The top officials in the Bahamian government, those in charge of the Health Ministry, the PM, should admit their failure and do the decent thing: resign. The present situation is nothing less than a dereliction of duty, inadequate planning, and the willful endangering of Bahamian lives. The present situation is inexcusable, no matter what side of the aisle you stand on.

And to think all of this was predictable and likely preventable based on information that was available to Minnis and D'Aguilar well before they nevertheless prematurely reopened our borders to travellers from the US. Both Minnis and D'Aguilar allowed all of the deadly Covid-19 problems being experienced by the US to be imported to the Bahamas the moment they made their most foolish and harmful decision to re-open our borders on July 1. The fact that they did what they did with full knowledge of the great potential for our fragile healthcare system being quickly overwhelmed is tantamount to having committed homicide by gross dereliction of duty, especially in the case of Minnis as a medical doctor and holder of the minister of health cabinet post at the time of the most fateful decision.

We are in urgent need of an authority with a plan, we don't need to be running this country and playing anything by ear. PLAN. PLAN and PLAN SOME MORE. He who FAILS to PLAN, PLANS to FAIL. Our health workers should not be begging for anything at this time, we had 4mts prior to PLAN for this scenario, what the hell were you people doing in all this time except playing with yourselves?

What has government been doing last few months???? We were on top of the virus with hardly any new infections. We should have been using this time to increase our testing capability, ICU provision etc. Instead we opened up to the USA with, it seems, no contingency plan in place for the inevitable resurgence. Now the very thing government was afraid of from the beginning - that our healthcare system would become overwhelmed - has now come to pass. Unbelievable!

**Let’s do the easy arithmetic, apparently something the colony's **Central Authority** has been too afraid to run the numbers.
**In the days and weeks ahead** as the required COVID-19 hospitalisations climb so does the risk of a systemic healthcare failure,
**We need to keep a watchful eye of any signs of a spike in positive cases coming out the Abaco's?**
Such may not be so farfetched as to rule out whereby the **Central Authority** is forced into the **nationalisation** of the privately operated Doctors Hospital? Nod Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

All of this is why the Bahamian public should have taken this virus seriously. We have very limited resources and terrible infrastructure. Dr Sands and his team stressed this at the beginning of this outbreak.

There could have been a balance between opening up the country and handling this disease. Many Bahamians just refused to listen. How hard was distancing your self by 6 ft, wearing a mask and practising proper hygiene. It's not rocket science. Just step outside you door and look at the number of people who selfishishly put others in danger. You can not blame the government for irresponsible people, unless you are some of the ones being irresponsible!!!

Strongly suggest you stop carrying water for Minnis because you're now making nothing but a big fool of yourself. Plenty of sunlight has been shined on the very false narrative about the so called 'balancing act', not to mention the outrageous blaming of Bahamians by Minnis for problems rooted in his own foolish and stupid decisions. Many Bahamians may have a D- education, but they're certainly smart enough to sniff out that Minnis has zero leadership skills and is about as incompetent, deceitful and directionless as they come.

Having imperiled the lives of so many Bahamians, including our healthcare providers, both Minnis and D'Aguilar should have by now done the only honourable thing left for them to do: Resign with great remorse and shame.

lol. Blame "*Bahamians who can't listen*" for the inadequate supplies for the hospital. What do you think will happen when the cruise lines and hotels begin operation? We can't forget that right before the border was opened there was a proud announcement that all quarantine facilities were closing. This tells you everything you need to know about any plans to mount a response to post border opening threats. The preparation has nothing to do with *hard headed Bahamians*

Unfortunately, Minnis stepping down, isn't going to fix the problem. Sure, ultimately the buck stops with him, but whoever fills his place is going to face the same problem(s). What we need is a plan that works, the problem is every country in the world is trying to find a plan that works but has so far failed.
Those countries that did well under the first wave of COVID, like New Zealand, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Sweden etc, and subsequently opened their borders, are now experiencing flare ups as they've started opening up. One of the worst hit countries was Spain. Eventually, after many deaths and recorded cases, they managed to get things under control. They recently re-opened their borders to tourists, but are now have major flare ups similar to The Bahamas.
Every leader, in every country, is in a lose/lose situation. Whether they open up or shut down, half the population will be crying for their heads if they go one route and the other half will do the same if they go the other route. Not a time to be the leader of any country IMO

Sorry to hear you're looking to Minnis to lead us through this nightmare. And flabbergasted that you're apparently okay with the fatal decision Minnis made to prematurely reopen our borders in the midst of Covid-19 being ablaze in South Florida. Moreover, it seems you're also okay with any other major foolish decision Minnis may make because, as you put it, "every leader, in every country, is in a lose/lose situation." So what's your point? Are you trying to say every leader of every country is as arrogant, dumb, nasty, stubborn, incompetent, vindictive and directionless as Minnis? Or are you trying to say it doesn't matter who is the leader of a country today because they're all nothing but doppelgangers of Minnis, in which case it would not matter if the Bahamas were led by my 3 year old grandson?

In the **lighter** talkie show news meantime, does **Comrade 'Softhaired' Juan** have some kinda strange affinity for **blue washing soap?** Nod Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

Very good article revealing the plight of the very heroic very firstest front line staff with situation diseased patients. Thank you News Reporter Leandra Rolle and Front line Medical Hospital. We applaud your efforts and are saddened at the cruelty treatment and lack of your safety by the officers responsible.

The article and quick actions is very good in bringing situation more awareness to many of the dilemna of First line care Hospital workers and hopefully the story will drive home the urgency to follow the guidelines to minimize catching and transmission of Covid, to not have to appear at the Hospital. Seems the story have immediately cleared the city of people except those buying essentials and more than ever spacing etc than before.