@Hoda: The only one who 'got his' from the cruise ship companies is the very one you idolize and worship so much: Minnis!
The rest of us certainly got nothing but a royal shafting from Minnis's willingness to put all of our country's very fragile economic eggs in the cruise ship industry's most greedy, corrupt, pollution packed and pathogen infested basket.
And let's not forget that marsh mallow headed side-kick D'Aguilar who couldn't do enough for the cruise ship companies to curry political favour with Minnis. Come to think of it, Carl Bethel also falls into the same bucket of fools who couldn't do enough for the cruise ship companies in an effort to kiss Minnis's butt for his supper.
There's no oil anywhere in The Bahamas. That was long ago determined by both Exxon-Mobile and Chevron. And the only people who would have anyone believe otherwise are pump, burn and dump stock promoters (con artists), like those currently hyping BPC, who will keep burning gullible investors for as long as they can before eventually dumping all of them when there's no more foolish money to be had.
> Dr McMillan said. “It has come to our attention that some of the persons that we asked to self-isolate and self-quarantine are not following what we recommend."
Oh really! She can't possibly be serious that instances of non-compliance with self-quarantining have only just come to her attention. Does McMillan expect us to believe she's been living in a cocoon with little or no inter-action with people in our society? Or she is one of the dullest crayons in the box?
Speaking of dull crayons, did our healthcare officials ever stop to think that many of those exposed to the Red China Virus could not self-quarantine because they had no means of getting food other than by going to the food store themselves? What a joke!
*"....... if we really wanted compliance, we have to lock these people up."*
@Porcupine: Surely you appreciate we have no means by which to lock-up the majority of the population of The Bahamas; the same majority that keeps voting for a corrupt and/or incompetent political candidate every 5 years.
> He {Sands} said "expanded testing is critical" so we can "plan and prepare to protect these vulnerable populations"
Many of us posting to this website have been saying for the past 2 months that much more testing is necessary. Sands needs to do better....much better!
Linda Albury and her brother, Rick Lowe, have had to endure so much grief within a relatively short period of time. Wishing them both the inner strength and peace of mind necessary to get through these most difficult of times.
Please Dr. Sands, do not let this product get distributed with the traditional John Watling's Distillery labelling and branding. We can ill afford for our hospitals to get over-crowded with drinkers of this product who become dreadfully ill. We have too many in our country who will imbibe anything with the traditional labelling and branding of the John Watling's Distillery.
A lot of really dumb things are now being done by people whose knowledge of virology is non-existent or very limited at best. Most people cannot begin to fathom just how infinitesimally small (very very very very minute) the covid-19 virus is. Only the very rare person who has had the opportunity to look at and study both the size and behaviour of viruses under an electron microscope will appreciate that homemade (non-medical) masks provide the wearer with very limited, if any, meaningful protection from a virus like covid-19 that is capable of aerosol transmission. Masks made to stringent medically required specifications and properly fitted to the wearer's face help prevent the transmission of viruses by normal inhalation and exhalation at the outer edges of the mask. Not so in the case of homemade masks.
Moreover, it is very much open to question whether wearing any type of homemade mask does any better a job at protecting others from an infected person than would be achieved by an unmasked person simply coughing or sneezing into their elbow. Also, coughing is a natural defense mechanism that protects the respiratory tract from inhaling foreign bodies and it's not entirely clear the extent to which wearing a homemade mask may stifle that ability and therefore actually be harmful to the wearer.
It's perhaps worth noting too that the covid-19 virus has exceptional glue-like stickability to just about anything it comes into contact with. Those using any kind of mask must ensure it has been very carefully sterilized/sanitized before each use and the average user of a mask will not have either the discipline or ability to do this at home.
But if it nevertheless makes you, and you believe others around you, feel more secure, then by all means wear a homemade mask.
And of course Minnis and Sands, both being medical doctors, no doubt know all of this.
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
@Hoda: The only one who 'got his' from the cruise ship companies is the very one you idolize and worship so much: Minnis!
The rest of us certainly got nothing but a royal shafting from Minnis's willingness to put all of our country's very fragile economic eggs in the cruise ship industry's most greedy, corrupt, pollution packed and pathogen infested basket.
And let's not forget that marsh mallow headed side-kick D'Aguilar who couldn't do enough for the cruise ship companies to curry political favour with Minnis. Come to think of it, Carl Bethel also falls into the same bucket of fools who couldn't do enough for the cruise ship companies in an effort to kiss Minnis's butt for his supper.
