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Economist says...

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?

Economist says...

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.

Economist says...

On the money, Tal.

Economist says...

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???

Economist says...

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.

Economist says...

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.

Economist says...

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.

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Economist says...

It is clear the PM has no idea of what he is doing.

What if you were planing to go tomorrow to get groceries as you have not been for a week?

I guess he believes that you can starve the virus.

How can you plan when he keeps dumping things on you?

You had better go out at every opportunity as you never know when he will do something stupid.

Economist says...

They won't test you until you are ready for hospital. By then it is too late for many.

Countries who have kept the death rate down test, test and test.

That way they can start to treat early on and avoid the hospital and
they can trace others early on who may have been incontact isolate them and those with it.

Low testing means a lot more Bahamians will die. Sad.

Locking us away will not do the job.

test, trace, treat

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Economist says...

I have been staying at home as you asked. Haven't been to the food store since the 19th but by the tone of your statement I need to panic a go try but out the food store now as it sounds that you are going to make that a major exercise of "begging and pleading justification" to go.

This is going from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I thought that the police were out there to stop people who were not supposed to be out.

So because you can't control 1,000 people you are going to punish all 400,000?

That's not leadership.