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COVID-19 and NCDs

Submitted by Caleb Pilgrim

Personally, I would rather deal with systemic issues, despite obvious limitations of time and space. In this vein, you may wish to have Dr. Doughlin and/or others opine on the substance of the PAHO/WHO 2018-2024 report attached.

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272851/ccs-brb-2018-2024-

The Coronavirus is no doubt a game changer.  Policy wise, the question remains what exactly is to be done?  Or, in sum, despite bluffing, are we, in the Caribbean, in a situation analogous to the man who puts on a condom well after he has been severely infected?

Arguably, the risks increase drastically if “43%” of the QEH patients suffer from diabetes or diabetic complications.  Ditto other Caribbean islands.

Similarly, data coming out of China/Wuhan indicates that 50% of the fatalities there are for patients suffering from high blood pressure.  Ditto Barbados and the other Caribbean islands. Ditto, heart disease patient(s).  Ditto various cancers as well, not uncommon in Barbados.  In fact, all of the foregoing diseases are already commonplace in B’dos.

Finally, if we must – re the debate on the “social gospel”, perhaps, it was not by accident that we used to meet in John Moore’s Bar/“Rum shop”, where Dr. Doughlin (an Adventist) addressed us before we all drifted off in different directions.

I believe that, based on our reading of the Canon, a reasonable interpretation is that Jesus’s radical gospel absolutely frightened the Establishment of his day.   Thus, his 26 or more healing miracles would have frightened the crap out of the doctors (see for instance Mark’s treatment of the woman with the “issue of blood”, versus Dr. Luke’s treatment of the same issue.   Per Luke, the poor woman had spent all that she had …).

Similarly, the merchants who lost their income, when he fed the thousands, including turning water into wine.  Imagine if you owned a Package Store or an Off License.  The merchants become apoplectic.

Similarly, when he taught a totally contrarian doctrine in the synagogues, the Scribes (the lawyers), Pharisees and Sadducees would have feared losing respect and money, (or vice versa).

I don’t know that we can never escape the relevance of the “social gospel”, so long as the poor, the sick, the infirm and those who suffer remain with us.

132 responses to “COVID-19 and NCDs”

  1. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    @ Blogmaster:

    Indeed. Great news that a Waterford person donated US $750,000. I note in passing, without criticism, that reportedly she did donate US $5m to US re the same cause. We do not know the reasoning behind such a disparity? Perhaps, it should have been the other way around.

    Perhaps, again, some of your richer local grandees ought to have been encouraged to match Rihanna’s contribution $ for $, with strict supervision all donations.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    @Caleb

    Would hazard a guess it has to do with projecting a global brand.

  3. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    9 SHIPS TODAY 22/03/2020

    BARBADOS IS THEIR HOME PORT. ALL OF THE PASSENGERS HAVE DISEMBARKED, DIRECTLY FROM THE SHIP TO THE AIRPORT AND ONLY THE CREW ARE LEFT. THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED OFF THE SHIPS.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156685680161396&set=a.10150791049666396&type=3&theater

  4. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    @ Blogmaster:

    Yes as to projecting a “global brand”.

    Still open to other local gazillionaires to make matching donations, which I am sure would be welcome.

    @ Dr. GP (earlier)

    Don’t want to detour too much and dilute/blur the Corona discussion, by getting into the Gospels and the ideals of “social justice”, (SJ). Now is not the time. The focus must be on the actual problem(s), and viable solutions. Must therefore give precedence to the Pandemic and get back to you later on the SJ issues raised.

  5. John Avatar
    John

    The late Yul Brynner

  6. John Avatar
    John

    Hal Austin
    March 22, 2020 8:25 AM

    @ John
    Thanks. I have got hold of one source and am looking for as many sources as possible. Old the UK National Archives may have that information.

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

    Check JBMHS.

    Read an article in there about Cholera and no doubt it will have a bibliography.

