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Local Microbiologist Calls for Curfew to be Extended to 28 Days

Prime Minister Mia Mottley shows off a Kensington Oval ready for T20 World Cup

The following comment was posted by local microbiologist Dr. Robert Lucas to another blog – Bajans Jettison Social Distancing for Cheek by Jowl. The blogmaster regards it as one of the most important points shared on Barbados Underground since the status of COVID 19 was elevated by Prime Minister Mia Mottley.

David, Barbados Underground

Let me repeat what I have stated elsewhere on the Blog.

The curfew has to rigorously enforced. Once this is done, there is no need for contact tracing. I will explain.

Those who manifest symptoms are easily managed. It is person Z who comes into contact with a person (asymptomatic or beginning to show signs) and is unaware of the fact, who poses the immediate threat. By having the curfew and rigidly enforcing it, means that person Z is localized to a fixed area.

There will be more than one person who qualifies for the nomenclature Z. Since the curfew is rigidly enforced when the Zs become ill and use the hotline, hot spots are known. There will be a number of these hot spots. There should be isolated and all persons in the vicinity of the Z’ screened and placed into mandatory quarantine. No crap about voluntary quarantine.

For this method to work, it means that very tough enforcement it needed. None of this crap about human rights and individual liberty. Human rights and so on can be dealt with after the situation is under control…

Elsewhere on the Blog, I said that a twenty-eight day curfew was needed. I explain my reasoning as follows: there would be different viral incubation times for different individuals. Twenty-eight days would appear to be time for all individuals to show manifestations of the infection.

 

688 responses to “Local Microbiologist Calls for Curfew to be Extended to 28 Days”

  1. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    An insert

    What has govt allowed Massy to close pharmacies without alternatives for Massy to provide such an essential service for the people
    God can some body have a heart for people especially the elderly
    I guess there is always miraculous bush the people can used

  2. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    An insert

    Why has govt allowed Massy to close pharmacies without alternatives for Massy to provide such an essential service for the people
    God can some body have a heart for people especially the elderly
    I guess there is always miraculous bush the people can used

  3. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @PLT

    Not me. I don’t forgive or forget. I will not mourn the lying psychopath for whom the suffering of so many was acceptable….(Quote)

    Is it me or are you getting angrier. It is not the @PLT I thought I knew. You must give leadership to the blog, dear boy.

  4. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    peterlawrencethompsonApril 7, 2020 10:41 AM

    Yes, I find it necessary to remind people of his character.

    Boris Johnson knows is that no matter how much suffering he causes in the world, later on, when he gets old or sick or dies, so many people will say “Awww, but he’s just a human being, a father/mother etc.” and all the evil he has done is swept under the carpet.

    Not me. I don’t forgive or forget. I will not mourn the lying psychopath for whom the suffering of so many was acceptable.

    Until he got it, Boris thought COVID-19 was a problem for people older and poorer than himself, that other people would have to suffer their loved ones “dying before their time” as they took their “last gasp” while the nation “took it on the chin.”
    Xxccccxxcccccccccccccccc
    Well said

    But insert the names of all the leaders of the world who because of greed sat idly back said nothing as the environment was placed under the attack
    My mind daily is fixated on world leaders (now) asking the poor the elderly children and all humans now living on the planet to make unbearable sacrifices to save their lives and world economies
    My pray is that God would in his way remove these wicked leaders off this God given place called Earth
    Deep down in my mind if these people remain in high places the next time around earth as we once knew it would be totally destroyed
    These leaders are not fit for purpose

  5. David Avatar
    David

    https://www.facebook.com/gisbarbados/videos/558842334608697/

  6. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    Minister Santia Bradshaw speaking now, New rules, but subsequent review possible

    Supermarkets open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

    Orders by phone or online.

    Curbside pickups at specific times

    Or home deliveries

    Orders maybe delayed because there is already a backlog of orders.

    Ready made baskets in values of $25 to $150 can be picked up curbside at some supermarkets

    The pork place is open.

    The egg and chicken farmers remain open.

    Village shops will be restocked.

    I am sure that David and other media will post the full speech

  7. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Incompetence, incompetence. How many different regimes have we have over the last two weeks? Even now it is shambolic.

  8. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @peterlawrencethompson April 7, 2020 10:41 AM “took it on the chin.”

    And tobesides, I doubt very much that Boris has ever taken anything on the chin in the whole of his fat pampered life.

