The COVID 19 pandemic continues to be a challenge for many countries across the globe including Barbados. To shutdown or not is the question being asked by Barbadians. This evening’s briefing by the government will provide the answer.
Latest numbers presented by BU’s Lyall Small posted to COVID 19 Update page
@ John February 1, 2021 7:31 PM
“The fisher folk should either collectively or individually sue the Attorney General for depriving them of their constitutional rght to earn a living.”
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You know, Sir John, on the odd occasion when you are not blowing the Trumpet on your idol’s dickhead you can be quite deserving of some praise enough to call yourself a “scholar”.
What has been done is an obvious case of discrimination under the Constitution and which ought to be challenged via the Administrative Justice Act.
Why should big ‘Supermarkets’ be allowed to sell frozen fish- some of it imported even as far as from China- during the lockdown to fight the Covid nightmare while the local fisher folks are left out to sea to suck salt?
How is it that certain big businesses can be permitted to sell the same imported crap while others are deprived of the same entitlement to sell the same crap?
Why should those selling unprocessed aka natural food be deprived of a livelihood in their fight to provide the country with the items needed to build up the people’s immune system- the only real defence mechanism- in order to fight off Covid?
Why can’t the anti-Covid protocols be applied right across the board without reference to size (revenue generating capacity) of the business?
William SkinnerFebruary 1, 2021 7:59 PM
Suddenly we had everybody speaking out on the crisis.
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Q. How does the Constitution define a crisis?
A. It doesn’t.
It speaks to a “public emergency” and this is how it is declared!!
(1) In this Chapter, “period of public emergency” means any
period during which–
(a) Barbados is engaged in any war; or
(b) there is in force a proclamation by the Governor-General
declaring that a state of public emergency exists; or
(c) there is in force a resolution of each House supported by the
votes of not less than two-thirds of all the members of that
House declaring that democratic institutions in Barbados are
threatened by subversion.
(2) A proclamation made by the Governor-General shall not be
effective for the purposes of subsection (1) unless it is declared therein
that the Governor-General is satisfied–
(a) that a public emergency has arisen as a result of the
imminence of a state of war between Barbados and another
State or as a result of the occurrence of any earthquake,
hurricane, flood, fire, outbreak of pestilence, outbreak of
infectious disease or other calamity, whether similar to the
foregoing or not; or
(b) that action has been taken or is immediately threatened by any
person of such a nature and on so extensive a scale as to be
likely to endanger the public safety or to deprive the
community, or any substantial portion of the community, of
supplies or services essential to life.
(3) A proclamation made by the Governor-General for the
purposes of this section shall, unless previously revoked, remain in
force for one month or for such longer period, not exceeding six months,
as the House of Assembly may determine by a resolution supported by
the votes of a majority of all the members of that House:
Provided that any such proclamation may be extended from time to
time for a further period not exceeding six months by resolution passed
in like manner, and may be revoked at any time by resolution
supported by the votes of a majority of all the members of the House
of Assembly.
(4) A resolution passed by a House for the purposes of
subsection (1)(c) may be revoked at any time by a resolution of that
House supported by the votes of a majority of all the members thereof
Has the GG declared a “public emergency”?
Hal AustinFebruary 1, 2021 9:55 AM
CoVid is a global emergency and ought to be fought as such, with the nation being led by the governor general, so as not to politicise it. We have failed to do that in Barbados.
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Hal my boy, you could one day aspire to become a half a lawyer … like me!!!
You are way ahead of this class!!
@Hal AustinFebruary 1, 2021 9:55 AM “CoVid is a global emergency and ought to be fought as such, with the nation being led by the governor general, so as not to politicise it. ”
Is the GG non-political?
Is any GG anywhere in the Commomwealth leading the Covid19 response?
Is Queen Elizabeth leading the Covid response in the United Kingdom?
@John February 1, 2021 6:24 AM “All the masks and social distancing in the world will not stop the spread of dengue!!”
Installing insect screens on all windows and doors will help to stop the spread of chickV, dengue and zika.
