Some folks live in cramped quarters. They do not have air condition circulation in the air.
Lockdowns are hard for poor people. they suffer most from lockdowns. It is hard for them but they must suffer through it obey the law.

It makes no sense to lose one's life or to be locked away because of fines they can not
pay.

God does hear the cries of the poor cry out to him.

@ B / S - But you're not offering any possible solution to the crisis as far as I.can tell. If the 'poor' should not be locked away, it appears that you would rather they be allowed free to roam the island at will? By your logic, we would all (yourself included) then end up either poor or dead.

The poor suffer most from lockdowns. Fair enough. You know what would make them suffer even more? Suffocating to death in an overcrowded hospital among strangers, no friends or family allowed.

The first half of this editorial is most depressing thing I have ever ready...We are actually living in a propagandist state. The fact that the tribune is advocating to convince people that it's good to inform on them is shocking...No it's not the same as a house on fire. We talking poorly understood virus and a policy that empirically and scientifically has been shown to be infective and possibly worse the disease it's self. We are talking about the Bahamas being supposed democratic free state that has been converted into a Medical Dictorship without the slightest bit of evidence, or more pointedly has merely used the excuse that many other countries around the world have made the same mistake - robbing person's freedoms for months, crushing their jobs, crushing their businesses and a destroying their moral. I wish the tribune would actually do some investigating and actually challenge the status quo. They actually have a wealth of info in house -Tally up obituaries see if there has actually been an uptick in deaths for example...ask difficult questions of the medical professionals that seem blind to the increase crime, and diagnostic slowdowns or that it is now well established that there is no good reason to keep children out of schools as around the globe and in USA - guess what surprise - schools are not a source of super spreading the virus.

@whogothere - very well put. We are only at the beginning of the worldwide lockdown. Our owners are getting us used to being confined until they are ready to implement the next phase. Until then restrictions of our movements will increase along with other deprivations. Under those conditions snitching helps their agenda.

Couldn't agree more, but The Tribune's owners are a well entrenched part of the white(r) Bahamian ruling elite who love to do nothing more than pit one Bahamian against another as they go about living the good life on the backs of us oppressed and downtrodden Bahamians who are darker than they are.

I agree with a lot of what you have to say Trib but it makes me sick when you have to bring up the race card. Xenophobia has excluded white ideas and influence from this countries politics for 50 years. Minnis hates white people and doesn't listen to anyone (white or black) so how is it white people's fault that Papa Lock Dock wants us (human beings) to report our neighbor for breaking curfew ??

it's snitching. Its exactly like the SS program employed by the Nazis convincing people that everybody else was the enemy. The funny thing is noone ever believe their "little" "white" infraction is so bad. I know someone who was constantly talking about *these hard head bahamians*, but when they needed their hair wash in May they pick up the hairdresser, rules wasnt so important anymore.

We are focusing too much energy on y'all can't listen propogabda. Its the responsible people who are spreading the virus. We had the nurses getting sick, policemen getting sick, DEFENCE force getting sick. Go put some rules on those people. Then go develop a program to test everyone cause we could be finding 100 and 200 positives per day for the next year and a half. and don't for a minute bekieve that once you open the border you've won the battle, EVERY country has demonstrated, EVERY ONE, opening the border releases a fresh spike on infections. Go deal with that.

Listen. And don't be surprised. We've been here before

@ThisIsOurs - The test isn't what you are being told it is. The more testing done the greater amount of positives found. The testing is the tool being used to justify us being under house arrest and soon starvation. Doctors in other countries are risking their careers to give us the truth; don't fall for the misinformation.

"*The more testing done the greater amount of positives found.*"

True! that's my point. We could be here for another year. Systematically test everyone, quarantine the infected **properly** then get a real plan together for 3000 possibly infected people per week offboarding at the cruise terminal downtown

TPTB say that the tested dna fragment is from covid. Doctors are saying that the dna fragment is found in many other organisms and is normal to the human body. That is why the test measures the quantity of the fragments after replication since we all have it. Which is why you can test positive today, then negative tomorrow, then positive the day after ad infinitum. Covid is only a cover for something else.

Snitching of the kind The Tribune is talking about is what dictators demand of their oppressed citizenry in a police state. The Tribune's owners should be ashamed of themselves endorsing Minnis's creation of a police state that will see the wrongful (unconstitutional) imprisonment of the poorest and most downtrodden in our society. Just how evil can The Tribune's owners be as they sip their late afternoon pool side cocktails in their gated communities like Lyford Cay??!!

Sounds awfully like the dreaded CDR (Comite para la defensa de la revolucion) organization in Cuba under the Castro brothers. Most people feel somewhat uncertain about informing on others. Of course, we are told that in this instance it is a good and laudable act. Problem is, no government will step down and admit that the spread of the virus cannot be stopped. Only time will see it fade away gradually. What condition our poor country will be in by that time is best left to the imagination. What a nightmare!

Wat lives matter

What the hell are.you people.talking about? All of Europe is shut down to some.degree. they are marching against lockdowns in England, Germany has imposed restrictions, italy , Spain and France are closing Bars at a certain hour , more restrictions, New York has closed private and public schools in certain areas, Toronto has closed Gyms, indoor dining , cinemas for the next 28 days! Where the hell do you get racism and this great white conspiracy? You people need to stop looking at everything through white and black. I guess the white man wants to keep the white man down in Canada, Spain, France, England and Germany. Good grief!!

@bahamianson - read what one of their best minds had to say. Bertrand Comparet was a brilliant lawyer turned preacher. https://comparet.christogenea.org/sermo…
This is the heart of the matter.

Great editorial. Thank you Editor for having the integrity to publish what will obviously be an unpopular t truth. I will happily report any selfish covid 19 spreading groups who consider themselves too special to obey the law.

start with the parliamentarians who refused to quarantine until after more of their numbers fell ill. Can't be more selfish than that

Bingo !

The tribune should not need to recruit any snitches. The Condominium Cathys so common in the Bahamas need some entertainment. So long as the report is anonymous.

But I will only call crime stoppers if I get a reward. They pay more than the food vouchers.

Hitler said it wasn’t snitching, it was saving the race.

Can’t we all just get along? I saw this woman go in the food store this pre- lockdown weekend. And she took gloves out her bag and put them on. Then a ppe goen and put that on. Then protective covers for her shoes and put those on. And she went about her business through the store shopping drawing little or no attention. Then there were other shoppers, they had their masks on but they still can like inches within beach other. Going into the deli section, the three staff there were in a hurdle sharing a joke among themselves. Then going to the cashier, the packing boys were crowded in a group waiting for their turn to pack groceries. Is it really just lack of education and information and proper guidance that is helping to spread this virus? Not because you work together means you are safe with each other and don’t need to practice social distancing and safety measures. Then they go home to their respective houses and families and again get in close proximity