Lol

"*with cashiers in the US often holding such cards “in the air as if looking at an ancient cassette tape or a counterfeit dollar bill”.*

lol

it is kinda weird the almost panic theyre operating under given the legal jeopardy to lawyers... i.e. "them"

So we borrowed 30 million dollars from the IDB for digitization and this wasnt enough to get one data entry form completed? The Bahamian public does not understand the extent to which this process was abused

"*comes despite the Auditor General, Terrance Bastian, providing a report just last week which broadly praised the Travel Health Visa scheme*"

should never have happened. Its like saying despite performing the heinous act of selling cocaine to children, the drug dealers did a great job using the profits to build a wonderful youth community center.

The end does not justify the means and now people are using this example as justifucation for all kinds of system violations

For example: whats all the uproar about the pigs on Beach Drive? Do you know how many people are able to feed their families from this honest economic activity? I hear those guys teach Sunday school to underprivileged kids too. Oh... it violates zoning restrictions? but look at all the employed people.

**If you want things done in order anywhere demand things be done in order everywhere. DAguilar was wrong for what he did**

"*A former Bahamas Real Estate Association (BREA) president yesterday said not all attorneys ask for proof of subdivision approval before giving title opinions on property purchases.*"

Here's the problem with that. They justify their high fees based on haig to research all this information. So if they charging you, putting you in legal jeopardy but not doing the work, who's at fault?

I'll speak with more confidence after March. So far we've had 5 separate waves all related to peak travel and all ended with cases going to negligible counts. So the mere fact that one wave fizzles doesn't mean another can't start

As I said below, I don't know that we have any data based evidence that they don't work. Results in a community could very well be related to misuse. At the same time I can't say that they do work. My point is removing because everyone is fully vaccinated is a really bad justification

I dont know if the threat of COVID is over. Not sure how you do. We haven't had one peak travel season as yet without a spike If we pass Spring Break without a spike it MIGHT be over. I note that Asia had an outbreak of SARS a year or more after the initial outbreak

So like I said, data and evidence based. I don't think there's any reason to argue over why physicians wear masks, it's well documented. Different classifications for different purposes the N95 being specifically for respiratory protection

"*An N95 respirator is a respiratory protective device designed to **achieve a very close facial fit and very efficient filtration of airborne particles**. Note that the edges of the respirator are designed to form a seal around the nose and mouth.*"

Actually from the 1918 pandemic at least, medics wore masks **specifically** to protect against airborne viruses. They were those beak like masks often used in horror movies.

As I said, I don't know about the efficacy against COVID because someone would have had to have kept very detailed data on consistency of and proper use in various settings and the outcomes. That does not presuppose that they don't work.

The problem with assessing mask efficacy in the community is and we've seen the photos, a COVID infected person can "say" I always wear my mask, but nobody has evidence of how they used the mask. That's why I said "who knows about COVID". One piece of evidence we know for sure cases of the flu dropped dramatically and it was more than just everything being diagnosed as COVID

Who knows about COVID but there's a reason doctors wear them. Again move to evidence based decision making.