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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to soak up the resources for both under developed and developed countries. At the time of posting this blog the global medical community has been unable to inform about a vaccine. The blogmaster read the perspective of a leading Australian virologist recently where she opined that the world will have to live with the virus, in fact it will become as accepted as the Flu.

The disruption caused by COVID-19 will impact service based economies like Barbados and others in the reason where it hurts, in the breadbasket. One could rehash old arguments about the folly of putting all our eggs in one basket. If we are to work hard to move from the unsustainable position we find ourselves, we have to do more to shift our over reliance on tourism. Government’s current investment pipeline has signaled there are no immediate or medium term plans to modify the economic engines firing the economy.

If there ever was an opportunity to message our leaders there is an urgent need to reorder how we do business, it is now.

COVID-19
Since this news alert Italy is virtually on lock down. Thanks John A for always feeding the blogmaster with important information.

The local authorities based on public announcements and news coverage have been rolling out awareness campaigns, bumping up screening at ports of entry, building health infrastructure and leading discussions at the regional level to ensure a regional COVID-19 approach. Given the pandemic nature of COVID-19, it seems a matter of time before Barbados reports its first case. The biggest challenge for Barbados and service based economies is the fatalistic impact disruptions to global supply chains will bring.

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951 responses to “Coronavirus (COVID-19) Virus Exposes Service Based Countries”

  1. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ David March 15, 2020 10:03 AM

    Have you heard any word recently from your UK correspondent?
    Maybe he has been inoculated with truth serum and decided to self-quarantine to avoid the ‘hot’ topic Covid in the cold Diaspora.

    We are missing (“pandemically-speaking” of course) that irritatingly charming fatty fella, the BU whipping boy.

    Hoping Willy Skinner is fine also!

  2. John Avatar
    John

    Haven’t you ever experienced the joys of forking?

    Try it sometime.

  3. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    John. It is Sunday man! Watch your puns on this holy day.

  4. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Silly Woman,

    Yard fowl stew requires green paw paw as a tenderizer.

  5. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    But forking is good. Last year between July 1 and September 30 I lost 5 3/4 pounds without trying, and eating whatever i felt like, and not a visit to any gym.

    So yes, forking and hoeing is good.

  6. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Tourist spend 1 to 2 weeks in Barbados. Is it possible that some of them are carriers of covid 19 but left the island without spreading the virus to others ?

    I am hoping that Barbados is ” lucky “‘

  7. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    True Hants. Plenty of green paw-paw in the tree. But I can’t seem to catch any of the yard fowls, although i get the eggs. I can still work, but too old to chase and catch a fleet footed yard fowl.

  8. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @TheoG
    We are afraid of buying for the market may still be on the way down.
    +++++++++++++++
    Don’t try to time the market, if you believe that Stock “A” has good fundamentals don’t wait for it to hit rock bottom as it may be on the way up while you are waiting for it to retreat some more. There is a saying which applies to the current situation “Bulls make money, Bears make money but Pigs get slaughtered”.

  9. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Sargeant,

    Canadians taking covid 19 very seriously. Went to a mall yesterday and there were only about 200 shoppers.

    Normally it would be over a thousand.

  10. John Avatar
    John

    robert lucas
    March 15, 2020 8:24 AM

    @ Silly Woman March 15, 2020 7:39 AM
    Spacing influences yields. You can use closer spacing; doing so increases the over all tonnage but reduces the individual size of the product.

    ++++++++++++++++++++

    So planting a foot apart gives 100 plants in the 100 foot bed but the yams will be smaller than if they were planted 2 feet apart at 2 foot spacing.

    Staking may improve the yam size at the 1 foot separation.

    More output … perhaps.

    Staking I think is attractive for small areas.

  11. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    Lol. Give me my ground provisions six days a week. I eat rice and peas only on sundays. I eat cassava, christophene, bitter gourd (karela), yams, sweet potatoes, green bananas, eddoes, breadfruit and plaintains.
    Plus the normal veggies. Jamaican yellow yam here is $1.88 a pound and I bought a big, big, piece. After reading this blog, gonna plant dem dere skins in some potting soil and put in an upstairs sunny window. Eddoes $1.28 per pound, christophene .88 cents each, potatoes are .99 cents, $1.28 and for the Jamaican $3.28. I buy the Jamaican when I run out of my home grown and the kids at the cash don’t know the difference so I get them at the cheap price. Cassava .99 cents, plantains green and yellow .77 cents, breadfruit $1.99. I swear they be cheaper up here than in Barbados. Why would anyone eat lots of rice? bought two green coconuts from Walmart at $3.88 each. Good price seeing they are flown in from central America.

