Shouldnt show people in that vulnerable state unless theyve given permission to capture their images. This could be extremely painful for families. Don't know what the solution is Bahamians have lost all sense of propriety. You would not want someone to do this to you if you were helpless and less than photograph ready.

Shame on Renward and Minnis for exacerbating this already bad situation for the sake of a vote. Completely avoidable. Its like Minnis just creates crisis after crisis so he can claim to solve them.

The country needed a hospital but the PLP and FNM built stadiums instead!!

Stupid does as stupid is..

Our governments' (mostly PLP) priority has always been "mine first". Unfortunately there's hardly anything left over for the people.

You do realize that since 1992, the FNM has been in power for 20 of the past 29 years, right?
Stop with the lazy PLP corrupt rhetoric.

People, please go get vaccinated or try harder to follow the established protocols and stop flirting with death. He's a fatal lover........stop putting yourselves in harm's way.

... it far more likely that people die from a calloused healthcare system than the disease itself. How many have been sent home because their symptoms were not severe enough and told to come back if they got worse.

WHY people are dying has to be investigated. The system may be contributing to their deaths!

Emergency orders got a F grade. More people have died. More families are grieving under emergency dis-orders. A million times more cases. Like Modi of India an election is called at the height of Covid. Guess we will be seeing mass Graves and burning bodies also after this failure of Hitler like dictitorial leadership is gone along with its slave like MPs. How could the Bahamas conquer Covid relying on outside advise only from foreign PAHO and their international one script fits all and not our native nurses and doctors on the ground whose opinions have been thrown into the trash from March 2020. This is now September 2021 and our Bahamian gov is yet to listen to Nurses And doctors on the ground. This is not New Zealand, k, Australia, Denmark, Iceland, India or Canada. But we are being sold on one universal script as though The Bahamas is not The Bahamas. All the above countries went into massive deaths, level 4 CDC travel no go zones. After vaccinations CDC demanded all vaccinated and vaccinated be tested for active Covid. Only our medical/political scientists lied that the vaccinated were free deadly folly that cost hundreds of lives.

Of course we could do better but instead of doing better, Minnis is blabbering about free lunches and Davis is rambling about minimum wage increases.

We do need a minimum wage increase - to argue this is to argue that the world is flat.
And, obviously you are blind - or simply obtuse - to the literally hundreds of kids who come to school without breakfast or lunch.
Pull your head out of you ass...for once.

Wow... you really need to learn to relax more. A pinch of common courtesy and respect for other opinions wouldn't hurt either.

A new hospital will be like a band-aid. The root causes of our diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, cancers, etc must be eliminated. Instead of putting monies into a new hospital those monies should be funneled into effective programs which will ensure that our foods and drinks are nutritious and are free of illness inducing poisons such as artificial flavors, artificial colors, preservatives, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, desiccants, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), plastic packaging that leech carcinogens into foods (these line tin cans too), fluoride in drinks and toothpaste, soy, canola, imported foods having high mold content (labelled for export only), poisonous (carcinogenic) hair and beauty products, and the worst insidious most addictive offender SUGAR (gets converted directly into fat and suppresses the immune system for hours)...etc... These poisons are slow acting and over time ruin our heath producing the so called dreaded comorbidities and the poisonous sugars and oils cause unmanageable obesity, so a proactive approach is required not a band-aid.

This is not the problem many seem to think it is. A doctor who worked at this clinic says they much preferred working outside and that it was the better option as it reduced the risk of transmission being outside versus a closed environment.

Not a problem? We were at 289 or so before July. We are noe at 446. Its the **exact** same scenario as July 2020. 100+ deaths immediately after they opened the border for tourist dollars. History will not be kind to this leader and his health minister

Oh, yes, I'm sure the doctors and patients just love being outside in pouring rain and thunderstorms like the ones we've had lately. Very safe, too.

THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU THAT THE THIRD WAVE HAS PEAKED WORLDWIDE! The curve has been bent and numbers are coming down. NO it did not have to get this bad in THE BAHAMAS. With the numbers they f people getting ill, having to be hospitalized and many dying. But the authorities, including your prime minister, threw caution to the wind and went on a vaccine campaign. Nothing wrong with that, per se, if you want to be vaccinated, but they seem to abandon all other safety measures opening the borders prematurely etc. they went on a brutal crusade against persons who didn’t want to take the vaccines. Now they planning to vaccinate school children as the wave has peaked and cases are declining. Why not keep the children home for a few more weeks, then see what happens. But if you plan to vaccinate your children and have older members In your family, ensure the older folk are also vaccinated because they now become vulnerable. The Bahamas numbers of new cases dropped by several hundred over the past few weeks. The focus besides vaccines (for them who want them) is to give urgent and quality care to those falling ill. The country and the economy is mostly open so either some type of immunity has set in (worldwide) and/or the virus ( at least the present strains) is making a retreat ( hopefully the last wave).

The issue is we do not have the means to give urgent and quality care to the high number of people falling ill. That is why prevention (vaccination, mask wearing, social distancing) is so important. We do not have the capacity to provide cure to hundreds, much less thousands of people at the same time.

