Prime Minister Mia Mottley will address Barbadians at 11:30AM, 02.02.2021. Her address comes on the eve of another ‘lockdown’ designed to combat the surge in COVID 19 infections.
Covid 19 Update – 02.02.2021
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They will keep returning to a state of emergency as long as they keep returning to dependecy tourism from hotspot countries….let’s see if they’ll ever learn..
visitors who break covid protocols should be both heavily fined and jailed…..there is an opportunity to arrest the disease, most viruses don’t give that leeway…if idiots think they are free to spread the virus among black populations….JAIL THE BITCHES AND MAKE THEM PAY.
the vaccine is a “we hope it works in the future” mechanism…there are no guarantees and Mia should not be dishing out false hope that it will…vaccine companies are making sure to absolve themselves just in case the vaccine backfires…they’ve not had time to do 2 year trials and they know it, so they will not accept liability if thinks go wrong….everyone has to make their own decisions on being guinea pigs…the virus is mutating rapidly, by the time you get the first shot, it mutates so there is no guarantee the 2nd shot will work during another mutation, if it mutates after the first shot, you will have to be vaccinated all over again.
this is the current fear among scientists..
“Scientists fear new variants — which can contain dozens of potentially dangerous mutations — may be able to dodge vaccine-triggered immunity, and possibly cause re-infection or serious illness.”
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Ellis calls out ‘MIA’ ministers
VETERAN BROADCASTER David Ellis is challenging the Mia Amor Mottley administration to level with Barbadians on issues affecting the country.
He was responding to a caller on yesterday’s
Down To Brass Tacks
radio programme on
VOB 92.9FM. The caller was querying rumours of people being released from quarantine facilities without two negative test results, and for an update on the COVID-19 positive case at the Geriatric Hospital.
“Where we are right now does not indicate to anybody in Barbados that the Government of Barbados is in control.
You cannot be in control if your testing has been compromised . . . . ,” said Ellis, who was moderating the programme.
“They may perhaps say the people who are in the media and stuff should really cooperate by just echoing exactly what we have said, because they know as well as we do, that we are here trying to create an environment of stability. But if it rings hollow to so many people out there, do you really expect us to sit down here and support that?”
he asked.
Ellis, the station manager at Starcom Network, criticised all those in public office who remained unreachable, even in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
Recounting a recent experience, he said on important matters he had tried to reach ministers who to date had not returned his calls or sent any messages.
“They treat you with utter contempt and disrespect. But they want to be respected by people in this country . . . .
Issues
“We have a crisis of one sort or the other here and now. The people who are paid by the taxpayers of Barbados to address these issues are expected to rise to the occasion.
You can pick and choose who you want to talk to, but at the end of it all, you still have to address these issues in the public domain. You can’t sit down on them forever,” he said. Singling out Minister of Labour Colin Jordan, Ellis said he had been missing in action for quite some time.
“There are too many labour issues in this country that need to be talked about. They have been exacerbated by this additional lockdown.
Where is the Minister of Labour?” he asked.
Speaking on a recent threat of cybersecurity, Ellis said a company was recently asked to pay a ransom because their data had been compromised.
He said the media had tried to reach an official on the matter but had failed to make contact.
“A big issue in this country – and we haven’t even heard a word from her yet. Why is she being paid?
“These are legitimate questions that we have to ask, and they need to respond to people, not to me specifically, but you got to respond to the public need. That is why you are being paid.
“I have said nothing about this for quite some time, but enough is enough,” he declared.
( RA)Source: Nation
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DavidFebruary 3, 2021 5:56 AM
Serious questions there and if what he is saying is accurate, of which there is no reason to think that it is not, then this needs to be addressed with alacrity.
The golden word right now is ‘confidence’. That cannot and must not be compromised by either a lack of understanding nor any perceived attempt to obfuscate.
I have often seen total mismanagement, in private sector organisations too. Too often managers who should know better, think that employees are fools.
I have seen corporate messages that are laughable in the circumstances, that only a numbnut would accept. Then, it comes across as an insult.
As yuh granny used to say, honesty is the best policy. Manage the situation, not the people.
