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Submitted by William Parker

I wish to congratulate the BLP government on their handling of the Covid 19 in 2020.

Now that the various “versions” of the original Virus has reached here and the infection rate and deaths are spiralling out of control it is apparent to some, including me, that the government has no answers and is reacting and not pro-acting.

I understand the need for the current lockdown and we all know that 2 weeks is just a start and it will be needed for a lot longer.

However the shutting on the mini marts and way side vendors leaves a lot of us bewildered as the logic behind it. In the area that I live R&R convenience, Mikes Mini Mart, EZ mini Mart and all the others are closed. These were locally owned shops where the poor, and not so poor, could get a little credit until the NIS cheque arrives, when the Post Office reopens, and walk a short distance home in the fresh air.

Now these people have to get an occasional bus to Massy in Oistins, and mix with those in the shop and be infected not only by the current shoppers but those who were there one or two hours ago. Are you telling us that it is safer for a person, who does not have a car, to catch a ZR and travel to Oistins to get a few items than to visit the corner shop?

The word that I have heard from more than one person is that in the last shut down the Major Supermarkets lost a lot of revenue because people switched to minimarts and a lot of way side vendors started. Is the way to make sure that the large foreign owned companies got more of the pie? It certainly seems so.

You have closed them on weekends so their overall sales will increase and their overheads will decrease. Bajans have been very good in following the new rules, and rightfully so, but there is a growing undercurrent of frustration and if the government is not careful there will be mass disobedience. This will hurt everyone. I hope that you can take a pause and consider the additional hardships you are causing a lot of Barbadians.

Thank you. I am a proud Bajan and supporter of the BL&P in the last few elections.

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725 responses to “To BLP Administration: Re. Covid 19 protocols”

  1. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Where I live.

    Ontario reports 1,023 new cases of COVID-19, 6 more deaths

    Six new virus-related deaths were confirmed today, the lowest single-day death toll reported since Oct. 28,

  2. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @ac
    maybe you could beg your buddy Charles Herbert for a ride? I hear that big old boat was impounded ‘for evidence’ and has not been at its accustomed mooring in Carlisle Bay. It’s about time for it to be careened again, the old wood requires frequent maintenance, and Grenada is the spot they use. Imagine you could get a ride on a Yacht!!! Probably for free.

  3. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    In all seriousness as educated barbadian are you guys not embarrassed that aa tiny spice island with limited resources can closed their borders for 2 months and not let the economic fall out from tourist arrivals stop them from putting the safety of their citizens first
    Meanwhile here in Barbados infections rises and death takes a stronghold and the borders remain open

  4. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    (Quote):
    I hear that big old boat was impounded ‘for evidence’ and has not been at its accustomed mooring in Carlisle Bay..(Unquote).
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    What a waste of sea miles and an arrant display of monkey justice!

    Free the human ‘controlling director’ but impound the innocent craft in a pen not even a land turtle would want to inhabit.

    Just another case of Two Barbadoes or even turning out to be three ;a true representation of the three prongs of ‘thorns’ on the broken trident.

    It would be interesting to see if similar action would have been taken against any of those ecstasy carrying foreign-owned pleasure craft moored at Port St. Charles.

  5. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Grenada, a hop, skip and a jump from Venezuela…

    wuh is all this talk about cracking down…..ah hope they don’t plan to CRACK DOWN on the majority Black population for being concerned, that’s defintiely a violation of human rights…not to mention it’s the same BLACK POPULATION they gotta BEG FOR VOTES…in 2023…

    when is that again, oh, 2 years and 3 months…only slaves/yardfowls have short memories..

    so let’s hope that’s just some busy body trying to create mischief for Mia…..and not some delusion..

    just get on with the business of saving lives….making sure the Black population RISE FROM THIS to SELF-EMPOWERMENT, SELF-AUTONOMY, true INDEPENDENCE…and IGNORE everything else…

    ya know alyuh don’t like to listen and when ya don’t, it ALWAYS ends in DISASTER.