I agree, incompetence would still rear its head if we had 3 people hospitalized. Its a complete disaster with 190. We've all heard the medical horror stories long before COVID. They need to stop pretending it doesn't exist and try to exercise some oversight over professionals who they must know shouldnt be trusted to practice on their own.

I fear Covid, with its many mutations, will become a part of our lives for many years to come. Just like the flu, it will be something people will have to deal with.

Civid soon gone. But there will be lasting effects. Many people left with long lasting effects and others with mental issues. Did the vaccines help or hinder the progress? The people who took them didn’t get seriously ill or die but they caused many, many others to contract the virus. Especially when they wandered around without masks and not being tested. But there’s now a light at the end of the tunnel. And the light is for everyone, vaccinated and unvaccinated. And yes there’s more distance to go. Keep your guard up.

Nothing the government can plan, implement, suggest, mandate, legislate .....can keep this virus out of your body......only you can do that. Keep yourself out of harm's way.....It's your responsibility to yourself. Stop waiting for the government's plan and make a safety plan for yourself.

Dr Anthony Fauci aka De Death, finally admitted , after much prodding, that persons who recovered from Covid and have antibodies DO NOT need to take the vaccines. They hardly ever get sick from Covid again. Their natural immunity is better than any that can be provided by a vaccine or a series of them. And the thin, surgical masks everyone is wearing provides little or no protection from the virus.

There is this video and there is common sense and self care. If our citizens and residents would just learn to be law abiding and learn how to follow rules and regulations perhaps they or their families would not have to be outside under a tent vulnerable to the elements. Just take a drive out to fish fry/Arawak Cay(with your windows up) and then talk about what the Govt is and is not doing regarding our hospital and the health care system. Also, take a drive past some of these restaurants/bars, notably one in particular on Harold Road and tell me then what you think. Our hospital has been in shambles since I was a child and NO Gov't that came in power has made any consistent effort to upgrade the facility, keep it upgraded, pay the nurses and doctors a reasonable salary, kept them motivated and it certainly isn't happening now. This video only speaks to the lack of discipline that our people have and the little regard for their families. Stop gathering in groups partying ,stop taking the virus home to your elders. Wear your mask, wash your hands, social distance and stop placing the blame for these outbreaks any where other than in the mirror looking at yourself.

Yes but...most of the non pharmaceutical prevention methods you just mentioned - social distancing, masks (particularly cloth masks and with exception to n95s) - have been shown to be utterly ineffective in light of the fact COVID is airborne disease. This is ultimately more about the failure of the Bahamian health care system and national practices around diet and health, than the 'deadliness' of covid or the behaviour of it's citizens (plus seasonality)...

Compare deaths per million:

Sweden - no masks, no vax mandates, no curfews, no lockdowns..
Israel - masks, vaccine mandates, curfews, 80% vaxxed
Bahamas - masks, school closures, curfews, school closed

Look at the outcomes - underlying health and health care of the nation have more to do with COVID mortality that any restrictions or preventive measures a nation can prescribe...

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co…

In this country the government get the blame for when ya get sick, can't pay ya bills, house not repaired, don't have house insurance, when ya car broke down, no food in the house, can't feed ya children, the hotel close, when ya can't get a job.. when the power company executives don't honor the union agreement, when a snap election call, when a hurricane trash ya house... did I miss anything? We as Bahamians need to start takin responsibility for our failures. In this instance for more than a year we all knew what would happen if we didn't take precautions with this covid ting, we didn't. Them old people does say when ya can't hear you will feel.

No government could fix this.

Before the vaccines, the world was doing a great job in controlling bathe virus, and keeping deaths low. The United States was one of the few countries, pre-vaccines, that were not able to bend its curves and see its numbers of new cases and deaths decrease. But the nature of Americans is they live their freedom snd their ability to move around, do as they feel and travel as they please. The million dollars plus in fines for passengers violating travel and safety regulations during the pandemic is testament of this. So when news came about that a vaccine was now available that will help bring your life back to normalcy in a short time, many Americans took the vaccines, because, for them, it was the best option. And it could have been the speedway on the road back to normalcy, except those in authority, who were supposed to be competent discarded most of the other protocols and safety measures and worshipped the vaccines as GGid and Savior. And those refusing the vaccines were regarded ad unfit infidels who were not worthy to enter the kingdom of the recovered. The new world of order, where the unvaccinated were not only not welcome , but would find it nay impossible to function. The vaccines were not mandatory until one tried to function. And even today, even after the manufacturers concede that the vaccines alone cannot get us out the pandemic and the efforts to vaccinate everyone was in error. Recovered persons have the best and natural immunity to the virus , never mind he mutations and will pay a key and vital role in achieving herd immunity and causing the virus to recede. Yet in this country and other parts of the world, unvaccinated people are treated as modern day lepers and persons who recovered from the virus and do not take the vaccines are simple idiots. The prime minister says no time to research and find out more about the vaccines , just roll up ya sleeve and take the jab. And maybe that’s what he is doing: RUSHING BAHAMIANS to take the vaccines, that does not cure or eliminate the virus, without having a clear understanding or policy for vaccinations. Not for the medium bterm when the vaccines start to wear off and definitely not fit the long term.