    One thing I remember about it.

    It was claimed that you could take in with symptoms in the early morning and be dead by midday!!

    It was also claimed that if you could afford a doctor you would probably die earlier because the doctors did not know what they were doing!!

    … that is two things!!

  7. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    People really need to start taking this virus seriously, it no longer cares whom it kills, no more picking and choosing.

    “Boris Johnson has warned that people not following social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus outbreak are ‘putting other people’s lives at risk’ as he hinted he could ban all Britons from leaving their homes if they don’t keep six feet apart.

    It came as an 18-year-old died of Covid-19, marking the UK’s youngest fatality as 47 new victims brought Britain’s death toll to 281.

    It comes as 665 new cases were recorded – with Boris Johnson threatening to shut parks if people don’t keep their distance.

    The total number of coronavirus cases in the UK is now at 5,683 and the Prime Minister warned the British public today that they had 24 hours to take social distancing measures seriously or he will implement an Italian-style total lockdown, after thousands continued to flout anti-coronavirus measures.”

  8. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “We do not know the reasoning behind such a disparity? Perhaps, it should have been the other way around.”

    There is no disparity, first of all as a young Black woman, Rihanna would not have been allowed by the two useless governments to become a multimillionaire using her own initiative, they would have fought her down all the way until they destroyed her, all in a bid to instead promote minority parasites for wealth in her place, people who look nothing like her or them.

    She is doing what she does worldwide to benefit who needs it the most, she made her money in US and can afford to be generous to who promoted her.

    Be grateful, she never forgets Barbados.

  9. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    So i said that to say this, all the billions of dollars that the corrupt minorities helped both corrupt governments to rob the country of ….this government should be looking to them to GIVE BACK WHAT THEY HELPED TO STEAL FROM AT LEAST 2 GENERATIONS OF BAJANS…and the corrupt lawyers, ministers etc should be doing the same…give back what they ALL STOLE.

    Rihanna was not even born yet when they started robbing the people on the island, it is unfair to expect her to carry the load that all the thieves left behind.

  10. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    WURA-War-on-U March 22, 2020 4:40 PM

    You know that Rihanna’s gran-gran [her father’s mother] is a white Bajan of Irish descent, right?

    True, her mother’s people are black Bajans of African descent, but all of her father’s people are white.

  11. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    When it comes to treating some type of condition or illness, we have the option of using pharmaceuticals or natural medicines (aka home remedies). Pharmaceuticals tend to modify our physical condition to cure a problem. On the other hand, the home remedies we use tend to work with the body. Both types of treatment methods have their pros and cons but a balance needs to be made for the use of these methods according to the level of suitability of an individual. Having said that home remedies are gaining popularity as they are inexpensive, have limited or no side effects. These remedies were used centuries before modern pharmaceuticals and scientific research is now providing evidence on their effectiveness. Among all the different home remedies drinking lemon and ginger tea has a wide range of benefits from rejuvenating you to fighting infections and boosting your immune response. Reasons to Drink Lemon Ginger Tea: Lemon and ginger are a powerful combination for treating a number of health problems it contains high amounts of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and has antibacterial properties.

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  12. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Silly….whatever, Rihanna is a young Black woman and am sure any Euro bloodlines she acquired are not exactly billionaires or millionaires either just like the others who live in Barbados. She had to make her own way in US…supported by those who promoted her in US.

    What i said still applies, she would never had gotten the same level of support from her own governments who never promote those who look just like them.

    And am sure most Black people can say the same thing on the island re having euro bloodlines. If you ask the cousins in the Palace they will tell you the very same thing too…lol

    In the meantime, WHO seems very convinced..

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/who-considers-airborne-precautions-for-medical-staff-after-study-shows-coronavirus-can-survive-in-air.html

  13. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    When they say lock down, lock the hell down…

    ..people with NCDs are high risk, there is no way to get around that one…

    https://www.facebook.com/Greenerthumb/videos/3131239230262253/?t=8

  14. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    CUBAN DOCTORS HEAD TO ITALY BATTLE CORONAVIRUS

    HAVANA (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy.

