Minnis knows that locking the country down would be political suicide with an election less than a year out, so he is taking his gamble now to try for another 5 years where he can do whatever he wants without having to worry about the opinion of the Bahamian people. He had better watch out that his gamble doesn't back fire.

Normally I would agree with you, but nobody thought that Christie was going to lose Centreville in 2017 either. Killarney is drawn up to be a safe FNM seat, but I wouldn't be shocked if the turnout for the FNM was so low that Minnis joins Christie to become the second PM disgraced enough to be booted out of Parliament when losing government. Voter frustration is extremely high right now.

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Terming something a "vaccine" implies that there is an immunity being granted. Can I expect to develop polio if I take the polio vaccination? What about hep A or B? It is quite clear that these treatments do not prevent someone from catching or transmitting COVID. Whether it makes COVID more bearable is another discussion, but the fact is that we are still back to square one with masks, social distancing, etc. Minnis was very clearly wrong when he insinuated that the pandemic was "over" for those who had taken the shots. Even what the federal government of Canada is doing makes no sense. Someone who has taken the shots can still easily infect those around them in the confines of an airplane, so there is zero practical purpose for saying that those who have refused the shots should not be able to fly (at least from a transmission POV).

Agreed with you that medical advancements can save millions of lives, but there is a flip side of that coin as well. Nobody realized that asbestos was harmful until millions of people had inhaled more than enough to kill them, in many cases right from their own homes. I am sure that millions of people died from cancer before people realized that there was a correlation with tobacco smoking. Same with how not many realized how CFCs destroy the ozone layer. Point is that we end up learning a lot of things as we go. I think that a big problem with how governments are handling this is that they are not willing to admit that. Grasping for straws and being proven wrong afterwards (like how Minnis was with his the pandemic is over comments) only serves to make the governments world wide look bad.

Not what you may have meant, but even something like the TV has had unforeseen effects on society. Think about how many people spend all day in front of some kind of screen, and then correlate that with the rising rates of mental illness we are seeing. All of this artificial light only disturbs the circadian rhythm and prevents us from getting our proper rest. Thinking about how we live compared to the history of our ancestors who were here for thousands of years before us shows that we are truly living in a world unlike any other. I would go as far as to say that, in most cases, we are not living the way our bodies were designed too. The amount of caffeine, plus so little (especially REM) sleep that we have today as a collective is no doubt playing a role in a lot of the mental issues that we are seeing crop up in recent years. Pretty deep when you start to think about it.

Will answer your question with a question. Can you still catch and transmit COVID even after your two shots (or one, depending on what you are taking)?

Don't give me any of that BS about muh milder symptoms, I remember quite clearly having to spend the majority of last year wearing a mask everywhere because of "asymptomatic" cases being constantly mentioned in the typical fear porn media fashion. It is funny how the narrative has shifted from anyone around you could have COVID and not show it, to you are all of a sudden going to die unless you get injected with some mystery concoction in a year.

To clarify, I have no problem with anyone deciding to take whatever they want, everyone is responsible for their own life decisions, I just feel that nobody should be bloody forced to. We have no idea of what the long term outcomes will look like with these treatments. God forbid they ever cause adverse long term effects (it may or may not, we don't know), who will foot the bill from a mandate? Who is willing to accept liability now? No one so far.

While you are on such a long diatribe, tell me how many of you doctors own pharmacies? I bet that your mouth is shut on that one.

Don't worry, a filthy "unvaxxed" (quotes because this is very clearly not a vaccine) person like me would not seek out your services even if I were dying. Once upon a time, I went to a doctor for insomnia and left hooked on benzodiazepines. At no point in time was I ever warned that they were an addictive substance and should only be prescribed for a maximum of two weeks; on the contrary, I ended up taking them as instructed for several years until one day I missed a dose and ended up going through withdrawals. It was only then that I realized what a mess that I was in. Through nearly a year of the Ahston method, I was able to taper down to the point where I was able to get off. My personal Hell had just begun at that point. It took nearly half a year for my body/mind to even adjust to regular life again. Insomnia, the shakes, muscle spasms, horrible paresthesia, and only God knows whatever else plagues me during that time. I remember one night just lying on the floor shaking uncontrollably. It took six months, but God willing I got better. It was the biggest eye-opener for me on the medical industry that I could have ever went through.

Whether your god-complex will allow you to admit it or not, you people are human just like everyone else. You have no bloody clue on what the long term outcomes of this treatment may be, but you have no problem chastising and deriding others because they want to protect their health first. If there are adverse long term effects of this treatment, people like you will certainly not help any one suffering through it. I have every God given right to decide what I do/do not want to put into my body, and I refuse to feel pressured into compromising that right by anyone else.

Trust me, I wouldn't visit you even if I were dying. As Gadhafi said, you people "create the problems, and then sell the cure". Go let me know how many of you own pharmacies across the country and get back to me. I haven't been to a doctor in years, and I thank God for my good health. Bush medicine, or if I am really sick, an Advil, is the way to go. It has kept me through for years, and I have no intentions of ever changing that any time soon.

Still waiting on that Freedom of Information Act. Still waiting on term limits. Still waiting on the recall system. Still waiting on VAT not to be raised. Still waiting on the Spy Bill to be scrapped. I can literally turn to any page of the 2017 FNM manifesto and point to something that did not get accomplished, or even worse, was a bold faced lie.

Everyone thought that Minnis was going to be the second coming of Ingraham, but instead we ended up with Christie 2.0. I hope the coming blowout brings the FNM back to the "its a matter of trust" days, instead of the current gravy train operation that they have going on.

It amazes me that Minnis would have the audacity to criticize Bahamians for rightfully being skeptical of what the government says when he has failed to give us a single reason to ever trust him, or the FNM, ever again.

What happened to not raising VAT? Scrapping the Spy Bill? Term limits? Recall system? Freedom of information act? Elimination of no-bid contracts? I could go on and on.

Minnis and the stooges in the FNM need to take a good look in the mirror to realize why the Bahamian people don't want to hear anything that they have to say. I have been a lifelong FNM and I can tell you that this is the worst FNM administration that I have ever seen. They are only marginally better than the previous Christie government. You know that you have failed as a government when Brave friggin Davis is more than likely going to be the next Prime Minister.

If someone is believed to be at the center, why don't they just go and look? The truth of this story is probably stranger than the fiction around it.

How many of these alleged 8000 involve being a member of the civil service, or are being paid for indirectly with taxpayer money/concessions to corporations. Would be interesting to know how many millions in taxpayer money have been spent on election time employment numbers fixing in the past couple of decades. Nope, let's never question where our tax money gets pissed away, lets just keep destroying the economy with more taxes on top of a ludicrous cost of living.

Bahamian politicians could not run a popsicle stand without going bankrupt.

These government flunkies love to talk about a new tax on this, or raising taxes on that, but it is funny that we never hear anything about not pissing away the money that they do manage to collect. Doesn't matter, the hole is dug far too deep to ever escape from now.