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“The caller was querying rumours of people being released from quarantine facilities without two negative test results”
This would make a mockery of lock-downs and protocols. Either in it to win it or just playing games.
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This govt most intent is to control the message
Recently i saw a video where a person who was in the Harrison isolation centre said
Communication with the Cuban doctors and nurses was impossible because of language barrier -
MIA Ministers are actually MIA.
Missing in Action, is the call made by veteran broadcaster David Ellis. Or is it Muzzled in Advance. All paths to the media flow through me? Like small children, thou shall be seen but not heard #missioncritical #watchmuh -
Govt thinks that people are idiots
However the blp yardfowls send that message to govt
Hence govt tells the people what they want to hear
However many are wakening up rather than believe govt PR messages turn to social media and other media outlets to give opinions or tell their stories -
“Communication with the Cuban doctors and nurses was impossible because of language barrier.”
basic spanish is one of the easiest languages to learn, i still remember my high school spanish and has since upgraded, yall on ya devices every minute of every day gossiping about each others sex lives…use that same time to goddamn learn a lingo….how ya going to learn Mia inspired Mandarin, if ya dont even have a full grasp of standard english or any other lingo. Instead of sharing gossip…share this….Duolingo…or any of the others that are being advertised on FACEBOOK DAILY..most are free.
Bajan dialect should only be used at home only for those who see it as useful, it can’t even be used in Africa…i mastered it since being on BU but it’s not needed to survive…learn another language or several or stay unable to communicate effectively.
re people escaping quarantine without 2 negative tests…i will bet anything it’s the backwardness associated with being “connected and knowing somebody” …that stupidity will end up killing many people…the useless 11 plus mentality.
If the media is muted, that too is detrimental to the taxpayers who pay ministers to BE AVAILABLE and they need to stop pretending that their fake pedigree makes them untouchable..until they need to BEG black people again for votes in 2 years.
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Bajan dialect should only be used at home only for those who see it as useful, it can’t even be used in Africa…(Quote)
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Further…i stopped my children from adopting it as a language while growing up, they had the opportunit to do so if they wanted to when grown up …i learned it in my 50s. it didn’t kill me not knowing the dialect before….i didn’t need it to communicate… standard english, french and spanish are quite enough…..show me where in the world that the dialect is needed…..not even those who use creole french need that to communicate effectively worldwide they also know standard french
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..those dialects are useful for communities to bond or whatever they do with it….don’t care about ya bullshit sentiments Hal…what’s that doing for anyone now in these times….most who are so sentimental don’t even know that these dialects are an admixture of scottish, welsh, african dialects….
and english…which is an intermixing of spanish and french….yall full of shit.
would love to hear Hal speak french, am sure i will get to laugh all day.
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The art of communication. Here is the UK Labour party discussing its strategy, noth the part about dressing property…..
Labour must make “use of the [union] flag, veterans [and] dressing smartly” as part of a radical rebranding to help it win back the trust of disillusioned voters, according to a leaked internal strategy presentation.
Presenting the strategy last month – including research on the party’s brand by agency Republic dating from September – the party’s head of research said voters were confused about “what we stand for, and what our purpose is, but also who we represent”……..
The presentation suggests that displays of patriotism are needed to reinforce that the party has changed. One slide says: “Belonging needs to be reinforced through all messengers,” while another is headed “communicating Labour’s respect and commitment for the country can represent a change in the party’s body language”…..
Among the top recommendations is: “The use of the flag, veterans, dressing smartly at the war memorial etc give voters a sense of authentic values alignment.” Approached for a response, a senior Labour official said the language came from the agency’s research rather than their own phrasing…..(Quote)
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Would also love to drop ya in the Gambia or any of the other stringent societies that were FORCED TO learn english and see ya trying to bullshit them with Bajan dialect…
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Totally forgot..
most who are so sentimental don’t even know that these dialects are an admixture of scottish, welsh, irish african dialects.
and english…which is an intermixing of spanish and french….yall full of shit.
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If Mia will just stop playing stupid games with the Marijuana, that’s found to be effective in treating Covid symptoms….but that’s her business, she’s the one who will be held accountable…not me..i will just enjoy the show.
