It would be nice if this country could get another private hospital that provides decent medical care while not having price gouging as its modus operandi!

This means going forward that both businesses and individuals must have an emergency hardship fund set aside to ensure they can survive at least 3 months in case something like this happens again. Both people and businesses have to get out of the living by the seat of your pants mentality!

Multiple untrue assertions were made in this article. I will only deal with two. First of which was that those who were infected and died were not listening to the advice given by public health. That is virtually impossible to ascertain, since they were all most likely infected BEFORE any guidance was given at all!

Secondly the global mortality rate based on Johns Hopkins coronavirus dashboard put mortality at around 5%, not 19-21%!

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

(click right link)

… if a doctor handled a medical problem for me the way Sands and Minnis handled this medical problem, I would have sued for negligence! The only advice they have given that makes any sense is to self distance and wear masks in public places! They probably only got that right because that's what public health experts around the world agree on!

@DDK... no, we need restricted movement and self distancing, but not in the doses Minnis is giving it. He should have given people time to prepare without creating panic and shut down everything for 30 days leaving grocery stores open with police presence to ensure rules were being followed. That would have been the cure. This drip, drip approach will accomplish nothing because if someone picked up this virus in a grocery store today, it can be in incubation for up to nine days or so while they spread it without having any symptoms. And those with symptoms can have them for 2 weeks or more. The approach he is taking makes no sense!

… the plan will be lockdown for another five days while the death toll rises!.

Competent, decisive rational leadership could have gotten us through this crisis without adding to the levels of stress covid- 19 would have brought on its own. The irrational, illogical decision making of the cabinet is doing far more to damage lives than this virus!!

If the governments intention was to find a way to spread this virus quickly among the population, then their decisions over the past three days that drove crowds of people into food stores did just that. Now let's sit back and watch the consequences of their ill fated decisions in the health of the citizens of this country over the next three weeks! They will have innocent blood on their hands!

Bahamians are so used to incompetent leadership that some will actually think Minnis is doing a good job!!

... Minnis does not get it. The streets of Nassau and grocery stores look like people getting ready for a hurricane. Whoever made this decision is a dimwit!

So since there will be long lines at all times, when should "essential workers" who get off after their allotted shopping time grocery shop?