of April supposedly
- 300k Ansa Mcal?.....no idea

That's roughly 1M of 500k persons. Enough to return to normality, but not enough to be secure from Covid-19.

At this rate though, we'd have to vaccinate 500k persons by the end of 2021, and that may not be enough.

JUHN Scarfy wanted Modi heself to tell us free vaccines were available by the hundreds of thousands.. Then he didn't want to beg, or use non-WHO approved vaccines.
Now it seems that all of those things he railed against are back on the table What an utter and absolute failure of leadership!

[adnj]

The US spent US$5.3 trillion on Coronavirus aid. That's about TT$105,000 per US citizen.

Unless TTO is ready to spend TT$145 billion, students will be starting classes fresh in September. Maybe.

Oh we spent quite a bit, where it went is another matter.

1.5 billion was stolen from the HSF

Up to now we don't know where the money gone

Apparently, it wasn't on reopening schools in March 2021.

My point is valid.

I mean the obvious thing needed to reopen schools would have been on vaccines, but like a true victim, Rowley and co. prefer to blame everything except themselves.

And was it 1.5BTT or USD withdrawn from the HSF?

I imagine a good portion of that was used to pay salaries and subsidies, but clearly, that is unsustainable.

The entire LFD RFD PNM economic plan is unsustainable. They steal/dole it out to their similarly corrupt friends like nuts.

PNM vs. UNC is irrelevant. TTO curently lacks the necessary economic depth to provide social security nets and corruption payoffs while spending funds to compare with how the US is handling Covid-19.

No one brought up UNC here. My critique was simply that we needed to prioritize vaccines and vaccination rates so that we can go back to normality.

Given how poorly online classes have been going, I would think restarting schools would be a priority. We are looking at September as a best-case scenario.

Habit7,

As the PNM mouthpiece can you provide us with how many vaccines we've secured and their ETA?

I believe it's:

- 140k from India and China.....due mid 2021?
- 460k from the African Union....no idea when due?
- 100k from COVAX.....due end of April supposedly
- 300k Ansa Mcal?.....no idea

That's roughly 1M of 500k persons. Enough to return to normality, but not enough to be secure from Covid-19.

At this rate though, we'd have to vaccinate 500k persons by the end of 2021, and that may not be enough.

Your comparison lacks the proper scope. Small country, limited resources; a more accurate comparison would be TTO vs. Tijuana, MX.

Trinidad spent US$9 million on Covax. The USA spent US$9 billion on Warp Speed.

TTO has spent 1% of USA per capita Covid-19 spending.

The USA has a death rate 16 times that of TTO.

You constantly tout open borders, no masks, open beaches and bars, kids in schools, the vaccine now; none of that is happening.

[Dohplaydat]

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

[De Dragon]

^^^
No offense, but we didn't need that fancy chart and table to tell us we're in a piss poor state at the stage of the pandemic.

[Dohplaydat]

^^^
No offense, but we didn't need that fancy chart and table to tell us we're in a piss poor state at the stage of the pandemic.

Well, it depends on the metric, by caseload and death rate, we're one of the world's best. In preparedness of getting out of the pandemic and back to normalcy, we dropped the ball big time.

[adnj]

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.

CleanShot 2021-03-30 at 5.34.12.png

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

Kissing my a$$ now doesn't make it different. TTO vs. the US is your comparison, not mine.

[Dohplaydat]

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.



CleanShot 2021-03-30 at 5.34.12.png

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

Kissing my a$$ now doesn't make it different. TTO vs. the US is your comparison, not mine.

Out of facts so you resort to being pedantic over something you took out of context? Nice one bro.

[K74T]

[Dohplaydat]

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Great, let's aim to have the first dose of these inoculations completed asap.

One potential problem I can foresee is the lack of signatures received on the consent forms for frontline workers. A girl I know said in her department only 3 of 50 people have signed.

[DMan7]

I wonder who will be the first persons to receive this vaccine? People within a certain age bracket first in addition to having non-communicable diseases?

[adnj]

I wonder who will be the first persons to receive this vaccine? People within a certain age bracket first in addition to having non-communicable diseases?

It was already announced: over 60 years with non-communicable diseases.

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.



