Please Mr. Editor, no more leftist leaning never Trumper hogwash from Malcolm Strachan. Just how anti-American can The Tribune possibly be?!! It's better to just leave space on The Tribune page blank.

Just open it up. It's the flu that's all.

Are you really that stupid, or just pretending?

Like many, @Bonefishpete is fed up with the whole Red China Virus ordeal and just venting frustration in the form of sarcasm. Can't blame him for doing so.

Trumps' eagerness to open earlier than CDC recommendations will most likely backfire leading to a protracted pandemic and delayed return of US Tourism.

Let's not panic just yet! But why are all of our eggs in one basket anyway?

This pandemic is a good lesson for us. The Bahamas needs to be less US-centric and firstly look to source food security from our other Northern neighbor, Canada (NOW), and the greater Caribbean as well.

Canada exports half of their beef/cattle, 70% of soybeans, 70% of pork, 75% of wheat, 90% canola, and 95% of pulses. **Over 90 percent of Canada's farmers are dependent on exports as well as about 40 percent of their food processing sector.**

Agriculture and food processing are key components of the Canadian economy and of Canada’s trade portfolio. Agriculture and food account for 11% of Canada’s goods GDP and almost 10% of Canada’s total merchandise trade. Food processing is by far the largest manufacturing employer in Canada supporting over 250,000 jobs across the country!

From a food security viewpoint, as a 100% consuming country, we should have looked at importing and partnering with Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin American producers along with the US, decades ago.

worse than Trumps eagerness is our penchant to act exactly like him. Minnis has been doing this since he got in. his constant use of the word bold was taken straight from Trump. It's uncanny that someone would want to emulate *dumbness*. I said just last week that I expected them to announce they'd be opening up as soon as the US did based on absolutely nothing. I didn't see it happening this quickly. Just last week Bethel was complaining about the *number of cars on the road*. It literally makes no coordinated sense. I think this is evidence that Sands is knocked down a peg or two

Trump might be eager , but he Andrew Cuomo , Desantis , the Governor of Georgia make their own decisions, don't blame Trump for any governor whom opens up early, it is the Governor's decisions.

Can't compare Trump and Andrew Cuomo. Trump wants to hold political rallies next week.... this week. Andrew Cuomo is looking for a safe responsible way to go about the process.

Ditto that @bahamianson. And @ThisIsOurs had better thank his luck stars that Minnis may well be more inclined to take his cue from Trump rather than Cuomo.

... wow! As though only Americans can be carriers of this virus! Thank God the Brits, Canadians and other are all immune!

The more reasonable idea is large scale antibody testing here to reopen different sectors and only accepting allowing tourists who present proof of having antibodies showing they have cleared the infection to travel here. This reopens the economy somewhat, while we wait for a vaccine!

The problem here is that the Red China Virus anti-body test currently costs about $100 in the US and may not be fully reliable for quite sometime, i.e. the chance of a false-positive result remains much higher than it should be. Senior healthcare officials in the US are therefore presently recommending at least two, and preferably three, independent anti-body tests be done ensure reliability of the findings. This means the current cost of being reliably certified immune in the US rises to about $300 per person. The total cost of everyone residing in the Bahamas being reliably tested for anti-bodies would therefore be about $115 million.

While the higher-end tourists arriving by air may be willing to pony up the additional $300 for a reliable immunity certificate prior to their arrival in the Bahamas, I seriously doubt the cheapskate cruise ship passengers would be willing to do so. Nevertheless the corrupt cruise ship companies (as well as the Nassau Cruise Port developers) are already putting big time pressure on both Minnis and D'Aguilar to allow their passengers to gain entry to our country on the basis of only an inexpensive pre-screening temperature test for fever. Of course that proposal is absolutely ludicrous and a complete non-starter given that super spreaders of the Red China Virus are usually asymptomatic, i.e. they are highly infectious but show no symptoms at all.

"It is apparent that the threat of economic collapse is scarier than the prospect of death for millions of Americans."

Malcom, Malcom, review the number of deaths attributed to the Red Chinese virus compared to number of those that live, 97% of those with virus will live. Millions more of Americans will not die by opening the economy.

The 'stay at home' order was to reduce transmission and prevent hospitals from being inundated. America is over that stage and the heart of the true Americans is to not only open the economy but to exceed expectations with a growing economical rebound.

The economic regression is not healthy for the mind, body and soul of the Bahamian people. They Bahamians remain strong in spirit, have endured mindless mass enforced business closures, leading to some going out of business, and last minute quarantines and lock downs.

The WHO and Fauci and others are determined to manufacture a vaccine possibly by CCP and so want the demand to continue for the vaccine, ie keep all closed until the vaccine is available. It is a financial incentive for the CCP, the WHO, already identified as lying to the world and those with vaccine related investments such as Bill Gates. Vaccines sales contribute greatly to drug companies.

A lot of people educated in the preservatives, adjuvants, and additives of vaccines do not want thimerosal (mercury), aluminum, and formaldehyde, ingredients of vaccines, injected into their bodies. People need to develop self-immunity and they will with exposure, and support of the their immune system that will naturally defeat the virus.

The Bahamian economy needs to return and tourism was its main supporter.

Most enlightening -thanks.

Anyone familiar with American history would know that most Americans (white, black or whatever colour) would rather die than give up their freedom.

Too many Americans have made the ultimate sacrifice in wars and other global conflicts starting with the American War of Independence for the right to live free. It's just culturally ingrained in patriotic Americans to live free or die.

I suspect many right thinking patriotic Bahamians would also rather live free than revert to the days when their freedom was either very limited or did not exist.