“Top Senate Democrats: We’ll Legalize Marijuana.”
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The rise of scientific rationalism, combined with the fall of religious influence, the increasing focus on human rights, the exponential growth of technology, plus the advent of flight and space travel, are evidence of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. A “wave” theory of the shifting Great Ages suggests that the Age of Aquarius will not arrive on a given date but is instead emerging in influence over many years, similar to how the tide surges forward incrementally rather than all at once.
In the Aquarian Age with revelation of truth and the expansion of consciousness as seven celestial bodies move into Aquarius in February of 2021 some people will experience mental enlightenment in advance of others and recognised as new leaders in the world where religion is the opiate of the masses and will be replaced in the Aquarian Age by a world ruled by secretive, power-hungry elites seeking absolute power over others, knowledge in the Aquarian Age will only be valued for its ability to win wars, knowledge and science will be abused, not industry and trade, the Aquarian Age will be a Dark Age in which religion is considered offensive. There has been speak about two great spiritual events, the return of Christ in the ethereal world (and not in a physical body), because people must develop their faculties until they can reach the ethereal world, and the incarnation of “destructive spirit” that will try to block the evolution of humanity when the cycle of Aquarius will start. Aquarius is the house of the woman in this age the woman will be equal to the man.Now lets sing Qigong on the beach Qigong on the beach Qigong on the beach Qigong on the beach Qigong on the beach Qigong on the beach
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It’s Black History day, week, month, year and CENTURY….let’s celebrate.
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“We need no sew n sew PM telling us bout praying!”
that’s distraction suitable for the dumb and brainwashed fowls who know no better.
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WHO task force now believes that CoVid-19 came out of a lab. Some people may remember the discussion back in March/April with @Dr Lucas, when I said it looked as if it was a lab-created virus. Typical biological warfare, if true.
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“It’s Black History day, week, month, year and CENTURY….let’s celebrate.”
There has been a shift for human rights for blacks since 1800 which started off by treating blacks as humans
black history teaches you where you are from which is out of mama Africa
geography teaches you where you are in the world across black diaspora
sciences teaches you where you are going in the future across the universe
but colour is superficial and skin deep
humanity of human race is all about what is inside you
and the colour of your mind and spirit is more important
beloveds
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@David: “Where we are right now does not indicate to anybody in Barbados that the Government of Barbados is in control. You cannot be in control if your testing has been compromised . . . . ,” said Ellis, who was moderating the programme.
“They may perhaps say the people who are in the media and stuff should really cooperate by just echoing exactly what we have said, because they know as well as we do, that we are here trying to create an environment of stability. But if it rings hollow to so many people out there, do you really expect us to sit down here and support that?”I am slowly beginning to believe their sugar-coating PR is the norm.
Still awaiting a Covid result for an 80 year old relative …. after 6 days!!! This is supposed to be a Cat. 1 patient with an expected 24/48 hour turnaround……, awaiting result for entry into a Home.
No one knows what to do. Trying to call is a waste of time …. and even when you contact someone, they cannot help!
Tell us the truth …. good or bad!!! ……………
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Stay Fly
Sample & Remix Hi Tek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkT_YuTDdJA -
Stay Fly Chopped and Screwed
purple drank / sipping on sizzurp
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Didn’t one of the doctors stated that a systematic patients will be release once their do their 14 days?
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KS
Didn’t the pm not say that reasently they were having problems with testing?
They are running out of something that was ordered a while back and not yet arrivedCat1 patient should be one that was exposed at showing symptoms . You should be a cat1 just because you are over 80
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@ks
From the report Ellis was postulating. What is the evidence based position? A question for the press people at the next briefing.
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KS
Maybe you should call ur MP
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Bottomline is that Europeans must be vaccinated and tested first, they are the CARRIERS OF COVID….
Barbados is at the lowest end of the totem pole as ARE ALL COUNTRIES WITH SMALLER POPULATIONS….that includes european countries….larger populations will need all the medical supplies they can get their hands on FIRST…if Mia don’t want to say that…i will.
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The coward ass MPs will hide, frighten to say what they know…and too dumb to know everything.
they only got mouth for and know how to lie to, demoralize and rob Black people.