CleanShot 2021-03-30 at 5.34.12.png

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

Kissing my a$$ now doesn't make it different. TTO vs. the US is your comparison, not mine.

Out of facts so you resort to being pedantic over something you took out of context? Nice one bro.

A$$ kiss. Pure and simple.

[DMan7]

I wonder who will be the first persons to receive this vaccine? People within a certain age bracket first in addition to having non-communicable diseases?

It was already announced: over 60 years with non-communicable diseases.

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.



CleanShot 2021-03-30 at 5.34.12.png

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

Kissing my a$$ now doesn't make it different. TTO vs. the US is your comparison, not mine.

Out of facts so you resort to being pedantic over something you took out of context? Nice one bro.

A$$ kiss. Pure and simple.

Yea but I'm sure there are more than 33,500 people over 60 years old and have non-communicable diseases? How do they go about choosing those who are within those specifications?

[Dohplaydat]

I wonder who will be the first persons to receive this vaccine? People within a certain age bracket first in addition to having non-communicable diseases?

It was already announced: over 60 years with non-communicable diseases.

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.



CleanShot 2021-03-30 at 5.34.12.png

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

Kissing my a$$ now doesn't make it different. TTO vs. the US is your comparison, not mine.

Out of facts so you resort to being pedantic over something you took out of context? Nice one bro.

A$$ kiss. Pure and simple.

Yea but I'm sure there are more than 33,500 people over 60 years old and have non-communicable diseases? How do they go about choosing those who are within those specifications?

I've stopped watching these press conferences, so I don't really know. I assume once front-line workers are vaccinated, there'll be a call for all those over 65 with non-communicable diseases to go in and get vaccinated.

[pugboy]

the last one with the donated vaccines they make the nurses hold placards saying “go get vaccinated” but none was available
wonder what placards they showing tomorrow

[j.o.e]

I wonder who will be the first persons to receive this vaccine? People within a certain age bracket first in addition to having non-communicable diseases?

It was already announced: over 60 years with non-communicable diseases.

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.



CleanShot 2021-03-30 at 5.34.12.png

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

Kissing my a$$ now doesn't make it different. TTO vs. the US is your comparison, not mine.

Out of facts so you resort to being pedantic over something you took out of context? Nice one bro.

A$$ kiss. Pure and simple.

Yea but I'm sure there are more than 33,500 people over 60 years old and have non-communicable diseases? How do they go about choosing those who are within those specifications?

NCD patients enrolled in clinics are in a database and others who for the criteria will be invited from my understanding

[Dohplaydat]

I wonder who will be the first persons to receive this vaccine? People within a certain age bracket first in addition to having non-communicable diseases?

It was already announced: over 60 years with non-communicable diseases.

adjn buddy, you confusing yourself again.

Comparing US to TT's economy, even Tijuana is assine. We're a SIDS, compare us to Maldives, and the rest of Caribbean. Compare us to better states in central America, some in Africa even or the smaller poorer European states.

We are supposed to be better than most of them as well, we have a GPD per capita that is around 55th in the world.

I simply used Biden as an example given his speech yesterday. That vaccination acquisition and rate are the highest priority, mainly to get kids back to school. Something we DO NOT seem to be caring about in Trinidad.

Forecasts for when we can go back to normal are far below the international average. Look at this Economist map, we are being beaten by several countries that have much lower GDP per capita's than us.



CleanShot 2021-03-30 at 5.34.12.png

So in conclusion, we should have prioritized our funding on vaccination as it is a far cheaper and better option than public relief.

Also, no idea what your last sentence is trying to say, I know open borders ain't happening. I simply wanted open borders to trinis stuck abroad, with a 14 day supervised quarantine.

All the rest reopening depends on vaccines otherwise the threat of covid outbreaks will remains.

Kissing my a$$ now doesn't make it different. TTO vs. the US is your comparison, not mine.

Out of facts so you resort to being pedantic over something you took out of context? Nice one bro.

I am a homosexual forgive me

Yea but I'm sure there are more than 33,500 people over 60 years old and have non-communicable diseases? How do they go about choosing those who are within those specifications?

NCD patients enrolled in clinics are in a database and others who for the criteria will be invited from my understanding

ok makes sense, thanks