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.. lockdowns are a stalling tactic nothing more, it is not a cure! The compliant with lockdowns are still vulnerable if exposed to the virus. A good vaccine is the only cure and that is in the distant future.

The only sensible route is antibody testing using a high quality test. At least we can have some idea of who has been exposed and who has not. Those who have been exposed and are healthy can return to work as there is no concrete evidence of a person catching this virus twice. That will allow sectors of the economy to reopen. I said this three months ago, but lets continue to destroy the economy for a virus with a global mortality rate of 4%!! That makes more sense, right Minnis?

Be careful what you wish for. Places in the US that did as you propose we do, ended up with many very large Covid-19 parties being held in which the attendees very deliberately tried to get infected so that they could gain an advantage over others in the work place. And of course the attendees of such parties were mainly younger party-hardy persons with no major known underlying medical conditions, i.e. those most likely to become asymptomatic super spreaders.

... consider that people who have already had this infection and have antibodies to it derive no benefit from being locked down. Because we have not done widespread antibody testing, we do not know how many of them there are! It is wrong and unfair for those the government tested positive in March and April who have no symptoms to still be subjected to lockdowns as those who have not been infected. We need to distinguish the two groups, not so that people can party, but so that certain sectors can return to work without having to be to be subjected to these stupid lockdowns which are designed to protect the vulnerable while reducing the burden on health systems, not those who have already had the infection and recovered fully!

We have only Minnis and D'Aguilar to blame for the return of Covid-19 to shores and the misery we now face from the return of more lockdowns. Had these two most stupid fools not prematurely opened our borders to travellers from other countries, the US government never would have had an opportunity to insist our borders be kept open to travellers from the US.

Dumb D'Aguilar and even dumber Minnis failed to appreciate that there was no way the US government would permit The Bahamas to implement travel restrictions mainly targeted at Americans. These two buffoons should have known that once they foolishly re-opened the door to travellers from the US, the US government would not let them re-close it.

Minnis and D'Aguilar have sealed not only the dreadful fate of many vulnerable Bahamians who will eventullly succumb to the deadly Communist China Virus, but also many local businesses now doomed to permanently closing their doors leaving thousands and thousands of Bahamians without jobs. It didn't have to be this way. They have now effectively killed much of our non-tourist dependent local economy that might have survived had it not been for their most foolish decision to pre-maturely re-open our borders.

And to think these two clueless and directionless corrupt imbeciles shamelessly attempted to blame Bahamians for the horrific consequences of their very own most stupid and harmful decision. They didn't even have the decency to lower their heads in disgrace and resign!

Hey, JoeBlown, How come you know s the world?o much more 3 months ago than most anyone else the world? You an expert obviously. but the lockdowns are not designed to be cure and no one has ever said they were. The lock downs are to slow the spread of the virus to manageable levels so that our health care systems are not over whelmed.

You are right.

Flattening the curve and keeping it flat became an impossibility the very moment Minnis and D'Aguilar foolishly pre-maturely re-opened our borders to travellers. The damage has been done by the incredulous stupidity of Minnis and D'Aguilar and it will no longer be containable no matter what they do. The harm will be irreparable.

@hrysippus ... the reason you stated for lock downs is known by all including children. The question is whether or not there is a better way to do it. I look forward to your positive contributions on the matter!

This is not a lockdown as you can still go out and about Monday through friday during the day. This is just making sure the only thing you can do is work if you have a job. AS mentioned by jowblow lockdowns only stall the cases, and each time you reopen they will start up again. The idea behind the initial lockdown was to flatten the curve, but also give the Government time to strengthen the health facilities in this country. They did not do that side, so now every time there is a rise they will have to lockdown until a vaccine or admit that we have to live with this and enforce the rules on social distancing.

Sounds like you're endorsing Minnis be supreme ruler until a vaccine is developed. That's a most frightening thought given that we already have vaccines for the flu, but flu season nevertheless comes around each year. And in most years the the flu vaccine is found to provide at most 30 to 40% protection from the more virulent strains of constantly mutating flu viruses. And it's well known there's unlikely ever to be a vaccine for the common cold which, like Covid-19, falls within the family of corona viruses. Plenty of food for careful thought here.

Yet again what you think and what is actual are two completely different things.

Oh, that's right, I forgot....you didn't support Minnis in May 2017 like so many others and you would never support him. I'm so sorry this slipped my mind.

I never said that, but times change and so do people. Unless you think once you supported someone then that was all you were allowed to support. In which case Minnis wins in 2022. But if that was the case Christie would have won in 2017, but then Ingraham would have won in 2012. So guess like most things you should probably think first.

What's all of that got to do with your unwillingness to own up to your undying support of Minnis and the FNM no matter what? The readers of your posts (not just me) are quite capable of reading between the lines. You get the final word.

Yawn

Without a vaccine, this will be the new normal moving forward. I do not think the lockdowns are necessary nor closing the borders, people have to be smarter with how they socialize. It is pretty obvious there's community spread, and its summer - imagine what will happen during the fall. It is estimated 50% of the population will contract this virus. Personally I won't be taking the vaccine, but those who are vulnerable should consider.

And most of us know why Bill Gates is hoping we all get a Covid-19 vaccination and why the infectious disease organisations he is associated with are pressuring governments to pass legislation that will force us to get vaccinated.

You clearly have not heard or read anything Bill Gate's has had to say over his life time to date, especially in his younger years, about the need for population control. The Continent of Africa has been the ideal setting for the conduct of many experiments given that most African nations have little in the way of enforced governmental regulations and many government officials who are all too easily willing to turn a blind eye in quid pro quo arrangements.

**The dangerously** scariest is what The Colony's **Central Authority** knows but keeping hidden from reaching the PopoulacesOrdinary at large POAL?
Neither has there been a single of information released to POAL, if such cases have been confirmed by the privately owned and operated Doctors Hospital?
Nod Once for Yeah it **won't take much overwhelm** The Colony's **singular** fully operating public hospital, **what then is the **bible thumper*** health minister to do with the hundreds more new killer virus-positive cases, Twice for No?

repost:its CRAZY. It's like the cabinet meets to find new ways to add stress to regular Bahamians lives. We get up 5AM to get to work for a 9AM start. Rush through traffic dropping off kids and spouses. Now they tell us we have to rush through 5PM traffic too? and stress over whether we can get in by 7PM?. Then after that 120 hours of constant stress they lock you in for the weekend then let you out to rush back to work on Monday. What are they trying to do???

I could see if it were a full lockdown and no businesses were open. But all businesses are basically open which means a large percentage of persons are working.

They're very deliberately trying to drive you crazy while they go about cementing their full control over you.