this nonsensical 7PM again. Exactly when are persons who work 9-5 supposed to get anything done. Does noone remember the traffic jams as people rushed to get home before 7? Nobody? And more businesses are open now.

"*these weekend 24-hour lockdowns, only essential services, including the uniformed branches, customs and immigration departments, public health services, sanitation services and essential utility services will be permitted to operate.*"

remember it was the essential services that spread the post july-1 infections.

It's like we can't learn

But people from Nassau can still fly to the Family Islands. And, thank god that Covid only works on weekends. I think all the people of The Bahamas firstly want consistency and sensibility. These are lacking, and have been lacking in the government's response. What is abundantly clear however, is that The Bahamas is failing in both the government response, as well as, the intelligent and compassionate response required of the entire population. Point at whoever you choose, but this is a failure. And yes, this is a result of a failed education, schools, churches, and homes alike.

Yes, how clever of them to have the airport open all weekend fully staffed with customs, immigration, police, security, and essential baggage handlers to accommodate all those traveling Nassuvians who are locked down and all those family islanders who will be flocking to Nassau's COVID environment.

Two weeks ago, it was **"Abaco - nobody cares if you go to beach after 10pm"**. Now it's double fines if breach health protocols...This is just a disgusting abuse of power. And ignores his past failures and reinvents them as success... **Ya lockdowns don't work!!** And treating this country like your personal emotional yo-yo is un becoming as our a leader. Minnis if you're following the science then please share the science of banning open access to beaches, forcing people to stay inside and punitively coercing people's freedoms. Show us the science behind cloth mask actually working for a airborne virus. Explain to us how allowing people to go to air-conditioned churches to sing makes any sense when that is precisely the activity linked to super spreading events. Dude you are soooooo making this up as you go along, which I (to be fair) get, but please at least get the fundamentals right... **Low risk of transmission from surfaces, low risk from outdoor activities, high risk form air-conditioned indoor group activities, low risk to working age population, low risk to children, High Risk to persons of 65 and up or with serious co-morbidities..**. Your response to this go to church and then everybody pile into the house with Grandma! Jeez dude...
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Fun fact: Around 2500 people die in the bahamas every year, thats around 200 per month, around 7 per day..Most of them from exactly the same things that put them at risk from COVID19...

Please someone pass this on to the government:

South African Data Analysts: Lockdown Will Lead to 29 Times More Deaths Than Coronavirus:

https://summit.news/2020/05/05/south-af…

Leaked Study From Inside German Government Warns Lockdown Could Kill More People Than Coronavirus:

https://summit.news/2020/05/12/leaked-s…

Study: Lockdown “Will Destroy at Least Seven Times More Years of Human Life” Than it Saves:

https://summit.news/2020/05/26/study-lo…

Be careful with "studies". You can present a study that says that typing your opinion here can have a negative impact on your life. People have presented studies that made some outrageous points in the past. Also, there would be studies that show a contradictory position.

When reading studies try to follow if it makes sense logically. This last one you referenced here, how do they confirm that a lockdown today will destroy years of a person's life. In order to actually determine future impact, you check persons years later not at the instant of the event.

I agree with you True Bahamian, you can find a study to prove that the earth is square if you look hard enough. The last people we should be relying on are the " Experts". They have gotten it wrong every week. All we should say at this point is , " This is what we know ". Everyday people are qouting Experts like it means something with the Novel Corona Virus.

How about you find a study that proves that total population lockdowns have ever been previously tried before in human history, let alone are successful ways to respond to an airborne respiratory pathogen. The truth is that the CCP invented total lockdowns in January 2020 and we have all followed this marxist tomfoolery as if it's based on established scientific law. I do agree with you regarding study bias but these new studies are the "science" and they are not painting a pretty picture re. the long term reduction of harm

*Further restrictions mean the only other movement during weekend lockdowns beside essential services, will be for one hour of worship services on Saturdays and Sundays between the hours of 7am and 1pm.*

So everyone in Nassau will now say on Saturday and Sunday they going to church. This is madness.What's the point of a lockdown that's not a lockdown catering to the church?

It's 3 days folks, 3 lousy days.... less than any other island punishment, and Nassau has more cases...I guess its ok to punish other islands with lockdowns for 2 and 3 weeks, but bypass Nassau, the one with the nastiest count... we need to see the numbers on the chart for what it is

Idiot !

People are up in arms because those 3 days will do nothing. If he was serious he would lockdown hard for two weeks (i do not agree with this), but to lockdown for 3 days and then back to normal is stupid. But that is pretty much all this PM has shown since around June time.

I'm still wondering how did Minnis have the audacity last week to say the pandemic was nearing it's end in the Bahamas when Nassau was racking up 100+ cases and a death every day!

I continue to say this, but Minnis continues to make himself look even more stupid, something I didn't think was possible!

Listening to trump.

Totally unconstitutional !

Minnis is exercising powers of the most severe kind that could only be given to him by the people through a duly held national referendum.

He has become fixated and obsessed with doing whatever he wants to us. If he can shut your buiness down, he can take your property away from you. Think of what's coming if Bahamians remain docile and tolerate this nonsense. The man is not protecting us from Covid-19 but rather using it to cover up his incompetence and inability to govern. He should never have been elected and should not be allowed to remain in office.

First some definitions (not exclusive) on reasoning which is the only tool we have to understand our dilemma:

-Inductive reasoning is a measurable aptitude for how well a person can identify a pattern within a large amount of data.

-Deductive reasoning is reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect).

-Intuitive reasoning is the faculty of apprehending a priori truths or principles.

Our major questions seem to be focused on "when will we return to normal", but how can we if the world is not normal. The clues are all around us and you have to look at what is going on with countries and governments worldwide then look at our government's history of telling the truth and being honest. In a conversation with another you can gather a lot of information from what is not said and body language. Obviously the government is not saying many things and its actions (body language) speak for it. Since governments worldwide are synchronized in their handling of an event, then it immediately infers organization and control. This small point would be argued and misconstrued by some as the rulers have indoctrinated the masses with misinformation and disinformation; all serving to confuse reasoning and limit understanding of the true reality.

Where do you find this "reasoning" thang?

And it will only get worse with AI.

...and still neither Minnis nor his HOA or Senate puppets have taken a reduction in salary while "piling on the pain" to the rest of the country, excepting the precious civil servants. They continue to borrow like there is no tomorrow, becoming further and further beholden to the Big Banks and the Global Monsters, all the while continuing to suck the "consolidated fund" dry and setting themselves up to be financially secure for their lifetimes. This is a sad and sick global trend in many advanced countries. The global "pandemic" was like a stroke of genius for all the callous bloodsuckers around the world. They may be a bunch of criminal, seemingly blundering yoyos, but it is all about power and money which has corrupted this lot beyond redemption. So, yes, Minnis and his merry band of thieves must go, before they declare a one party government, and no, we don't want the former band of thieves back either.

Jah know. Dis bredda is more incompetent than Baby Doc.

Our PM has lost his way. It is time for him to go - and go fast! Let me get this right. This rudderless government wants visitors to produce a negative COVID test on arrival, which I can accept, but then you have to be tested again on arrival, and tested a 3rd time some days later??? So why would a visitor go through all of that to visit the Bahamas??? For what??? The beautiful waters and the warm, friendly people??? Ain’t happenin.’ How stupid is that??? You’d have to be an idiot to go through all that.

The Bahamas is about to self destruct and this lockdown BS, open, close, open, close is going to be worse than the virus! Mark my word! It will take the BROKE Bahamas many years to pull out of the economic destruction. You all better learn to fish and grow cassava!