    Damn condesending ricj people always thinking that they can tell poor people how to live.

    And some of those rich people can’t even look after themselves for a week without their domestic helpers.

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

    For those not aware of the remedies their ancestors used and are proven, in December there was maybe a milder variation of the same virus going around in the form of the flu, myself and others woke up at 2 o’clock in the morning WITH CHEST INFECTIONS..just like that…..what got us better was the same tumeric, ginger and other well known herbal remedies..

    .. even when one person repeated the infection, same remedies helped them recover…those herbs have been used for thousands of years, big pharma is a most recent greedy construct that has mostly succeeded in doing more harm than good..

  10. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Hal Austin April 7, 2020 11:18 AM “Incompetence, incompetence. How many different regimes have we have over the last two weeks? Even now it is shambolic.”

    Not we Hal.

    You are not here.

  11. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Silly….apparently cousin Boris has a history of childhood pneumonia and should have known better than to be playing superman to a deadly plague, he definitely should not have been working and putting up this stiff upper lip. People who have histories of ailments need to take better care with this disease.

  12. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Miller April 7, 2020 10:01 AM “Should it be rephrased to imply that America is Cuba’s enemy still camping in Bastita’s former front house at Guantanamo Bay?”

    Yup.

  13. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    We have a future prime minister in Santia. She is intelligent, sophisticated, and articulate. No three-hour long unintelligent waffle with hands all over the place. Cometh the moment, cometh the woman.

  14. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Santia has had a medical procedure and she came clean with the public. A woman of dignity who knows her public responsibility.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Steuspe

  16. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    The Prime Minister has said publicly that she had a major female gyneological procedure. She is 54 so it is unlikely that she gave birth or had a C-section.

    I am sure that you have or have had grandmother, mother, girlfriend, aunt, wife, ex-wife, sister, daughter, granddaughter.

    How many kinds of gyneological procedures can surgeons do on females?

    In Barbados when people try to malicious-up in our business, we tell them.

    Ya mudda!

  17. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    I take note that Jamaica has 59 cases 3 deaths
    I also take note that govt response to contact tracing of the three people being infected govt has been less than transparent in giving relevant info as to if these people are visitors or if they are nationals
    As to Jamaica total in relation to pop. It is small in comparison to their population size when compared to barbados population and the rate of deaths now accounted via govt info

  18. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    @Silly Woman April 7, 2020 10:46 AM
    Johns Hopkins is a reliable medical school, and their modelling is the best available to lay people
    +++++++++++++++
    Johns Hopkins provides a dashboard for following the COVID-19 pandemic, but that is not disease modelling. The dashboard keeps you up to date about what has happened in the past, but a disease model predicts what is going to happen in the future. Modelling is difficult because small differences in initial assumptions or parameters will make dramatic differences to the prediction. The following article is a good explanation.
    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model/

  19. David Avatar
    David

    Have you noticed that Jamaica might have done less tests as well?

    >

  20. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    NO WATER = LIFE OR DEATH for those who cannot access the lifesaving necessity…it is not just a YEARS and YEARS old convenience….particularly during a pandemic

    As long as they get it in their heads that they are not better off than anyone, each island and country is in the same boat, some have more deaths, some have less deaths, some have more infections, some have less infections…but all are suffering the same anxiety regarding their health and safety…..and that of their populations…

    it is elementary..

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

    Ya see how UNGRATEFUL Fowl Enuff is, i may not agree with everyone all the time but you give credit where it is due, without this help ya won’t be able to fight the plague as ya are now able to, ya keep promoting ya small island crooks who are too greedy to give back what they stole from the people over the decades, but have set up a Beggars Charity to TAKE EVEN MORE FROM THE PEOPLE…

    “#ICYMI: The United States has quickly mobilized US$6 million to provide test kits to Barbados and more than 60 other countries to fight the spread of COVID-19.

    This emergency assistance is part of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) response to requests for support in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.

    The United States has quickly mobilized US$6 million to provide test kits to Barbados and more than 60 other countries to fight the spread of COVID-19. Each test kit contains supplies for 2,000 testing samples, including non-consumable equipment that can be used to conduct additional testing. This emergency assistance is part of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) response to requests for support in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.

    The IAEA’s role in combatting COVID-19 stems from its expertise and experience in detecting outbreaks of certain viral diseases and in using nuclear-derived techniques in diagnosing them. One such technique is Real-Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), which makes it possible to identify the COVID-19 virus within hours.”

