Comments on: Covid-19: Ten New Positives, 288 Total, 63 Active https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: Bermudian https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399531 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:04:13 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399531 You didn’t need to comment either.

]]> By: John https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399510 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 19:44:19 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399510 William, after rereading the post, you are correct. It was off-topic. Apologies (for the off-topic remarks, not the Trump remarks) bright and early. My response was more after a collective read of all the posts and lockdown was clearly on my mind as it would be so disastrous for so many hospitality businesses. Thank you for pointing this out.

]]> By: Joe Bloggs https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399501 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 19:15:49 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399501 John, look at what is happening overseas. The US and UK politicians are not taking COVID1-9 seriously and look at their numbers.

Taking the statistics on a per capita basis, in the US, you would be 9 times more likely to die from a COVID-19 related virus than if you are in Bermuda. In the UK that number is 8 times more likely to die from a COVID-19 related virus than if you are in Bermuda.

In Canada, where it is hard to enter, the number is 3 times more likely to die from a COVID-19 related virus than if you are in Bermuda.

To suggest that simply wearing a mask, washing hands and social distancing is enough is naive at the least. There is a reason 10 new cases were detected yesterday, only 1 of which was imported.

]]> By: Joe Bloggs https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399490 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 17:36:33 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399490 The current statistics do not show us doing as badly as in the spring, but the increase in reported cases from a few new cases every few days to between 5 and 10 new cases reported in each of the last 5 days is worrying, and should be worrying to everyone in Bermuda.

It suggests people are not taking care the way they should.

]]> By: William T. Smith https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399484 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:41:00 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399484 John …you brought up the topic of small business bright and early mentioned nothing of the sort…somewhat off topic I suggest you apologise. Right Away…you cunning stunt!

]]> By: Curious https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399483 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:28:45 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399483 Bernews, please clarify whether the “remaining 5 new cases” that are “among residents with no history of travel or currently identified links” were symptomatic or asymptomatic. Thank you.

]]> By: william smith https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399476 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:01:07 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399476 Hey mate Donald downplayed wearing a mask in a pandemic.how ignorent and stupid is that?
But …really …I don’t have splain anything to you.Here is how I see it….John…you are a fool.
You don’t approach a bull to the front…
Smule from behind…
Or a fool from any direction…
Samuel Clements.

]]> By: Raskarr https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399473 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:52:10 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399473 Sure, close the airport, destroy the economy. Besides, at this point it’s community spread that has nothing to do with visitors.

]]> By: trufth https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399472 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:42:03 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399472 Because, NEWSFLASH, they didn’t get the job remember? This is “THIS Govt’s job.”
30-6

]]> By: Exasperated by the ignorance https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399470 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:36:42 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399470 By your logic

I should be allowed to smoke wherever I want. If you don’t want to inhale my smoke you should self isolate.

I should be able to drive my car without restrictive safety checks. If you don’t like it, don’t get a lift with me.

My restaurant should be allowed to operate as I see fit without all those silly health regulations. If you think you are at risk, don’t eat at my restaurant

Regulations – in the case of covid, temporary regulations – are imposed to protect society. Wear your damn mask and wash your hands.

]]> By: Bright and Early https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399465 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:31:26 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399465 Read what I said?????

]]> By: Joe Bloggs https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399462 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:56:32 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399462 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/bermuda/

]]> By: Joe Bloggs https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399461 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:53:18 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399461 “The media has everyone freaking going crazy.”

1.5 million dead people might differ with you.

“Studies have revealed that although people die of COVID they had other pre-existing health conditions such as high blood pressure”

What studies? Please provide a link, otherwise we have no option but to conclude that you are imitating Donald Trump.

]]> By: Question https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399460 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:51:57 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399460 If you think you are at risk, you should take all the precautions you want. No one is stopping you.

]]> By: Question https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399459 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:50:19 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399459 30-6. You don’t care what the opposition thinks.

]]> By: Question https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399458 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:47:56 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399458 Luckily, we don’t have to comply with your personal opinions.