    Went to the dentist last week. He announced that I will die with all my teeth in my head. No processed foods here.

  12. John Avatar
    John

    Hants
    March 15, 2020 11:48 AM

    @ Sargeant,
    Canadians taking covid 19 very seriously. Went to a mall yesterday and there were only about 200 shoppers.
    Normally it would be over a thousand.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++

    A retired Canadian friend of mine told me he had a contract with a Chinese university starting 9th march but of course the universities are closed and he tells me Air Canada stopped flights to China.

  13. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    True Hants. ….. But I can’t seem to catch any of the yard fowls, although i get the eggs. I can still work, but too old to chase and catch a fleet footed yard fowl.

    @silly woman

    I suppose they are too big for a “downfall”, so you will have to use a “fly stick”. I am sure some of the boys on the blog, like Hants will tell you how to set a fly stick. We used to catch doves that way. lol.

  14. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Silly Woman March 15, 2020 10:52 AM
    “They commented on the bright yellow colour of the egg, but ate it all up. I have 6 more eggs left, and certainly more to come, so I did not buy any eggs when I went shopping on Thursday.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    That bright yellow colour in your eggs from a real yard fowl only came about because the girlie birds were “threaded” by ‘cocks’.

    Those ‘fertility worthless’ eggs on the supermarket shelves are laid by hens which have been genetically altered by manmade hormones designed to turn ‘brown’ eggs into a scramble fit only for castrated roosters mainly found in the back-yard of Simple Simon(e) laden with Bajan-bred ‘fowl cocks”.

    So you see even the high testosterone–driven yard-fowl version of the man from “whiteHill” does serve some purpose after all.

    Just keep the big-breed roosters (like the miller) around and slaughter the paling-cock brood like GP for your Sunday “nice close stew”.

  15. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ John,

    https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/home/book/travel-news-and-updates/2020/china-travel.html

  16. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    The global cruise line industry is now on lock down. Transatlantic flights are at a crawl and many of the major airlines have parked a substantial proportion of their aircraft.

    With social distancing and movement restrictions in place across much of Europe and North America (with more countries to follow) the extremely discretionary nature of tourism has been laid bare.

    All because of a wildlife market in Wuhan (allegedly).

    What will the Barbados economy look like in 2020/21?

  17. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Miller March 15, 2020 12:05 PM “That bright yellow colour in your eggs from a real yard fowl only came about because the girlie birds were “threaded” by ‘cocks’.”

    Nope.

    The bright yellow colour comes from the chlorophyll in the grasses, weeds etc. that yard fowls eat.

    And it is not “threaded” the correct term is “treaded” as the male bird “treads” or steps on and mounts the female bird.

    You ferget that i was raised in a barn yard?

    Lol!

  18. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    Or from backtotheroots.com

    “Egg yolks range in color from pale yellow to deep orange. The color of an egg’s yolk depends solely upon the hen’s diet. The darker color of a yolk signals the presence of carotenoids, which are natural pigments found in some plants. The availability of carotenoid-rich plants for chickens’ consumption affects the “orangeness” that you see in their eggs yolks. Keep in mind that chickens should be fed an omnivorous diet with insect and animal proteins as well as vegetable and grain-based ingredients, but the presence of carotenoids in hens’ diets is the main determinant of color.”

  19. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Hants
    That is in contrast to a “No Frills” I visited on Friday it was like “Federation”, I also went to a Costco on Thursday and it was “murder”. I am now practicing my “social distancing”, I have all the supplies I need, books and Netflix ( The American version), and some fire water if I feel the need.

