Not just the lockdowns, but fear, uncertainty and stress. Bahamians are use to being locked down during hurricanes but not to weeks at a time. Then there is the fear of getting the virus and even dying from it. And the fear of losing your job, your property or loved ones. Then there is the stress of losing a job, a loved one or even more. The stress of even going to the good store or a bank and having to to long lines. The stress of having to work from home, of having children’home schooled’, and the stress of their welfare and future.

Where did you get your wrong figures from? Almost every patient that was in intensive care will have lingering effects ov Covid-19 including damage to internal organs, snd at least 20% of those patients that had to be hospitalized.

Pharmacudical companies stand to earn at least $150 Billion this year if they manage to vaccinate one half on the world’s population this year. And since the vaccines will be an annual event, go figure

Not only will the pandemic leave mental illness in its wake, but the prediction is that many who became severely ill under corona will have medical issues that will leave them eventually disabled and unable to work and maintain a family or even themselves. This will put additional drain on NIB and the health care system.

Take your meds and calm down @ rodents, Trump has left the White House

So who is sitting on their hands and watching the Covid-19 numbers steadily climb up? Isn’t it time to implement some further restrictions, especially on Sundays to avoid a future lockdown? The crowds in certain hot spot hangout areas are definitely getting to thick? While it may not be necessary to close these ‘hotspots’ down again there must be better crowd control. Restrictions on those two days to persons seated to dine or picking up food. Then there’s Valentines in a matter of days.

China is the only country that reported any real growth last year, according to some reports. And this growth was all post covid. They were the first country to experience the pandemic and were able to bring it under control and have now reopened their economy, at least 90 percent. The Bahamas, though managing to bring Corona under control, relied too heavily on external factors, such as tourism, so could not revive and:/or grow its economy . And it refused or failed to explore avenues from within to add substantially to its GDP or even decrease its imports. With the US finally taking the painful steps needed to bring that country’s corona pandemic under control it may still be some time yet before tourism recovers. A wise government will still seek to expand other areas of the economy. And slash imports.

this is what most people wanted to hear or comfirm.

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#The legislation passed in Parliament last month allows for a permanent voter register to be established for the first time in the country, meaning people who registered to vote for the 2017 election will not need to register again.

First off, it would be interested to know which businesses benefited from the government loans and grants and tax concessions programs. Every business owner seems to have the same story that they were ‘put through the hoops, went through the grueling process to qualify, but were denied right at the goal post. Some of the excuses were they did not qualify on a simple rifle or that the funds were already exhausted. So who got those millions. Secondly, there is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic is still a raging and even the most advanced and powerful countries in the world are having a very difficult time dealing with it, medically, socially and economically. Here in the Bahamas, in this country, it would be suicidal to end the emergency orders at this juncture. The Junkanoo rush outs, the overcrowded restaurants, and the I’ve attended funerals and weddings is testament to this. And with so many of the workforce unemployed, the curfews and other restrictions are assisting in keeping crime figures down.