]]> By: John https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399448 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:03:17 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399448 With the Donald Trumps gang? Are you serious? Do you realize how ignorant you sound? So what you’re saying is small business lives must suffer because you don’t want to shield yourself. You want all hospitality to suffer because you want your life to be completely normal. Not happening. Small hospitality business has suffered enough this year. Wear your mask, wash your hands. Social distance.

]]> By: Bermudian https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399441 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:27:20 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399441 WEAR A MASK AND DISTANCE! Pretty simple. In my opinion. Once you’re out in public you should be wearing a mask. Regardless if youre 6ft away or not.

]]> By: John https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399432 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:03:53 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399432 Well said!

]]> By: OkayThen https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399430 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:54:03 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399430 Feel free to do so yourself, and we will decide what is best for our families. This notion that we all need to martyr our livelihoods and the island’s economy to protect people who are vulnerable, who should be taking steps themselves, is preposterous.

We make calculated decisions vs deaths EVERY DAY. We generate electricity even though it creates pollution, we drive even though it leads to road accidents, we swim even though some drown. Stop with the every life BS.

]]> By: OkayThen https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399429 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:48:47 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399429 By that logic nobody should ever drive, since it also leads to deaths. If you cant even think on a basic level maybe don’t try dictate policy to the rest of us.

]]> By: Question https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399427 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:41:34 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399427 Bernews, I appreciate this and the ‘update’ paragraph in the article. It helps to provide valuable context for what is going on.

]]> By: Bright and Early https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399424 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:30:42 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399424 For someone to says its not a serious issue is not true. Those people who say that are with “The Donald Trump’s” gang. He is a nut case and thank goodness he was voted out. The virus has traveled all over the world killing many people and not just people with Pre Existing conditions but healthy people get your facts straight. In fact about 1.5 Million so far. I am a person with Pre existing conditions and it is very scary for me now that we have 10 people daily contracting Covid. After all we are all human beings and because of genetic issues have some of these conditions. I hope all are safe and be careful out there wear your mask its important.

]]> By: BIll https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399422 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:18:02 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399422 Because their OBA team is spineless.

]]> By: YaboySoNSo https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399410 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 11:17:51 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399410 Oh itz more then 63… think of the people who will not get tested or vaccinated. The bitchers need to stop encouraging ignorance. This virus gets so much support from you. Stop passing it off as nothing. People have died. Remember you can be living unaware of some of the illnesses that covid19 is attacking. I dont believe in the testing or vaccinations but I believe that if the guidelines to prevent spreading are followed we wouldn’t need for much more then that. Stop encouraging ignorance on the matter of this covid19

]]> By: Tom Treefrog https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399400 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:16:08 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399400 I beg your pardon, but would you be so kind to clarify which part of my reply makes you believe that I am “insane”? All?

]]> By: Mark https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399359 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 04:18:51 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399359 Cause nimrods like you still drink the KoolAid

]]> By: Not true https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399348 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 03:17:37 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399348 No one has contracted COVID from a bar or restaurant! This is 100 percent BS and an attack on the hospitality industry at large!

]]> By: Get Help https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399337 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 02:27:29 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399337 You’re insane

]]> By: hmmm https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399332 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 01:39:14 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399332 If this is so bad not locking down the country why are
the surrogates in the obaubp not saying anything????

]]> By: Answer https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399328 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 01:35:26 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399328 Hey the Government is not controlling you if you want to lock down ……..well go lock down. Remain in your house for the next 50 years.

Plenty of people will take up the extra employment most people desire to WORK!

This new World is here to stay COVID isn’t going anywhere for long time.

]]> By: Tom Treefrog https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399319 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:41:28 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399319 If the price to pay for letting “small hospitality businesses” run is to let (few) people die and (more than a few) bear permanent health consequences, then my view is that it is a too high price. I like the idea of a fund that subsidizes such small business, it would be a socially responsible thing to do. Some (not me) may object that “small hospitality businesses” have prospered for the past 40 years, without contributing to any social security fund, and a couple of bad (or very bad) years are part of the game plan.

]]> By: Cloud https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399312 Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:03:08 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399312 Numbers of Covid per day are now unacceptable. Suggest a two week pre Christmas lockdown be considered

]]> By: St. David's https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399301 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 23:30:13 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399301 The difference now is “social” spread. I hate to say it but once it gets into the younger bar hopping population, it’s a whole other ball game.