    Cuban doctors hold an image of late Cuban President Fidel Castro during a farewell ceremony before departing to Italy to assist, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Havana, Cuba, March 21, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

    Bear in Mind that Cuban Doctors work for $65.00 a Month in Cuba. When Cuba appears to be Charitable by sending Doctors to other Countries, 90% of what they are paid goes back to the Cuban Government. That is Communism For Ya … Look at the Image what Propaganda is being Sold by these Cuban Doctors in the name of Humanitarian Aid?

    https://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20200322&t=2&i=1506514247&r=LYNXMPEG2L036&w=940

  15. John Avatar
    John

    Hal

    You probably seen this already.

    https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html

  16. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Why is UK allowing people to travel…they are infecting the whole Caribbean.

    https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/244560/covid-19-recorded-barbados

    “Confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Barbados rose to 17 today, three more than yesterday.

    The three cases – two men and one woman – all arrived in the island from the United Kingdom. One is the partner of a visitor who was included in yesterday’s count.

    Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Anton Best, said they had all been placed in isolation, and so far were displaying only mild symptoms of the viral illness.”

  17. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @cpilgrimeaqaolcom March 22, 2020 1:34 PM “Indeed. Great news that a Waterford person donated US $750,000. I note in passing, without criticism, that reportedly she did donate US $5m to US re the same cause. We do not know the reasoning behind such a disparity? Perhaps, it should have been the other way around.”

    $750,0000 USD divided by about 280,000 thousand Bajans equals $2.67 USD per person.
    $5 million USD divided by about 328,239 million Americans equals 15 cents per person

    So the gift to the Bajans is worth about 17 times as much as the gift to the Americans.

  18. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    @ WURA:

    I will never be drawn into any criticism(s) of Rihanna’s donations, which generally support worthy and deserving causes.

    However, you missed my point that your local “grandees” should be encouraged to match $ for $ Rihanna’s donations. They can afford it. They should do so, if only as their “ethical obligation”. Who gives a Fluck about that anyway?

    Has anyone else stepped forward, to date, one way or another?

    Yes, Rihanna does make a ton of money in the US, to her credit, but there are already reportedly 18.6 million millionaires, and 607 billionaires in the US. Cf. Barbados? How many millionaires? How many Billionaires? Beyond crap about “punching above one’s weight”. … Here, it might even be a case of “carrying coals to Newcastle”.

    I have also said elsewhere on this blog that, as a general proposition, notwithstanding the A.G’s pronouncement that “corruption is at an end in Barbados”, donations to Barbados should be conditioned on financial and auditing controls lest such donations somehow self-diminish, get up and wander off. (Cf. Liberia’s experience of the disappearing US $$$$).

  19. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    They never do math, Silly, too busy with emotion and looking at what someone else got…lol

  20. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    Blogmaster:

    Not to digress, but I am not sure why it listed Croakie’s contribution as “liked” by me. I did not say that. Please correct, as I typically scroll past The “Freedom Croaker”.

    I only salute Croakie on one occasion, when she quoted the Barbados Constitution, incidentally against me, chapter and verse. Other than that, I run past Croakie on the other side.

  21. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    @ WURA:

    I will never be drawn into any criticism(s) of Rihanna’s donations, which generally support worthy and deserving causes.

    However, like Silly Woman, you missed my point that your local “grandees” should be encouraged to match $ for $ Rihanna’s donations. They can afford it. They should do so, if only as their “ethical” obligation.

    Has anyone else stepped forward, one way or another?

    Yes, Rihanna does make a ton of money in the US, but there are already reportedly 18.6 million millionaires and 607 billionaires in the US. Cf. Barbados? How many millionaires? How many Billionaires? Here, it might even be a case of “carrying coals to Newcastle”.