  6. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Miller….these days with everybody and their mama and cousins…roaming the waters across the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic, don’t think the drug toting yacht crowd in the port this and that are roaming around getting away with their gunrunning and drug trafficking anymore…they know they can’t do a prison bid…so they will SELL EVERYTHING and hightail it off the island as soon as they can..

  7. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Nice to see a well-dressed Dr George back on the CoVid communications team.

  8. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    The Doc news doesnt sound encouraging
    Mention of clusters in communities and i6 family members infected
    Boy yuh tell yuh
    Hope barbadians dont expect this govt to solve this problem anytime soon
    Global response for the delivery of vaccine to small islands going to at a snail pace as manufactures finding it hard to keep up with demand

  9. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Not surprising that officials are having with Contact tracing
    Look at that govt officials are now catching up with the deadly human effects in relevance to contact tracing
    Doc said that there were times when the RBPF was involved in helping them to find people who had given COVID information relevant to themselvesves but govt could not find them
    This is what is called a snowball affect

  10. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @angela cox March 1, 2021 5:48 PM

    What do you expect when you lock people up in their own house for a whole month. They will get a full dose of the virus over and over whereas before lockdown they would have been outside.

    These public heath idiots living in their big house with only 2 or 3 people don’t understand how the rest of people not in the heights and terraces live and interact

  11. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @NO
    As you noted the snow- birds and others decamped to Florida where they can get theirs long before Ford/Trudeau gives the OK.
    The trips to NWT and Dubai proved costly for the CEO’s especially the owner of the Integral House.

    How’s the sap flowing up your way? I buy my syrup from a Quebecer who journeys to these parts every summer, and I’ll have to get in line for the needle like most of us in the GTA but you will probably get yours sooner especially if you are located in some pricey part of Muskoka 😊

  12. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    CA
    All.knows that there are households in barbados that live in small confined areas
    That is a reality yet govt could not see ahead of time these problems unfolding which could affect entire communities
    Now doc is trying his best to schooled barbadians on such matters
    Listen to this Doc said that contact tracing has been meant with many problems such as people giving wrong phone numbers ir phones disconnected
    Really all these problems combined exposes govt officials as naive or just did not understand the psychological impact of the virus as relevant to human behaviour

  13. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    I can’t believe after all this time and research out there on effective early treatments, the best they can do to manage this thing is to contact trace and vaccinate. What happened to treating early with medication or are they calling isolation a treatment now?

    For goodness sake, Ivermectin is working as a treatment and all they doing is wasting time and burning through money with all this nonsense they doing.

    The chickens have finally come home to roost with our failed education system.

  14. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    and all along I thought Caine was Grasshopper

  15. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    https://www.facebook.com/246784233190/posts/10158370704383191/

  16. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    https://www.facebook.com/246784233190/posts/10158370716198191/

  17. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Two members of the monitoring Unit tested positive

    After hearing this not so good news
    Wunna still think that Mia leadership on this deadly disease was stellar
    Barbados is now at a point that when cluster increases the more community spread increases
    Won’t be surprised if those long lines of people already have the virus which means transmission is highly possible on those lines

  18. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    i hope these types of articles did not spark the “cracking down” rumors, am going to stupidly as usual give Mia the benefit of the doubt and say it’s some idiot in her cabinet mouth that or some mischief maker out to get her….ya done know i get pissed off when i give people the benefit of a doubt and then find out i shouldn’t have…and asses like wickum definitely need to be muzzled.

    BTW…i heard about the nurses…no es bueno.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/02/28/btcolumn-covid-19-vaccine-hysteria-akin-to-a-cult/

    “by Jasmine Yearwood

    Regarding the new goalpost of vaccine “herd Immunity” in exchange for having our basic human rights back, since when did the presence of an infectious disease create cause to disregard bodily autonomy?

    Since the media decided to cause a panic about COVID-19 in particular? Are individuals also obligated to take every single other vaccine for every single other infectious disease based on state or group pressure?

    Statistically, COVID-19 is a relatively high risk to a fraction of the population – those with comorbidites.

