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carluva wrote:Gladiator wrote:So WTF is the position.... they saying to stay home yet people have to go to work... what are we to do. Why cant they have one common position like other countries and tell everybody to stay home. It cant be they saying to stay home but employers would make decisions to suit on employees.
That just can't work...
Stay home. If you can work from home. then do so. Else only travel to work unless absolutely necessary.
Your employer should make provisions and accommodations that allow you to work from home if possible. Have the conversation with your manager or upline and express the urgency. Else, try to contact OSHA as a last resort as employers have the right to a safe workplace, under the OSH act. I am not sure if this would work or is applicable in this instance (don't see why it won't be) but it is worth a shot if things really bad.
Gladiator wrote:carluva wrote:Gladiator wrote:So WTF is the position.... they saying to stay home yet people have to go to work... what are we to do. Why cant they have one common position like other countries and tell everybody to stay home. It cant be they saying to stay home but employers would make decisions to suit on employees.
That just can't work...
Stay home. If you can work from home. then do so. Else only travel to work unless absolutely necessary.
Your employer should make provisions and accommodations that allow you to work from home if possible. Have the conversation with your manager or upline and express the urgency. Else, try to contact OSHA as a last resort as employers have the right to a safe workplace, under the OSH act. I am not sure if this would work or is applicable in this instance (don't see why it won't be) but it is worth a shot if things really bad.
Thanks for the advice... The rant was not for me personally but I manage 41 employees in a dept of 100+. I have them on a roster to make sure that 10 max come out at once. But the boss wants everyone to come out 100% from next week... With no directive from Govt, what do we do. Staff members are concerned and afraid.
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:paid_influencer wrote:am I the only idiot not using hand sanitizer? I'm stuck at work or home, with a sink with soap and water available. I see literally no reason to be using hand sanitizer for my situation.
total hand sanitizer budget in the last two weeks: $0
If you touching the knob to turn off the water with your bare hands after you wash it then yeah you might be an idiot kinda I guess? if not then you are smart.....
But if you touching the same knob to turn off the tap after you wash your hands then people using hand sanitizers alcohol based are indeed smarter than you because in a case like that hand sanitizer is more useful
carluva wrote:That lil boy on YT is Ian alleyne son? I didn't watch the video cuz I didn't want to hear another backside story about another duncey Trini. Altho, in this case, the shoe fits...
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:paid $180 for 1.5L of hand sanitizer named germ buster made by dsb marketing ltd in carlsen field
This price good? cause it hard to get hand sanitizer to buy these days doesn't say if its 70% but smells like it strong as rubbing alcohol
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I see a man today with he own hand sanitizer solution he mix rubbing alcohol and clorox yes..Well we know nothing eh living with that but what about he hand in the long term tho?
Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:https://www.facebook.com/andrea.desilva.9/videos/10158126173647566/
Ian Alleyne confirms he has COVID-19
Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:Soap is better than hand sanitizer at killing germs, bacteria and viruses. Bar soap is even better than liquid soap.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronav ... ter-2020-3
Wettin after wettin after wettinDohplaydat wrote:Ian Alleyne, our patient 31.
Young: Sorry, but no
Elizabeth Gonzales
TT citizens stranded in Margarita are calling on the government to send supplies if it cannot help them return home.
Some of them spoke to Newsday on Tuesday.
They said 70 of them had travelled to Venezuela before any covid19 cases were reported there.
Venezuela had reported 84 cases up to Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
Now, they say, most of them have nowhere to stay, and they are running out of money, food and ideas on how to survive.
In a message to citizens pleading for help to return home, Minister of National Security Stuart Young said on Tuesday: “Stay put, be safe, and be responsible, wherever you are.”
He was speaking at a press conference, where he also said the government stands by its decision to keep TT’s borders shut.
“We feel empathy, we honestly do.
“But the duty of the government – which we are very clear about – is to protect those who are here, and to uphold our decision to close the borders.”
TT closed its borders to foreign citizens, initially for 14 days, on March 27. A complete shutdown took effect at midnight on March 22.