    I have also said elsewhere on this blog that, as a general proposition, any donations to Barbados should be subject to strict financial and auditing controls lest the donations somehow self-diminish and wander off.

  22. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ John

    Thanks. The major trigger was the slum conditions, of which drinking water was but one issue. What is interesting is that the very slums identified 166 years ago are still slums over 50 years after constitutional independence – Nelson Street, Mason Hall Street, etc. Nothing has changed.
    I remember as little boy we had public toilets, now grown men urinate in the open in back alleys off Broad Street, our main thoroughfare. The trouble is that the majority of people find this acceptable because they have nothing to measure it against, apart from what party A did, or party B.
    When you tell them what is possible they turn up their noses. I can imagine what the early Christians felt like preaching to the unenlightened.

  23. John Avatar
    John

    Hal Austin
    March 23, 2020 6:21 AM

    @ John
    Thanks. The major trigger was the slum conditions, of which drinking water was but one issue. What is interesting is that the very slums identified 166 years ago are still slums over 50 years after constitutional independence – Nelson Street, Mason Hall Street, etc. Nothing has changed.

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    Oh yes, and there is a huge difference!!

    Access to potable water has been improved and is constantly improving.

    It is possible to live in slum conditions and not get cholera!!

    People have been doing it for generations, since at least the time of the Bible as pointed out by GP.

    https://biblehub.com/kjv/1_timothy/5-23.htm

    “Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.”

    People are not dumb but can be poor and not have access to potable water.

    Many people in the world today are like this.

    https://ourworldindata.org/water-access

    “Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health risks. This is particularly the case in health care facilities where both patients and staff are placed at additional risk of infection and disease when water, sanitation, and hygiene services are lacking. Globally, 15% of patients develop an infection during a hospital stay, with the proportion much greater in low-income countries.”

    Alternatives to potable drinking water which people figure out are wine, ale, rum, whiskey vodka etc.

    Non Potable drinking water can be made potable by disinfecting with chlorine.

    In my hiking days there were iodine tablets available.

    Water was taken from the fastest moving stream/creek/brook where aeration was visible, boiled and a then an iodine tablet(s) added.

    Tullstrom’s work in 1964 resulting in chlorination.

    A little technical but might be a good source.

    Probably have something on cholera.

    Tullstrom, H., 1964, Report on the Water Supply of Barbados, United Nations Programme of Technical Assistance.

    Sir Maurice Byer told me years ago that work and the resulting work by the WWD reduced infant mortality dramatically.

    https://knoema.com/atlas/Barbados/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Infant-mortality-rate

    Stand Pipes were also gradually phased out.

    You can get the figures in the 1978 Stanley Water Resources Study.

  24. John Avatar
    John

    Cholera first appeared in England in 1832.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera_outbreaks_and_pandemics

    First, 1817–1824[edit]
    Main article: 1817–1824 cholera pandemic

    First cholera pandemic
    The first cholera pandemic, though previously restricted, began in Bengal, and then spread across India by 1820. Hundreds of thousands of Indians and ten thousand British troops died during this pandemic.[10] The cholera outbreak extended as far as China, Indonesia (where more than 100,000 people succumbed on the island of Java alone) and the Caspian Sea in Europe, before receding.