    The reasonable response is to allow those with comorbidites, or anyone who is fearful, the choice to be vaccinated to reduce their likelihood of developing severe complications. But we have jumped into this mass psychosis of disproptionate response. It has become irrational and almost cult-like. We are being required to think, feel and behave the same way.

    Why must we demand that everyone, regardless of their actual personal risk assessment, be cowed into conformity with the group?.”

  19. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158370714123191&id=246784233190&sfnsn=mo

  20. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Lest all forget that wrapped up.in this tinder box is Mottlley’s image she would be fighting to.protect

  21. John Avatar
    John

    Families share the air in their houses so we could say that its all about one member coming home with it and infecting the others.

    But there is another way!!!!

    A meal of vegetables is prepared and washed in water in which the virus is present.

    All don’t necessarily get it but it just needs one to get it and then it will spread.

    So, the question is where do these families live?

    Is their water supplied from the desal plant?

    Are other families in the neighbourhood getting it too?

    This thing is a lot easier to solve if we ask the right questions!!

  22. Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV Avatar
    Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/03/01/regional-trinidads-opposition-leader-chided-for-writing-to-indias-pm-asking-for-covid-19-vaccines/?fbclid=IwAR1WIV-beyvRfrf3pV_5LCji0tmeI0EuF-AgvZ0h7jOnWOokQ5DZ5Q82KQc

  23. John Avatar
    John

    If it is tracked to the desal plant or any other water source, just lock it down.

  24. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @angela cox March 1, 2021 6:18 PM

    The one thing COVID clearly shows is how totally corrupt or incompetent practically the entire medical fraternity and the political system as whole truly is. They are lost without some double-blind placebo controlled study telling them what to do. They are taking to long to respond to things they should already know.

  25. John Avatar
    John

    The tinder box is going to go up in flames if it turns out to be water related!!!!

    All the aggravation looking to lock up people when the GOB itself is solely culpable.

  26. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/03/01/covid-19-update-47-new-cases-36-recoveries-three-deaths/
    Dashboard for Sunday, February 28, 2021

    36 people discharged
    421 test results [positivity rate 11.16%]
    47 newly infected people
    636 people in isolation
    3 women died of Covid19 on Sunday
    1730 people were vaccinated on Sunday

  27. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Critical Analyzer March 1, 2021 6:22 PM “For goodness sake, Ivermectin is working as a treatment.”

    Where is this happening?

  28. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @John March 1, 2021 6:51 PM

    This water nonsense thing you talking is bare nonsense. A good thing the readers of this blog know better than to believe this nonsense from you about COVID spread via water.

    COVID is not cholera. COVID is an airborne respiratory virus spread by either
    1) Coughing, sneezing and talking in front people faces or
    2) Spending a long time in indoor environments with poor ventilation with or without a mask.

  29. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @John February 28, 2021 10:05 PM “That’s why none have been up in St. Thomas as attested to by the resident expert on life expectancy.”

    ONE: I don’t live in St. Thomas

    TWO: I don’t sit on my front step 24/7 looking ooout for the Covid bus. I just said that I did not see it. Maybe I was yawning with my eyes closed when the bus passed.

    THREE: Like anybody else I do have to go out from time to time, so I may have missed the bus.

    FOUR: I am only a 1/4 expert on life expectancy

  30. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Critical AnalyzerMarch 1, 2021 6:52 PM

    @angela cox March 1, 2021 6:18 PM

    Agree 100 percent

    What govt is now realizing and presenting in the afternoon press conferences were said here on BU by one Mariposa months ago
    Back then Mariposa was called an alarmists
    Govt doesn’t have enough fingers and toes to count the many inside and outside officials like WHO and PAHO who should have alerted govt on the impact of the many hidden problems that come along with this virus
    Presently govt officials are being stressed and bogged down mentally to find newer and better solutions
    When all it would have taken was for PM to close off the borders from hots spots for a while
    Personally i see barbados climbing an up hill battle like what is facing Jamaica now

    ######:arealist

  31. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @“by Jasmine Yearwood “Regarding the new goalpost of vaccine “herd Immunity” in exchange for having our basic human rights back, since when did the presence of an infectious disease create cause to disregard bodily autonomy?”