Cheap [most homes in Barbados can be screened for less that $1,500] long lasting, easy for a skilled craftsman to do. Provides work for many small business people.
I am not sure why we don’t promote it more
Thanks to all our healthcare staff, our nurses and frontline lab workers!
Most of all, thank you to our Supreme Leader who is navigating us through the Corona Crisis with the utmost safety. Thank you, great Mia Mottley!
The report about Abeds is reported to be false.
Abeds refutes ‘mischievous’ social media post – Abeds refutes ‘mischievous’ social media post: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/02/01/abeds-refutes-mischievous-social-media-post/
This statement reported to be false.
Abeds refutes ‘mischievous’ social media post – Abeds refutes ‘mischievous’ social media post: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/02/01/abeds-refutes-mischievous-social-media-post/
Nobody believes corporate
All well.knows that these businesses put money ahead of their employees
There is plenty evidence showing the mischievous attitudes and bad behaviour that these businesses have shown towards their employees
No one would be surprised by their management actions in reference to the COVID story
I’m not sure about this Governor General meme trope that the two boys Hal and John have been working on to cause mass hysteria like a Reddit thread for racist populist white boys with antithesis of logic like Gamestop, Trump, Brexit, Johnson Farge Bannon phenomena and suspect they are to mischief as they don’t live in Barbados and think they are superior as they life in foreign and other BU posters are inferior as they live in a little island in the Caribbean.
Anyhow here is my own Conspiracy theory for all y’all suckers
The local Fisherman and markets cannot be used right now as they don’t have barcodes for their products in these revelation times. It is time to chip you.
Here is a quote from the comic.
“Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.” Revelation 13:18
So the Abeds don’t tell lies…lol
Cuhdear BajanFebruary 1, 2021 10:46 PM
Installing insect screens on all windows and doors will help to stop the spread of chickV, dengue and zika.
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It may help reduce but it will not stop!!!
A person would have to be an imbecile to even imagine the spread can be stopped.
Anybody who believes that should put up screens, lock themselves in their house and never come out.
Especially, any aspiring dengue Czars should do this, we don’t need them.
Leave the rest of us alone to make a living.
The goal of eliminating COVID deaths is as ridiculous goal as eliminating Dengue deaths.
Quite often we have debates on BU without setting out the rules. One of those is the communicative skills of Santia Bradshaw, and her management of the ministry of education. They are two different things. It is like saying a spinner should be a god fast bowler.
Barbados is facing a serious pandemic, the most serious health crisis we have ever faced, the equivalent of a war, in terms of our history.
It is a public health crisis, which tells us it cannot be resolved clinically, but through behavioural changes in the way we live collectively. (Public health occupies the boundary, the intersection, between medicine, sociology and mathematics and policy.)
Epidemiology is the gathering of evidence in order to resolve the public health crisis and we do that through a programme of public education.
So far, some countries have done this much better than others – Asian countries, New Zealand, Australia – while others have done rather badly – the UK, US and Brazil, for example.
In Barbados the process of public education was led by the prime minister and a team of medics and politicians; it failed to capture the hearts and minds of many Barbadians, and continued, with the high risk of allowing our borders to remain opened. Was the risk worth taking? Some people may think this was good management. I do not.
I know some people may remember the early 1980s and the HIV/Aids campaign, when doctors and scientists were at sea as to its cause and how it was transmitted.
Looking back 40 years this year, it is amazing how highly intelligent people were so ignorant of this threat to public health.
We did not know where it came from, how it was transmitted, how people caught it; some said it came out of Africa, people eating monkeys, some said it was the gay plague, others said if you touched someone with the disease you may catch it, others that heterosexuals could not contract it, all kinds of nonsense.
In the UK all this changed when in 1987, Princess Diana, then the most popular member of the Royal family, walked in to the Aids unit at Middlesex Hospital and shook a victim by the hand.
The picture went viral since it was the first time any senior public figure had touched a victim in public with his or her bare hands.