On 'Flags of convenience are over'
Posted 17 April 2020, 11:28 a.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
There's no oil anywhere in The Bahamas. That was long ago determined by both Exxon-Mobile and Chevron. And the only people who would have anyone believe otherwise are pump, burn and dump stock promoters (con artists), like those currently hyping BPC, who will keep burning gullible investors for as long as they can before eventually dumping all of them when there's no more foolish money to be had.
On 'Flags of convenience are over'
Posted 17 April 2020, 11:13 a.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
> Dr McMillan said. “It has come to our attention that some of the persons that we asked to self-isolate and self-quarantine are not following what we recommend."
Oh really! She can't possibly be serious that instances of non-compliance with self-quarantining have only just come to her attention. Does McMillan expect us to believe she's been living in a cocoon with little or no inter-action with people in our society? Or she is one of the dullest crayons in the box?
Speaking of dull crayons, did our healthcare officials ever stop to think that many of those exposed to the Red China Virus could not self-quarantine because they had no means of getting food other than by going to the food store themselves? What a joke!
On Suspect patients breaching isolation
Posted 17 April 2020, 10:56 a.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
*"....... if we really wanted compliance, we have to lock these people up."*
@Porcupine: Surely you appreciate we have no means by which to lock-up the majority of the population of The Bahamas; the same majority that keeps voting for a corrupt and/or incompetent political candidate every 5 years.
On Suspect patients breaching isolation
Posted 17 April 2020, 10:33 a.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
The air must be so rarefied up there on your very high perch. LMAO
On Law firms line up layoffs
Posted 16 April 2020, 7:42 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
> He {Sands} said "expanded testing is critical" so we can "plan and prepare to protect these vulnerable populations"
Many of us posting to this website have been saying for the past 2 months that much more testing is necessary. Sands needs to do better....much better!
On COVID-19: One additional death, one newly-confirmed case
Posted 16 April 2020, 7:34 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Hartnell's great love of the likes of Snake and Slimey Smith is absolutely sickening.
On Bahamian investors: Our nation needs you
Posted 16 April 2020, 6:34 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Linda Albury and her brother, Rick Lowe, have had to endure so much grief within a relatively short period of time. Wishing them both the inner strength and peace of mind necessary to get through these most difficult of times.
On Linda survived Dorian only to find herself in a battle with COVID-19
Posted 16 April 2020, 6:26 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
Please Dr. Sands, do not let this product get distributed with the traditional John Watling's Distillery labelling and branding. We can ill afford for our hospitals to get over-crowded with drinkers of this product who become dreadfully ill. We have too many in our country who will imbibe anything with the traditional labelling and branding of the John Watling's Distillery.
On Aiming to slow the spread
Posted 16 April 2020, 5:45 p.m. Suggest removal
Well_mudda_take_sic says...
*Re-post:*
A lot of really dumb things are now being done by people whose knowledge of virology is non-existent or very limited at best. Most people cannot begin to fathom just how infinitesimally small (very very very very minute) the covid-19 virus is. Only the very rare person who has had the opportunity to look at and study both the size and behaviour of viruses under an electron microscope will appreciate that homemade (non-medical) masks provide the wearer with very limited, if any, meaningful protection from a virus like covid-19 that is capable of aerosol transmission. Masks made to stringent medically required specifications and properly fitted to the wearer's face help prevent the transmission of viruses by normal inhalation and exhalation at the outer edges of the mask. Not so in the case of homemade masks.
Moreover, it is very much open to question whether wearing any type of homemade mask does any better a job at protecting others from an infected person than would be achieved by an unmasked person simply coughing or sneezing into their elbow. Also, coughing is a natural defense mechanism that protects the respiratory tract from inhaling foreign bodies and it's not entirely clear the extent to which wearing a homemade mask may stifle that ability and therefore actually be harmful to the wearer.
It's perhaps worth noting too that the covid-19 virus has exceptional glue-like stickability to just about anything it comes into contact with. Those using any kind of mask must ensure it has been very carefully sterilized/sanitized before each use and the average user of a mask will not have either the discipline or ability to do this at home.
But if it nevertheless makes you, and you believe others around you, feel more secure, then by all means wear a homemade mask.
And of course Minnis and Sands, both being medical doctors, no doubt know all of this.
On Making face masks to help workers
Posted 16 April 2020, 5:39 p.m. Suggest removal