The problem is, with each passing day that locally owned businesses remain shut down, there is an increasing likelihood they will never recover and simply go out of business. This would significantly ratchet up unemployment. It would also put serious pressure on the capitalization of the commercial banks through higher loan losses. Not good. We are now at the point where the economic harm done to our country will likely result in more deaths to our people than the Red China Virus itself.

I can't help but agree with your sentiment that he seems to have no control or plan and therefore has no clue whether he's headed east or west. His political obituary will be well described by only one word: "Directionless!"

Thank you for the kind words.

May be so, but my 86 year-old mother, who lives with me and has serious pain problems in her lower back, gets much relief from her severe pain by swimming for an hour a couple of times each day. And of course my wife and I enjoy swimming and chatting with her, especially knowing that she won't be with us too much longer. Oh well, it is sadly what it is.

The company that used to clean my swimming pool on a regular basis twice a week is still claiming it has great difficulty in now doing so because Minnis has apparently ordered that pool cleaning businesses can only operate on Fridays and Saturdays. Is this true, and if so, how can such an order possibly be justified?

Minnis definitely seems to be on some kind of most serious ego power trip. Even Governor Cuomo of the Great Empire State of New York backed down on requiring individuals in the highly populated metroplitan area of New York City to wear any kind of mask or facial covering, if they have serious breathing issues that prevent them from wearing anything over their mouth and/or nose. And you would think that Minnis as a medical doctor would know that all too well that this is a fairly common problem for many people.

Minnis really needs to revisit the credibility of the sources of advice he's receiving, especially if the main sources are the WHO and PHO which have been proven to be way too beholden to the interests of Red China's very ruthless Xi Jinping led communist regime.

Gas prices at the pumps in Florida and the other states change every other day, in line with movements in the price per barrel of oil. But admittedly they do tend to rise slightly faster when the price of oil increases and fall a little more slowly when the price of oil falls. The cost of gasoline in the US therefore seems to be somehow contractually locked-in more to the daily spot prices of oil on the international market as opposed to longer term futures contract prices.

This naturally begs the question as to why should it be any different for us? With the current oil price per barrel down around $20 for several weeks now, and gas at the pumps in Florida down around $1.55 per gallon for quite sometime now, we should be paying here on New Providence no more than about $3 per gallon at most right now. There's some serious price gouging going on in our gasoline supply chain and it doesn't take too much to figure out which greedy Snake is likely behind it laughing all the way to the bank.

Gas prices at the pumps in Florida and the other states change every other day, in line with movements in the price per barrel of oil. But admittedly they do tend to rise slightly faster when the price of oil increases and fall a little more slowly when the price of oil falls. The cost of gasoline in the US therefore seems to be somehow contractually locked-in more to the daily spot prices of oil as opposed to the longer term futures prices.

This naturally begs the question as to why should it be any different for us? With the current oil price per barrel down around $20 for several weeks now, and gas at the pumps in Florida down around $1.55 per gallon for quite sometime now, we should be paying here on New Providence no more than about $3 per gallon at most right now. There's some serious gouging going on in our gasoline supply chain and it doesn't take too much to figure out which greedy Snake is behind it laughing all the way to the bank.

Minnis is obviously oblivious to the time of morning that the sunrises at this time of the year, and also the fact that many of the elderly, who have no close family or other support to do their grocery shopping, etc., are afraid to go outside when it's dark. But as we all suspect, the most important and fundamental things are just not being carefully thought through to ensure the needs of the more vulnerable and desperate in our society are met during this crisis.

Not to playdown her plight, but she's only age 64, living in a government unit on Windsor Lane, can drive and has a car, and appears fit. There are many others in their 80's in need of serious medications with no close family or other support of any kind who are not nearly so lucky. Fact is, there are all too many others in our society right now who are much less well off than this lady, and The Tribune, with a little more effort, could have selected any one or more of them to be its poster example(s) for creating swelling emotions of concern and sympathy among its readership.