  22. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    WURA-War-on-U April 7, 2020 12:31 PM
    “This emergency assistance is part of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) response to requests for support in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.”
    +++++++++++++++++++
    We urgently need U.S. Ambassador to Barbados Linda Taglialatela to tell us how many testing kits Barbados will receive and when they will arrive on our shores.

  23. Freedom Crier Avatar
    Freedom Crier

    US$6 Million from United States Helps Fund 2,000 COVID-19 Tests for Barbados

    Home | News & Events | US$6 Million from United States Helps Fund 2,000 COVID-19 Tests for Barbados

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    The United States has quickly mobilized US$6 million to provide test kits to Barbados and more than 60 other countries to fight the spread of COVID-19. Each test kit contains supplies for 2,000 testing samples, including non-consumable equipment that can be used to conduct additional testing. This emergency assistance is part of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) response to requests for support in controlling an increasing number of infections worldwide.

    The IAEA’s role in combatting COVID-19 stems from its expertise and experience in detecting outbreaks of certain viral diseases and in using nuclear-derived techniques in diagnosing them. One such technique is Real-Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), which makes it possible to identify the COVID-19 virus within hours.

    IAEA member states have so far announced more than US$10 million in financial contributions to emergency IAEA COVID-19 assistance, including US$6 million from the United States. It is part of a multi-national IAEA effort to provide dozens of laboratories in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America with diagnostic machines, reagents, and laboratory consumables to speed up national testing, which is crucial in containing the outbreak. Countries will also receive biosafety supplies, such as personal protection equipment and laboratory cabinets for the safe analysis of collected samples.

    “These testing kits are just one example of how the United States is deploying the full range of resources to prevent the spread of COVID-19 both within our own country and across the globe”, said U.S. Ambassador to Barbados Linda Taglialatela. “This is a challenge without precedent in our lifetime, but we are committed to fighting it together.”

  24. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Am sure now that they have made the assistance of testing kits this public, they will share the information quite soon.

  25. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    So how many on line food baskets i have to choose from and how many can i buy
    And who decides what is put in the baskets
    So i call and the baskets have nothing that i want
    Or is told that they are out of baskets
    Or is told that what i want is not in stock
    Or better yet after holding on the phone for 1 hour nothing in the basket is of interest to me
    Can some body tells govt that is not call shopping but a prescribed glorified communist policy called rationing

  26. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Btw was there any concern given to Massy Pharmacies closures

  27. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Sometimes it’s better to shut your mouth about certain things. Apparently this one took great liberty to claim that the plague was a divine punishment for sins and he targeted homosexuals…

    “Israel’s Health Minister’s office on Wednesday announced that the health minister and his wife have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Yaakov Litzman, 71, and his wife Chaava Litzman were diagnosed with COVID-19 and were in good health. They were following the coronavirus guidelines and were in isolation.”

    PLT…am sure if the test kits from US does not arrive on the island in a timely manner Fowl Enuff will jump out to gloat and preen.

  28. john2 Avatar
    john2

    mari

    All you need is gr”ass”

    no need for you to shop

  29. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    The idiocy of this 26 member cabinet is beyond ridiculous

  30. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    The idiocy of this 26 member cabinet is beyond ridiculous {Quote}

    What out for the REAL village idiot coming out now.

  31. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Watch out for the blp foot soldiers lining up to attack mariposa
    Instead of govt idiotic policies

  32. lyallsmall Avatar
    lyallsmall

    First of all I agree with Dr Bob Lucas that the curfew should be extended.
    There is absolutely no sign that our case in Barbados is following any of the existing models of Covid 19 epidemics. Indeed, the Ministry of Health team says that there is no evidence of community spread so far, so if our contact searches have been thorough, there is currently no rational basis for estimating or calculating numbers of possible deaths from the evidence available so far.

    The US Covid 19 Task force team (Dr Fauci, Dr Birx, etc.), a couple of weeks ago, indicated that they were using a number of models for their projections, foremost amongst which was the Imperial College model that suggested that the number of deaths in the US would lie between 100,000 and 240,000 but which also suggested that the minimal enforced social distancing period should be 5 months. The month or so that the US is now using is not based on science and appears to have been predominantly informed by Politics rather than Science and could not help but be extended since it appears to have been inadequate from the get-go and took little account of the multitude of unfolding epidemics throughout the states that are not necessarily in concert with the big ones in the NY area etc..

