Economy needs tourists, tourist don’t want to quarantine. Vaccine that materializes, won’t be here for 7 months, and even if does half the populations won’t trust it let a lone take it...Only way through this is essentially unfortunately what Minnis has defaulted too - open economy, social distancing and masks (Aka Sweden)...the reality is virus is gonna do what it’s gonna do. 99% of people have mild experiences...somewhere between 0.1%-0.3% die from it..it’s airborne, someone sneezes even with a mask on it floats in the air, until someone walks into lovely sneeze cloud...lockdowns haven’t worked, masks haven’t really worked, vaccine is miles a way...meanwhile we have more suicide attempts then any other year. Every week this month children have died because of crime or domestic violence, 100,000 people dependent of food bank support, small business is capitulating, our dollar might soon be devaluated impoverishing our nation, 1000s of students education and life paths are being destroyed because they lack the capacity to ‘go online’ or ‘home school’... Talk about how to make a problem worse...Testing works, testing frequently works, is there false positives - yes - generally less than false negatives...it’s better than not testing, it’s better than quarantine and it’s better than sitting on our behinds waiting for some miracle drug - people got to eat, work and in other words live. The idiots in power biggest mistake is that they don’t know how to calculate risk and let alone gain the trust of nation. They made decisions from panic, egotism, myopia and political popularity rather than science and common sense... They set our economy on fire and danced around the flames, celebrating how they kept people warm and safe, little did they realize it was summer and winter was still to come...(I’ll refrain from the exact GOT idiom)..

Get drilling...ha..what could possibly go wrong...? Go back to rock you crawled out from...sorry but this is possibly the last thing our country needs.

Why do u include non COVID deaths and investigated deaths in your count- Comrade I speak facts? - I believe non COVID deaths are clearly not caused by COVID they include car crash’s, people that fell off ladders or other incidents that were ‘not related’ to the disease. Similarly deaths under investigation the exact is unknown and may or may not be related. Until recently the dash board was in fact including the non related deaths in the count (and may still be) but at this point I ve lost track.

It’s relevant to note that every single time there has been a big case jump it has been accompanied by equally testing dump. This is no different -1050 tests processed yesterday, but the positivity rates is a unfortunately stable 20%, hospitalization still high.

So no this pandemic is not over in the Bahamas but impending economic collapse is more dangerous and despite all the inappropriate joking in parliament by the joke of a PM he knows it. And now effectively the Bahamas’s strategy is essentially Sweden’s only difference being we took a wrecking ball to our economy first...sigh...virus is gonna virus and like a hurricane not a lot that can be done but ride it out...fortunately COVID19 ain’t a Cat5.

My point is that 14 days locked anywhere is awful 3 days in nice hotel or private home with a pool is a darn site better than being restricted in concrete jungle I have friends in Realestate and hotel biz they seeing slow booking but have had some...The issue for eleuthera is not actually policy but flights - island resort destinations - Kam, chub, stan etc - haven't felt the burn because a) their guests face a light quarantine and b) primary access is normally charter or boat. The point more consequentially is that your assumption that people don't fly to bahamas for a weekend is not correct as is your understanding of what is working right now tourism and what isn't and why.

I guess the good news is recovered cases have been outnumberIng active ones for a few days now...

And you re missing point doesn’t t matter if you go for weekend or 5 days or a week the point is it’s not 14 days requirement.

Eleuthera isn t a resort island but ask them about bougainvillea.

1. You don’t need to stay the full 14 days so there you can come in for weekend.
2. Under current refs you are not confined to your room guests are still allowed full access to hotels.
3. This is why VIP was a lame attempt by MOT it was nothing new. Just a publicity stunt to change the name of what was already in place.
4. As I understand some family island destination have been full straight through - Stan cay, chub , kam cay etc basically island resorts
5. Economy and everyone is screwed, unless they allow guests to leave the hotel.

Seroprevalence are getting better day by day are now in the region of 90% accuracy. We also know somewhere between 30%-60% don’t present symptoms and Are unlikely to get tests therefore presents a considerable unknown. It’s complete plausible to conclude the results are of the studies are within the realm of reason less that likely that they off by that margin given we re seeing exactly the same this across the world. You have countries , regions and states following exactly the same bell shaped curve both with deaths and positivity rates regardless of restrictions, mask policy, lockdowns and all clearly without population infection rates in the 20-30% region. Meanwhile zero evidence of 60% HIT. What if any evidence is there of proud’s figures. Sorry but I think there is none...

It’s called T cell immunity and seroprevalence Studies. Look it up.

Check out New York Seroprevalence 19%-33% then Virus died. Same in Florida. Same across the southern states. Sweden. Belarus. Belgium. all roughly into the same region of anti bodies. Just like the princess diamond cruise ship japan in March, Please try not to be a sheep, Bahamas needs critical thinking don’t believe everything you see on the tv.

Nassau we re looking like we need 46k infections at 25% of pop.Undetected cases are usually aroun 10x to 12x recorded cases. suspect we ll see the recorded numbers go 4600 maybe 5k if that In nassau. But will slow down as we go over the peak like we re seeing gb. (601 recorded so really likely 6k-9k actual as testing isn t as wide spread as Nasau) and we re at 17% and seeing a serious slow down. Bimini is similar story - optimism isn t bad just it’s sad people like don t like to hear it.. or do research to support your fears or challenge them.