    If my dear grandmother, she who was born in the 19th century, and who raised 3 sons to wondefull, responsible, productive adulthood, may she rest in peace, had had any part in raising Jasmine Yearwood, she would have taught her that “if you start wrong, you WILL end wrong”

    Nobody is forcing anybody to be vaccinated.

    What is happening now is that Barbados being a small place everybody now knows somebody who has had Covid, so everybody now knows that the Covid deniers are LIARS. We are almost at the point where everybody knows somebody who has died of Covid, so for most people Covid has now become real-real. And now most people know that the vaccine deniers are LIARS.

    People are rushing to be vaccinated, not because anybody is forcing them, not because anybody is infringing on their rights, but because they don’t want to die just like the woman or man who used to work with them, or who went to school with them, or who is their in-law, or who is their neighbor or church member.

    For the hard-ears people Covid19 is now real-real.

    And here is a saying from my old man, “Nobody wants to be old, and nobody wants to die young either”

    Wha’ to do?

    The people rushing for the vaccine are making the choice to be old, as that is much better than dying young.

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

    “Govt doesn’t have enough fingers and toes to count the many inside and outside officials like WHO and PAHO who should have alerted govt on the impact of the many hidden problems that come along with this virus.”

    all the info was out there since March last year, and we kept getting more and more, it’s the government that was acting as though the only country in the world that could not lose control of the virus was Barbados, while inviting all and sundry from HOTSPOT countries although people were expressing CONCERN….they did not listen, but there was and still is no shortage of information about the virus, although science is still learning about it, they did not hold back info, they won’t dare.

  33. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @Cuhdear Bajan March 1, 2021 7:05 PM
    India for one and their cases had dropped before they started the vaccine distribution. They have created and sell COVID home treatment kits with it included. Check the COVID19 Updates topic yesterday for a doctor interview video posted by me on Ivermectin.

    https://ivmstatus.com/
    https://ivmmeta.com/

  34. Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV Avatar
    Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TV

    Dominica:- population=approx 71,000; total cases = 148; deaths=0; Borders – open since Mar 2020

    St Kitts:- population= approx 52,000; total cases = 40, deaths = 0; Borders – reopened since 31 Oct 2020

    Grenada:- population=111,000; total cases= 148 deaths 1; Borders: closed because a spike in cases was stated to be traced to only
    1 hotel.

    https://www.thenewtodaygrenada.com/local-news/sandals-shutting-operations-until-february/

    https://www.travelpulse.com/news/hotels-and-resorts/sandals-chief-questions-resort-link-to-grenada-covid-19-outbreak.htm

  35. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @angela cox March 1, 2021 7:30 PM

    Locking down was obsolete after Dr. Zelenko came out with his treatment protocol in March/April. https://www.vladimirzelenkomd.com/

    Closing borders and lockdowns is like when you were a child, did something wrong and run outside laughing cause gran gran cannot catch you. But you already know how this story ends, gran gran will have the final laugh when you think she forget you and you come back home to eat or sleep. Licks now or later but you guaranteed to get licks in the end.

    Unless we can isolate Barbados for 3 years, the only way out is with a cheap effective treatment protocol.

  36. John Avatar
    John

    MillerMarch 1, 2021 10:13 AM

    @ John February 28, 2021 11:57 PM
    “But we know for example the Polio Virus is spread by fecal matter in the water and it infects!!”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    So too do the bacterium cholera and certain strains of E-coli.

    Shouldn’t you therefore be equally concerned that the HIV can also be transmitted to ‘innocent persons’ through the same “fecal matter” ‘disposed’ in the water by infected persons?

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

    So, ask google this question and see what its answer is!!

