"*CONSULTANT Physicians Staff Association President Dr Sabriquet Pinder Butler said it is “mind-boggling” that some people who have contracted COVID-19 are still reporting to work and not properly isolating themselves*"

**its not "mind boggling", when you have to make the decision between eating and not eating, or your children not eating, its not mind boggling at all.**

The blindness of the well off to the plight of the poor hasnt changed in 100 years. Wrote this comment back in May 1 2020 to the Tribune's story on thd Decameron:

"*Hmmm the article on the Decameron, stories around the black plague (1918) and how **wealth versus poverty resulted in different outlooks and different health results was very interesting**.*

*The poor people were relegated to their cramped disease spreading environs while the wealthy ran to their remote estates. Both entertained themselves over the period, the poor because they were going to die anyway, the rich to pass the time. The poor had to work to eat despite the threat of infection, some even had to take care of infected wealthy employers a virtual death sentence. There was also something about the inability of the wealthy to understand the plight of the poor during the period. "Why all them people on the line..why they dont go to the ATM? In the foodstore again??..and they even een buy a trolley full of grocery...they cant shop for 2 weeks and stay home"?*

*The parallels are uncanny..*

**Rather than chastising people for wondering when their next dollar will come in, ask them first why they have the concern. Do they need rent paid? Do they need food? Electricity paid etc etc. Take a holistic approach to the solution. Because I can assure you, for minimum wage persons who need their job, living to the next day or eating will take precedence over any microscopic organism**

If anything the pandemic revealed doctors to be heartless and cruel people.

I once visited a doctor who ripped me off. But had promised a discount. She took sixty dollars off my bill but the visit was almost 700 dollars. I told her I had no insurance. Her response was: you are working, you ought to have insurance.

Heartless bitch. I paid her. But I will die before I go to her again.

... not all, I heard about someone who treated a number of people for free!

I legitimately wish that we can put people like that doctor on minimum wage, and ask them to balance their budget to include health insurance.

This is most of the problem with this country : the political class is completely out of touch with the reality that your average Bahamian lives in. Look at Minnis, he was completely shocked that he lost (and still cannot comprehend the reality that no one is on his run).

Well, have you ever heard of contact tracing? Performed by a neutral party.

Also some will go to work because they cannot afford to stay home. Thus is an area what shows contact tracers could work on.

Do you all tell people to tell others of concern that they have AIDS OR GONORHEA?

My responsibility stops when isolating during disease and telling employer. I will not be walking around telling people I had Covid.

Wasnt it Gilbert Morris who said pandemics are a social problem? Understand your society. Why are they concerned abiut work?

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CONSULTANT Physicians Staff Association President Dr Sabriquet Pinder Butler said it is “mind-boggling” that some people who have contracted COVID-19 are still reporting to work and not properly isolating themselves.
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. When this pandemic first began the world expressed shock and horror when videos of Chinese police surfaced whipping and threatening to shoot some Chinese citizens who had violated their quarantine. Today many understand why as China, being the first country experiencing the Covid virus, still remains the country most able to manage and control the disease.
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Once a person tests positive for the virus, they are required to stay home and isolate unless they become ill and have to be hospitalized. All the members of that household are also required to remain at home and food, medicine and other essentials are brought to that home and all outgoing matter is collected by teams properly protected. Everything s sprayed down and sanitized before leaving the property. And if there are indications that the virus has spread beyond that household, then the entire neighborhood is put on lockdown. And the lockdown is either increased to include more homes or decreased as data indicate. No unauthorized persons are allowed to enter or leave the area. Here in this country, persons are after testing positive, persons are told to go home and isolate. Take tyronal if they start to feel ill. And so they are not just isolated, but abandoned. And many have no other choice but to go to work, go shopping or doing other chores. And so the pandemic escalated. But at least now the numbers are declining. Some sort of immunity had set in and no, no it is not the vaccines. At least not the vaccines alone because the decline in nee cases and deaths is also occurring amongst least vaccinated countries

I never knew doctors had these communist thoughts in their heads.

i assume thats a joke Jack. She's not a communist or evil. She deserves our thanks for her contribution, her words were just not thought through, I make the same mistake at times.

No. It's not a joke and i wonder what excuses you people will come up with as the shelves continue to get more and more empty, resembling communist countries .... but of course it wont be communism right? Maybe we should had empty shelves long time since they are so wonderful.
Dont think they are wonderful? Watch the news a month from now and you will he told why they are.

Im lost as to your point... but I dont have to watch the news a month from now. Ive been wondering for years about the decline of our society should food ever become a rare commodity. Abaco got a glimpse of it, but only a brief glimpse.

In this country, money greases the wheel. The State can't take care of everyone. Most of the 60% who are in or near poverty either work, beg or steal to earn a daily meal or die trying. It's a vicious cycle out there. A rich doctor cannot identify with that reality.

I doubt Dr Butler is rich .They dont pay physicians hefty salaries at PMH. She probably deserves an award fir her selfless contribution over the psndemic.

My point was the objective of isolation is great and advisable but think holistically about how to accomplish that. Whether its making sure people have basic needs met or properly monitoring so you dont have abuse. If you (general) fail on either dont blame the people.