Government don’t pay! #123 das my cousin! An I got my marlin for #456 ;)

Once upon a time…..
Lead was ok in paint.
OxyContin was an ok pain killer.
Thalidomide stopped pregnancy sickness.
Mercury was used in teeth.
And the list goes on…and on..and on...until years later the data is in and …..(who pays the cost of the morbidity and mortality?) Trust in profit making companies and those they sponsor, fund, grant etc etc….is going through a long, and likely painful, death; but so are those they have milked and abused.

The more these so called “authorities”, “experts”, and government itself, open their mouths the clearer the lies and hypocrisy become as the prophesies of the so called “conspiracy theorists” are fulfilled! Lord have mercy and come quickly!

If we look close enough and patiently enough at our world we will see that there is change. Man has helped push that. Industrial revolution and agricultural revolution…and then big, trans continental corps have exploited the planet beyond sustainability for profits….where is there accountability ??????

Let’s be realistic…PMH, even without Covid, is highly unlikely to have saved the life of a 99yr old woman under the best of circumstances. Death is a certainty in life. A truly Christian nation knows this and embraces its reality. It is sad that the sadness of personal loss is being used as a propaganda stunt to promote a blinkered ideology. A wider look at the reality facing us is the unbiased science, and lack thereof, in a capitalist, profiteering world during a pandemic when NOBODY’s profits should be up; least of all in the health, pharmaceutical, and food industries! I’m no economist but I do know health, public health, science, facts, and data. There is a wider conversation here of course…the fact that people’s diets contribute to more death annually than Covid has done, even without vaccine, yet there is still the freedom to choose sugary drinks and saturated fast-food without heavy taxes to offset the financial burden of diabetes, stroke, heart attack, respiratory complications, obesity, hypertension, hormonal disruption, etc etc etc….! God blessed Janey with many years, may He have mercy on her soul and grant her rest.

Being the nature of the word “business”, Agribusiness, like any other business will have its sights set on profits rather than quality. We are already a nation with little top-soil, which is nutrient depleted, a climate that is fickle with its rain, with a consumer who is already grossly unhealthy and a failing health system unable to cope with the modern climb of life-style and diet related disease….add to this the need to make a profit which will incentivize more GMO seeds, more pesticides, more Glyphosate in particular, and the further burden on the health system of our nation and we will become a complete disaster and ever more dependent on a big, elite, entity.
Rather than directing any focus in the future towards any-“business” this island nation would do better incentivizing a mindset of artisanal pride.
It should make GMO seed and Glyphosate importation illegal.
It should support projects which support farmers, like composting, farming botanical pesticides, natural soil enhancement, being organic, and using a permaculture ideology.
It should work with other lateral organizations to support programs which encourage recycling of materials like glass jars for bottling, preserves, and pickling, Straw baskets for the display (and even recyclable transport(?) of produce.
Government needs to encourage people to independently manage such programs, set up networks, and create a community of food producing artisans who take pride in feeding people and keeping the nation healthy rather than chasing the dollar.
The focus on profiteering has always been an evil that ultimately undermines the freedom of human beings!!! What else would a nation which calls itself “Independent” do? Perhaps it’s time to grow a “family” of island persons, not a culture of business(?).

Persons holding political level appointments must tender their resignation? Why would this be? Conflict of interest and loyalty much? Hmmm…me thinks not pledging allegiance to HRH the Queen along with all the other Ministers is the same thing…?

Question: do we think the swearing in of all the new Ministers, and their Ministers of State, fills this wise advice? Perhaps the Ministers of State pay-rolls will be justified by the savings made in looking over everyone’s shoulders to wipe out corruption and gain transparency? Did we get Meritocracy?

I contend with the statement, “We’ve (understood) that (lockdowns) has devastated our economy,” Dr Darville said.
It’s impossible to turn the clocks back, and I acknowledge that I don’t know what I don’t know, however, we do know the following….
One seriously prescribed lockdown, though issued too late, did render our nation covid free by May/June of 2020. This in itself did not devastate our economy. We survived that. If Bahamians had been allowed and encouraged to open their businesses, start new businesses, support Bahamian businesses and create a domestic economy, before opening our covid-free bubble to other covid-free bubbles, we could have faired better than we did. The truth is that opening our borders to infected nations under the false illusion that a devastated tourist business would save the economy, and against the sage advice of some persons in health, was disastrous as it was that which led to a series of lockdowns, curfews, and public health measures the full and diverse toll of which we have yet to fully appreciate! The consequence of this faulty thinking has all those issues yet to reveal their own devastation!!!

And the title likely came from Shakespeare’s Tempest in which Miranda, unbeknown, sees the people who snatched her father’s throne and says, “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it”.
And her father replies, “Tis new to thee”!

No joke about the dystopian society reference tho. Paraphrase this with the whole Covid thing and national debt and what could we get…..
A World State, whose citizens have been genetically engineered into a social hierarchy, where huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology are used for population control, where the media propaganda is nothing but psychological manipulation and classical conditioning, that are combined to make a dystopian and double-thinking society.
Let’s see if the new PM is brave enough to make sure things like the Constitution, Geneva Convention, Nuremberg Code etc are not trampled over and we go backwards in the name of progress, and become modern slaves in the name of freedom!