Diana was not a doctor or politician, she was a compassionate, emotionally intelligent, gentle woman with empathy for the unfortunate victims of this new disease.
That simple act of kindness went viral and the rest, as they say, is history, including the normalising the use of condoms. In communicating with the public, the messenger is as important as the message.
I suggest that we should relaunch our campaign, remove it from party politics and set the whole thing in motion by getting the Governor General to make a statement to the nation about the seriousness of the virus and how the state plans to resolve it.
After that, a small team, headed by the minister, along with an epidemiologist or the acting CMO, and one other, as the occasion arises, will update the nation.
At press briefings keep the message short, use a small team, hand out press packs with all the details, and keep the website up to date.
Cut out the court cases for first infringements and introduce fixed penalties. Put lives before the economy. It can work.
It does not make sense attacking the two-par ty system then contributing to the very division by finding reasons not to do things.
FYI – Difficult to distinguish COVID from Dengue in the early stages it would seem from this link.
https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/healthcare-providers/dengue-or-covid.html
Conspiracy Hypotheses / Memories / Blast from the Past
This is the first BU thread I ever read back in 2009 during Global Financial Crises when Barbados Free Press told me to visit the Underground and stop posting on BFP. You seemed like a bunch of nut jobs. I suspect David works for the C.I.A.
“THE MARK OF THE BEAST, THE COMING OF THE ANTI-CHRIST,THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS”
https://barbadosunderground.net/2009/05/20/the-mark-of-the-beast-the-coming-of-the-anti-christthe-dead-sea-scrolls/
Misty In Roots – Own Them Control Them (Peel Session)
Here is my brethren Gnoni McKenzie on the mic on the right with some prophetic lyrics
System own them
Babylon control them
System own them
Babylon control them
System own them
Babylon control them
System own them
So Johnny Power control them
They are loving
All manner of ungodly things
They’re committing
All types of deadly sin
System own them…
All that I can see
Pain and strife in the city
Men working in iniquity
To achieve only vanity
System own them…
Prepare yourselves
Prophesy fulfill
For where the wise men never trod
Fools they go rushing in, watch them
System own them
Babylon control them
System own them
Babylon control them
System own them
Babylon control them
System own them
So Johnny Power control them
Hal AustinFebruary 2, 2021 7:17 AM Good post.
On Diana ”Diana was not a doctor or politician, she was a compassionate, emotionally intelligent, gentle woman with empathy for the unfortunate victims of this new disease.”
That may be the issue. She was amongst the 20% of people who actually care. On top of that, she was in the top percentage of that 20% willing to tell the authorities to get lost, she will show how to do it. She was not of the norm. She was a special one.
Trying to find more like her may be the issue. There surely are, but not in the public eye.
@John, That is correct. I think that there is one difference. Ask a doctor. Dengue’s fever fluctuates, especially rising on evening. Covid’s fever is constant.
They said this though ”Most people with dengue and COVID-19 have mild illness and can recover at home; symptoms usually last a few days, and people tend to feel better after a week.”
Mild for dengue? Must be mad. Anyone I know who every had dengue get lick up, even if not hospitalised.
Covid19 does seem to vary between individuals. From no symptoms to death.
There is as I remember dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever.
Dengue licked me up in 1978 and took months for me to fully recover.
Luckily I did not get the more extreme version!!
The point I am making is that the authorities do not seem to know if they are dealing with dengue or COVID.
We’ve been dealing with dengue since the 1970’s.
My bet is it is as deadly as or far more deadly than COVID.
Is the point of the 360 student interviewers to seek out receptacles of water in households to reduce the incidence of dengue or to cross examine householders to discover if they are not being honest in describing their symptoms and decide who needs to go to Harrisons Point?
If dengue is the issue send the resident life expectancy expert around with some wire mesh and a hammer let her erect screens.
We are making a mountain out of a molehill with no regard as to cost at a time when we are broke.
Our priorities are screwed.
Watching the gorillas on Operation search and save turned my stomach.
Everyone of them will collet their paychecks as normal and they will be paid by we who they are depriving of our means of livelihood.