    @Dame Bajan

    That Jamaican yellow yam is too hard but if you want to buy the soft white variety you have to take Fort Knox with you. Looka you pulling a fast one on the local schoolgirls manning the register who can’t tell the difference between one “sweet” potato from another while I had to fork out the correct price for the JA variety as the wife was treating me to the Saturday Bajan delicacy ‘Puddin N Souse” with green banana in the pickle. 😊

  20. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Dame Bajans March 15, 2020 11:54 AM “…breadfruit $1.99. I swear they be cheaper up here than in Barbados…”

    Sometime last year family from over and away were visiting, So we had totreat them to some pudding and souse on the Saturday. no ripe breadfruits from the tree on our country lot so I bought a very, very nice one from a rasta man who sells at Cheapside. $5. But so delicious that it was worth the price.

  21. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    What a prince, Merkel probably wants to strangle him, he should send GP to negotiate.

    If anyone can come up with a vaccine really fast it’s them, although i done want any vaccine sah, not at all. That’s just me.

    “President Donald Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a cure for the coronavirus so he could secure exclusive rights to a potential vaccine for the US only.

    Newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag reported that Trump’s administration had offered large sums of cash to Germany-based biotech company CureVac to secure rights for the vaccine work, “but only for the USA.”

    The German government is battling back, offering financial incentives to the company to remain in Germany.”

  22. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Dame Bajans March 15, 2020 11:59 AM
    “@silly woman
    I suppose they are too big for a “downfall”, so you will have to use a “fly stick”. I am sure some of the boys on the blog, like Hants will tell you how to set a fly stick. We used to catch doves that way. lol.o catch doves that way. lol.””
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    You talk like a ‘real man’ with Bajan boy-days of the 50’s and 60’s vintage.

    The best weapon to bring down a “fleet-footed yard fowl” is a guttaperk (Bajan slingshot).

    If you can tell the BU novices the difference between a “fly stick” and a ‘brek-neck’ then you can call yourself a grandmaster of dove-catching provided the sparrow doesn’t jump first on the ‘bantam’ and fly it thereby leaving your corral of a “fly stick” like an open sepulchre with the ‘expensive’ scratch-grain freely available to birds of all breeds especially the ground doves.

    But there is one type of bird you would have never been able to catch in any ‘bird-entrapping’ contraption.

    If only Bajan black people could ‘ape’ this bird of ‘ebony’ beauty!

  23. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Yeah Waru that’s how America they got werner von braun

  24. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Silly Woman and Dame Bajans,

    Keep talking! Yesterday you got me up and into the kitchen to make some delicious soup – cassava, yam, sweet potato, pumpkin, celery, cabbage, carrots, various sweet peppers, onions and garlic and herbs chicken and cassava dumplings went down good for lunch, dinner and breakfast and I still have plenty left. I kept all the peels for my planned compost heap which I researched online. Have you ever made a compost heap? I would be grateful for any advice.

    And this morning, wonder of wonders, my lazy tail ran outside to catch the rain water from a short sharp shower.

    Good advice from John and Dr. Lucas.

    I only hope you have motivated others as you have motivated me.

    PS. I think you Silly Woman should have taken over from Carmeta Fraser. You have the personality and the story telling ability to do it.

    We Bajans need a kick in the butt to get us started. Pretty sure you still have strong kick and wouldn’t mind doing the honours.

    How about we start a weekly gardening blog?

    John,

    Not only do i know how to use a fork but a knife as well. But today I will only need a spoon. I EATING soup.

  25. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “We are missing (“pandemically-speaking” of course) that irritatingly charming fatty fella, the BU whipping boy.”

    @ Miller

    Who is “we” you’re referring to?

    If you’re “missing” anyone, then speak for yourself and NOT on behalf of others.

  26. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Silly Woman March 15, 2020 12:19 PM
    “Nope.
    The bright yellow colour comes from the chlorophyll in the grasses, weeds etc. that yard fowls eat.
    And it is not “threaded” the correct term is “treaded” as the male bird “treads” or steps on and mounts the female bird..”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    That’s what you think!

    If you had ever seen a ‘cocky’ dick then you would appreciate the analogy of a tiny length of thread going through the eye of a needle in less than a second of thought or view.

    Bajan fowl cocks are genetically-designed to be ‘natural’ rapists. Not ballet dancers.

    Why not try to incubate some of those same eggs ‘injected’ with your “chlorophyll in the grasses, weeds etc. that yard fowls eat” which were bought from your local supermarket and see if you don’t end up with a full pan of Eggs Benedict made from a batch of addled eggs.

    In the world of the ‘chicks business’ where there are no male gametes there are no embryos to grow into laying birds.

