Comments on: Self-Quarantine Required For Arriving Passengers https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:12:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: Seriously https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5262062 Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:13:18 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5262062 Honestly… our young people are not stupid. They know how serious this is. Stop making assumptions.

]]> By: Test First https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5261155 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 06:29:30 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5261155 Lock everything down like the Chinese did

]]> By: Justin https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260662 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:30:47 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260662 What about the flight crew?

]]> By: Really https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260569 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:05:56 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260569 These hotels would rather empty rooms to get rid of staff costs. Trust me no one is complaining as it’s an opportunity to clean shop!

]]> By: Longtail https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260396 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:16:39 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260396 Read the article – REQUIRED on 17th when proposed legislation becomes effective, URGED before then.

]]> By: Jeninbda https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260335 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 03:39:07 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260335 Totally agree! Bermuda cannot survive the impact of this…and we got here 2 days ago, sanitized the whole way, wore masks, etc. Nobody took our temperature at airport, just asked about a list of countries visited…crazy.

]]> By: Joinbda https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260332 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 03:36:25 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260332 Agree with everyone here! Arrived 15 March, none of this was in place,no airport workers in masks, nobody taking temperatures, nothing. This guidance says to quarantinecin place “in your home” and not go to the beach, grocery store, reataurant, nowhere but to “ask a friend to get you what you need”….hello? We are visitors, staying in a rented, private home! We have no way to drive, we have no friends to bring us food, etc. Bermuda officials, ws understsnd your concerns,but as my grandma would say “you are a day late and a dollar short”. Get it together! If you are putting this in effect, give peooke notice so they can cancel plans BEFORE they arrive!! Apparently for those of us who made it in before this ill-planned roll- out started, we are exempt…we sanitized, wore masks, etc the whole way and did not cone via NY or Miami…but if we are here visiting, Auntie Pink Sand cannot just be at our beck and call to help us sit put for 2 weeks ..gonna enjoy the island, people,but will do so with some careful distancing, sanitizing, etc….

]]> By: Question https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260220 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 23:59:03 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260220 This is sensible. They seem to be taking it seriously now.

]]> By: MB https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260215 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 23:54:28 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260215 Really? Seems like you have not it through and seems like iit might just be the parents problem with the kids ion the plane not the governments.
Don’t worry though am sure the government thought to buy TP so it can continue wiping your a&&

]]> By: MB https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260212 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 23:50:40 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260212 Um they are not already???They are not that stupid are they???

]]> By: JVM https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260174 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:47:09 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260174 Elbow Beach has a special. Price is $188 per night.

]]> By: Vortex https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260147 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:43:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260147 You want real? There are zero visitors coming, absolutely none, all business travel is curtailed, no vacationers and what resident is going to spend that much?

So you have no guests, nobody in the bars, shops and restaurants and people get laid off and businesses close.

Better to charge $150 a night, encourage staycations, keep the bars and shops busy.

That’s real and sensible. I don’t see anything but stupidity in an empty hotel.

]]> By: Popo https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260127 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:03:37 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260127 It’s mostly students on that flight

]]> By: Lucky https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260107 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:34:50 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260107 So what’s the difference between the people traveling over the weekend to those on the 17th?

Bunch of jokers

]]> By: Life matters https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260103 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:22:59 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260103 As soon as those students arrive 1st on the list check for friends, 2nd grocery store for home cooked Bermuda meal, 3rd on the list packages sent in advance to collect from the post office to pay less duty, 4th catch up with more old friends and visit family, 5th….

]]> By: Alicia https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260099 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:04:20 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260099 Slowing it down may help save lives as our hospital resources are limited and our population is aged and not in great health.

]]> By: Rada Gast https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260089 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:43:15 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260089 Slowing “the flu” (which this isn’t, it’s a different virus) is what all governments are trying to do right now. Please go look on the internet for “flattening the curve” – delaying the spread of the disease so that the peak number of infections does not overwhelm the health service.

]]> By: have you heard of social media? https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260080 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:35:46 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260080 most if not all kids “talk” with their friends online through a social media platform…most adults do too….

]]> By: Now Ya Nice https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260070 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:21:37 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260070 First it says required to! Next paragraph says urged to? Which on is it?

]]> By: Price is right https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260067 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:16:49 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260067 Just because it’s a pandemic the price of goods or hotel rooms will not change. Be real!

]]> By: Triangle Drifter https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260065 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:12:42 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260065 The wholesalers can’t get product like ordering from Amazon. Anything that they order today won’t see Bermuda for at least a month. The panic buying is nuts. Some people must be planning to spend an awful lot of time sitting on the porcelain throne in the coming months.

]]> By: Toadinthehole https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260064 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:12:16 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260064 Exactly!

]]> By: Toadinthehole https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260062 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:11:40 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260062 What about their parents and siblings? What do they do?!

