So was there a Surge of bahamians rushing to get vaccinated before the drop off? yes, there was . Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Christmas sales. Vaccines will protect thee in crowded stores, yes they will. People who planned to travel to the US after the ‘must be vaccinated,’ law came into effect? Yes there was. We’re there a large number of persons getting vaccinated before and during the election campaigning because they wanted to campaign or even took it to vote? Yes there was. And also a lot of people returning to work in the hotel, tourism or transportation industry. So now there’s vaccines fatigue and vaccine hesitancy. And as the numbers of vaccinated persons increases, the number of persons left to be vaccinated will decrease so the persons showing up to get vaccinated will decrease. So if Dr Darville doesn’t want the vaccines to expire and go to waste here’s two suggestions. One go offer the vaccines to the illegal immigrant population. Yes try to at least….for certain which will be met with hesitancy. Then start offering third doses to Bahamians still anxious to become Fauci’s little guinea piglets.

A fourth wave is in progress even now. BUT thus far it is only affecting highly vaccinated countries that never got their third wave under control and countries that have taken booster shots and are now seeing high numbers of breakthrough cases. The fourth wave is usually fueled by some unusual event like a parade that involves a large population. What government should now be doing is reinforcing the safety protocols and ensuring that everyone is following them. Promote not only the vaccines but ALL the protocols. CHANGE established protocol that Covid patients requiring medical care but not critical care does not have PMH as the first alternative but are more effectively isolated. monitor those who are supposed to be in quarantine even more closely and physically detain those who willfully violate quarantine without reasonable cause. Fauci says the Covid will disappear in a few months and a new strain of the seasonal cold and flu will appear. Of course this will again mean new vaccines.

Banks have always been using The Bahamas and other Caribbean nations for cash cows. High interests rates and fees on loans and bank services and low or no interest rates on deposits.

No that’s not a new one. Been happening for years. Sometimes the boat bring the boats to the Bahamas and sell them dirt cheap, then try collect insurance. After the insurance companies started requiring that boats have tracking devices in order to be insured, it slowed down. But if a local Bahamian was caught with a 1/4 million sports fishing boat, how could he explain that he only paid $20-$30 for it? So some bought the boats, stripped them off their engines and dumped the hull. Now the engines are also required to have tracking devices.

This ‘fourth wave’ or spike only seems to be hitting certain countries thus far. These seem to be countries that were having difficulties bringing the third wave under control and/or went on and gave third doses of the vaccines. The number of breakthrough cases seems to be greater amongst people who took the third dose. And hopefully this ‘fourth wave’ will be nothing more than a ripple and will soon disappear. Keep your masks on, wash hands, sanitize and social distance. The country is 95% open and the cases are at their lowest in months. Together we can!

Much of what happens in this economy will depend on how effectively Joe Biden is able to manage the US economy and , in the more distance, what happens in China that is also in a financial crisis and facing a possible collapse of its economy. Currently there is no recession! In fact the US and many countries around the world are facing a shortage of workers and a shortage of goods and services. This is leading to increasing wages and also increasing costs of goods and services. This is good in the short term and The Bahamas most be strict, quick acting and focused on fixing its debt problems in the short term. This will be even more achievable if Joe Biden gets his stimulus and restructuring programs going. More money will flow and people will spend more. Tourism will boom. But eventually the economy will burn up as inflation spirals out of control. Or if the bottom falls out of the Chinese economy. By this time, which can be a matter of months to a year, The Bahamas should not only have fixed its debt problem, but increased its ability to grow and supply food. The energy supply should have been stabilized and rates secured for another several years. Bahamians should be advised against overspending during the boom, that will be short lived. In fact they should be encouraged to be frugal and continue to grow some of their own food.

There’s much more behind the devaluation of the Jamaican dollar than the economy. It was done because Jamaica refused to cooperate in America’s FAKE ‘war on drugs.’ And there are some strong benefits from Jamaican dollar being devalued.

And the protocols still fall to advise people, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated to exercise extra precautions and safety measures when visiting the elderly and persons with pre-existing conditions. And persons going to the PMH for non-Covid related illnesses. Make it your last option as many have gone there are contracted Covid and died. Sadly and unfortunately it was mostly elderly people who caught the virus post vaccinations and during the Delta wave, and also persons who caught it from their spouses or other family members. The battle is not yet over and authorities in this country must continue to monitor what is going on in countries like The UK(especially) Russia, the Ukraine and other countries that are still seeing surges. Especially as another busy travel season approaches.

There seems to be a new wave of Covid underway worldwide. It is too soon to say whether this will just be a ripple or if it will develop into something major. But one of the most notable things about it is it appears to be affecting highly vaccinated countries more. Countries like Russia, the UK, Ukraine. Most of the less vaccinated countries are, like The Bahamas, still experiencing a downward spiral in new cases and a lagging decline in deaths. Some have never experienced the level of deaths experienced in tThe Bahamas and other countries. And some countries are reporting increase breakthrough cases after a third dose of the vaccine. The missteps that were made that caused increased hospitalizations and corresponding deaths were more due to the mishandling of vaccines more than anything else. It is a very cheap and petty shot to attempt to blame this woman’s death on unvaccinated people.

When government debt increases it will eventually cause the standard of living of the people in that country to decline. As the debt increases government must now allocate more and more of its revenue to servicing debt so less and less goes towards providing goods and services and may also have to increase taxes to help raise revenue. Some goods and services may not be available and inflation due to increased taxes may make many goods and services unavailable to the general population. The fact is that many of the more affluent countries of the world find themselves in this situation. Some are not worried about paying existing debt but continue to borrow money for the country to function. But eventually somewhere in the near future there is a financial cliff or a brick wall that it may be near impossible to bounce back from. Some feel the US economy will be among the countries that experience a financial collapse and the US dollar will become irrelevant in the international market. Obviously if The Bahamas continue to hang on tourism for life support then the story is already told. A country that supplies very little of its food will have very little options.