    How long can HIV survive in water?
    How long does HIV live outside the body in water? One older study showed that after 1 to 2 hours in tap water, only 10 percent of the HIV virus was still active. After 8 hours, only 0.1 percent was active. This shows that HIV doesn’t survive long when exposed to water.

  37. John Avatar
    John

    Then look at polio.

    It can survive for a few weeks.

    https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/poliomyelitis/facts

    Transmission
    Humans are the only known reservoir of polio virus.
    The virus is transmitted via droplets or aerosols from the throat and by faecal contamination of hands, utensils, food and water. The majority of transmissions occur through person-to-person contact via the faeco-oral route, although the oro-oral route is also possible.
    The incubation period is approximately 7—10 days (range 4–35 days) and about 24% of infected individuals develop clinical symptoms including fever, headache and sore throat.
    Infected persons are most infectious from 7 to 10 days before and after the onset of symptoms. However, poliovirus is excreted in the stools for up to six weeks.
    Immunodeficient patients can, in rare cases, become asymptomatic chronic carriers of WPV and VDPV.
    Poliovirus can survive at room temperature for a few weeks. Soil, sewage and infected water have been shown to harbour the virus.
    All unimmunised persons are susceptible to the infection. Infants in the first six months may have some protection from passively transferred maternal immunity. Children younger than five years are at highest risk.
    Poliovirus is highly infectious, with sero-conversion rates of 90–100% among household contacts.

  38. John Avatar
    John

    Then there is the virus that causes COVID-19!!

    How long can it survive?

    Scientists still figuring out this one but if its presence can be detected in sewage a week before a person exhibits symptoms then it looks like it will be longer lived than HIV outside of the body.

  39. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TVMarch 1, 2021 7:53 PM

    Dominica:- population=approx 71,000; total cases = 148; deaths=0; Borders – open since Mar 2020

    St Kitts:- population= approx 52,000; total cases = 40, deaths = 0; Borders – reopened since 31 Oct 2020

    Grenada:- population=111,000; total cases= 148 deaths 1; Borders: closed because a spike in cases was stated to be traced to only
    1 hotel.

    Xxxxxxxxxxcxccc

    Unlike barbados these three countries did not let the tourist or the Hotel Industry run a mockery over their protocols
    A reason for their good results
    When one look back at how tourist took to wanting things there way and govt decisons under attack by the Hotel industry was a tell that govt Portocols would fail
    Those three countries lead while barbados govt was misled by the Hotel industry.

    Barbados govt portocol failures are indicative of knee jerk reactions and flip flop policies bent with intent to please the hotel industry

  40. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Copied fb page

    According to the COVID TEAM,SOME PARISHES MORE INFECTED, THAN SOME WITH HOTSPOTS, NELSONS STREET WOULD BE ONE,THEY WILL STIGMATIZED,AND I KNOW FOR A FACT,MOST RESIDENTS ARE FOLLOWING PROTOCOLS, BUT THEY HAVE TO BLAME SOME ONE FOR MIA’ S BLUNDER, THE NEXT HOTSPOT, WOULD BE HOUSING AREAS , AGAIN THESE PPL ARE FOLLOWING PROTOCOLS,EVEN THE BOYS OFF THE BLOCKS,BUT THEY WANT A SCAPE GOAT,AND THEY WOULD CLAIM FAMILIES ARE CLUSTERS,IF THEY HAD THE BALLS TO TELL THE PM,STOP LEISURE VISITORS UNTIL SHE GOT A HANDLE, OR THE CRITICAL PIECE OF EQUIPMENT HAD ARRIVED , 🇧🇧 WOULD NOT BE INFECTED LIKE A DOG WITH FLEAS IN SUMMER, ALL SHE CARED ABOUT WAS MONEY/ KEPT SAYING SHE SAW NOTHING WRONG WITH HER ACTIONS,NOW TALKING ABOUT WE, WE WHO, ONLY WE IS THE PPL YOU PAID TO BUY INTO YOUR SINISTER AGENDA, DID NOT EVEN HAVE THE BALLS TO FIGHT FOR TOURISM WORKERS, TREATED THEM LIKE 💩,PPL HAD TO BEG ,LIKE A DOG, AFTER GIVING HOTELIERS, MILLIONS, WICKED WOMAN, BAJANS GAVE 🇧🇧FOR YOU TO LEAD IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION, FOR THEMSELVES/ THEIR CHILDREN/ ALL THEY GOT WAS ILLUSIONS,LIES,TRICKS, PROMISES, NOW TALKING ABOUT WE, SIMPLE CARE PACKAGES WERE DECEPTIVE, NOT PLANNED WITH GOOD INTENT, JUST VOTE BAIT,THEN THE VACCINES, A SIMPLE NATIONAL EXERCISE, TOTAL CHAOS, ALWAYS A SCAM, / CONFUSION, NOW GAGGING PPL FROM SPEAKING OUT,PURE EVIL