]]> By: Toadinthehole https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260060 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:10:46 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260060 Hundreds of students are coming back, the BA flight tonight is packed. If students self isolate, should parents and siblings? Govt has not thought this one through!

]]> By: Destroyer https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260056 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:00:21 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260056 Wow why with all this half azz stuff just shut it down… cause you know for sure ain’t nobody goin to self quarantine.

]]> By: Katie https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260051 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:52:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260051 No, neither are their household contacts. They should be practising social isolation.

]]> By: Katie https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260050 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:51:46 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260050 The whole purpose is to prevent those who are sick, but don’t yet know it, from going out before they find out. It is well demonstrated to work, both in this pandemic and in other infections.

]]> By: Kevin https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260040 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:43:51 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260040 On another note it would reassuring to know that the supply chain of food and supplies will continue to arrive. What we have seen with some “buying up the town” can lead to some desparate situations in the future. It would be prudent for our Leader to have this conversation with companies such as butterfield and Vallis and the market place and others that supplies have not been, nor will be hampered.

]]> By: Vortex https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260039 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:42:25 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260039 I noticed the hotels have no idea. Thought I might look at a night at one of the nicer hotels next week for my wife and I.

Loren $600, Ham P and Tuckers $500!!

Are you kidding me? – surely no guests and thinking of letting people go, its bad management/marketing. The planes are EMPTY!

]]> By: Boston Whaler Owner https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260036 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:38:21 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260036 too late,the horse has bolted!

]]> By: Simon https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260035 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:36:27 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260035 So have we stopped ALL cruise ships yet?

]]> By: Wake up https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260029 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:26:28 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260029 I know 100 people that would love to remain home for 14 days so their jobs can’t say crap.

]]> By: Answer https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260028 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:22:59 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260028 “give us some notice (2-3 days) so Bermudians overseas can make plans to get home”

A Bermudian living anywhere outside BDA can still bring it home.

]]> By: Sledge https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260027 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:22:55 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260027 No, they won’t be able to see their friends. It’s quarantine. The clue is in the name

]]> By: Worker 2 https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260021 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:15:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260021 Passengers can wear gloves or masks if they choose too now. Nobody is stopping them from doing so.

]]> By: Pondering https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5260007 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:38:37 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5260007 What happens with the airline crews that overnight?

]]> By: Answer https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259989 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:12:28 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259989 Self quarantine serves NO PURPOSE unless your sick. The Government could have closed every entry way months or weeks ago. Still wouldn’t make a difference.

Bermuda still depends on international business to ship all goods and service.

This action will only slow the flue down. Practice good hygiene wash hands and avoid anyone with symptoms.

]]> By: Unknown https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259988 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:12:00 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259988 What about young children coming home from school and they don’t show any signs of symptoms? Will they not be able to see friends with this in place?

]]> By: CaroleG https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259987 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:11:49 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259987 Are people allowed to come for a vacation? Will tourists be required to self quarantine for 14 days?

]]> By: Family https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259976 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:58:20 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259976 75-80% OF COVID-19 TRANSMISSIONS IN FAMILY CLUSTERS

So what happens to their family members, kids and seniors at home? When can we have a quarantine facility on the island?

Google it and watch a 5-6min video MSNBC interviewing Donald McNeil, science and health reporter for the New York Times, talking about measures to take. Other islands have already started screening people, temperature checks, etc

]]> By: Barson https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259971 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:48:14 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259971 So the BA flight took off 2 hours ago, and they announce this now. That is simply poor planning.

Hundreds of people coming home will be met with this and with no choice.

It should have been effective Tuesday, at least then people could have decided if they wanted to fly.

]]> By: Vortex https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259970 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:44:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259970 From 17 March, or from tonight? It can’t be both.

]]> By: Enough already https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259969 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:43:58 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259969 Just close the borders to arriving passengers, give us some notice (2-3 days) so Bermudians overseas can make plans to get home. St. Maarten has done it, others are about to do it. Time to be proactive not reactive. Allow cargo to continue as normal.

]]> By: James https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259968 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:43:58 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259968 Surely they can do that now if they want?

]]> By: BaileysBay https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259963 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:35:48 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259963 Wonder what is the difference between doing all this on the 17th vs today? Who’s coming home tomorrow that some politician doesn’t want to have to be quarantined? And every church we passed today had lots of cars in the parking lots…but our gov’t is going to meet with church leaders tomorrow so one more weekend for churches to collect offerings etc. Politicians rather than leaders making decisions based on politics rather than what’s best for the public.

]]> By: Bs https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259953 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:21:54 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259953 So what happens to Taxi drivers that pick them up ? Are they then subject to 2 weeks self quarantine?

]]> By: Workers https://bernews.com/2020/03/self-quarantine-required-for-arriving-passengers/#comment-5259947 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:07:59 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=965907#comment-5259947 So does this mean airport workers will be allowed to wear gloves, masks etc to protect themsleves from passengers?

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