    The miller (of corn) should know. After all, his first ‘bird’ for a girl-friend was a Bajan-bred hen.

  27. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Why Artax,

    I am so glad I caught you! I wanted to thank you for your most sincere apology, prefaced by gratuitous insult though it was. I too am so sorry if I irritate you with my pathetic attempts to prove myself to anonymous people. You see, it’s all I have to make my day. Real life people run away when they see me coming.

    So, please allow me to have the only thing left in my pitiful life – the imaginary respect of BU bloggers.

    Just say, “Cuhdear!” and use the scroll down button and just like that the annoyance should disappear.

    😢

  28. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    Miller you forget that I was raised in a barn yard. I have seen the pen–is–es of roosters, goats, sheep. pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, etc all before I left elementary school. I never had to have that talk. I understood from my elementary years how reproduction takes place. So I know how eggs are fertilized or not. I have put eggs under a setty hen and seen the chickens hatch. I have made butter directly from the milk of our cows, then used that butter, our own eggs, the sugar from the cane that we grew, and imported flour to make pudding on a Sunday afternoon.

    I didn’t get to see the equivalent “human instrument” until I was well past my 20th birthday, because alas for you and the guys I was a nice, Sunday school attending kinda gal.

  29. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Silly Woman March 15, 2020 10:52 AM

    You do not need to go to all that trouble with the common fowl. The meat is a lot more tasty than broiler meat. No water is added to the carcass to increase weight. Since the birds are active ,the flesh is much redder due to an increase in the myoglobin content. The flesh is also much firmer and one gets what is known in food science as a better mouth-feel when chewing. In preparation, season as usual (black pepper, ground clove, garlic ,broad leaf thyme and lime )with a minimum amount of salt. As a matter of fact one can omit salt altogether and add ketch-up and prepared mustard instead( salt from these two condiments is adequate enough and one easily avoids high blood pressure this way). Into a hot pan add oil and sugar and some garlic and a few slices of onion. Allow to caramelized, then add the cut up chicken: cook until brown: transfer to pressure cooker and cook for fifteen minutes . None of the washing off of lime salt and adding lime and salt again. In two-two’s the common fowl is cooked*( note I use the word common fowl). Having grown with three brothers and one sister from my mother side( I am not including my other nine sister ) my made it known to her sons that we had to learn to cook, wash and sew, so that as she put it ‘no scheming woman would take advantage of her sons”.

  30. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    Correction: “my mother made it known…..’

  31. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Other Caribbean islands will have no choice but to ban UK also, their rate of infection is apparently going to be just like Italy’s or even worse..

    wonder how Hal is coping.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8113745/Countries-imposed-restrictions-travellers-UK-amid-coronavirus-pandemic.html

    “Holiday plans for scores of Britons have been flung into chaos as countries shut their borders to seal themselves off from the coronavirus pandemic.

    Europe has been branded the epicentre of the global outbreak, and many nations have responded to a jump in infections by imposing flight freezes.

    After a string of countries closed their doors to Britons this week, Donald Trump today followed suit and announced a travel ban from the UK and Ireland to kick in at midnight on Monday.

    Here, MailOnline provides a round-up of the states which have imposed fully-fledged bans, restricted travel and tough conditions on British holidaymakers landing on their soil.”

  32. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Lawson, will be interesting to watch, we can learn a lot.

  33. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    There you go, over-reacting….. again.

    However, I believe rather than engaging in silly a ‘back and forth,’ I’ll take the initiative to be the mature one.

    Have a wonderful week.

  34. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Miller

    ““Egg yolks range in color from pale yellow to deep orange. The color of an egg’s yolk depends solely upon the hen’s diet. The darker color of a yolk signals the presence of carotenoids,”

    Silly Woman is correct when she posted the above.

  35. John Avatar
    John

    What will the Barbados economy look like in 2020/21?

    ++++++++++++++++++++

    At least there will be an excuse for Ms. Mockley to use.

    “We had it until the Corolla Virus came along”.

    Now nobody can say “we got it”!!

  36. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    The BBC reported:
    “Kenya imposes sweeping travel restrictions
    Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that national borders will be closed to travellers from any country with reported coronavirus cases.

    Only Kenyan citizens and foreigners with valid residence permits are exempt, so long as they agree to be quarantined.