The stranded citizens told Newsday they had heeded the government’s advice not to travel to any country with cases of the virus. It was during their stay that Venezuela recorded its first case.
Lawrence Adam said he left Trinidad to help his mother – a Venezuelan national – take food for relatives elsewhere in Venezuela. His brother David Adam was also on the trip.
“We (are) living in Trinidad since we were babies. We live and work in Trinidad. We are nationals,” Lawrence said. “Everything was normal when we left, no cases in Trinidad or Venezuela. Apparently we just came here at the wrong time.”
He said the family is staying at a hotel, but funds are running low and they are worried what may happen next.
He felt that to help them get home, “The government could have done something with (Venezuelan President Nicolas) Maduro, seeing they have close relationships.”
He said he is willing to go into self-quarantine if he is allowed to return to TT.
The group understands the sensitivity of the situation, he said, but all they are asking the government to do is to send assistance, if it cannot get them out of Venezuela.
David Adam also spoke to Newsday. For him the last hope is help from the government.
But, he said, “It’s like we don’t exist in their minds. All we hear is Stuart Young saying there is nothing TT can do.
“Don’t leave us like dogs. We are also Trinidadians.”
Another of the group, Kenrick Nobbee, said before he left TT, he had checked with his travel agent, who assured him travel to and from Venezuela was normal.
“Everything was on track for our return on Thursday last – until Tuesday, leading to a situation one was prepared for.”
He said he feels like the government had “washed its hands” of the stranded citizens in their time of need.
He said the rest of the group also felt disappointed by the government and hurt by comments made by their compatriots “to the effect that, ‘They look for that,’ ‘Leave them there,’ ‘Let them find/pay their own way.’
“Some are being assisted by sympathetic Venezuelans, but with their own economic realities, how much can they do?
“Now with the closure of Piarco (Airport), the uncertainty of our immediate position is distressing."
He said all banks in Margarita are closed and there is no way to transfer funds. So there are problems in buying food and getting transport, leaving “many stranded TT nationals in a desperate bind.
“The TT Government seems to have washed its hands of this situation,” he complained, “claiming that there is nothing that it can do. Everyone is hoping for an early resolution but isn’t optimistic.
“Imagine being in a foreign land with little or no money, unable to speak the language and with no one to turn to – even your own government.”
Newsday understands some of the stranded citizens, who stayed at the Playa El Agua hotel, had to move, as the hotel closed its doors because of the increasing fear of covid19.
The group last stayed at Sunsol Isla Caribe, another hotel minutes away, but that hotel later decided to close on March 25.
No one could say where the group was moving to.
All those countries have questions marks even St kittsVII wrote:Mostly 'shitholes' according to trump..
triniterribletim wrote:EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:paid $180 for 1.5L of hand sanitizer named germ buster made by dsb marketing ltd in carlsen field
This price good? cause it hard to get hand sanitizer to buy these days doesn't say if its 70% but smells like it strong as rubbing alcohol
Not really. You can get a half litre bottle in Pennywise for $18 once each day in the morning. Sometimes two if they haven't sold out when you pass back in the afternoon. The gougers are just killing people with price.
maj. tom wrote:triniterribletim wrote:EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:paid $180 for 1.5L of hand sanitizer named germ buster made by dsb marketing ltd in carlsen field
This price good? cause it hard to get hand sanitizer to buy these days doesn't say if its 70% but smells like it strong as rubbing alcohol
Not really. You can get a half litre bottle in Pennywise for $18 once each day in the morning. Sometimes two if they haven't sold out when you pass back in the afternoon. The gougers are just killing people with price.
Before any of this started i got a 1.18L (40oz Made in USA) big bottle in Pennywise for $24. I only bought one. That was last December.
That's crazy if they increased their prices to $180.
Alcohol hand sanitizer is not as effective as soap and water and should only be used where there is no access to soap and water. The soap and water destroys the virus and washes away all the reside protein and DNA down the sink. Hand sanitizer not killing 100% of the virus, and the residue remains on your hand to spread all over the place with any contact.
A small bottle in the car is convenient. All roadside food vendors should have soap and water, if not, shut them down.
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