    Second, 1829–1837[edit]
    Main article: Second cholera pandemic

    A second cholera pandemic reached Russia (see Cholera Riots), Hungary (about 100,000 deaths) and Germany in 1831; it killed 130,000 people in Egypt that year.[11] In 1832 it reached London and the United Kingdom (where more than 55,000 people died)[12] and Paris. In London, the disease claimed 6,536 victims and came to be known as “King Cholera”; in Paris, 20,000 died (of a population of 650,000), and total deaths in France amounted to 100,000.[13] In 1833, a cholera epidemic killed many Pomo people which were a Native American tribe. The epidemic reached Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia[14] and New York in the same year, and the Pacific coast of North America by 1834. In the center of the country[clarification needed], it spread through the cities linked by the rivers and steamboat traffic.[15]
    Similarly, in Washington DC (where there are no reliable mortality figures), Michael Shiner, an enslaved laborer at the Washington Navy Yard recorded, “The time the colery [cholera] broke out in about June and July August and September 1832 it Raged in the City of Washington and every day they wher [were] twelve or 13 carried out to they [their] graves a day.”[16] By late July 1832 cholera had spread to Virginia and on 7 August 1832, Commodore Lewis Warrington confirmed to the Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury cholera was at the Gosport Navy Yard, “Between noon of that day, [1 August] and the morning of Friday [3 August], when all work on board her USS Fairfield stopped, several deaths by cholera occurred and fifteen or sixteen cases (of less violence) were reported.”[17]

  25. John Avatar
    John

    Hal Austin
    March 23, 2020 6:21 AM

    @ John
    Thanks. The major trigger was the slum conditions, of which drinking water was but one issue

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    The trigger was the arrival of the Bacterium, not the slum conditions!!

    Water was the vector.

    Like Malaria where the Anopholes Mosquito or Dengue and Yellow Fever, the Aedes Egypti mosquito are the vectors.

    No mosquitoes, no spread.

    But we all need water, or fluids at any rate.

    It wasn’t until after the arrival of cholera that strides were made in the supply of potable water.

    It wasn’t until the Americans went to Cuba c. 1898 that the vector was figured out and addressed!!

    “By the end of the 19th century, during the brief Spanish-American War, fewer than 1,000 soldiers died in battle, but more than 5,000 died of disease in Cuba, and most of those deaths were due to yellow fever, according to records of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.”

  26. John Avatar
    John

    People can live in luxury, but if their water is not potable they will be sick and die.

  27. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    It wasn’t until the Americans went to Cuba c. 1898 that the vector was figured out and addressed!!
    “By the end of the 19th century, during the brief Spanish-American War, fewer than 1,000 soldiers died in battle, but more than 5,000 died of disease in Cuba, and most of those deaths were due to yellow fever, according to records of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.”(Quote)

    You have said it yourself. In 1854 the authorities in Barbados did not know anything about bacterium. It is easy to revise history. My original question was about the policies adopted by the authorities to deal with our first major public health crisis. Not what have medical historians found.
    In 2100 historians will say all kinds of things about the coronavirus crisis, but we in the here and now must find solutions. That is what we call policymaking.

  28. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    (Quote):
    These remedies were used centuries before modern pharmaceuticals and scientific research is now providing evidence on their effectiveness. Among all the different home remedies drinking lemon and ginger tea has a wide range of benefits from rejuvenating you to fighting infections and boosting your immune response. Reasons to Drink Lemon Ginger Tea: Lemon and ginger are a powerful combination for treating a number of health problems it contains high amounts of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and has antibacterial properties.
    (Unquote).
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    @ F Croaker:

    What you are promoting is highly commendable and in keeping with the good book from which you like to spread your propaganda of the white man god called Jesus.

    Even the book of Genesis with its mythical tale of Creation has some sound advice about the use of plants (including herbs) for good maintenance of the human body.

    What we would like to hear from you is whether you would recommend the use of another plant as a member of the pantheon of natural healers provided by God by way of the natural pharmacist called Mother Nature.

    What about using the now highly promoted properties of medicinal marijuana in the fight against Covid but without the dispensing monopoly of the greedy capitalist controllers called Big Pharma?

    PS: Smoking is NOT recommended since man has not yet ‘mutated’ into a chimney or the human body into a catalytic converter for dangerous chemicals.

