Stop fighting COVID focus on treatment...cases are plunging just as they did this time last year in spite of election craziness. It's time to move on. It's clear - masks, social distancing, sanitising are all wasted effort - vaccination was short term solve but that ship is sailing fast. Focus on getting businesses back up and running get Bahamian entrepreneurs building. Get schools open. Tighten taxation of property and get rid of the government owned money gobbling leviathans...be bold be brave be better.
Gee golly gosh… surely if all that election chaos doesnt cause a spike is it time roll ups emergency orders and get back to life? I might be wrong but campaigning naughtiness occurred/started well over two weeks ago…
> First thing you are going to see is an > aggressive fight against the virus and > that’s what we’re doing now and the > first step is what we’re doing today. > > (The) second step we will then address > the economic issues that face our > people and we’re now going to be > aggressively looking at the state of > our finances to determine what we can > do with what we find and we will let > the Bahamian public know what we have > found.
In order to get to step two you have to recognise that the step one is irrelevant/impossible because there is no good answer to fight virus - lockdowns, school closures, masks, social distancing and even vaccines has failed - the only way through is through treatment, focused vaccination in 'covid season' [just like we used to do with the flu] and acknowledgment of natural immunity and that vast majority of society is not risk from the virus. Brave had it already he should now..
The usa don't have the data to have any indication what is going on - they went all in on vaccines and now that it's flopping (the end of pandemic was not achieved and protection only last a few months) and control arms in the form of Florida show that focused protection with treatment and combined with open economies is just fine - and yes seasonal flare up happen like the flu but covid is over - the entire response was a blunder of epic proportions...
Nah the point is you can't hold your breadth under water and expect covid to be gone when you come up. We should have kept it open prepped health facilities early on and kept the engine going...now we have the issue were we still have covid but we don't have the money or the credit worthiness to build the facilities that our nation needs in any industry... the only way back is more economic activity which cannot be accomplished with stupid restriction not grounded in science or sense. Vaccination limited risk for those at risk that should have been focus of the program instead we got this universal vaccination approach which disenfranchised the populace...vaccine mandates don't work unfortunately like it or hate it FL/Sweden/denmark is the only path forward now.
Reckless election maybe but then again a lot of vectors would have been outdoors which considerably lowers chance of transmission.. I guess we'll know in a week or two.. but for cases/deaths continue to trend down (as they did last year after a peak in mid September).
Definitely reckless to allow vaccinated tourists in here without a covid test...vaccine never worked against transmission - early animal testing showed this..and arguably increases risk of transmission within the first 14 days of treatment...(when the vaccinated are supposedly unvaccinated..)
Hmmmm...if and when the country defaults on it's loans and incurs the wrath of multiple super-national banks - what then? The only way out of is this is tax and it's got to be on the wealthy, spec investors leveraging this country real estate to milk their fortunes..Idle land must be taxed...a serious audit of real estate valuation for property tax in the out islands must happen...Large corporation have got to pay.. and stupid capital projects like the 30 million glass window bridge to no where must be shelved...government bureaucratic fat must be cut and investment in education and health service must start...and above all the borrowing must cease...
And I have to wonder if Minnis regrets catering this economy by lockdowns and building side walks when he could have been building health care facilities....
whogothere says...
Stop fighting COVID focus on treatment...cases are plunging just as they did this time last year in spite of election craziness. It's time to move on. It's clear - masks, social distancing, sanitising are all wasted effort - vaccination was short term solve but that ship is sailing fast. Focus on getting businesses back up and running get Bahamian entrepreneurs building. Get schools open. Tighten taxation of property and get rid of the government owned money gobbling leviathans...be bold be brave be better.
On ‘FUNDS NEEDED FOR COVID FIGHT’: Darville warns that health system needs money in a hurry
Posted 24 September 2021, 12:41 p.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
How soon until devaluation of the B$ enters the conversation...?
