This is a joke, we will see the true result of the stupidity with opening the borders to the U.S. at the end of July!

BTW, the North Abaco report yesterday was, thankfully, a false alarm - something to do, perhaps, with a shell fish allergy, according to a senior Government employee......

good news

Sad news Ma Comrade DDK, if accurate then we're possibly using Dollar Store obtained tests can't distinguish between strains of the killer virus and a shellfish allergy? This is much more than **fuzzy** statistics put out by **The Central Authority** as the PopoulacesOrdinaey at large POAL seems to grow increasingly concerned about their health and safety.

Comparing the numbers from yesterday 2 additional persons have been hospitalized.

The Ministry of Health is a complete joke, a person was hospitalized on Monday and one more was hospitalized on Tuesday, yesterday's chart should have had 2 persons in hospitalization...but of course the chart was wrong because our crayon eating Ministry of Health is consisted of your average Bahamian, a D- educated idiot!

7 of the 20 cases are travel related... why on earth are Bahamians traveling to Florida (**aka the new epicenter**) during a pandemic when they are setting records DAILY, this is the same as a Bahamian traveling to Wuhan in January!

Allowing Bahamians to travel into the U.S, allowing U.S citizens to travel into the Bahamas... there Is a reason why our national average is a **D-**.

CLOSE OUR BORDERS NOW!!!

I dont know if they should close the border, but I do think the finger pointing at *bad* Bahamians travelling to the US is a straw man argument. The bigger problem is thousands of tourists being allowed to travel here. theyve made the decision to open the border so own the risk.

I've not heard one narrative about tourists behaving badly being a problem. Even after we saw pictures of 3 tourists climbing a fence to get to the beach. Can you imagine what would have happened to them if they were Bahamian? They would have had the book thrown at them, wouldn't have been surprised if they got jail time and most Bahamians including me would have said, well that was pretty stupid. Then we would have heard the whole *y'all don't like to listen* and *yuh guh feel* speech. And who knows another message from the CA on how he forced him to resume weekend lockdowns.

The one thing that is clear is there's lots of work to be done to prepare for winter.

We closed the beach on the independence weekend saying we are doing this to stop the spread of the virus only to have already opened the border to all, the cases we are seeing today, this is ludicrous, and a betrayal to our 4mths of sacrifice, because at this rate we are sure to see the country shut down.

Reopening is a necessary risk ............ What choices do we have???? ......... Reopen and manage with the Covid surge while getting the economy back on track ...... OR remain locked down and drown in our own debt, crime and despair??????? ........ Catch22 at best.

Our economy won't come back anytime soon with the few tourist coming into our country, especially since the hotels and resorts are all closed, it also doesn't help that we have Bahamians traveling to Florida and spending our limited U.S dollars!

Typical Minnis follower, all talk and no brains!

Why is that all talk? It is a legitimate concern to have thousands of ppl, who have no viable skills out of work for how long, a year, a few more months. We have seen the collateral effects of ppl being out of work for three to four months with no savings, rent isnt paid, mortgages stop being paid, we cussing cause social services "line is to long and bahamians shouldnt have to stand in line". It seems like the typically contrarian to say the economy wont come back with the few tourists, what does that mean, everyone knows the economy is not a switch to flip on and off. Have you considered that maybe in nassau, the big empty hotels certainly wont be fillled, in there it would probably be a disaster waiting to happen, but elsewhere, smaller boutique ventures around the country are able to safelt open and employ ppl and manage the risk. Life isnt back to normal, but the obligations of life have not changed. So unless you are going to be the guinea pig for a vaccine i think the reality is everyone has to exercise reasonable judgment, common sense, for the foreseeable future.

CLOSE THE BORDERS NOW

FROM, BEN

I don't think Minnis knows you're Ben Carson trying to give us much needed good advice on the QT. The Bahamian public thanks you any way.

There's no economy period with out-of-control Covid-19 spread. There will be no significant numbers of tourists or Bahamians patronizing business establishments in The Bahamas in the midst of a major resurgence of Covid-19, especially as our public healthcare system becomes overwhelmed with related hospitalizations.

People are not going to risk getting the potentially deadly Communist China Virus when they know the hospitals and clinics are already overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. That's just a common sense fact and why it was so important for our borders to have been kept closed to travellers from the US. The talk about the need to seek a balance between money and death is just a false narrative put out there by fools like Minnis and D'Aguilar.

Minnis has either wittingly or unwittingly set the stage for him to order that our country once again be totally shutdown and that will mean for Bahamian businesses no local customers in addition to no tourists.