This is a time for sensitivity all around. A school does not have to accept a child with an unsettled bill when this lockdown is lifted. They could have handled this in a better way!
These activists are just bat crazy, but there are two sides to this. Many men will get nagged to death with this curfew and the sad part is liquor stores closed before people had a chance to stock up! Its gonna be hard all around!!
... this is temporary. Even if it lasts two months the economy will rebound! Physical and infrastructural damage from a Dorian like event is a different matter. We should be thankful this is not worse!!
Governments always use these as opportunities to expand the social welfare net and an entitlement mentality. We need a society built on personal responsibility and only those who can prove they need help, the truly indigent, should get it. This is fiscally unsustainable!
They can't get students or their parents who cosigned educational loans to pay back their loans, but they will make the students pay for this flight? That's funny!
It does not seem unreasonable to test these 61 students since the gov't would allegedly have a current surplus of tests (having only used 117 out of the 400 they claimed they had with 10,000 more on order).
Why allow young seemingly healthy persons who have travelled from a Covid 19 area, who may have little to no symptoms to freely mix with older relatives who may have medical conditions without testing them first? Seems unwise to me!
I really wish the complaining would stop. We just need to ride out this storm, and hopefully people will learn to save for difficult times.
It can get much worse than this. Thank God we did not have a Dorian like event in Nassau to destroy buildings ()hotels) and infrastructure that would disable the economy for more than one year!!.
This shows that a radicle shift is needed in the mentality of Bahamians in relation to employment. It is unacceptable to simply want a job, any job without adequate preparation to enter the workforce.
There also has to be a shift in how the law addresses these kinds of scenarios where island wide shut downs may be needed due to natural disasters or communicable diseases and fair standardized contracts with contingencies for these kinds of scenarios that determine how employers are allowed deal with employees!
… young healthy people are the very ones who can transport the virus to older persons with multiple medical conditions that make them more likely to die!! That would defeat the purpose of the shut down. But this is why people are encouraged to save for rainy days and not live just to spend what they make! It is time for Bahamians to learn that money is not just to be spent!
joeblow says...
This is a time for sensitivity all around. A school does not have to accept a child with an unsettled bill when this lockdown is lifted. They could have handled this in a better way!
On Schools expect fees to be paid
Posted 24 March 2020, 6:28 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
These activists are just bat crazy, but there are two sides to this. Many men will get nagged to death with this curfew and the sad part is liquor stores closed before people had a chance to stock up! Its gonna be hard all around!!
On ‘Curfew will increase risk of violence to women’
Posted 24 March 2020, 6:23 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... this is temporary. Even if it lasts two months the economy will rebound! Physical and infrastructural damage from a Dorian like event is a different matter. We should be thankful this is not worse!!
On It’s 24 hours: Minnis ramps up curfew to tighten grip in virus war
Posted 24 March 2020, 8:11 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
Governments always use these as opportunities to expand the social welfare net and an entitlement mentality. We need a society built on personal responsibility and only those who can prove they need help, the truly indigent, should get it. This is fiscally unsustainable!
On Govt may expand temporary jobless benefit scheme
Posted 23 March 2020, 10:30 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
I wonder if this means there will soon be an announcement of new confirmed cases?
Its getting interesting!
On PM announces 24-hour curfew – essential travel only
Posted 23 March 2020, 10:27 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
They can't get students or their parents who cosigned educational loans to pay back their loans, but they will make the students pay for this flight? That's funny!
It does not seem unreasonable to test these 61 students since the gov't would allegedly have a current surplus of tests (having only used 117 out of the 400 they claimed they had with 10,000 more on order).
Why allow young seemingly healthy persons who have travelled from a Covid 19 area, who may have little to no symptoms to freely mix with older relatives who may have medical conditions without testing them first? Seems unwise to me!
On Plane sent to Jamaica to bring back 61 students
Posted 23 March 2020, 6:28 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... having people prepared to work instead of those looking for a job would help too!
On Get 'game changer' industries to reduce external vulnerability
Posted 23 March 2020, 2:35 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
I really wish the complaining would stop. We just need to ride out this storm, and hopefully people will learn to save for difficult times.
It can get much worse than this. Thank God we did not have a Dorian like event in Nassau to destroy buildings ()hotels) and infrastructure that would disable the economy for more than one year!!.
We still have a lot to be thankful for!
On ‘It’s not been this bad in 30 years’
Posted 23 March 2020, 2:31 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
This shows that a radicle shift is needed in the mentality of Bahamians in relation to employment. It is unacceptable to simply want a job, any job without adequate preparation to enter the workforce.
There also has to be a shift in how the law addresses these kinds of scenarios where island wide shut downs may be needed due to natural disasters or communicable diseases and fair standardized contracts with contingencies for these kinds of scenarios that determine how employers are allowed deal with employees!
On More than 350 Fusion Superplex staff placed on unpaid leave
Posted 22 March 2020, 9:50 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
… young healthy people are the very ones who can transport the virus to older persons with multiple medical conditions that make them more likely to die!! That would defeat the purpose of the shut down. But this is why people are encouraged to save for rainy days and not live just to spend what they make! It is time for Bahamians to learn that money is not just to be spent!
On Shutdown will affect bus drivers 'terribly'
Posted 21 March 2020, 6:25 p.m. Suggest removal