  41. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Fb on fire listen up

    Copied

    She and them know how to get to black people, give them a basket of food and let them go by cheffete
    Meanwhile, the bailiff knocking at their doors, arrears, landlord gine soon evicted them, the BL&P and BWA gine soon turn off the utilities
    300 million dollars earmarked for rich foreign hotel owners
    Not one stimulus check sent to poor Bajans
    But she pun TV bragging after she made massty richer, by buying the items in the baskets from them
    Meanwhile, we got Bajan black /white own supermarkets where this money could have been spent thus keeping the money in Bim
    More of our money going to prop up Trinidad
    Bajan angry
    braying fah blood, because we people dying because of arrogant leaders who did not listen and now blaming us for the screws up
    To distract Bajan from asking
    where the vaccines that we were allegedly told they took millions and brought or where the millions gone
    They give us curbside pick up for wingdings
    During a time when we are at nearly 3000 infected people
    But we good we can full our lickqish guts wid roti and chicken

  42. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Critical Analyzer March 1, 2021 6:05 PM “What do you expect when you lock people up in their own house for a whole month.”

    Nobody was locked in their house.

  43. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Where is Ontario Court of Justice Bruce Frazer?

  44. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Court refuses to say where Ontario judge is located. Defence lawyer says he’s presiding remotely from Barbados

    Source: Toronto Star

    P.S. The temperature in Toronto right now is -17 Celsius and windy.

    The temperature in Barbados right now is 25 Celsius with a light wind. The Sahara dust from a couple of weeks ago is all gone and the sky was bright and sunny today.

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

    remembered a discussion about the enslaved and others living way over a hundred years, the Dominican lady i saw in a photo, lived nearly as long as this dude here… it used to happen, but with Covid, nah..

    https://scontent.fbgi3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p843x403/151708159_10224781486027281_410862910534874394_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=bXU-sXhhcfkAX-RqwyW&_nc_ht=scontent.fbgi3-1.fna&tp=6&oh=16a192a7680f988cbf57a6c8bba3bcf4&oe=60623435

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

    This is his life story.
    ·
    “I’m blown by the fact that the last Black American to be legally enslaved, Sylvester Magee, died in 1971. (1841-1971) the man lived for 130 years! This means if you’re 48 or older, you lived at the same time as slaves. Slavery wasn’t that long ago. Let’s stop pretending it was.
    Sylvester Magee may have been the last living slave in America, and the oldest person who ever lived! Born a slave in North Carolina, he was the son of slaves named Ephraim and Jeanette, who worked on the J.J. Shanks plantation. At age 19, just before the Civil War, Sylvester was purchased from a slave market at Enterprise, Mississippi by Hugh Magee, whose surname Sylvester eventually adopted. Hugh Magee owned the Lone Star Plantation in Covington County, Mississippi. One source indicated that Magee was in time sold by Magee to Victory Steen, who operated a plantation near Florence, Mississippi. Sylvester eventually ran away from the Steen plantation and joined the ranks of the Union Army. Magee obtained his freedom after the fall of Vicksburg and served with Union troops. By the mid-1960s, due to his advanced age, Sylvester Magee became nationally famous. On his 124th birthday the citizens of Collins, Mississippi threw him a party and Magee was sent a letter of congratulations from President Lyndon Johnson. Governor Paul Johnson even declared the day « Sylvester Magee Day. » Magee took his first flight to New York for a television appearance and later flew to Philadelphia to appear on the Mike Douglas Show. He appeared in the March 1967 issue of Jet magazine, and was noted by President Richard Nixon as probably the oldest citizen of the United States, having been identified as the nation’s oldest living person by a life insurance company. When asked why he had lived so long, he simply stated that the Lord had been good to him. Reportedly, his last words were « Lord have mercy. » Sylvester Magee was likely the last living human being who possessed any firsthand memory of the trials of the Civil War or institutionalized slavery. #bhm”