On $10.4bn national debt bigger than economy
Posted 23 September 2021, 8:57 p.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
Well said
On The coming national crisis
Posted 23 September 2021, 7:49 a.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
Gee golly gosh… surely if all that election chaos doesnt cause a spike is it time roll ups emergency orders and get back to life? I might be wrong but campaigning naughtiness occurred/started well over two weeks ago…
On COVID cases continue to drop
Posted 22 September 2021, 9:58 p.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
Yes would not trust that man as far as one could throw him...whats the saying with foxes and hen houses?
On Legislation to replace COVID-19 Emergency Orders ‘a top priority’
Posted 22 September 2021, 11:14 a.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
> First thing you are going to see is an
> aggressive fight against the virus and
> that’s what we’re doing now and the
> first step is what we’re doing today.
>
> (The) second step we will then address
> the economic issues that face our
> people and we’re now going to be
> aggressively looking at the state of
> our finances to determine what we can
> do with what we find and we will let
> the Bahamian public know what we have
> found.
In order to get to step two you have to recognise that the step one is irrelevant/impossible because there is no good answer to fight virus - lockdowns, school closures, masks, social distancing and even vaccines has failed - the only way through is through treatment, focused vaccination in 'covid season' [just like we used to do with the flu] and acknowledgment of natural immunity and that vast majority of society is not risk from the virus. Brave had it already he should now..
On Just dismal - Brave’s verdict after PMH tour
Posted 22 September 2021, 10:08 a.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
The usa don't have the data to have any indication what is going on - they went all in on vaccines and now that it's flopping (the end of pandemic was not achieved and protection only last a few months) and control arms in the form of Florida show that focused protection with treatment and combined with open economies is just fine - and yes seasonal flare up happen like the flu but covid is over - the entire response was a blunder of epic proportions...
On Legislation to replace COVID-19 Emergency Orders ‘a top priority’
Posted 22 September 2021, 9:31 a.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
Nah the point is you can't hold your breadth under water and expect covid to be gone when you come up. We should have kept it open prepped health facilities early on and kept the engine going...now we have the issue were we still have covid but we don't have the money or the credit worthiness to build the facilities that our nation needs in any industry... the only way back is more economic activity which cannot be accomplished with stupid restriction not grounded in science or sense. Vaccination limited risk for those at risk that should have been focus of the program instead we got this universal vaccination approach which disenfranchised the populace...vaccine mandates don't work unfortunately like it or hate it FL/Sweden/denmark is the only path forward now.
On Legislation to replace COVID-19 Emergency Orders ‘a top priority’
Posted 22 September 2021, 9:27 a.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
Reckless election maybe but then again a lot of vectors would have been outdoors which considerably lowers chance of transmission.. I guess we'll know in a week or two.. but for cases/deaths continue to trend down (as they did last year after a peak in mid September).
Definitely reckless to allow vaccinated tourists in here without a covid test...vaccine never worked against transmission - early animal testing showed this..and arguably increases risk of transmission within the first 14 days of treatment...(when the vaccinated are supposedly unvaccinated..)
On 185 new cases and six deaths confirmed
Posted 20 September 2021, 10:11 p.m. Suggest removal
whogothere says...
Hmmmm...if and when the country defaults on it's loans and incurs the wrath of multiple super-national banks - what then? The only way out of is this is tax and it's got to be on the wealthy, spec investors leveraging this country real estate to milk their fortunes..Idle land must be taxed...a serious audit of real estate valuation for property tax in the out islands must happen...Large corporation have got to pay.. and stupid capital projects like the 30 million glass window bridge to no where must be shelved...government bureaucratic fat must be cut and investment in education and health service must start...and above all the borrowing must cease...
And I have to wonder if Minnis regrets catering this economy by lockdowns and building side walks when he could have been building health care facilities....
On Bahamas downgraded by Moody's
Posted 18 September 2021, 8:28 a.m. Suggest removal