Too much deadweight.
https://www.nationnews.com/2020/11/04/dengue-cases-increase-barbados/
There have been 38 hospitalisations so far this year related to suspected and confirmed cases of dengue fever.
This was revealed by Chief Medical Officer, Dr Kenneth George on Wednesday, as he appealed to residents to carry out regular inspections of their premises to eliminate Aedes Aegypti mosquito breeding sites.
George expressed concern about the increase in probable and suspected cases compared to last year. So far this year, there were 301 probable cases and eight confirmations of the disease, compared to 92 probable cases last year with no confirmations. No deaths were recorded over the two years, to date.
The Chief Medical Officer maintained that while dengue fever had an associated mortality related to severe dengue or haemorrhagic fever, it was a preventable disease.
“What is required is the cooperation of the public to make sure that premises are free of mosquito breeding sites. They should inspect premises one to two times a week, paying close attention to blocked guttering, plant pots, tyres and any other receptacles which may contain stagnant water,” he advised.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness scaled up house-to-house inspections and its weekly fogging exercise in response to the uptick in cases.
George explained that while fogging reduced the adult mosquito population, the household checks were necessary to get rid of the larvae stages of the mosquito, adding: “fogging and inspections must be done in conjunction. People must not rely on fogging alone”.
The Chief Medical Officer explained that one reason why there were not many confirmed cases was because samples needed to be received by the laboratory within two to three days of suspected infection in order for confirmatory tests to be done.
He urged anyone with suspected dengue symptoms to seek medical attention as early as possible so that testing can be carried out to identify the virus.
While dengue fever is endemic in Barbados and there was an increased number of cases this year, the situation has not yet reached epidemic proportions, the Chief Medical Officer revealed. The last epidemic in Barbados was in 2016.
Symptoms include fever, headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain, and a red itchy rash. (PR/SAT)
So far this year, there were 301 probable cases and eight confirmations of the disease, compared to 92 probable cases last year with no confirmations. No deaths were recorded over the two years, to date.
38 hospitalisations.
If dengue has been around since the 1970s, why are we now confusing people with CoVid and dengue? We must remain focused on the CoVid message. Then tackle dengue at another time.
Abstract: Analysis of the temporal, seasonal and demographic distribution of dengue virus (DENV)
infections in Barbados was conducted using national surveillance data from a total of 3994 confirmed
dengue cases. Diagnosis was confirmed either by DENV–specific real time reverse transcriptase
polymerase chain reaction (rRT–PCR), or non–structural protein 1 (NS1) antigen or enzyme linked
immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests; a case fatality rate of 0.4% (10/3994) was observed. The dengue
fever (DF) prevalence varied from 27.5 to 453.9 cases per 100,000 population among febrile patients
who sought medical attention annually. DF cases occurred throughout the year with low level of
transmission observed during the dry season (December to June), then increased transmission during
rainy season (July to November) peaking in October. Three major dengue epidemics occurred in
Barbados during 2010, 2013 and possibly 2016 with an emerging three–year interval. DF prevalence
among febrile patients who sought medical attention overall was highest among the 10–19 years
old age group. The highest DF hospitalisation prevalence was observed in 2013. Multiple serotypes
circulated during the study period and Dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV–2) was the most prevalent
serotype during 2010, whilst DENV–1 was the most prevalent serotype in 2013. Two DENV–1
strains from the 2013 DENV epidemic were genetically more closely related to South East Asian
strains, than Caribbean or South American strains, and represent the first ever sequencing of DENV
strains in Barbados. However, the small sample size (n = 2) limits any meaningful conclusions.
DF prevalence was not significantly different between females and males. Public health planning
should consider DENV inter–epidemic periodicity, the current COVID–19 pandemic and similar
clinical symptomology between DF and COVID–19. The implementation of routine sequencing of
DENV strains to obtain critical data can aid in battling DENV epidemics in Barbados.
The cycle is due to rain!!
We get good rainfall every 4 years or so.