    Mr Kenyatta said the directive will take effect within 48 hours, and will remain in place for 30 days. If needed, it can be extended by the Kenya’s National Emergency Response Committee.

    In addition, from Monday all schools will be closed around the country. Universities will also close from Friday.

    Kenya confirmed its first case of coronavirus on Friday, and the president said two more have been discovered since.”

    Bravo! Now this is what you call pragmatic leadership. The president has made an assumption that Kenya lacks the infrastructure to deal with this virus.

    Mia, are you listening?

  37. akenatenI Avatar
    akenatenI

    U.S. Government Shuts Down Cruise Industry for 30 Days
    March 13, 2020

    Donald J. Trump
    ✔
    @realDonaldTrump
    At my request, effective midnight tonight, Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, and MSC have all agreed to suspend outbound cruises for thirty days. It is a great and important industry – it will be kept that way!

    114K
    18:21 – 13 Mar 2020

  38. akenatenI Avatar
    akenatenI

    REVEALED: More than 600 British passengers are stranded on Caribbean cruise ship and facing a ten-day nightmare trip home as five test positive for coronavirus after outbreak onboard

    Five passengers on the Braemar have already tested positive for Covid-19
    Ship was blocked from a string of ports in Caribbean after outbreak onboard
    Could be forced to sail back across Atlantic to UK with all passengers on board
    Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?
    More than 600 British passengers – many of them elderly – were tonight stranded on a cruise ship in the Caribbean after it was blocked from a string of ports after a coronavirus outbreak onboard.

    Five people on the Braemar, operated by British cruise firm Fred Olsen, have already tested positive for Covid-19 and passengers – including the sick – now face the prospect of a voyage back across the Atlantic lasting up to ten days.

    Daily Mail: By Mark Hookham For The Mail On Sunday
    22:53 14 Mar 2020.

  39. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    “Italy reports 368 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours”

    Prepare for the recession. It’s about to get nasty!

  40. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “WHO PH: 2019-nCoV can survive both hot, humid climates
    9883

    Updated February 10, 2020, 12:32 PM

    By Jeffrey Damicog

    The World Health Organization (WHO) Philippines warned on Saturday, Feb. 8, that the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) can survive in both hot and humid climates.

    World Health Organization (WHO) Philippines (Facebook)

    This was one of the rumors and myths the WHO Philippines debunked in its latest Twitter posts.

    “2019-nCoV has spread to countries with both hot and humid climates, as well as cold and dry,” WHO Philippines said.

    “Wherever you live, whatever the climate is it is important to follow precautions,” it said.

  41. akenatenI Avatar
    akenatenI

    The stricken ship ( MS Braemar) carrying 682 mostly British passengers and 381 crew, was refused permission to dock in Freetown in the Bahamas due to the outbreak.

    Instead, it was yesterday forced to anchor 25 miles off the northern coast of the Bahamas, where extra food, fuel and medical supplies were delivered by helicopter.

  42. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    I compost. I have three compostors in my back yard and two at the allotment. These are manufactured with covers with locks to keep out the smart Canadian racoons. In Barbados, all you need is some wood and make a box with three sections about 8×3. Leave the boards about an inch apart to let in air. Add to one section, when that is full, add to the second and so on. Turn it regularly to help the composting and prevent odours. When the first section is composted and being used, the second will be rotting and you will be adding to the third. Add kitchen waste (no meat or fish), shredded news paper and dried leaves. If you have grass clippings, let these wither before adding. The compost can be used in kitchen gardens, lawns and flower beds.

  43. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    That’s how you do it, everytime you take people for testing you let taxpayers know how many people. You want to be first world, well act like it, that is how first world and world class acts, ya can’t want to be punching above ya weight and still acting third world..

    “He, therefore, today cautioned residents against taking to social media to spread rumours of the virus being in Barbados every time they see an ambulance arrive at a residence or hotel to transfer a person for testing.

    Minister Bostic maintained: “We are being proactive and leaving nothing to chance. If someone exhibits symptoms and fits the criteria, that is, they have been in a country in the previous 14 days which has confirmed cases, or they think they might have been in contact with such a person, then we will test them for COVID-19.

    “The health officers who go to the homes or hotels to collect them will wear protective gear because they will be in close contact with a potential case. This does not mean that the person has COVID-19. We cannot know this until we receive their test results.

