May have saved your life!

Actually, I wouldn't doubt that Roberts and the government were dupped by the misconception perpetuated by President Trump and the US government that masks were useless, just because they needed to secure all the masks they could for themselves.

Looking objectively at our whole scenario to date, the governments' early shutdown tactic is a very bold step in an attempt to curtail the spread of Covid19, and I support their decision 110%!

That being said, unfortunately, obviously, they did not factor in the need to ensure essential service providers i.e. cashiers and line staff of food stores, gas stations, pharmacies, and other businesses front line staff left in place to deal with the entire population were adequately protected against becoming infected themselves, and worse being carriers of the virus, and infecting many of those they come in contact with.

Now that the truth is out that wearing masks is actually an absolute necessity in the war against Covid19, the government needs to be agile, and adult enough to realize their shortcomings, and pivot to make the necessary adjustments to mitigate the oncoming deluge of cases headed our way in the next 10 to 15 days.

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The attorney general might want to look into who in the US government is responsible for putting out the deliberate misleading propaganda that masks were not necessary for everybody just for their own agenda leading to any number of Bahamians and people from other Caribbean jurisdictions suffering and/or dying needlessly.

Those responsible must be held accountable!

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Rupert Roberts, the government, and nobody else has raised an eyebrow about food store cashiers close customer contact and exposure to infected Covid19 carriers among the 1000,s of people they serve on a daily bases!

I was totally mortified to see the cashier staff dealing with customers unprotected from this extremely highly contagious virus dealing one on one with-in 2 feet of each and every customer.

Roberts should be ashamed of himself for putting his team on the front line in unquestionable harm's way without proper masks.

If need be, the government should immediately access their own stockpile to provide masks for these people before THEY infect the entire country as people purchase food.

This is a major oversite on the government's behalf that could easily cause the opposite effect of what we are trying to achieve.

From the looks of things at this point, the US is in for a long hard battle with states acting like individual countries instead of the "united states" and making a single concentrated effort to fight Covid19! This will only prolong the problem and cause more people to be affected.

Hopefully, the PM strategy works as it has in China and we are way ahead of the US recovery, so we can start an aggressive marketing campaign to the Americans will still be in shut down suffering major cabin fever.

One thing for sure, with people dying from Covid19 because they lack insurance, Americans might be forced to reconsider Bernie Sanders after all!

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Describing President Trump's response to the Covid19 pandemic as a lack of definite leadership that has hurt the US response capability may not be fair when one considers Trump exclaims he has a natural ability for dealing with these things and he thinks he has done a great job so far.

Looking at the actual facts on the ground does, however, make one wonder how and why the good President arrived at these conclusions given the undeniable fact that the U.S. has quickly become the new epicenter for Covid19.

WHAT employees are maintaining an active customer call center? I have been trying to contact BPL for the last few days and it is absolutely impossible to reach them by phone there is no response by email!

Nobody minding the shop at BPL.

Closing the banks would be disastrous for me and many people. How could we access funds in business checking accounts when needed, get extended overdraft facilities, or send wires to pay for foreign purchases? Perhaps the banks can have staff work from home using phones and internet to deal with these types transactions but moving funds from some accounts to others would still be an issue. Sounds like a REAL problem!

Mr. Turnquest references "the near-total tourism industry shutdown" and "on the loss of all cruise ship passengers and 80 percent of stopover tourists".

Can somebody please identify where the remaining 20% stopover visitors are supposed to be coming from?

Secondly, indicators to date suggest the U.S. economy will be seriously devastated by Covid-19, and the Caribbean region may be less affected. If that plays out, we would be wise to begin focusing more on the Caribbean and Latin American markets for tourism and trade.

Now is also the time to seriously begin positioning Freeport as a duty-free shopping zone for the Caribbean and Latin American markets.

Trump chased the Caribbean and Latin American shi-hole countries tourist away and these people would love to come here for shopping and vacationing.

Thank you, PM for being bold enough to do what should have been done 2 weeks ago!

The possible disastrous alternative for any further delay would be unimaginably more costly than a proactive "controlled" shut down.

Thank GOD Perry Christie, Brave Davis, and the PLP dancers are not in control of the country now!!!

Unfortunately, a higher number of Haitians will be more adversely affected by COVID-19 than Bahamians per capita simply because they live in tight, less hygienic environments.

This will result in Haitians overwhelming the medical system making it near impossible for Bahamians and legal residents to get life-saving medical care.

We all knew that natural disasters and disease outbreaks would one day solve the illegal Haitian shantytown problem that neither government had the fortitude to deal with.