  29. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Cpilgrimeaqaolcom March 23, 2020 12:41 AM
    “I will never be drawn into any criticism(s) of Rihanna’s donations, which generally support worthy and deserving causes.
    However, like Silly Woman, you missed my point that your local “grandees” should be encouraged to match $ for $ Rihanna’s donations. They can afford it. They should do so, if only as their “ethical” obligation.
    Has anyone else stepped forward, one way or another?”
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    A rather disarmingly nice retort/ riposte, there Caleb!

    An excellent illustration of that golden nugget of universal morality: “To whom much is given much is expected”.

    Or to put it within the context of your well-honed ‘Classics’ background set within the triumvirate of ‘foreign’ languages: “Noblesse Oblige”.

    What we want to see from the “local grandees” are similar acts of financial humanitarianism especially from those who have gotten financially fat off the sore nipples of the Bajan taxpayers over the last 20 years.

    How about MAM the money magnate making a contribution to mimic Rihanna by paying over to the Treasury to purchase a few ventilators and supplies to fight Covid the money equivalent waived in duties and taxes on the luxury vehicle which has been seen driving around Barbados for the past 3 years by a ghost called the Sales Director of an imaginary erection of flaccid hotel about to undergo a period of permanent detumescence?

  30. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    Dr. Oz: My ‘jaw dropped’ at hopeful Coronavirus trial results

    Mar. 23, 2020 – 3:05 – ‘This is a game changer,’ says Dr. Mehmet Oz, discussing recently discovered drug combinations to treat Coronavirus

    https://video.foxnews.com/v/6144015101001#sp=show-clips

  31. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    @ Miller March 23, 2020 9:17 AM

    FREEDOM DOES BELIEVE 100 % IN MEDICINAL MARIJUANA IN THE FORM OF CANNABIS OIL!

    SEE…Barbados Improvements Part 3: Agriculture #5
    Submitted by Freedom Crier

    https://barbadosunderground.net/2018/08/01/barbados-improvements-part-3-agriculture/

    Medical Marijuana:

    Marijuana will grow well in the type of soil and conditions we have. Medical marijuana is the plant without the THC the ingredient that makes one high. To grow this we will need to process it to the stage of the oil and tablet form, not export the raw material. We want the value add to remain in Barbados. This type of item will be in greater demand all over the world while the rest of the world concerns itself with decriminalising the use of high THC marijuana for smoking. The medical uses for this type of marijuana have greater access to the world for a host of illnesses. This is the plant with great future use in the medical industry and would have a premium value attached to it.

    https://cdn.bajanreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cannabis-plants-june08.jpg

    MILLER IN BARBADOS WE HAVE ACCESS TO LEMONS AND GINGER TO FIGHT VIRUSES…AS OF YET CANNABIS OIL IS NOT LEGAL IN BARBADOS…UNTIL THEN HERE IS A RECIPE THAT WOULD SAVE LIVES

    IMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT LEMON GINGER TEA IS AN IMMUNITY BOOSTER AS LEMON CONTAINS VITAMIN C AND ANTIOXIDANTS. Both lemon and ginger are great at fighting infections because of their antibacterial properties. USING LEMON GINGER TEA CAN REDUCE THE DURATION OF COLD, FLU, COUGH, and it is also beneficial for fighting salmonella infections.

    MAKING LEMON AND GINGER TEA: MAKING LEMON GINGER TEA IS VERY EASY AND REQUIRES THE FOLLOWING INGREDIENTS: • Lemon (medium sized lemon) • Fresh ginger • Honey (2-3 teaspoons) • Water (2 cups) After gathering all the ingredients, follow these steps to make the tea:

    To make lemon and ginger tea, take a fresh ginger strip and slice it into thin pieces.
    Put the ginger slices into a pot of water and boil it for 10 minutes.
    Take a fresh medium sized lemon and slice it.
    After boiling the ginger turn off the heat and add lemon Slices allow the ginger and lemon slices to sit in the water for an additional 10 minutes.
    Strain the tea and pour it into a mug.
    Add 2-3 teaspoons of honey to the tea and stir it (honey adds a sweet flavor to the tea). It is quite amazing how something that can be so easily available and prepared has such numerous benefits for us.

    https://chopracom.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/field/image/the-health-benefits-of-ginger-tea.jpg

  32. John Avatar
    John

    Courts shutting down and adjourning matters this week.

