But only in very recent history has mankind had the level of technology needed to play serious games with Mother Nature. I am therefore not the least bit comforted by a "throughout history" view of pandemics. What can be done today in highly secretive labs around the world could never have been even dreamed of yesterday, let alone done. Bill Gates speaks with a wry smile on his face about all the research the Gate's Foundation is now involved in with key partners; research that is focused on developing regular vaccinations for 7 or 8 billion people that can be sold to governments around the world for their people. That's both big money and plenty power. It's an entirely new nightmarish age, undoubtedly with financially greedy and/or power hungry evil actors at play behind the scenes. It is what it is.

The real conundrum for our society is that keeping everyone locked-up in their homes and unexposed to the Red China Virus only means they will remain vulnerable to contracting whenever our tourist sector re-opens and the cruise ships are once again allowed to bring super spreaders back to our shores. The current consensus of the world's leading pandemic experts is that it will take approximately 18 months to develop an effective vaccination or serum recipe that can be rolled out on a global scale basis. After that it could then take a few years before most of the world's population is resistant or fully immunized. Some are even saying that an annual booster vaccination will be rquired for the Red China Virus going forward. Certainly not a rosy outlook for the tourism industry....too many people are going to be afraid to travel, period; especially as passengers in filthy floating hotels that are now known to be impossible to keep clean and therefore serve as deadly pathogen incubators. One thing is for sure....we can't all remain locked up in our homes with fear and high anxiety issues for the next 18 months, with a dead economy to boot. That's simply not doable under any circumstance. Put another way, keeping the curve of cases flattened so that healthcare facilities and providers are not overwhelmed may well ultimately prove to be an unworkable solution for the longer term.

Bahamians are on average the most unhealthy people on the planet. Speaks volumes about our quality and way of life, not to mention the complete failure of our public healthcare system when it comes to both standard of care and preventative care. We are as third world as it gets when it comes to healthcare and the greedy insurance companies have locked most Bahamians out of proper and/or affordable healthcare. Truly a very sad situation.

It's why everything possible is being done to keep Boris Johnson, PM of the UK, off of a ventilator. Only one in five survive this Red China Virus once they are put on a ventilator.

Alternatively, those most vulnerable in our society could be isolated from everyone else. But that would be most Bahamians who are aged 60+ and/or morbidly obese with two or more significant existing health conditions. By my count that would be a majority of Bahamians.

Sadly, right you are.

If it helps you any, just think of it as bio-engineered weapon experiment that ran amok on the people of its creator at the time of field testing....a creator possibly with a scorched earth outlook to its ideological goal of world domination. One thing is for sure, the Red China Virus, unlike the flu viruses we have grown accustomed to, is a highly infectious killer pathogen primarily targeted at removing from among the world's population the aged with pre-existing medical conditions, many of whom are persons of African descent. Some are beginning to think of it as a type of unleashed population control agent. There's certainly enough smoke out there involving highly secretaive pathogen research activities sponsored by the Bill Gate's Foundation to justify some of the suspicions embedded in the more outlandish conspiracy theories now floating around.

The tariff war with the US has totally changed Red China's game plan. They know now that they will no longer be able to bilk $550 billion a year out of the US....and their backs are up against the wall.

Idiot. Our elected officials have repeatedly gone out of their way to publicly declare that The Bahamas is a strong ally of Red China and has very strained relations with the US. So what do you expect?!

Chances are most of the medical supplies on the Betty K were made in Red China and were being shipped from Red China to the Bahamas through the US. In all likelihood Red China knew the US would intervene and stop the flow of these medical supplies to the Bahamas even before they were loaded on the Betty K in Florida. All part of Red China's well oiled machinery aimed at creating discord between the Bahamas and the US as the ruthless Xi Jinping communist regime seeks to strengthen its strategic control of a small nation at the door step to the US.

And we all know the quality of Red Chinese made products.

New washing machines, refrigerator, air conditioners, etc. made in America lasted my parents 25+ years. I'm lucky if the ones I buy today that all seem to be made in Red China last 5 years.