  47. John Avatar
    John

    Disgusting Lies & Propaganda TVMarch 1, 2021 7:53 PM

    Dominica:- population=approx 71,000; total cases = 148; deaths=0; Borders – open since Mar 2020

    St Kitts:- population= approx 52,000; total cases = 40, deaths = 0; Borders – reopened since 31 Oct 2020

    Grenada:- population=111,000; total cases= 148 deaths 1; Borders: closed because a spike in cases was stated to be traced to only

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

    Check their water supplies!!

    Dealt with Dominica’s already.

    Hiked in Grenada in a nutmeg plantation up in the mountains.

    Grand d’Etang is one source.

    Not much chance of any sewage.

    Plus, there are the mermaids!!

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

    Don’t know much about the water supply in St. Kitts.

    Will have a look sometime.

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    The three Corona deaths are the result of a pointless lockdown that has severely damaged the economy and tourism. Who called for the lockdown the loudest? That’s right, the opposition. So the opposition is responsible for the deaths.

    I’m sure that with the lockdown lifted and our very effective vaccination campaign, Corona will soon be a thing of the past – just like the opposition.

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    @ angela cox February 28, 2021 7:30 AM

    RE: “Grenada to open its Borders to tourism in April. Grenada closed its borders in December 2020 to ensure the safety of its people.”

    Before I ‘say’ you’re misleading BU, perhaps you may want to present the source of your information so we could probably discuss this issue further.

    From what I’ve read:

    (1). GND is expecting a MORE active tourism sector from April 2021 and one of the reasons given is “because commercial passenger flights from the United Kingdom are set to coincide with the reopening of Sandals and other properties in the accommodation sector.”

    (2). GND’s borders were NOT closed in December 2020. The Ministry of Civil Aviation announced the suspension of all passenger air traffic between Grenada and the UK, effective 10pm on Sunday, December 20, 2020, until further notice, due to the new variant strain of COVID-19 in that country.

    However, international travel to and from other countries were to CONTINUE, under the enforcement of strict entry requirements and quarantine measures for travelers.

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    @ManyPoser the treacherous clown. Grenada had reopened its borders since Oct 2020. It had only forced Sandals to close in Mid December. There was a travel ban imposed to and from the UK ONLY from 22nd December until Feb 1st. Travel from other countries was allowed with restrictions.

    https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/419556/grenada-authorities-introduce-covid-19-related-curfew-measures-and-a-travel-ban-for-the-uk-as-of-dec-22-update-22

    Since you have the mind of an infant. I was that hinting to the fact that the correlation between border closures and containing the virus spread was weak. Using the smaller CARICOM countries, most that had closed their ports reopened them by Oct 2020 and kept them open even when cases had spiked

    As of March 1st:-
    Dominica:- population=approx 71,000; total cases = 148; deaths=0
    St Kitts:- population~ 52,000; total cases = 40, deaths = 0
    Grenada:- population=111,000; total cases= 148 deaths 1
    Antigua:- population ~ 97,000, total cases = 730 deaths 14
    St Vincent:- population ~ 110,000 total cases 1418, deaths 6;
    Barbados:- population ~ 287,000; total cases = 3115; deaths = 36
    St. Lucia:- population ~ 184,000; total cases = 3,390 deaths = 35

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