  33. John Avatar
    John

    Got that unofficially but it makes sense.

  34. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    Thanks, Miller!

    @ Blogmaster:

    But Blogmaster:

    Following up on “Silly Woman’s” amusing primary school arithmetic, in another context, I previously raised the question: how many tests, how many masks, how many gowns, how many PPE, etc, etc? Are the Barbadian people not entitled to know?

    Seriously, if you know, what is the actual state of play without the typical flummery/“nonsense-ness”?

    In addition, your local grandees …

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @Caleb

    We have to keep pressing for information. Although we maybe sympathetic to the challenges being faced because of the unique and unprecedented nature of the pandemic. If we accept that our healthcare was stressed before the pandemic concerns are reasonable. Especially if we take note of how health services in developed countries have been faring.

  36. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    Indeed!

  37. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Miller

    What we want to see from the “local grandees” are similar acts of financial humanitarianism especially from those who have gotten financially fat off the sore nipples of the Bajan taxpayers over the last 20 years
    ++++++++++++++++
    Do you include the politicians in that group? How about the PM? Do you remember a time when Owen “personally donated” $150,000 US to Legends of Barbados?

    Looka ah gwine and isolate myself from this blog before I get charged under the ‘Computer misuse
    Act”.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/other_international/west_indies/6561977.stm

  38. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    medicinal marijuana, canabidol, is made from hemp. I take it for arthritis.

  39. cpilgrimeaqaolcom Avatar
    cpilgrimeaqaolcom

    @ Sargeant:

    Well argued, and why should “politicians” (word has several different meanings) and any other qualified beneficiaries be exempt?

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

    “Barbados? How many millionaires? How many Billionaires? Here, it might even be a case of “carrying coals to Newcastle”.

    Seems like you missed my point too, several of them really, the two colonial governments with black faces do not ALLOW THEIR OWN PEOPLE who look just like them to generate wealth without a brutal fight…

    the only local “millionaires” are mostly the ones who help both colonial governments and the most wicked of lawyers to rip off the treasury and pension fund, as well as generations of the elderly and their beneficiaries their estates, properties and bank accounts, that is the only way they can label themselves millionaires and mostly they look nothing like the majority population nor the two colonial governments….

  41. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    makes all kinds of sense….if ya interested in saving your people’s lives.

    “The Government of Saint Lucia has announced the closure of Saint Lucia’s airports to all incoming commercial and private flights effective 11:59 pm on Monday 23rd March 2020. All airports will be closed to all incoming passengers until Sunday, April 5th 2020.

    Aircraft facilitating departing passengers repatriating from Saint Lucia will be permitted. Air Cargo operations are permitted.”

  42. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Has everyone seen this public notice:

    “The Queen Elizabeth Hospital – BarbadosLike Page
    3 hrs ·
    #COVID19 : Due to the ongoing threat posed by the coronavirus, the public is advised of the immediate suspension of visiting hours at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. ⠀
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    Visiting will only be allowed for the following categories of patients: ⠀
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    1. Patients receiving palliative care and end-of-life care. ⠀
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    2. Pregnant patients who are in active labour.⠀
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    3. Very ill patients who will be identified by the Department of Nursing Services.⠀
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    4. Paediatric patients, as a parent or guardian will be allowed to stay with these patients around the clock. ⠀
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    In these instances, visitation will be limited to one visitor per patient and managed through the Department of Nursing Services. ⠀
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    Provision will be made for either a relative or caregiver to deliver toiletries and fresh laundry to patients for whom visitation has been suspended. These deliveries will be facilitated between 12:00 pm and 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m daily, and will also be managed by the Department of Nursing Services. ⠀
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    Please be reminded that all visitors to the hospital will be required to submit to a temperature check and sign the visitors’ log book at the main entrance. ⠀
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    Additionally, in the event that you or someone with whom you have been in close contact are experiencing cold or flu like symptoms such as fever, cough, sneezing, runny nose and or shortness of breath, please DO NOT visit the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. ⠀
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    The Board of Management apologizes for any inconvenience caused and thanks the public for its continued cooperation.”⠀