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So let them continue inviting in the CARRIERS….with their dependency syndrome and see what happens.
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What we seem to have here: Lots of questions receiving questionable answers, or just plain silence.
.Phantom Virus: In search of Sars-CoV-2
Torsten Engelbrecht, Dr Stefano Scoglio & Konstantin DemeterIn a request for a study which shows complete isolation and purification of the particles claimed to be SARS-CoV-2, Michael Laue from one of the world’s most important representatives of the COVID-19 “panicdemic,” the German Robert Koch Institute (RKI), answered that[1]:
I am not aware of a paper which purified isolated SARS-CoV-2.
This is a more than remarkable statement, it is admitting a complete failure. This concession is in line with the statements we presented in our article “COVID-19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless” which Off-Guardian published on June 27th, 2020 — a piece that was the first one worldwide outlining in detail why SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests are worthless for the diagnosis of a viral infection.
One of the crucial points in this analysis was that the studies contending to have shown that SARS-CoV-2 is a new and potentially deadly virus have no right to claim this, particularly because the studies claiming “isolation” of so-called SARS-CoV-2 in fact failed to isolate (purify) the particles said to be the new virus.
This is confirmed by the answers of the respective studies’ scientists to our inquiry, which are shown in a table in our piece — among them the world’s most important paper when it comes to the claim of having detected SARS-CoV-2 (by Zhu et al.), published in the New England Journal of Medicine on February 20, 2020, and now even the RKI.
Incidentally, we are in possession of a further confirmatory answer from authors [2] of an Australian study.
SNIP
NO ASYMPTOMATIC “INFECTION
Since particle purification is the indispensable prerequisite for further steps, i.e. proof of causality and “calibration” of the tests, we have a diagnostically insignificant test and therefore the mantra “test, test, test” by the WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, mentioned in our article from June 27, has to be called unscientific and misleading.
This holds especially true for testing people without symptoms. In this context even a Chinese study from Wuhan published in Nature on November 20, 2020, in which nearly 10 million people were tested and all asymptomatic positive cases, re-positive cases and their close contacts were isolated for at least 2 weeks until the PCR test resulted negative, found that:
All close contacts of the asymptomatic positive cases tested negative, indicating that the asymptomatic positive cases detected in this study were unlikely to be infectious.
Even the orthodox British Medical Journal recently joined in the criticism.
Shortly before Christmas, the science magazine published the article “COVID-19: Mass testing is inaccurate and gives false sense of security, minister admits” explaining how the testing being deployed in parts of the UK is simply not at all accurate for asymptomatic people and arguing that it cannot accurately determine if one is positive or negative, as Collective Evolution wrote. (The WHO themselves have since admitted as much. Twice. – ed.)
https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/31/phantom-virus-in-search-of-sars-cov-2/
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Sounds like we have had a casedemic, not a pandemic.
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What an utter waste of time and money, not to mention the mental anguish caused.
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It gets worse. we knew about the inaccuracy of the PCR test for some time, but countries still require it, some not all…the problem for people stuck in Barbados for some time is if they don’t present a PCR test result, upon entry, they cant enter and some are at risk of losing their pensions if they can’t return to Canada in that 6 month window…so the government need to source some from somewhere, it’s their duty, they were inviting all and sundry to Barbados, so now they need to fix this so people can keep their pensions.
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Who’s driving your bus
Is it the reptilian that acts on instinct with automatic negative thinking and automatic negative response self destructive behaviours and self limiting beliefs is that who’s driving your bus or is it the mammalian brain that’s like should I or shouldn’t I what shall I do too hard to know or is it the divine brain and mind that when the indecisive component kicks in the divine mind takes over and runs the show. Every day you are in your divine mind if only for 5 minutes you go into your divine mind but you don’t stay there that’s what they mean about falling asleep qigong is going to wake you up permanently you cannot escape your self destructive behaviours God will forgive you but your body will not forgive you so this is why we do qigong to self repair and the limbic system is you emo brain and your emo brain is the one that makes the choices human beings are not logical they have to be trained in logic we’re emotional and that’s why when we make decisions when we are in our emo brain we don’t make really good choices -
@ John A February 2, 2021 8:22pm
India’s Covaxin not approved by FDA
Here is the latest update.
