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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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I question whether the advance test might make more sense. What happens if a person tests positive on the rapid test and they are a visitor? I would assume they would be required to be quarantined and it seems SXM government has very few such quarantine facilities. And I would assume there would be some push-back to the requirement that the person quarantined be required to pay for the cost of it?
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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That's a good point. I think the islands that have required the test so far are requiring it upon arrival though.
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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We don't have enough tests for the population, let alone visitors.
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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If they can't get them for their own people...
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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Maybe I’m wrong, and I will openly admit I’m a ‘what if’ kind of person but I think there will be a lot more preplanning needed before anyone is allowed to return as a vacationer. There’s still a lot of unanswered questions and issues that need to be resolved before I’d be willing to come back and I really, really want to come back to St. Maarten. But I want to do it safely!!
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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Less than 500 people here have been tested. If I can't get a test, why should you?
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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It is my understanding that most other islands that have announced a plan so far have required a negative Covid 19 test no more than 2 or 3 days PRIOR to the flight. Therefore the cost of the test and the consequences, if the person tests positive, would be borne in the person's country of origin. While this doesn't seem like a perfect plan either, because the person could go from negative to positive in two days, (or the test could plain be WRONG), it seems to make more sense than a plan to test AFTER people arrive.
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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Think about this. You come here, bring or get the virus and have to be hospitalized. Do you realize our COVID hospital is in tents? In hurricane season. With 12 or 14 ventilators.
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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My understanding is that the test they are talking about is the one that detects an active infection. It appears there are two different types of rapid tests. Link
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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Think about this. You come here, bring or get the virus and have to be hospitalized. Do you realize our COVID hospital is in tents? In hurricane season. With 12 or 14 ventilators. With all due respect think about this, I along with others come don't get sick and spend lots of money in the local economy thereby helping those on the island that are working everyday to support their families. If I lived in fear of what could happen I would never leave my house much less get on a plane to fly (plane could crash), rent a car to drive (people die daily in car wrecks), swim in the ocean (drowning- 320,000 deaths in 2016), walk under a coconut tree (150 deaths annually from falling coconuts), walk outside to get the mail or exercise (cardiac arrest). Reasonable precautions can and should be take to determine illness and then people can simply be smart about hygiene.
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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And that's a choice everyone makes. But you have to be aware of the situation here before making that decision. Believe me, many of our friends and neighbors are in dire straits and I hope, for their sake, a comfortable solution can be found.
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Re: SXM minister proposes rapid antigen test for visitors
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Agreed, in many places it is very difficult to obtain a test, let alone to get a result in a timely fashion.
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