Best Posts in Thread: Household Community Quarantine Passes

Seeing how long the lines are at the market, I think putting this out there is good. Hopefully, this will slow the spread. Status quo not working.

 

Actually it seems many Philippine PUI who die are later showing as having been negative for Covid-19. This is either poor testing or many non-Covid19 patients have similar symptoms.

 

here's a summary of the luzon ''enhanced community quarantine.''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Luzon_enhanced_community_quarantine

numbers one to five, like typhoon ratings, would be less confusing.

 

I think the highest temperature I’ve been scanned at in the last weeks was 35.9*C. These laser thermometers need to be calibrated, they don’t just work out of the box. Obviously no one has ever read the instructions.

 

I got a pass today and was told, as of this time at least, Dumaguete and Valencia are not requiring it except for entry into banks.

They also said, as of now, the only thing that is being strictly enforced is the curfew.

Given mixed messages and the government itself probably being in some state of confusion, take that for what you will.

 

I also heard of a barangay which has set up a disinfectant trough for cars to drive through but no checking of the occupants - I respect the attempts people are making to control the virus but they have got it wrong.

This is the type of control used when farm animals get infected (e.g. foot-and-mouth, African swine fever) so that cars travelling from farm to farm don't carry the virus on their tyres (they also disinfect footwear - of the people, not the animals!). In such cases, there is no passage of animals at all - usually they are slaughtered and incinerated on the spot (fortunately this is not happening with Covid-19 and humans!).

The check point should be checking the people inside the vehicles - they, along with door handles, are the way the virus might be getting in.

 

We called yesterday and spoke to a person at the Sibulan Municipal Hall who seemed knowledgeable, she said that enforcement of the quarantine pass will not begin for at least 2 to 3 days because the Barangays were not prepared with the materials needed to create the passes. She said they are all scrambling to create the passes as quickly as possible. As they expect that all persons are currently staying at home, and they do not want crowds of people coming to get passes, when the passes are ready they will be sending out teams to go house-to-house and distribute the passes.