Yawn, same nonsense over and over again! Reopening our borders again without any proper planning. If you thought the current surge was bad, just wait until our borders are opened back up in the middle of Flu-season!!!

As I posted before - "Do we have competent officials who can understand how the PCR test works and what it should and shouldn't be used for? Do we have a scientist who can confirm that the pandemic virus has been isolated and truly exists? Can we D-average people understand all the research that prove masks do not stop viruses? And lastly, at the beginning of this pandemic we were told that with the spread will come herd immunity - obviously (according to their tests) the virus is widespread - therefore herd immunity must have been acheived - but wait isn't here a vaccine agenda? " Acceptance without comprehension is insanity, and insanity leads to self destruction and further enslavement.

Looks like you are certainly enslaved!

As I posted before - "You are the F- student that helps bring the average down to a D-"

Your shallow trite vindictive comments will certainly save you from the contrived famine that is at our door. The plandemic is only one aspect, and your normality bias will only prevent you from seeing what is unfolding. You wont be able to eat your words at that time of starvation - good luck at eating tree barks and grass.

His logic is flawed. He basically said tourists will not be a major source of the spread of Covid-19. Sounds like he is a fortune teller. If the US has a huge issue with Covid-19 and most of our tourist come from the US, how do you reconcile that a country where the disease is out of control will have people when they arrive here will have little to no impact on us.

If we have 1,000 tourists visit our shores and they move about, they can perhaps impact about 20,000 people they come across. So, if you have 100 infected and they have contact with 2,000 people, think of the potential impact. I think he forgot this is a very small country. You infect 500 people today, if you're not careful you can take infect half the country.

I'm not proposing that we don't open. I'm simply hoping that they have a sound plan and have an awareness of the risk. Given his position here, it doesn't seem so.

We already opened to tourist, and it turns out they didn't bring in the virus for the second wave, it was Bahamians traveling to Florida for 72 hrs with no tests and no quarantine.

My Comrade New, is it your position you believe that which the **Central Authority** decides to coverup?

I guess people living in Florida don't travel to.thr Bahamas. There is a cruise ship, if I recall, which leaves Miami and come here. I've met people who came on this, who live in Miami. Miami is a hotspot. Lets assume.that the government was truthful on what they said on the second wave. Are we going to assume that Floridians coming in will all be fine?

If we talk about testing before travel, there are issues with that too. There's a politician, a Republican, I don't recall the state, he tested positive on one test and then took another test hours later and tested negative. So, you're getting false positives and we.can also.assume false negatives.

Like I said, we can open. Just do it in a smart way.

My Comrade True, it's as frightening and scary **as it should be** across The Colony's 700 Out Islands, Rocks, and Cays.

@truetrueBahamian ... look, this is simple. Bahamians who travel to a hotspot can get infected and bring the infection back. Tourists who travel from a hotspot cannot bring the virus here when they travel. The data proves that. There is a selective virus destroyer on flights that works based on nationality or is it melanin?

cake and eat too?

nobody dies from covid unless he is 200lbs overweight

Without tourism propping up the economy- bottom line - our currency will be devalued, cost of living will skyrocket, crime will explode and public services including medical facilities to service the population that has (compared To Covid19) a much dangerous pandemic of chronic vascular diseases. There is not an option here - open it up, enforce protection measures, If we leave the country to travel then we need the negative Covid test before we come home same as everyone else. Covid is here to stay.

My Comrade Whogotthere was there not a sustaining economy before the **influx** cruise passengers?

Cruise ships do not do much for the economy accept prop up perceived numbers of visitors. Put another way they represent 80% of count and 20% of the spend (roughly I don t have the exact figs). We can live without cruise ships we can t live without hotels and vacation rentals.

If there turns out be a touch of a godsend to the virus let's hope it forces inward look at burning away with the tourism model we've mostly allowed slip through our better senses.

Amen

The most striking thing about this entire experience is that no coherent plan for sustainable national development has been proposed yet! Remarkable!

Why are you surprised? No coherent plan for sustainable national development has EVER been proposed!

... touché! Just tryin' to keep hope alive!

What criteria was used to conclude "less than one percent of those new infections came from foreigners"?

It is an insult to our intelligence to say Bahamians exposed for 72 hours are responsible for 99% of the infections, while foreigners from hot spots presenting a **7 to 10 day old** negative Covid test having exponentially increased opportunity to contract and spread infections, only account for 1% of the spread!

These numbers do not make any sense and simply do not add up. I know politicians are known to create their own reality to suite their ever changing narrative, and think we are all D-average dumb-asses, but at least they could have said something "remotely" believable.

Secondly, tourism will remain under pressure until the US resolves it's Covid epidemic, which won't happen until they lock down the entire country, and this cannot happen until January **IF** Biden wins the presidency. Even then, it would take 2 to 3 months minimum to get the virus under control, so we can look at March or April before we get any real tourism volume from the US.

I'm confused.. to my knowledge, anybody can enter the country today via commercial airline if any flying.. just need negative test ans be prepared to quarantine.

so what will be different in 2 months? let me guess: nothing

**Which the two facts are correct?**
Finance minister Comrade KP a few days ago had forcefully denied that the **Central Authority** is about runout money - yet but just days prior, didn't the minister responsible for the National Insurance Board NIB, not step forward volunteered that the **Central Authority** will, not maybe won't, have run out of sufficient money required to continue to payout NIB benefits beyond September 2020...and, according to KP's calendar means **will run out money** is measured in a mere matter of days to a couple of weeks. Just couldn't make this stuff up. Just **couldn't.** Nod Once for Yeah, Twice for No?

IMF paying governments for destroying the economy. Just add 1 + 1 together!