Last year was good.
file:///C:/Users/eejoh/Downloads/tropicalmed-05-00068-v3.pdf
Barbados has recorded two dengue-related deaths, but health officials are reassuring the public they are on top of the situation.
Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George, while not indicating when the deaths occurred, said one deceased was a young child, eight years old, who had a pre-existing significant condition and officials were “awaiting confirmation”.
He did not reveal the age or gender of the other individual, only saying that the person did not have any predisposing conditions, which made it worrisome.
George was speaking yesterday at a press conference at the Pan American Health Organisation, Dayrells Road, Christ Church, where he and Minister of Health and Wellness Jeffrey Bostic were receiving a donation of equipment. (RA)
Hal AustinFebruary 2, 2021 8:45 AM
If dengue has been around since the 1970s, why are we now confusing people with CoVid and dengue? We must remain focused on the CoVid message. Then tackle dengue at another time.
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Dengue is the here and now!!
Miller should have known better than to compliment John.
Human beings like all orher living creatures have the instinctive urge to prolong their lives for as long as possible.
For human beings of intelligence this has promoted the development and use of science and more specifically of medicine and public health strategies. We recognise that death is ultimately inevitable but we will always attempt to delay such in an attempt to die seamlessly of old age in our sleep without undue suffering.
All of medical science is designed for this purpose. ANYONE who avails themselves of medical science services is trying to do just that.
Medical science has made great strides over the last 150 years to the extent that most of us now do not expect to die from an infectious disease. Indeed we have progressed so far that vaccines and therapeutics can now be developed in quick time. So…. if we controll the spread of the virus it is likely that vaccines and treatments can step in to keep death and suffering to a minimum.
The public health measures can hold the fort until vaccines and therapeutics come to the rescue.
The public health measures taken must obviously be determined by the method of transmission of disease. Dengue is transmitted by a mosquito and therefore the measures are designed to keep the mosquito population to a minimum. This entails reducing breeding sites, fogging, screening of doors and windows, sleeping under mosquito nets and the wearing of appropriate clothing or repellant. This has the effect of minimising death. Isolating people would not help as much as these measures and would cause far more harm than it is worth.
This COVID is transmitted human to human by simply breathing and is obviously extremely contagious. The public health measures must therefore be different. This thing, if left to its own devices, would obviously have killed and damaged several times more than the flu and dengue. And therein lies the difference.
If leaders like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson had taken the pandemic seriously, the world would have shut down for a month and controlled it until therapeutics and vaccines were developed.
So that the human objective of minimising premature death and suffering would have been achieved. And we would already be in recovery mode.
Reuters) – The COVAX global vaccine sharing scheme expects to deliver 35.3 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to 36 Caribbean and Latin American states from mid-February to the end of June, the World Health Organization’s regional office said.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said the Americas region needed to immunise about 500 million people to control the pandemic.
It said WHO would complete its review in a few days of the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use listing (EUL).
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“The number of doses and delivery schedule are still subject to EUL and manufacturing production capacity,” PAHO said, adding that supply deals also had to be agreed with producers.
Of the 36 nations receiving AstraZeneca’s shot, it said four countries, namely Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador and Peru, would also receive a total of 377,910 doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine from mid-February.
The GAVI alliance, the group that co-leads COVAX with WHO, said last week it aimed to deliver 2.3 billion vaccines worldwide by the end of 2021, including 1.8 billion free doses to lower-income countries.
Geneva-based GAVI was expected to publish details of its allocations by country on Monday.
The 36 Caribbean and Latin American nations to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine ranged from regional giants Brazil and Mexico to small islands such as Dominica and Montserrat
25 Lighters (feat. Big Pokey) · Lil’ Keke
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, interim trial results suggest Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, interim trial results suggest
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/health/russia-sputnik-v-phase-3-intl/index.html
DavidFebruary 2, 2021 9:14 AM
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, interim trial results suggest Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, interim trial results suggest
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How does it perform on the UK Variant and South African Variant?
COVID is like Dengue.
We will continue to get it and survive …. or die!!
