"*The real impact of Omicron is not hospitalizations and deaths. Examine whats changed: exponentially more people are getting infected within shorter windows but no widespread severity. Essentially a greater percentage of people are sick at the same time. That is the impact*"

You cant make this stuff up. The CDC is now saying infected persons only need to quarantine for 5 days. Lol. This is hysterical. You can bet it has nothing to do with science but exactly what was said above... the real danger of Omicron is businesses suffering major staff outages. And we just take it like "ok". No questions asked, because they said so. Id like to know how do you determine that a returning 5-day infected worker was not the cause of an outbreak at work? Im going to bet nobody is going to double PCR test

Tourists dont need prolonged interaction with Bahamians. They just need to have a friendly conversation with a bartender, immigration officer or be stuck in an air conditioned taxi with a driver. Exponential spread is just that, "exponential". It means it doesn't take an army of infected. One person infects their contacts *and theyll infect their contacts and so on and so on*.

This isnt about pointing out the mote in someone else's eye, its about referencing **data thats been screaming at us for 2 years now. Every single time we opened the borders or experienced exponential tourist arrivals, there was a likewise exponential increase in COVID numbers, every single time, including this past week**.

**Fortunately for us we also have data of Bahamians behaving badly between Nov 2020 and Mar 2021 when there were NO exponential tourist arrivals and COVID cases went down to ZERO**. My theory is every new exponential tourism landing has brought in a new variant. A variant takes 3 months or so to make its way through the entire population, after which it doesn't matter how much contact we have or how bad we behave, cases will continue to go down... until of course the next exponential tourist landing. The exponential nature of the landing increases the probability of one person in the group being COVID positive with a false negative test

PI was the sweetener to ensure RCL bought the Lucayan. With the Lucayan off the radar PI doesnt need to be added to the tea

"*Those need to be collected. BPL should not have to go around and beg for their money and BPL should not be giving people electricity without it being paid for,*"

They dropped that ominous 100m outside revenue with the implication thst regular consumers were holding the debt To this day they have failed to give a breakdown by customer category on the outstanding revenue. Hotels, govt agencies, other organizations, PEPs, regular customers

Good for you Mrs Darville and shame on the SBDC.

The cold is also very contagious. Alot of people can get it at the same time but not everyone does. Probably to do with some level of immunity natural or supplemented. There's alot to discover about this pandemic but we just failed to do so listening to others tell us what to do based on their data "alone".

tell the tourists to behave

Good points.

Asking. is it possible for a captain of a yacht with what looks to be a pretty fancy radar system at the tippy top of that pic, not to detect a very large vessel within 15mins of it? Would a captain leave a vessel unmanned for more than 15mins? How many persons can take the wheel of a super yacht to avoid it being unmanned? Whats the protocol? This story is at the other end of the unbelievable scale as the "*robbery*"

"*We’re simply not going to shut down all economic activity,” Dr Darville said.*

No, but Omicron has the potential to do that for you. We're busy preparing for delta right now, but interestingly, Omicron is a different beast