The **only** insights we can extract from this data, lots of people arent at work. I wonder where the concentration of disabled list workers sits? Hotels? hospitals? Foodstores? That too would tell us what needs to be adjusted. Are the hospitalizations in-hospital spread or new admissions?

I suspect the hospital is holding on to more patients than they would have previously after Shenique Miller's sister was discharged wheezing and weak, only to die a day later. Cant know for cetain, but I suspect something "rightly" changed with their protocol. All of this information would give us better grounds to compare numbers and a clearer picture of our status, are we doing better or worse? We dont know if the average stay of these patients is the same, longer or shorter, or of their conditions are more or less severe compared to previous waves. But after two years of asking its clear all we're going to get is case counts to freak out by. The one stat that doesnt lie is the death count and to that extent the situation is magnitudes of degrees better... so far

Again misleading data. Very misleading.

Most people will assume that he meant 90k **people** were tested. With hotels, food stores, hospitals and other "in person" businesses requiring employees be tested once per week, added to persons testing positive with RAT and having to retest with PCR, added to persons in quarantine retesting to get out of quarantine, "*90k tests*" doesnt tell you very much.... other than how much money was made..

Cue Def Leppard

"*Ninety-eight people in total are in hospital with seven of those in intensive care.*

There were 80+ in hospital on Friday, half of which Dr Forbes said were in for other reasons. Like "*Im having a baby*", and tested positive

It does NOBODY any good to report this half cocked data for dramatics. Report data that actually gives an accurate picture of the current situation. Who are these people? What's the average length of stay? Whats the time between first symptoms and reporting to hospital? Is anyone in danger of long term complications? How many? **So far this says to me is, noone's dying but alot of people are not available to work.**

90% hotel occupancy = The horse is out the gate, there is literally nothing you can do to stop Omicron, its simply to contagious, and vaccinations wont work and boosters won't work. The only strategy you can employ now that slowing its entry into the country is a failure is slowing it down locally so that 300,000 people arent infected in one day

mortality rate was higher because of the delta variant. very aggressive strain. people reported to hospital when they couldnt breathe. too late. Yes, we (as in Minnis and Renward) didn't help things

** They tried to pin the 3rd wave on Bahamians partying on Easter Monday**. The only problem with that was, the spike had started 3 weeks earlier, right in line with Spring Break arrivals. But, not wanting to associate COVID with tourism, Renward started talking about Bahamians partying on Easter holiday and almost unbelievably, you had talk show host just bkindly repeating that Bahamians need to learn to behave. All of our spikes are directly linked to exponential tourist travel

And this is not about closing the border, its about acknowledging the source of the problem so you csn properly tackle it. As long as they act like tourism is the blue eyed child that cant do no wrong, this will happen over and over again

repost

"***The world is in its 4th wave. The Bahamas is in its 5th wave***

***1st wave: prior to July 2020 we had about 80 deaths?***

**2nd: July 2020 - border opens for the first time post 1st case***

***3rd: March 2021-June 2021 - spring break***

***4th: July 2021-October 2021 - homeporting begins***

***5th: Dec 2021 - winter tourist rush***

*What most people fail to acknowledge despite there being *multiple* Tribune articles reporting the information, there was a distinct delineation between the 3rd and 4th waves in early June 2021. Both Dr Sands and Renward Wells made note of it. I believe that drop off in cases in Jun 2021, signaling the end of the 3rd wave, was the impetus for planning an August election. It was good news to pin a campaign on. Unfortunately they fooled themselves about the impact of an exponential rise in tourist arrivals, and when homeporting kicked off in July 2021, we were off to the races again. The exact same thing happened in November, like we cant learn. This over exuberance on the good news in tourism without acknowledging that it comes with new variants and an exponential increase in cases*

*Because the time between the dropoff in cases in the 3rd wave and the spike in the subsequent wave was so brief, most people clump them into a single wave. But that would break from what the data says. The data says a variant takes about 4mnths to cycle our population. If there were only 4 waves, the 3rd wave would have lasted 8 months. Who's watching the data? The duration of this 5th cycle may be shorter due to the speed at which the virus is being transmitted*

(*Because our tourism cycles are predictable, our spikes to a certain extent are also very predictable)*

**i think there's more than adequate evidence that Bahamians arent the cause.**

**The reason I say the tourists are the catalysts is because Bahamians have been travelling up and down and partying nonstop since November 2020**. When cases were up they travelling and partying, when cases dropped to zero they were still travelling and partying. **The ONLY times that we've had exponential spread is immediately following a notable, exponential bump in tourism. 10's of thousands of new tourists, hundreds of new cases. Literally the ONLY times**

The danger isnt hospitalizations and deaths. You're bringing a *knife to a gun fight*. The danger is worker outage. Spread workers out, find better testing options, This RAT is plain iffy, but anyway.... France I think it is is allowing persons to use at home kits to reduce testing lines

sigh.... exactly. The CDC has clearly thrown it hands up and said, well, everybody needs to make money. And we followed. The guidance doesn't make health sense. A doctor can now "look" at you and determine if you're still infectious or not. I thought the asymptomatic people were the most dangerous carriers