    Barbados is a very small country and therefore should have been amenable to standard modelling if an adequate number of surveillance tests were available to estimate the spread of the virus on an ongoing basis. This is currently not so.
    We have been following the US lead in all aspects of the management of their outbreaks without recognizing that there are significant differences between us that might invalidate our apish following of the US example. E.g The US made a half hearted attempt to involve the use of masks by the general public. We followed! But the science has shown that Masks work to reduce the spread of the disease. I read somewhere where a Covid 19 infected patient, well masked up, travelled on a 7 hour flight. He coughed all the way and it was expected that many of the other passengers would be infected. But not one tested positive after the flight. The disease was not spread to any of the other passengers who were not masked. Read the reports about the use of masks by the public.

    The utility of masking in reducing spread has been clearly demonstrated. We should be doing all we can to encourage and then, when possible, mandate their use by the general public. We should be following the Trinidad example. Actually Barbados might well be able to access funding for a big study of the utility or otherwise of using masks by the general public as part of the means for reducing the spread of the virus from infected individuals to susceptible ones.

  33. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    U.S. Eyes Second Coronavirus Outbreak in China

    As the Trump administration scrambles to get a hand on the spread of the new coronavirus across the U.S., it is keeping one eye on developments in China, the country where the pandemic originated.

    According to two officials with knowledge of those efforts and cables reviewed by The Daily Beast, the administration is monitoring China’s second wave of coronavirus cases, gathering data on the ground on the number of individuals newly infected and the reasons for the recent uptick. Over the past few days Chinese officials have noted an emergence of new cases, particularly in asymptomatic individuals.

    The White House is leaning on officials from across several agencies, including the State Department, Centers for Disease Control and the intel community to probe how Beijing is handling the new cases so as to better understand what the U.S. could expect later this year, when medical officials believe a second round of infections may happen as well.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/leaked-cable-u-eyes-second-084442461.html

  34. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I don’t know why Bostic said this and then retracted, still cannot get any facts. All i know is the government still continues to promote a bunch of wannbe massas on the island IN FRONT OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE WHO FUND THE ISLAND…..whose only claim to fame these wannabe massas is robbing the people and keep them generationally stagnated and without any progress, growth, wealth or generational opportunities, need some facts on why this is still going on and GIDDILY perpetrated by the leaders..

    https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-us-accused-of-diverting-medical-equipment-from-countries-2020-4?fbclid=IwAR3_QLcBOGrj4TuDBdO6vO71Pcs8f71okD23TV–TqoJyMox3MJEQhVt0ZI

    “Barbados Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Col Jeffrey Bostic said in a press conference on Sunday: “They [the ventilators] were seized in the United States. Paid for, but seized, so we are trying to see exactly what is going to transpire there.”

  35. John A Avatar
    John A

    The move by government to try and half open the supermarkets will prove a waste of time by tomorrow evening. This will prove to be a waste of time based solely on logistics. Again one can expect chaos and confusion here once more.

    Stop and ask yourself a few basic questions about any one of the participating outlets. Let’s call the outlet letter A.

    How many phone lines does outlet A have?

    How many persons can answer calls and take orders in an hour say based on availability of said phone lines?

    How many delivery vans does outlet A have?

    How many printers to print orders does outlet A have and how many pickers and packers to prepare them?

    The above are just a few logistical questions now let’s move on to load.

    Let’s say outlet A has 10 cashiers normally, how many items can they check in an hour? Well If we assume that a cashier can check a customer a minute with each customer having 40 items, then the load will be as follows.

    Result 10×60×40= 24000 items!

    So how many boxes will it take to pack, people to process and persons to deliver with vans this volume?

    Answer is more than any of them got.

    Then you are proposing pre packed baskets of varying values. So if the bask has in 20 items and I only want 15 I must buy the 20 anyhow? Again totally flawed logic.

    Anyhow being the only country in the developed world to close supermarkets and obstruct access to food, I guess they will find out for themselves by 4 pm tomorrow. All because we refuse to open the supermarkets and ENFORCE the personal space requirement using the defence and police force.

    Also I keep hearing they are no records of community transmissions, so if this is true then what is the reason for closing the supermarkets to begin with?

