"With 71.6 percent of the population being overweight, and 43.7 being classified as obese, COVID-19 has the potential to exact a heavy toll on an undisciplined Bahamian population, which has to be disconcerting to COVID-19 Task Force and Ministry of Health officials, who are now mourning the tragic death of Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre Nurse Bernadette Rolle." With the availability of such data, it should come as no surprise that Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis continues to subject the Bahamian people to curfews and lockdowns, even to the extent of doing irreparable harm to the domestic, nonessential economy. Bahamians have been given the options of two poisons: an anemic economy or COVID-19."

Hi Kevin,
If Bahamians were really undisciplined, it would seem to be in the act of praying. For all the talk of prayer, by so many, in such volumes, and in such certainty, wouldn't one expect just a little relief in the face of all this, from a good God?
Why use statistics to make a point, and then delve right into asking people to pray. If I honestly looked around the world, at those populations who prayed and those who didn't, would I find any statistical difference in happiness, healthiness, longevity, or perhaps even going to heaven. From the looks of it down here Kevin, overly religious people are the most deluded on earth. Just wondering how many people were praying on Abaco, just before Dorian hit. Of course I don't know God's ways. But please Kevin, isn't it about time people like you and Jerry Falwell quit the hypocrisy and snake oil? And, the "non-essential" domestic economy? You mean like cooking, cleaning, doing laundry? You mean non-essential to those who have better things to do, like praying and counting money?

Yes, many of us would like to know how the Family Islands are really faring.

If you note, there are 10,000 test completed. We have a population going on 400,000.
This testing rate of 2.5% cannot represent the real numbers, and is way to low to allow for responsible intervention.. Dr. Sands said so himself. Now, will we see hospitalizations and deaths go up accordingly is the question.

ColumbusSleepy,
You have had no plan since you started commenting here, as the other posters have pointed out. Your reactionnary comments do little to add to an educated dialog. Do you actually read? Just asking..

Thinking the same. The deeper dive should be done before opening your mouth. High school work expecting first world salary. Our bar is set inexcusably low.

Water is a right. Why not treat it like the police? We fund the police without expecting a payment from those who call them. Our problem, the people's problem is that we place the tax burden on the poor and working class. Instead of progressive taxation, we resort to regressive taxatiòn
The businessmen and politicians are fine with this. And they seem fine with a failed educational system. If the people were smarter and aware this would change immediately.

All for the love of money. And, we call ourselves Christians.
URCA, the useless organization that it is, still allows BTC to rob their customers after well-documented complaints and proof of fraud.
Children on the Family Islands who need reliable and decent internet service must leave their island and go to Nassau so that they can do their COB courses online. Does this suggest that BTC or URCA are fulfilling their legal obligations to the people?
And yes, shut the webshops down. As DDK says, "Rid the country of at least one major scourge!"

Much more than 100% mathematically.

The complaint is not that the health care system in the US is so bad. It is that too many have to file for bankruptcy due to health care expenses and the millions who can't get care because they've lost their job related health insurance, and can't afford health insurance in the first place. The facts are clear on the tens of thousands of people in the US who could have been saved if only the US had a human, thinking, president. Anyone who still can't understand this has thinking issues. Please, what accounts for the hugely disproportionate explosion of cases and consequent deaths now occurring in the world's "greatest nation"? China? Russia? Or, stupidity?

I tend to agree.