A very telling statistic of any distortive effect(s), deliberate or otherwise, would be public dsiclosure of the average number of recorded deaths that occurred from all causes during the first four months of each of the three years 2017, 2018 and 2019, compared to the same four month period of 2020. But don't hold your breath to get this very telling information from either Sands or Minnis!

This is a matter warranting not only a full investigation by police commissioner Rolle, but also a full explanation to the public at large of his findings. And Marvin Dames owes us all an explanation as well given that he has our government (the taxpayers) paying millions of dollars for CCTV equipment and related monitoring services.

And that includes Brian Moree, the Chief Justice! It seems he has forgotten the role that our judicairy is intended to have in our constitutional democracy.

Problem is, great uncertainties remain about the level of antibodies one must have in their system to avoid re-infection. Apparently the level of antibodies one developes may depend on the extent to which they were originally exposed to the virus. There is a growing school of thought that many who test positive for covid-19 antibodies may in fact still be vulnerable to re-infection, possibly with more severe symptoms. This is likely to present a big problem both for developing tests that can be relied on to avoid spread and on the development of an effective vaccine.

We could not see a more embarrassing and frankly disgraceful effort by our government to hoodwink and bamboozle the public by throwing literally tons of unsupportable and non-sensical spaghetti data against the wall and hoping it sticks on account of their presumption that the average Bahamian is as stupid as they come. And to hear Minnis try to justify 'his orders' by somehow quantifying the lives 'he' has managed to save really takes the cake! Lord give us the strength we so desperately need to deal with both the health threat of covid-19 and the tyrannical threat of Minnis.

P.S.: A 'real' leader would be taking great pains to instill calm while diligently enlightening everyone of the grave risks covid-19 poses to their health if the advised measures are not observed. The measures of course have to be well thought through to ensure they are reasonable, are given with adequate notice and are articulated in a way that clearly spells out the rationale behind. Unnecessarily frightening the hell out of people with extraordinarily punitive penalties smacks of a weak leader who feels he must resort to bullying and terrorization to achieve submission to 'his orders'.

> The prime minister revealed his emergency orders have been amended to ensure those who break quarantine are fined up to $20,000, face five years imprisonment or both.

>“You break quarantine, we lock you up,” he said.

Here we see in all its glory the epitome of a man totally unsuited in character and demeanor to be PM under our constitutional democracy. Minnis is now exhibiting all of the traits of tyrannical leader on a very demented power trip.

Minnis could very well see fit to next order that those who dare to violate any of 'his orders' will also be subject to having all of their assets of any kind, wherever located, confiscated by 'his state', and/or face the possibility of death before a firing squad of 'his' marksmen police and/or defense force officers.

Really? Michael Moore! LMAO

For Pete's sake, don't tell me Minnis has been kissing Trump's butt too!

Some excellent points made. Well worth reading.