Bharat Biotech inks pact with Ocugen for development, sale of Covaxin in US
2 min read . 02 Feb 2021.Ocugen will have the commercial rights to the vaccine candidate in the US and will be responsible to conduct clinical trial and get emergency use authorisation EUA from the US FDA
New Delhi: Bharat Biotech International Ltd on Tuesday announced that it has signed a pact with Ocugen Inc, allowing the US-based biopharmaceutical firm to co-develop, supply, and commercialize the Indian vaccine maker’s Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin in the US market.
Under the terms of the agreement, Ocugen will have the commercial rights to the vaccine candidate in the US and will be responsible to conduct clinical trial and get emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration. -
@WW&C
“so the government need to source some from somewhere, it’s their duty”
Bullshit. 1) the 6 month requirement only applies to those OAS recipients who did not live 20 years in Canada 2) they were all advised from long ago (>6 months) not to travel, that restrictions could change. People do whatever the RH they want, and then when they get fcuked, they want to cry foul. -
And the bull. Sh.it continues
Govt confidence iz shattered
The COVID das board doesn’t matter any more
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That advice not to travel came long after many had already been in the Caribbean for months..and it applies to Caribbean people who hold Canadian passports, i remember when it came out…snow birds who spend less than 6 months on the island…annually.
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@ Tony
Thanks for the update on the Indian vaccine that we will be offered here. The approval for that under the act by the FDA will therefore not occur in any hurry. India clearly thinks to Sell it in the USA is a challenge, hence they have passed that headache on to another company so they can deal with it under license.
I welcome the vaccines but unlike many I don’t see it as the salvation for covid. They are too many unanswered questions at this stage. How long will it last? How effective against new variants? Etc. I see one vaccine company saying not to worry they can “tweak the formula in a few weeks” to work on new variants. So my question would be when the new variant renders the old vaccine useless what then? Do we then vaccination everyone again with the new vacinne? What does that do to the human body? Then when another variant springs up do you revise the vaccine a third time?
Of course then we have the most frightening question of all. What happens when a new vacinne resistant strain raises its head? After all with the level of mutation this virus has shown that may not be too far off. That is why I say we may well have to live with this going forward in some form.
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Northern…ya cannot blame the Bajan/Caribbean snowbirds…so who knew they were going to run out of PCR tests…..that’s the problem…..didn’t Mia say..”we got this. everything is under control”….instead of saying nothing is sure…not in this time, it’s too unstable….but no, she ENCOURAGED people to come to the island..so who is going to say no to vitamin D as opposed to the Nor’easters now knocking dog.
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so who knew they were going to run out of PCR tests…..that’s the problem…worst yet, who knew Lawson’s boyfriend was going to demand them, while knowing they will become unavailable…while UK and US are accepting the fast test in its place.
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A
Every year is a different vaccine for the flu
Every year a new virus dominates -
If Covid stick around then we have to learn to live with it
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Northern…they will be fine, the PCR testing has to be done manually….it’s just a few things they don’t have as Mia said, which is slowing down results….after this everyone is better off staying where the hell they are until things get better…and stop being lured into the Caribbean by lazy leaders who don’t want to diversify the economy..
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We demanded them from you but not haiti, whats that tell you about how infected you are. I see your bragging about the four sided wheel month again. Lets just give it a break for a while and get over this covid hurdle, I am a little worried about Donna eating my ashes she may see it as her only hope of getting any sort of a vaccine but such is not the case even canada is waiting because we gave our manufacturing away. This should give you guys a wake up call about who is controlling your food imports
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Strengthen the body to support the lungs – the exercise created for defeating Coronavirus crisis
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@John A
You are aware the Russian Covid 19 vaccine is reported to give greater protection than WHO approved? Where is the source?
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GreenMonkey
Good article above. It might well turn out to be a harbinger of serious assaults on the very basis of the science of Virology. -
@ David
Not me and no Russian vaccine sir! The authorities there will state what Putin tell them to state. Failing that them tail send to Siberia!
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