]]> By: Phil https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399283 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:12:09 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399283 Not sure what you mean by “daily positive cases”, but if you’re looking for a graph of the number of *new* daily cases over time, just Google for “bermuda coronavirus” – it appears at the top of the search results.

A graph of the number of *active* cases over time would be great though. I think we’ve now almost surpassed the highest number of active cases that we saw in the spring? Maybe that would help people realise what a serious situation we’re now in.

]]> By: Imjustsaying https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399279 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 22:09:00 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399279 How many tested positive as a result of not wearing a mask. They don’t wanna release those stats or they don’t have a clue is it because it may put doubt in the publics mind and they could lose faith in the governments ability to keep the them safe.

]]> By: Unbelievable https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399274 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:41:22 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399274 By this point, I think it’s a balancing act for everyone in Bermuda and we all have a part to play. Everyone needs to do their part with masks, social distancing and hand sanitiser. The Govt will do theirs by trying to catch and contain the virus where and when it appears.

]]> By: Curious https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399271 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:25:04 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399271 Well said!

]]> By: Dread https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399265 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:58:35 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399265 No lockdown means more covid 19 case’s, but don’t listen to me.

]]> By: John https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399259 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:20:04 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399259 Look at the death line. If you haven’t noticed most folk get over this. It you are old and sick then shield yourself. I haven’t been paid since March. All my money goes into propping up my small business just trying to make it through. How about all you folk that want a lockdown pay into a fund that will support us small hospitality businesses so that we can put food on our tables and maybe buy our children some gifts for Christmas? Thought not. Now shut up and go lock yourself down. Moron!

]]> By: Bernews1 https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399252 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 19:41:04 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399252 Yes, we agree, that is something we are working on!!

]]> By: trufth https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399248 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:46:30 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399248 Bernews: in addition to the line chart you created above using Govt numbers, can you create a bar chart per day the number of daily positive cases since the beginning?

Thanks in advance. If it already exists somewhere can you post a link?

]]> By: lion https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399247 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:42:27 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399247 Gov is allowing the fox into the chicken coup then blaming the chickens if they get killed.

]]> By: Nope https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399243 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:33:04 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399243 Why don’t you lock down! Tell the boss your going into LOCK DOWN for a month and someone else can have your job. Be prepared to be lock down for 3 years plus OK!!!

]]> By: Scientist https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399241 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:28:03 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399241 You must must work a Government job. Lock down or not you get paid. Some my friends over seas had COVID and it was like a seasonal cold or flue. COVID is not going anywhere it’s here to stay. The media has everyone freaking going crazy.Studies have revealed that although people die of COVID they had other pre-existing health conditions such as high blood pressure, cancer, type 2 diabetes, asthma, HIV/AIDS….. but lets blame it on COVID!

]]> By: Enough https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399239 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:25:08 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399239 Please don’t refer to it as clusters anymore it is now most certainly community spread and the next thing is our classification worldwide will change. Sorry but close the darn airport we were at zero until we opened that. What is the government so scared of. Just do it because if you don’t we will be in really serious trouble

]]> By: Concerned https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399235 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:08:09 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399235 Stop saying “clusters of cases.” This is clear community spread and people need to adjust accordingly. Also, tourists should not choose to come here thinking they will get a break from Covid.

]]> By: Tom Treefrog https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399233 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:04:40 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399233 Can I please ask to consider abolishing the expression “out of an abundance of caution”? It gets used and abused in every article over Covid, while what I see wherever I walk is just an abundance of irresponsible behaviours. And the results are now clearly visible to everyone.

]]> By: Unbelievable https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399232 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:02:58 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399232 Far as I can tell, these stats are worse than what Bermuda experienced in the Spring.

]]> By: Stop Pussy-Footing https://bernews.com/2020/12/covid-19-ten-new-positives-288-total-63-active/#comment-5399230 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:33:25 +0000 https://bernews.com/?p=1026947#comment-5399230 Stop pussy-footing: Cut the airlinks and lockdown like we did in the Spring, until this is brought under control.

Santa, the best gift you can give us is a Covid free New Year, so a fly by will be just fine.

A single life is worth more than any amount of lost revenue.

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