Life goes on.
@ Hal
“After that, a small team, headed by the minister, along with an epidemiologist or the acting CMO, and one other, as the occasion arises, will update the nation.
At press briefings keep the message short, use a small team, hand out press packs with all the details, and keep the website up to date.
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That’s how we started. Your critique of Bostic is harsh and without evidence. Bradshaw brought no particular clarity to the situation. And quite frankly I don’t see where this potential prime minister, you see in her comes from. Eloquence and speaking fleuently is not the be all and end all of messaging.
The so-called two party system is what run Barbados since Independence. I don’t know waht other yardstick I can use to measure the good and the bad. And you know quite well that outside of a throne speech our governors general never get involved in explaining government policy . To suggest that the GG be given some extraordinaly role in this crisis is to throw gasoline on an already volatile situation.
Having said that , I am still of the opinion that Barbados has managed the crisis so far better than either the USA or England.
Read Liz Thompson overzealous news pertaining to vaccines
The article states that barbados was on the list
However articles from international news outlets states a different story
The Way We Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKYqPnS4vf8
William you should know by now that utter shit excites Hal.
February 2, 2021
Government has been told it will get ten of thousands of doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine beginning from mid-February through the World Health Organization (WHO)’s COVAX coalition – enough that could possibly cover every elderly person on the island – Barbados TODAY has learned
Ambassador Elizabeth Thompson, the head of Barbados’ COVID-19 communications unit, confirmed to Barbados TODAY the developments regarding the country’s vaccination pursuits, but no further details were available up to the time of publication
All Hail The King
@ William
CoVid is not a political crisis It is a public health crisis being mismanaged by the president. My critique of Mr Bostic is not harsh. I have said that I believe he is a basically decent man, but he is out of his depth. What is harsh about that?
You do not see the quality in Ms Bradshaw’s presentational skills on CoVid, but I beg to differ. The qualities she demonstrates: tone, emotional intelligence, empathy, etc are qualities I recognise.
I said, on the basis of this, she could be a leader of the future. You are now arguing like @Lorenzo (I certainly do not regard you as in the same category).
Nobody knows the future, and a young lad who may be a potentially good cricketer at age nine, may be a wastrel at age 16. It is an impression, that is all, a quality which all employers have to depend on when hiring staff.
I was once told by a very influential administrator that I had potential, now look at me. He got it totally wrong. As to eloquence, in public education, the messenger is as important as the message. That is Communication 101, even if in Barbados they try to rewrite the scripts.
Why does the president stand out from her contemporaries? Is it not because of her rhetorical skills on a political platform and in parliament? But those skills are not appropriate when delivering a message at a time of national crisis.
Further, I have enormous respect for her, but she is not as intelligent as many of her fans think she is, but that is a very individual assessment. To some people she may appear brighter than Einstein.
We have a two-party political system that we inherited, but in public discourse it does not have to be either or, black or white, a binary interpretation; there are many different nuances and theories.
We advance by pushing the boundaries, not repeating the them and us narrative which many people mistakenly thing is serious debate.
As to the governor general, I am not suggesting that she becomes involved in party politics; but as head of state she could lead the communication about a national public health crisis. I used the example of Princess Diana.
This is exactly what a head of state does, it takes the message out of party politics and appeals to the entire nation, which we badly need at present. The president has confused the public and even herself. She is now the hindrance to good communication.
Replay the briefing in which they tried to define community spread and cluster. If it was not so serious it would be humorous. I have not seen Dr George since.
Finally, you are joining in the reactionary whataboutism that comes up on BU quite often. Nobody is comparing Barbados to the UK, I certainly have not. What is the relevance?
And, for clarity, I think Boris Johnson has made a mess of managing CoVid; I know that because the scientific advice is often made public. Similar to Trump in the US.
I do think that we live in a world of various experiences and we must look at best practice, but the final decision is ours and must be one fit for Barbados.
Like all Barbadians, I am very thankful that CoVid has not taken more lives, and even the few it has taken are too many, but we could of done much better.
