This blithering imbecile has been all talk and no do since May 2017. Nothing he promises is ever successfully executed. Lloyd has always been and will always be a disgrace as minister of education. He never should have been given a cabinet position by Minnis, especially one as significant and important to our nation as public education.

> He (Bresil Rolle) assured the public that even if an employer has not been up to date with employees’ NIB contributions, they can still be eligible for the unemployment benefit.

There you have it from the horse's mouth. Peter's paid-up account at NIB is being robbed to pay benefits to delinquent Paul because NIB's board and executive team have failed tp prosecute Paul's employer for defrauding NIB.

> “NIB’s executive team is ever mindful of the toll this COVID-19 health and economic crisis will have on NIB’s financials,” Mr Rolle said.

How can this be the case when it has been years since NIB has produced and tabled annual audited financials in the House of Assemby? Also it has been many years since the last actuarial valuation was done to indicate the extent of NIB's unfunded obligations.

> "NIB’s (executives are) constantly monitoring the liquidity of the fund to ensure that NIB can meet its obligations in the least disruptive manner for the markets.”

I think we all know that's a joke!

I suspect by now that Minnis and Turnquest are much more fearful about the effects of the economic devastation in the months and years following the Red China Virus crisis rather than by the number of deaths that the virus itself will likely cause. The writing is already on the wall for all to see.

Here's what's likely to happen when Doctors Hospital re-opens. Minnis and Sands will declare this hospital open to businesss for only medical patients who have been tested and found not to have the Red China Virus. That way certain well known (privileged) doctors and the senior nurses who work with them will be able to continue practicing medicine in their specialty fields with much less risk and fear of contracting the Red China Virus.

The Wicked Witch of The West really shames the dead and their surviving family members whenever she (of all people) writes these kinds of puffery tributes to their life on earth.

The super spreaders are asymptomatic people under 40 (including young children) who are highly infectious carriers for weeks but show no symptoms at all or only very mild symptoms.

> One of the most frustrating aspects of this virus is that it requires us to be reliant on others.

And how many times have our corrupt elected officials set the tone from the very top that has come to be commonly known as the "All for me baby" way of doing things!

> “I would at this moment urge every retail store, or persons, who have any stocks or supplies, of any medically approved surgical or face masks for sale, to contact the Ministry of Health immediately, in order to sell the same to public health (officials), as the sale of any medical masks to the general public will at some time be prohibited.”

Note how Minnis says I "urge" instead of I "order". Also note how he makes it point to say the suppliers of the medically approved surgical or face masks to public health officials will be compensated for selling them. I suspect the bulk sellers of these masks are unable to re-stock because their foreign suppliers are selling to the highest bidder, which in many cases is the government of another country.

Minnis got way too far behind the eight ball on this one because of all of his pre-occupation in pandering to the wants of foreign investors, in particular the very greedy and despicable foreign cruise ship companies like Royal Caribbean, Carnival and Disney. Let's all keep our fingers crossed that the pathogen prone polluting cruise ship industry never recovers for the sake of our small nation.

You should worry a whole heck of a lot more about Minnis and his decision making. Trump is not making decisions for Bahamians. You Never Trumpers are truly deranged and singularly focused on one thing. I suspect most of you will become permanently pyschotic when he's re-elected in November for another four more years.

*Repost:*

The total population of Italy is 60.3 million of which 22% are 65+ years of age. By comparison, the Bahamas has a total population of 394,200 of which 8% are age 65 or older.

Italy has had 132,500 confirmed cases of Covid-19 thus far of which 13,800 have died. The infection rate and death rate for Italy so far is therefore 0.22% (132,500/60,300,000) and 10.4% (13,800/132,500), respectively.

Assuming the Bahamas and Italy have tested roughly the same percentage level of their respective total populations, and extrapolating the Italian statistics to date to the Bahamas, this would indicate at least 866 persons in the Bahamas are currently infected of which about 90 will die. but this is very misleading for the following reasons.

We have a much more dense population (number of people per square mile) than Italy because most of our population resides on the relatively small island of New Providence. We also do not have and will never have anywhere near the healthcare resources that Italy has had available to it. The only 'good' news for the Bahamas is that the percentage of Italy's population age 65 and over is 2.75 times greater than that of the Bahamas. These three very significant factors alone will likely contribute to the infection and death rates for the Bahamas being about twice those of Italy.

In crunching the numbers, this means the Bahamas may currently have 1,734 infected persons (0.44% x 394,200), of which 360 of them (20.8% x 1,734) can be expected to die within the next 6 weeks or so. This picture could have been very different had Minnis acted much sooner to the writing that was was so clearly on the wall. But that's all water under the bridge or should I say lives to be lost now.

Looney tune mitigation measures that panic the public into crowded situations will of course make these numbers much worse.