    “So far, the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory has reported all negative results on everyone sent for testing, and we hope and pray that it remains that way.”

  44. David Avatar
    David

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

  45. akenatenI Avatar
    akenatenI

    THE CRUISE INDUSTRY PRESSURED CARIBBEAN ISLANDS TO ALLOW TOURISTS ONTO THEIR SHORES DESPITE CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
    Alleen Brown.

    SAM DUNCOMBE, head of the Bahamian environmental organization reEarth, looked on with concern Thursday as island authorities debated whether to allow passengers to disembark from Fred Olsen Cruise Lines’ Braemar, the latest ship hit by the novel coronavirus. Duncombe is a longtime critic of the cruise industry and has led the fight against Disney’s plan to build a private cruise port in an area recommended for marine-protected status, home to a fragile coral reef ecosystem. Cruise ships have repeatedly come under fire in the Bahamas for dumping sewage, food waste, plastic, and oil into the aqua waters. Duncombe doesn’t trust the cruise industry to protect the islands from a health crisis any more than she trusts it to protect the environment.

    The Dominican Republic turned away the Braemar at the end of February due to health officials’ concerns about flu-like symptoms reported on board. But in a move typical of an industry that tends to play island nations against one another, the cruise company called the decision an “overreaction” and found a friendly port in St. Maarten. Passengers disembarked and new ones filed on board.

    From there, the Braemar headed to Cartagena, Colombia, where an American who disembarked became the first recorded coronavirus case in the city. Four crew members and one passenger tested positive on a stop in Curaçao. Meanwhile, in Canada, Alberta’s chief medical officer revealed that a Braemar passenger had tested positive after returning home from the ship. As the crisis continued to unfold on board, Barbados turned the Braemar away, and it headed toward the Bahamas, the country whose flag the ship flies, home to one of the busiest Caribbean island cruise ports.

  46. akenatenI Avatar
    akenatenI

    https://youtu.be/Ck6Gwr8F7Y4

  47. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    The cruise industry is a disgrace.

    They pay little tax and have scant regard for the environment.

    Many academic studies have shown that cruise ships often cost the host countries more than they benefit.

  48. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    The Caribbean leaders cannot say THEY DID NOT KNOW…UK cannot hide the inforamtion.

    This now depends on the dumb leaders handle this properly or if they create their usual COCKUP and put their people at risk..

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised

    “The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalised, a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals.

    The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for another 12 months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS.

    It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for as many as 80% of Britons becoming infected with the coronavirus over that time.

    Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, has previously described that figure as the worst-case scenario and suggested that the real number would turn out to be less than that. However, the briefing makes clear that four in five of the population “are expected” to contract the virus.

    The document says that: “As many as 80% of the population are expected to be infected with Covid-19 in the next 12 months, and up to 15% (7.9 million people) may require hospitalisation.”

  49. akenatenI Avatar
    akenatenI

    Italy’s coronavirus cases top 20,000
    The Italian government has confirmed 3,497 more infections with the new coronavirus on Saturday. That’s the highest daily increase in the country.

    The number of infections has reached 21,157, mainly in the northern region of Lombardy. The figure topped 20,000 in about three weeks since a slew of infections were first confirmed late last month.

    Another 175 deaths were reported on Saturday, bringing the total to 1,441.

    The government is urging people to stay home unless it is absolutely necessary to go out. It also shut down all businesses except for those selling daily necessities.

    It says it will take several weeks before these measures prove effective.

    When Italy declared one week ago it had 6000 positive cases they underestimated the situation on the ground ,they were already at 20000.
    The Italian leader acted late.
    The figures posted by most countries gross underestimate the real situation because of under / inadequate testing.

  50. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “THE CRUISE INDUSTRY PRESSURED CARIBBEAN ISLANDS TO ALLOW TOURISTS ONTO THEIR SHORES DESPITE CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
    Alleen Brown.”

    No one pressured the long face retard to do anything, he came out gushing “Barbados is open for business” despite all that is going on, just like no one had to pressure the same government to sell out their people to UK for 8 pounds and hour to be treated like slaves and abused racially….and that is despite the Windrush brutality against Caribbean victims still playing out in UK and the fact that their taxes paid savemasters for enslaving their own ancestors..

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