but dont worry, it looks like the powers that be have conceded to the dollar following the lead of the CDC yet again

the patterns are extremely clear. Every single time we opened the border to exponential tourists, cases spiked out of control. If it happened once you might dismiss it. Its happened 5 times in 2 years with dramatic results

The worst episode was post start of homeporting. Within 2 weeks of the NAD showing photos of the airport jam packed with arriving tourists, PMH was announcing that they were at capacaity. It was predictable.

Just 1-2 weeks prior, Renward Wells and Dr Sands had both said *it looks like we're through the 3rd wave*. Deaths had dropped to near 0. Things had turned around so well with COVID numbers, that it appears Dr Minnis started plans for an August election. Then homeporting and 500 people die???

In November hotels starting jumping up and down about 90% capacity. The airport beamed about exceeding a 6000 estimate of travellers over 1 weekend.

The next week I remember clearly a count of 18 cases and being a little surprised because cases had been going down. That rise hasnt stopped yet.

Noone wuth two eyes can dispute that our spikes are directly related to what happens at the border.

People talk about Bahamians partying, thats not the cause, Bahsmians started partying in November 2020 when the curfews ended and havent stopped. What we've seen is the intersection of border activity with Bahamians who never stopped partying, cases spiking or at zero. **The catalyst is border activity**

**After you let the flood water in, it could go anywhere. That its everywhere isnt the problem. The problem is you let it in and did nothing to control the flow you knew was coming.**

We went from 289 cases before July 2021 to 700 cases by October 2021. There's no way you can "average" tbat to 300 per year. Thats a distinct time based occurrence

If COVID kills a cancer patient 2 weeks before they may have died naturally, COVID killed the patient

maybe. id rather see some graph of their partying behaviour mapping the number of persons who attended who were infected post party and maybe the movements of Typhoid Johnny who made it to all the parties

its not 300 average. That skews what happened. 500+ people died when homeporting started in July 2021. Tourism's doing great and we will do everything we can to ensure that peak seasons are peakier. Including mandating infected people get back to work

"**she was also aware of one non-retail business where all staff members caught COVID at their Christmas party.**"

You can't ask the govt to make up for stupidity

hmmm... compared to first half revenue? But govt collects revenues at different levels over the course of a year. Comparing one wuarter to another is find but diesnt give a full picture. Also economic activity is still trying to ramp back up to 2019 levels "*at least*", when even at that point the economy was doing abysmally. So you would expect that the journey to the 2019 *abysmality* each quarter should show an upward tick

We're never gonna get freedom of information. Because govt's sole information responsibility appears to be spin

yup, the "*good ole days*"

I guess there's a big juicy rock out there with some blood still in it...

dont know if COVID is "done". Omicron and prior variants certainly are. We'll still get persons who become extremelly ill if infected as with the flu but there wont be any large scale fallout What we cant know is whether another deadly variant will arise.

And yet cases go down every cycle.

Because nothing has proven that vaccination prevents infection. We know that the people susceptible to severe COVID will always be in danger of poor outcomes if infected whether vaccinated or not.

Our time and resources would be better spent identifying and targeting the vulnerable. Obesity is an easy marker. Doctors and clinics should be aware of other markers. Govt doesnt need to have access to patient info just that this person was identified as vulnerable