... thanks for your input, maybe I misread this article:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-…

... Birdie, try to keep up! The conversation was about state laws which are man made, not spiritual law!

... thanks Dr. Know It All, now how do you prove what you said objectively based on the underreporting of positive cases and patchy testing?

... a vaccine is iffy for many, but at the rate infections are spreading (confirmed cases only reveal a small percentage of those infected since the vast majority are asymptomatic) we will soon achieve herd immunity. Infections will peak and then steadily decline. At the end of it we will have many deaths but the combination of ignorance from those in charge and apathy from a large segment of the population makes me wonder who really cares!

We are missing the opportunity to come out of this thing better as a country. Handouts are good, but hand ups are better!

We should be stressing the importance of education, saving and investing. Making opportunities available to strengthen communication, improve anger management etc in families. We should be showing the links between poverty and single parent homes so people could learn to make better choices and reduce the hardship in their lives. People should be made aware of free online university courses to improve their employment opportunities on the other side of this pandemic, but instead I expect a surge in new births to those who can least afford it which will coincide with the lockdowns and the cycle of learned helplessness continues. People are not learning independence but continued dependence and this is how politicians maintain control.

... the Parliament decides what is a law, not individuals in the community.
Penalties are assigned for breaking the law and that may include going to jail. The purpose of some penalties is to discourage persons from breaking the law-- it is called a deterrent. When a person breaks the law it means they have no regard for it. When they break the law repeatedly it undermines the law and causes lawlessness in society. If young black men do not want to go to jail, they only have to do one thing-- not break the law!! Simple!

So Birdie, the problem is not the law but the lawbreakers! Until laws are changed by Parliament, they should all be enforced!

Several years ago it was said that about $100 million was wasted in the heath care system annually! This may be a part of the reason why!

Gov’T Official: $100m Health Spend Wasted
As of Monday, November 23, 2015

#By natario Mckenzie

#Tribune Business Reporter

#nmckenzie@tibunemedia.net

#A senior Government medical official has admitted that around $100 million, or 25-30 per cent of its annual healthcare spending, is wasted.

#The stunning admission by Dr Glen Beneby, the Government’s chief medical officer, will likely ignite further debate over whether the Government’s stewardship and governance systems will be able to ensure ‘value for money’ with the bigger funding pool it is seeking for National Health Insurance (NHI).

#Dr Beneby, a panellist at a recent NHI discussion hosted by the Economic Society of the College of the Bahamas (COB), said the Government was spending $400 million annually in the public health care sector.

*"So we have Rotary International. We have Ernst & Young. We have Bahamas Hope. All of these three entities we’re **talking about** and collaborating on **assisting** us with the construction of these centres and hurricane shelters."*

Talking about and assisting is not doing! The major failure of the government in handling this pandemic was not physically quarantining infected persons. Knowing that hurricane season was coming it seems prudent to me for them to have considered from March that they could have addressed two problems at once, by doing what I suggested. Post Dorian, hurricane shelters should have been high on a list of priorities for certain islands!

But watch them spend twice the money and get half the benefit!

You don't become a responsible thinking adult just by getting older. Many are not emotionally or intellectually ready for the responsibilities they take on in relationships or jobs because they have not seen it modeled. Society is being constantly dumbed down, but we should expect thoughtfulness, self control and excellence in times of adversity?

This was an opportunity to build quarantine sites on different islands during the pandemic that could have doubled as hurricane shelters ( or other multipurpose buildings). Governments just love to waste time and money!