1. Covid is an airborne disease thats floats in the air and is much smaller than the the cloth and surgical masks that most kids and teachers wear. It's like using a tennis racket to keep out the rain and the air the comes out the side of the mask doesn't just magically disappear.

2. Children/schools have never been a massive for vector cases, hospitalisation or death. In fact more kids in the USA die from suicide, drowning and the flu..

3. Children, particularly young children, need to see their teachers faces to develop emotional awareness and identify learning cues..

With masks the educational development of children is interrupted to protect them from a virus has very little risk to them, by protective method that doesn't work...

What skews what happened is attributing massive proportions of deaths to single cause and misrepresenting COVID as being a threat to all strata of society when the threat was particularly acute to those that are dying of 2 - 5 other things...

These numbers have more to do with how deaths are codified that anything else and distorts the risk prevalence in society.

Surely you recognise that cases load increases in July 20 are similar to those in July 21 which coincide with national Independence Day parties and migrations, seasonal increases in cases in Florida and Bahamians travel for back to school shopping is more likely the driving factor then the highly tested homeporting cruisers.

And surely you must recognise that the different between the two years is likely more attributable to the availability of testing.

Given we don't track excess mortality in this country any conversation about COVID impact is ultimately mute given we don't understand the burden overall or whether that burden might be attributable to other factors such as aggressive Health policy restricting travel or locking people in homes. For all we know Deaths have been moved from the cancer, heart disease buckets into the covid one by the stroke of the pen and Health officials efforts to push compliance through fear (for the public good of course)...

Mr Poitier god bless you and thank you inspiring generations of future Bahamians...
Rest in peace..

The CDC now recommends cancelling youth sports and extracurricular activities "to protect in-person learning" (they consider the entire nation to be 'high transmission').

F***. That.

The CDC should be considered an enemy of the people.

https://cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/c…

There are only two possible explanations for the horror of the past two years: mass hysteria or grand conspiracy.

If it was hysteria, we should see the madness end in the next six months as the pandemic fades away.

Fauci, CDC, the WHO must be praying for the conspiracy explanation.

ps. by horror I'm referring to the contradictory policies and protocols that have brought nations and their economies to their knees not the virus that has a 99.85% survivability rate....

717 persons over two years...it's sad but at 300 a year average was it really worth cratering the economy, destroying children's educations and obliterating many businesses...how many deaths were actually avoided....? How many of these 700+ poor souls were suffering from other ailments and would have succumb anyway....? Not all but definitely a significant portion.. And how many have died because of canceled diagnostics or postponed surgeries...?

Finally some speaking up for the kids...it only took two years...but serious damage done...kids need to be back in school now. And while yer at it get rid of masks for the kids it's useless..

Points for effort but we have an impossible to stop variant (yes vaccination fades to zero in a few weeks) that looks like the common cold...? Give it up...sigh..Let's take out the champagne and start dancing naked in the streets...the emperor has no cloths! All this pomp and circumstance for a virus that has no teeth...brave this is your moment to shine...be bold man!! Get our kids school! Crumple up the contradictory public health orders and get on rebuilding the country. Please.

To the contrary covid is doesn't change on a dime - it's a very predictable seasonal virus - where progressive variants have become weaker with each evolution - which is exactly what you'd expect with a novel respiratory virus. Cases, Death and Hospitalisation have fluctuated in sync and predictably in the USA despite variations in mandates and different policies etc.

The problem is and has been mass hysteria and knee jerk reactions that have gone against a century of epidemiological knowledge and experience plus the systemic short comings of national health care systems.

Fixing Hysteria is simple - just tell the truth and don't panic.
Fixing the health care system - thats a little harder, but now rather than later is a good place to start.

Yet people are not becoming seriously ill and so in fact restrictive measures at this point will likely prolong the spread and delay any sort of collective immunity that comes with it... Now, more than ever, is time you actually a mild virus to spread in the healthy population and focus protection on those that are at risk...Natural immunity can be provide without the societal cost...there is simply no argument for wide sweeping restrictions at this time (not that they have worked anyway)..