They don't have to because they have a very high ratio of testing and have a good grip on the spred of the virus. Look at the ratios.

Last week Cayman Islands had 45,000 test available at cost.

They have 65,000 people and 100,000 tests for themselves in addition to ones for sale.

How can the PM expect us, the people, to take all his long winded speeches on the seriousness for the lockdown when he doesn't take COVID 19 seriously himself?

We need some real leadership to deal with this crisis.

We need people who understand how to handle COVID 19 and , like Germany, Isreal, Iceland, understand that testing combined with a lockdown is the only way to defeat it.

You make a lot of sense.

Wow, Cayman has their act together! To think that The Bahamas was so far ahead of the Cayman in the seventies, what happened?

How is it that Bermuda and Barbados already have arrainged for supplies and we are still talking?

We must test. The lockdowns are only buying us time. Time to test.

If we don't test the lockdown will have to go for several months.

On the money, Tal.

Is this man mad??? First, without warning you tell everyone to wear a mask. Then, before production is organized or even started in a meaningful way, you, without warning, stop the importation of masks.
So how are you supposed to get ready made masks when there are not enough locally?

So having forced us all together by shorting the food store days from 7 to only five and reducing the hours, except for Thursday, you now make it impossible for us to get masks

Man, you can't be serious about the health of Bahamians.

Do you have an interest in a funeral home, hospital, or cemetary???

The US, through its President, is showing that it is no longer a reliable friend and ally to anyone.

The Bahamas needs to look to strenghten relations with countries like Canada.

In the future, when Donald Trump wants support at the United Nations for something we can feel free to vote how we want. Not vote with the US as we did, much to the consternation of many other countries, on the vote for Israel 30 years ago.

Thank you Dr. Sands for telling us the truth about how deadly this virus is to Bahamains in particular.

Thank you for explaining why many more Bahamians will die from this, than those in other countries, because of the huge number of underlying health issues that Bahamians have.
You are giving us a better understanding as to why it is so important that we remain at home and are very careful about social distancing.

40% of us have 3 or more underlying issues. We know from the news reports that just a single underlying issue can be deadly with this virus. We see a large number of Afro-Americans dying in the US. They are dying in dispraportionate numbers because of undrlying health issues such as the ones we have 3 or more of.

Times of crisis define leadership. It would appear that there are very few leaders who planned.

Countries where the death rate is low, on a per capita basis, include South Kores, Singapore, Israel, Canada, and Germany (who has done more testing per capita than France, Spain and the UK combined.

Luxembourg has the a very low drath rate, probably because it as tested more people per capita than any other country.

These lockdowns won't help much unless we test, test and test.