In the meantime, people will suffer because of this nationalistic and irrational impulse.
@
Hal
Was there any blunder you can present as evidence that Bostic “ was out of his depth . Kindly bring it. Your fixation on Bradshaw should not cloud your harsh and unreasonable put down of Bostic.
Bostic is perhaps the vest person at this time because of his successful military background.
For your position to stand , you will have to prove two things:
1. Proof that Bostic muffled the message or was not effective
2. You will have to show that Bradshaw brought any known improvement or change to the messaging
I hope I never see our Governor General thrown into politics especially in a crisis such as this pandemic.
|@ William
You are being impertinent. I do not have a fixation on Bradshaw or any Barbadian politician. This conversation arose out of my saying her presentational style for the crisis was better than the president’s or any of the other front people we have had so far. Is that a fixation?
Instead it drift ed in to all kinds of nonsense about her performance as minister of education as if we have had an outstanding minister of education. Just go back over the last 26 years.
Our educational system has been failing us for the last fifty years; just read some of the regulars on BU, many of whom went to the best schools in the country.
Why are you asking an irrelevant question about Mr Bostic. Let me repeat: he comes over as a basically decent man who is out of his depth. What has that got to do with making mistakes or is that your interpretation of out of his depth?
With respect, both your points are irrelevant. In public communication, the person delivering the message does not have to be the author of the message. That is why we have speechwriters. In Barbados we do things differently.
I will say again: her tone, emotional intelligence, empathy, etc were all those the situation required, not making a political speech that was rambling. If you do not agree, then let us agree to disagree. That is an observation, not a fixation.
And again, a national public health crisis is not a party political issue. It has been politicalise by the president. Even her nonsense of having spoken to the other political leaders came over as an excuse.
This is our equivalent of war. The right person to RE- LAUNCH the public awareness is through a person that would command the attention of the entire nation. That person is the governor general.
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I have not spoken to a single Barbadian who lives here who views the GG as the person from whom they wish to hear in this COVID crisis. Most people view the position as a visitor to centenarians.
Nobody really takes the position seriously anymore.
Mr Skinner i do not usually agree with you but i agree with you on Mr Bostic.I think although he looks a bit uneasy at times he is forthright with his delivery and if he does not know he says so amd hands over to the medical experts.Therefore for Austin to be suggesting he is out of his death is pure nonsense.On the other hand he is continuously bigging up miss Bradshaw and like you i have seen little evidence on her covid appearances to come to this great communicator Austin is speaking about maybe he can present us in Barbados with some examples.As i pointed out i remember clearly the confusion she caused on at least one occasion where Ms Mottley had to get off her sick bed to clarify.However what do you expect from a man who claimed without any evidence that Mr Thompson had he lived would have been a great PM?
Mr Skinner i do not usually agree with you but i agree with you on Mr Bostic.I think although he looks a bit uneasy at times………Therefore for Austin to be suggesting he is out of his death is pure nonsense……(Quote)
@ Lorenzo
This is the first crisis that a minister other than Mottley had to face , in this government. As the Minister of Health, Bostic performed admirably. I think that @ Hal is a bit hard on him. I can find nothing wrong with his ministerial
handling of the situation. Any poll will give Bostic a high passing grade.
“I think although he looks a bit uneasy at times………… he is FORTHRIGHT with his DELIVERY and if he does not know he says so and hands over to the medical experts………… Therefore, for Austin to be suggesting he is out of his death is pure nonsense.”
@ Lorenzo
And, ‘PURE DISHONESTY’ in this case.
I hope you’ve noticed the difference when your comment is quoted within its intended context.
The guy quoted your comments out of context by intentionally omitting the sentence that was essential to clarifying the point you were trying to make. In other words, he selectively excerpted words from their original linguistic context in such a way to purposely distort what you intended your comments to mean.
It’s a ‘trick’ journalist use that is known as ‘contextomy.’ And, I’m sure you’re aware he engages in the quite often.
********** And, I’m sure you’re aware he engages in the ACTIVITY quite often.
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