    I mean I is only a one door shopkeeper in St Philip who went to school at Bromley so help me understand the logic someone.

  36. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Jesus take the wheel

  37. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    The move by government to try and half open the supermarkets will prove a waste of time by tomorrow evening. This will prove to be a waste of time based solely on logistics. Again one can expect chaos and confusion here once more.

    Also I keep hearing they are no records of community transmissions, so if this is true then what is the reason for closing the supermarkets to begin with?

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    THEY DON’T HAVE A CLUE,

    IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS SUPERMARKETS, LAUNDROMATS, LIQUOR STORES AND PHARMACIES ARE STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL.

    CITY OF ALMOST 2 Million

  38. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Today’s press conference by Santia has catapulted her in to the leadership of the government, if the president (and |I hope not) falls under the proverbial bus.
    She has shown spectacularly that she is head and shoulders above the bumbling attorney general and Kerrie Symmonds, and in both cases she shown more emotional intelligence.
    She is sophisticated, a rare quality in Barbadian politics, and has the right level of confidence, the right side of arrogance. Clearly since her first press conference as acting PM, she has had some training and it has worked. She is the future of the BLP.

  39. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Mari you may be quite accurate that “The idiocy of this 26 member cabinet is beyond ridiculous”… but you were also spot on correct when you OBVIOUSLY were thinking of yourself when you wrote:

    “Makes for wonder how long has he been sitting in wait trying to find something any thing which he can used as political fodder against the PM.”

    Although your critique of the govt’s logistical handling of our COVID response has some merit …. in order just to be critical you then veer into some ridiculous nonsense.

    What for example does Massy’s online order process or any other vendor have to do with govt’s push to reduce contact by the use of internet commerce?

    To cite as you did the specifics of online baskets and inventory choices or lack was ridiculous.

    Would you prefer someone to be walking around the aisle of a supermarket and be conveniently exposed to a life threatenting illness or to be incoveniently on hold over the the phone in their own home.

    Just saying, bro! But that was a load of absolutely ish (communist policy of ratioining WHAT STUPIDNESS)… critique for its sake … just pure nonsense.

  40. john2 Avatar
    john2

    that there is no evidence of community transmissions so far is good. doesn’t mean there is none. on the whole prevention is better.

    keep them closed for the two weeks. no one will die of starvation. Can open up more according to how the 2 weeks go.

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

    Just waiting for the next cockup, at least the people know they have to plant their own food and give backward governments the middle finger, the poor already know how to survive.

  42. John A Avatar
    John A

    @Baje

    I will bet you when the supermarkets closed their doors on Friday evening they were thousands of Bajans who didn’t get in one. Where you think they heading first thing tomorrow morning?

    All this approach will do is create more chaos and panic buying over the next 2 days. It is clear the decision makers and those advising them have no concept of logistics what so ever.

    Remember the amount of 24,000 items sold at Supermarket A was only an hour’s worth of sales! Now multiply that by say 6 hours of trade for that one supermarket and then multiply that by all the supermarkets that will be answering phones and writing orders. Total and complete madness by those who suggested it and those who implemented it!

  43. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Dribbler did u listen to the press conference
    The govt said that three variety of baskets would be pre-prepared for the online orders from which customers can choose
    Now pray tell how easy would it be for me as a shopper when placing the order to accurately decided which basket is appropriate for my needs
    As a shopper i want an up and close look of my purchases not a prescribed prepkg basket of what some cashier belive is best for me
    The idiocy of it all maybe after holding a phone for more than an hour to place an order the baskets might have what i already have in stock at my home or what i do not need so there goes one wasted hour then having to go on line at another store wait another hour and pray that luck gets me what i want
    Not only am i pisssed but that hour could have been divide up doing other important household chores than a wasted hour on a phone for nothing
    Only in barbados simplicity becomes a major stumbling block

  44. John A Avatar
    John A

    Let me say that poltically anyone can like or dislike what I say it really doesn’t matter to me.

    What they CAN’T however do is question the numbers and logistics I have outlined, or the questions I have asked.

    If wunna want to do something bring data to contest my figures. If I told you 1 major supermarket outlet sold roughly 1 million separate items on Friday what wunna would say?

    You have a demand that you can not fill in this hap hazard approach. The result will be panic buying when ever you open the supermarkets, until such time as the public feel comfortable they are open again fully and normalcy has returned. What this government is basically doing using this approach is rationing access to food. It’s that simply and no party faithful can argue otherwise.

