It would be foolish to extend the lockdowns. With the continuous flow of cases in Grand Bahama even **before** the national lockdown, it shows these lockdowns aren't doing much. Keeping the border closed was the cause and also the answer.
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These cases came from the USA. It will take a while to normalize. **Continually making everyone stay home is not effective - Grand Bahama is proof of this**. Just keep the borders closed for a while longer. Everyone is rushing to a vaccine. I think that will be coming through the pipeline soon. The US will probably be among the first to get it, so that will help things turn around. If the timeline of Feb/2021 for a vaccine is realistic, that would be a good thing.
<br/><br/>Let the businesses socially distance, people wear masks and just see how long you can keep the borders closed, but stop these 24-hour curfews. I think the 10 pm curfew is okay.

Yes, but it takes people with vision to bring the kind of change we need. Unfortunately, that is highly lacking in our leadership.

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This makes a lot of sense. Excellent display of **social distancing** by a government entity!!!! <br/>
Why can't these government offices get their act together? I see why we love conch salad so much in this country... **we always mixed up**!! SMH

Yes, then the fact that it's an invasive species means that it has no local predators to keep it in check... just like the lion fish.<br/>
These people need to stop **importing** these fancy plants, that have fancy eggs that they can't see hidden in them...that produce fancy frogs... that squirt fancy poison and endanger native animals.<br/><br/>
Next thing we'll hear, is that they accidentally imported a poisonous snake. I'm happy to know that our native creatures are not poisonous. we don't need any more invasive species brought here by accident!!<br/>
They need to monitor imports more closely and have these things sanitized better to kill eggs and the like, **before** bringing them here. SMH

This just proves that the US travel advisories are a **load of crap**!!!! It's strictly political. I wouldn't be surprised if they did this because The Bahamas gave them restrictions. Trump and his minions need a life.<br/><br/>
Let's see **USA... over 5 million** cases. The **Bahamas... over 700** cases. <br/>
**USA... over 160 thousand deaths**. The **Bahamas... 14 deaths**.
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Anyone see something wrong with this picture?? Anyone, anyone, Bueller? SMH

Agreed ThisisOurs. NIB will not determine if they close or not. If the losses are so great and they feel they can't recoup, the business will close permanently or may not reopen until next year. Many businesses already closed during the first 24 hour cufew... big and small.

I agree with you. Before this silly 24-hour curfew... they had the 10 pm curfew (before the borders were open to the US). When the 10pm curfew was in place... the virus was not spreading rapidly, even with limited testing. All businesses were allowed to open until 8 pm. and the virus was under control. <br/><br/>
So they know what caused the dramatic increase... so stop only that and see the impact. Why you have to stop commercial travel... and all these other things... when it was only **commercial travel to and from the USA** that caused this??? SMH

Yes, glad he recovered. That is exactly why the virus spreads so easily... because many people will have even milder symptoms or none at all and be around others without masks or socially distancing themselves and pass it on unknowingly.

Yes condolences indeed. So, this elderly man was a Bahamian then? More details are needed for this story.