Since the boarders of the country have been closed beyond the incubation period for Corona, the focus should now be on the ‘new patients’. Where do they live? Are they essential workers or were they under curfew when they contracted the disease. If under curfew, did they violate curfew/lockdown and to what extent? How many persons do they live with and have these persons been tested? How much testing is being done beyond the range of the patients household? If they were essential workers, which field are they employed in? Were they following proper procedures to protect themselves? Were persons that work with them tested or quarantined? What adjustments can be/ were made to ensure better safety in their line of work? And are the Corona cases appearing in clusters across the island or is there a random spread? And as for the Family Islands: since they have been closed communities beyond the incubation period, are the curfews and lockdowns applied to New Providence and Grand Bahama necessary now? Should these residents be allowed to return to work and a normal life including children going back to school? Of course the Ministry of Education may want to keep all schools in the country at the same pace but is that fair to thousands of Family Island students , who can now return to school and complete their term work? And as for the surge in cases that may have overwhelmed medical personnel and overcrowded medical facilities: NO that surge did not come at the level that was projected but The Bahamas has among the highest cases per capital in the region. And while the world average is 79% recovered and 21% deaths, the Bahamas is like 53% recovered and 47% deaths. Also there are close to 1,000 people in quarantine. How many will develop the disease and how many will test free? Obviously there are factors present that allow mostpatients to only develop mild symptoms of the disease, compared to other jurisdictions. Some say it is the climate, others say it is the ethnic make up of the population. Well in places like Detroit and Chicago, the case of contractions among Blacks and Hispanics is much higher than average. Some say this is because Blacks and Hispanics and employed in jobs that expose them more to the virus. And they statistics show that the death rate among Blacks is 39%. And they attribute this to Blacks earning lower incomes and not being able to receive better health care. And as for climate being a factor, New Orleans, which has warmer temperatures has now become a hotspot for Corona cases.

And from the video the liquor store has almost doubled their prices. $70 for a case of beer that normally sells for $42 (or $24 in the US). $49.00 for the quarts. So let’s see, a 74 year old man was fined $250 for walking from his house to the corner to ‘stretch’ his legs. How much will these people be fined for price gouging and violating the emergency pro?

As this lockdown and forced closing of businesses is dragging on longer, government must make provisions for these businesses else sit and watch them sink. The businesses are taking an unmeasured risk by taking out loans in the face of uncertainty and also agreeing to keep more than half their staff when they don’t kno what the market will be like of how long it will be depressed. For certain there will be large numbers of unemployed people, empty hotel rooms and cruise ships that will have to win the confidence big their customers. It will not be business as usual, at least for a while.

If an economy shrinks by 8 percent and then grows by 6.5% that is still a bet contraction of 1.5 points. The IMF may be placing it’s bets on what happened after the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918-19, where the economy quickly rebounded and grew at an exceptional rate. But at that time a war was going on that killed out a great portion of the world’s population , in addition to the swine flu (Also called Spanish flu because Spain was one of the countries that was not at war and was among the first to report on the flu), which also reportedly killed millions ( over 600,000 in the US alone. So this led to a free and booming economy, where persons were able to hold two and three jobs or take over businesses and trades where the owners had died. This gave the average household double disposable income and as they spent more the economy was able to flourish. These same factors are not available today as there is no world war. Also unless there is a second wave of Corona, like there was in 2918, the death toll will not be as high. But the US does have an over anxious and energetic president who faces re-election in a few short months and will do everything to ensure that the economic bounce back is quick and sure. And China may be equally as anxious as it is economic dominance is based on mass production and low prices per unit. And like cruise ships and aircraft, hotel rooms inventory are in mass abundance and owners/operators will be anxious to make these productive and revenue generating in the shortest possible time.

Must have been a low orbiting device. Satellite are designed to burn up when they renter the atmosphere or the last bit of energy is used to push them further into orbit where they become one of the thousands of pieces of space junk

Then you should check your facts before you check mines. There were more than one confrontation between police and beach goers that became confrontational. And police had to use pepper spray and yes, rubber bullets. Where you get off calling me a liar. There were seven videos that went viral with these incidents . As for the man that got roughed up and was thrown of the bus that matter wis under review due to the circumstances he entered the bus without a mask. He was an essential worker that got got cautious in a situation without a mask.

After watching what was going on in Chins for weeks, the US was still caught unprepared. And so their number of Corona cases and related deaths skyrocketed and is surpassing every country in the world. The media show pictures in China where persons suspected of Corona were forcefully removed from their homes (super spreaders they are called) and quarantined. They said the treatment was in humane. Then pictures started surfacing in the US where police were using tear gas and rubber bullets to force teens of beaches and other open species. Just yesterday a video went viral where police lifted a man off the bus and physically threw him to the ground because he was not wearing a mask. Some stores have turned their aisles into one way lanes to make social distancing easier and some cities are also turning sidewalks into one way to avoid pedestrians from coming in close contact with each other. And after all that if done to fight this dreaded )some say man made) virus, the world and most countries will have to struggle to get their economies going and to pay off the astronomical, hugely staggering bill left by the Covid-19 virus.

Ignore them in the short term. Many lending agencies are anxious to see the world economy rebound and they will loan The Bahamas money at reasonable rates. But the government must exercise restraint and ride on three tires instead of four. At least until you get out of this Corona jungle

Minnis says they are on the hunt for super spreaders. So the lockdown may be used to identify and track them down.

Most schools and colleges in the US have terminated this term and allowing students to be graded based on their performance up until the time classes were cancelled or including any online work they completed. For sure schools cannot be opened before the end of April.