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

    This may be of some help to those who somehow believe they are special.

    https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3078199/coronavirus-singapore-100-1000-infections-one-month?fbclid=IwAR1SwsIsb1-CgFO6a7vJYc1223E9TKnuHzoCeg0vOuVyLiE2PUIkm0Ko83E

    “What a difference a month can make. At the beginning of March, Singapore had just over 100 coronavirus infections and countries across the world looked to the Southeast Asian city state for inspiration. Its aggressive contact tracing, strict quarantine procedures and measured travel restrictions received praise, as did its world-leading testing rates (as of March 25 it had carried out 6,800 tests per million people, more than other ‘leaders’ such as South Korea at 6,500 and Taiwan, at 1,000).

    Indeed, if anything there may have been a touch of envy overseas at how this small but efficient country was managing to keep infections so low, even while keeping its schools and malls open and enjoying a semblance of normal life.”

  46. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    CLOSING FOR 2 WEEKS WAS A KNEE JERK REACTION.

    THIS VIRUS WILL BE WITH US FOR MANY MONTHS AS SHOWN BY CHINA WHO HAS BEEN BATTLING SINCE JANUARY WITH NO REAL END IN SIGHT.

    NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT ALL AVAILABLE AGRICULTURE LAND WITH FOOD AND NOT MARIJUANA/WEED AS THESE NO VISION POLITICIANS HAS BEEN HELL BENT ON DOING TO BENEFIT A FEW AND NOT THE MASSES.

    TOURISM IS NOT COMING BACK FOR QUITE A WHILE AS NEWS IS GLOBAL AND MOST PEOPLE LIVING IN DEVELOPED WORLD HAS ACCESS TO IT 24/7 AND WILL AVOID UNNECESSARY TRAVELLING LIKE A PLAGUE IN THE NEXT 6 – 12 MONTHS AT LEAST.

  47. John A Avatar
    John A

    I agree we must put In place longer term workable options for the island. Whether it’s shop by age or surname. If we want people to settle and feel that there is a long term plan that will be adhered to, this is the only thing that will put the consumers mind at rest and avoid panic buying.

    If this is not done all other knee jerk reactions will have the same effect as food rationing had in world war 2, which was chaos whenever rations were released. You mean after all the free education nobody ain t figure that out yet? If you doubt that go back and study the prohibition and the removal of it.

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

    Now they are showing their true colors, treating the population like CAPTURED SLAVES like they and their fellow thieves have always done……

    ….they need to stagger the days and time but keep supermarkets open…

  49. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @John A, In 1, re “Also I keep hearing they are no records of community transmissions”. Let’s put that to bed once and finally. That’s nonsense…and the govt knows it.

    Otherwise you are being overly harsh…..On 2, we CANNOT lambaste their policy to stay country wide open and now also ridicule their policy to shut up tight… clearly they have deeply studied their modelling and clearly understand the dire predicament the country now faces and HAVE to enforce distancing. So being “the only country in the developed world to close supermarkets” cannot now be their albatross.

    3They have given options of online at supts, small shops and to facilitate those with less disposable funds the pre-baskets of selected necessary items (one suspect’s bread, milk and other basics) at the $25 – $150 ranges.

    4.Yes there will teething tech problems because of this massive initial surge but goodness these guys (Massy surely) have been doing online commerce for a while now, they have been running other large scale online platforms as well so for the big guys this should be a perfect test of their supposed skills/competencies. They must fix their glitches quickly and scale up as needed as best as possible to meet the hurried demand…

    But again there will be issues if volumes greatly exceed capacity.

    You seem to be suggesting that this will be the ONLY shopping run allowed. That doesnt make sense to me although of course they only have those set dates… But based on exactly what transpires they Will surely have to push out a more days to accommodate the full needs…if that is shown.

    I have been harshly critical of this admin and make absolutely no excuses for calling out their initial buggling but at this point I will wait to criticize their attempts to execute this online commerce push.

    What I will say (in serious jest) that this is absolutely a major move to get us all online (aren’t taxes only now done electronically, for ex) and to tag us with a chip and make us all human automations in the internet-of-things life!

    All the chatter about NOTHING will be the same after covid, starts and ends right there!

    Criticize that …that’s the REAL scary part.

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    a sneek look at the basket of groceries

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