It's ridiculous. COVID is a pumped flu that is getting weaker and weaker by the week. Case fatality rates are collapsing across the world...CDC have quietly put Infection fatality estimates lower the flu now across most age groups. Children should be school. And if young adults need to blow off steam. Let them. Particularly if they are outdoors. This whole thing is a shame and a sham. The only reason cases appeared to flare up in exuma and eleuthera is because screening were available for the first time and so it gave an artificial spike...the curfews there just undermine the stability our country desperately needs...Lockdowns have done nothing. Police brutality will do less. Even the Masks insanity has finally be proven false, with the first large randomized control study being released in Denmark and shows mask basically don't do squat in real life situations...arresting people for not wearing them is crazy.. This insanity needs to stop...

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326…

What emergency are we under? There s 3 people in ICU Twenty in hospitals at this point. 11 new cases as of the 17th. This is a dictatorship. I generally don’t vote because I feel red/gold are really are as corrupt and incompetent as one another but this to much. This man has got to go...

F off Minnis

Insane - why not do the same for any other small out island. The hypocrisy is growing...
We know covid is not a dangerous disease, IFR have plummeted. CDC has it lower than flu now for most age brackets under 70, but putting 3000 tourist Together with 7000 bahamian doesn’t t seem smart by their own standards...Personally I think it’s all bull shit, Costa Rica got rid of Pre testing weeks ago without issue...as long as people aren’t hanging out in poorly ventilated places or slubbering over one another RO is going to be low...and yeah this thing is just flu 2.0.

You forget TalRussell they have been tested before entry and are tested again on day 5. They are probably the safest segment of Bahamian social life at present. And if they zooming by on their golf cart they ain't at risk to no one. I 'd worried about the church goer in AC then the sight seeing tourist on a golf cart. Even the naughty boy and girls on the beach in Bimini are likely safer than gospel choir in AC... And well the clubs - bad idea - but at least if the tourist frequents one then he or she will be the persons that most recently did a test with a negative result, the same cannot be said for the Bahamian brethren 'backing their asses up...'

Ultimately it comes down the social procedures that we learned as children - if you're sick stay away from grandma, cover your mouth when you sneeze, wash your hands. Everything else deprives humanity of what it means to be human and no more certain to be effective than using a sock to hold water or using a stocking as ballon. At the end of the day the virus is going to do what it does until the human body does what it does. The only thing the government can do is not make matters worse by stopping travel which hurts people that need diagnostic screenings that they put off, or steer children down the wrong path by keeping them out of school, or cause marriages to get more abusive or violent by locking families together or businesses to go under by taking away their customers. Wait...Basically everything the government has done to date have made matters worse...

This virus has been around since September 2019, there are even some reports of samples discovered in march 2019 in Madrid. The average of COVID is death 75-80, with the vast majority having serious 2-3 comorbidites - 94% in the USA...basically old age. Yet the rest of society is much worse because of government, media and stakes in the socio-economy forgot generational knowledge and panicked.

'The elephant, spooked by cat, ran over the cliff and died...'

John the Virus has not got more deadly if anything it's gotten less deadly but more contagious. More Contagious does not mean more likely to kill you. It means more people are walking around not realizing they have it; but also testing capacity has also skyrocketed and there now the necessity of 'getting' a test to participate in travel or work. (As opposed to symptomatic tracing testing that is happening in the Bahamas) The net result is more cases not more death. This is evidenced in US, Uk, Spain, Sweden, Russia etc. It means more cases, but less hospitalized overall that early in the year and finally much much less death therefore a less deadly disease.

Secondly evidence has now been presented that masks do not protect against the virus but they do limit the viral load - this is a airborne virus and as such only a N95 mask can severely limited the exposure. Cloth mask only reduce viral load by about 20% or put another way allow 80% of viral load through (when a infected person wears a mask as well as the odds improve) but are far from effective. The Additional the assumption in the experiment in question was far removed from actual life - they used mannequins producing a 'cough' for twenty minutes. So unless you are a street perform standing and coughing in one place not touching your mask as cough and sneeze the efficacy is going to plummet.

The point is there is little that Donald Trump, Joe Biden or any democratic elected country can do (save imprisoning their citizens and even that has failed) to mitigate the spread of this virus which is -let face it - fairly tame in comparison to other health threats - such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

I believe it’s highly likely the Bahamas experienced a covid wave in January but Again simply considered it to be a strong flu. In our community some old folks unfortunately died, more than usual...sad but there is greater sadness in seeing 100,000 of our much younger country facing hunger, unemployment and Our youth confronted by myriad of social issues...stemming the above and being deprived of schooling and physical education for something that is not a dangerous threat to them.

Same information was confirmed in cancer screening study released 2 days ago in Italy which shows COVID antibodies in 14% of the patients in September of 2019. The more important question is not whether this a third wave but why excess mortality was not seen until 7 months later or until after government enacted wide sweeping restrictions and lockdowns. It lends credence to idea that deaths And cases are being over counted and if a over sensitive pcr test was never developed we might have been none the wiser. We would have looked at 2020 and thought of it as a rough flu season. I suspect media panic and restrictions have a lot to answer for.

Just a disaster...Minnis step down already...you clearly are out of your death...there is not a risk to health services being over run, bodies not piling up - the only thing that is is business debt as guests cancel leaving empty beds and bills..