Covid-19 infection on a liveaboard at the Maldives

[Centrals]

Antarctica Reports First COVID-19 Outbreak

Need to translate to Hungarian!!!!! lol

 

[doctormike]

The amusing thing about this thread is that here seemingly a few people are venting their personal frustration and envy upon the fact that other people are travelling abroad.

Yup, you figured it out. It has nothing to do with the pandemic. We are all just jealous of people who get to do dive travel.

 

[doctormike]

I did not think that I will get involved with people pressing their own opinion on others.

You do understand that this is a social media forum, right?

 

[Jcp2]

The article was an interesting read. It seems like the expectation of high service levels of a modern developed nation in the area of health care was not met in a developing nation where all efforts at service improvement were in the hospitality industry. Quelle surprise!

 

[Oliver Ohlendorf]

I did not say all the infections were spread by tourists! Do not put word in my mouth.
You should not have any problem of checking the FACT.
How do you think the virus was spread in the first place?

Yes indeed, the infection was delivered all around the globe by travelers. At the right time an appropriate travel ban could have helped stopping or slowing down the spread. Like when people in the US went to protest against wearing a face mask, and now they are trying to lecture others about how to behave DURING the pandemic.

Again, what I am saying is that no statistics prove that travel restrictions lower infection rates in already infected communities. Period.

On the contrary, travellers are screened for infection regularly, while other asymptomatic carriers are unknowingly spreading the virus to hundreds of people around them for 10+ days. I think people who do not follow preventive measures are a much bigger problem than those who (dare to) travel.

Statistically spoken if 10% of any group is currently infected by Covid-19 and all were screened than there is a probability of 90% that their infection is detected. So 10% of 10% is the chance that someone is carrying the virus and travels, while in all the other unscreened population the chance is plain 10%. Could you please explain how travel is contributing to the spread than?

 

[Oliver Ohlendorf]

You do understand that this is a social media forum, right?

Well I still hope that a scubaboard.com forum is not equal to FB. But even there it is possible to just post something with the sole purpose of informing others and "comments" can be disabled.

Besides this scubaboard.com seemingly does have forum rules.
Especially you as a team member of this forum should adhere to those rules. Your comments had to be moderated already so I am not sure what exactly you are trying to tell me.
I thought that educated people would be supporting the spread of information, but instead I see only envy and hatred spilling out of the comments upon those who dare not to follow their ideas.

Why are (you too) trying to mix the initial spread of an infectious disease with today when it has already reached most communities and the top priority is following preventional measures. There are no statistics that support claims of increased infection rates among international travellers. On the contrary these people are screened regularly while other asymptomatic carriers are unknowingly spreading the disease among their communities, families and workplaces.

 

[Oliver Ohlendorf]

The article was an interesting read. It seems like the expectation of high service levels of a modern developed nation in the area of health care was not met in a developing nation where all efforts at service improvement were in the hospitality industry. Quelle surprise!

When you are travelling to the Maldives you can expect high service levels as the country is home for some of the most luxurious hotels worldwide.
From the article it is clear that not the lack of health care was the reason for complaints. So I am not sure what you are referring to.
These people have solely been put under unacceptable conditions into quarantine while paying for it. This is not a matter of developing nation but of shere incompetence and greed.

 

[Jcp2]

Res ipsa loquitor.

 

[Raphus]

Again, what I am saying is that no statistics prove that travel restrictions lower infection rates in already infected communities. Period

What about the new mutations? Brazil, uk, south africa. The dont spread by themself.
Africa mutation came to germany buy travelers.
The mutation was unknown the time they traveled, so every time someone travels there is a risk of bringing new forms/mutations to new countrys.

And this is worse when traveling to poor countrys. Like written in the report, they couldnt handle the simple things like a clean bed, fast testing.
What will happen, when a mutation like the uk one will arrive there?

 

[Celt]

If the OP is correct and the host of the infection described in the diary traveled from the UK in Dec. when the new variant was prevalent. Then most likely the UK variant is spreading in the Maldives. The UK variant has 3 new mutations, it can spread much easier, people will be sicker, and more will end up in hospital and the fatality rate is higher.