  43. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Hal March 23, 2020 6:21 AM
    I was born in Mason Hall street. It never felt like a slump to me I still live in a little village in the slumps also. I find that the folks are very genuine. Of course now and then there is the little cuss out. There is still a stand-pipe I returned to the family home after my divorce and haven’t moved since. I am quite comfortable here.

  44. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Robert

    Great. I have the Ivy ingrained in my heart. Feels like Heaven to me.

  45. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Cousin Boris is now cooking with gas.

    “Britain was ordered into an unprecedented lockdown as coronavirus shut the UK.

    All “non-essential” shops were closed, with only food stores, corner shops, hardware stores, chemists, petrol stations and newsagents allowed to remain open.

    People will be allowed out once a day to exercise and were warned to go shopping for food as infrequently as possible.

    The emergency measures to tackle the Covid-19 spread came into force and will last for three weeks before being reviewed.

    Announcing the move from No10, Boris Johnson admitted: “No Prime Minister wants to enact measures like this.

    In a sober address, Mr Johnson said: “I know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people’s lives, to their businesses and to their jobs.”

  46. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    The jumping pattern of the virus is unmistakeable.

    “SOURCE: BBC: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the coronavirus disease pandemic is “accelerating”, with more than 300,000 cases now confirmed.

    It took 67 days from the first reported of Covid-19 to reach 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000, and just four days for the third 100,000.

    But WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was still possible to “change the trajectory”.

    WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    He urged countries to adopt rigorous testing and contact-tracing strategies.”

  47. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    https://youtu.be/F53vkxDNf5c?t=1178

    on another note.

    So much for doctors believing that lay people are not capable of researching and understanding medicine. I remember taking the flu shot and always had a very bad cold, always felt like i had the flu that refused to leave, first and last time i would take something that destructive.

    There was never autism, ADD, ADHD and a host of those life changing experiences that damages children either, they have never stopped experimenting on people with poisons.

  48. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    No govt cannot break constitutional laws that give citizens their rights of entry to their homeland
    What Mia has done has enable the Trinidadian govt to do as it dam pleases as to thumb its nose at the Constitution
    A strong leader would have pushed against such actions by the Trinidadian govt with the authority given to them through the Constitution in a fight for the peoples right
    Mia has cower in fear that a fight for the people Constitutional rights might bring division between the govt of Barbados and Trinidad govt with cost towards barbados
    Hence Mia decision to disregard the Constitution and take an easy way out
    A way that sets the wrong precedent

  49. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Is there a case against Trinidad under UNHCR regulations, for fear or persecution on suspicion of being exposed to a killer virus? Is it an issue that should be raised at CARICOM?

  50. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ Mariposa

    Contributors have been accused of ‘Googling and attacking you,’ rather than discussing issues with you. But, before engaging you on this issue, let mention ‘up front’ I have some difficulty with the decision made by this Mottley administration to accommodate those 35 Trinidadians who were refused entry into Trinidad.

    First, let me ask you a question.

    RE: “A strong leader would have pushed against such actions by the Trinidadian govt with the authority given to them through the Constitution in a fight for the peoples right.”

    Taking into consideration the Trinidadian authorities have REFUSED entry to the 35 Trinidadians and the UK is not OBLIGATED to ACCEPT them, could you please ‘tell’ BU where they would be LOCATED, while this “fight for their rights,” taking up the issue with CARICOM or even the UN Human Rights Council is going on?

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