The test kits are no doubt reserved for the parliamentarians and others in the political elite.

As the axiom goes: "United we stand, united we fall".

I just wish government had acted four to six weeks earlier to help cushion the very hard fall we're about to experience. The writing was on the wall in late January and we're now past mid-March. One thing we have learned though since May 2017, Minnis is only ever capable of acting in reactionary mode at great cost to the vast majority of the Bahamian people who are not on his 'gravy train'.

Should have happened many weeks ago when first recommended to government by many of us. Always too little, too late. The harm caused by late action has already been done, but remains unidentified because no wide spread testing was ever done.

> Ed Fields, Atlantis senior vice president, confirmed the letter was authentic, but he declined to offer any other comment on the matter saying he was in a meeting at the time.

What Ed Fields (a/k/a Uncle Tom) hasn't told the Atlantis staff is that the two-weeks of unpaid leave will be reassessed by management at the end of the initial two-week period to determine whether it should be extended for a longer period of time. And most workers know John Pinder and Dion Foulkes owe their allegiance to the employers as government's appointed representatives for smoothing over employer-employee tensions,

Everyone gets taken care of but the workers/staff in times of crisis. These poor souls always get told to just go home without pay and wait on the whistle to come back to work. Oh well, it is what it is.

Reassuring to know our public healthcare workers will flee for the hills at first sign of Covid-19 coming near them.

No. Strongly disagree. Hurricane Dorian was not the opening chapter in the volume of hurt for the Bahamas. Minnis becoming PM in May 2017 was the opening chapter.

Right you are @bogart

ditto that

McMillan and Sands don't seem to be on the same page. There's an article in today's Tribune in which Sands is essentially dishing out more "Don't worry, be happy" poppycock to the public.

Sands's continues to absurdly attempt to extrapolate Wuhan, Red China's experience with Covid-19 to the Bahamas. In doing so he ignores umpteen differing variables of great significance, not least of which is the ruthless Xi-led communist regime's propensity for not telling the truth about most things to the rest of the world.

It is therefore foolish and reckless for Sands, as a medical doctor, to suggest the spread of Covid-19 in the Bahamas will only result in at most 20 critically-ill cases and even fewer deaths. The public needs to remember that Sands is the same doctor who still maintains that Hurricane Dorian only claimed a total of 60 lives.

Is McMillan telling us we don't even have 20 ventilators in our country today with trained technicians capable of operating them? If that's so, I fear many elderly Bahamians with pre-existing medical conditions may die in the coming months from a conveniently diagnosed case of influenza with severe pneumonia complications rather than Covid-19. That would certainly help contain the death toll from Covid-19.

More "Don't worry, be happy" poppycock from Sands.

Sands's absurd attempt to extrapolate Wuhan, Red China's experience with Covid-19 to the Bahamas ignores umpteen differing variables of great significance, not least of which is the ruthless Xi-led communist regime's propensity for not telling the truth about most things to the rest of the world.

It is therefore foolish and reckless for Sands, as a medical doctor, to suggest the spread of Covid-19 in the Bahamas will only result in at most 20 critically-ill cases and even fewer deaths. The public needs to remember that Sands is the same doctor who still maintains that Hurricane Dorian only claimed a total of 60 lives.

I fear many elderly Bahamians with pre-existing medical conditions may die in the coming months from a diagnosed fatal case of influenza rather than Covid-19. That would certainly help contain the death toll from Covid-19.