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BU Covid Dash – The Lost Decade…lost generation(?)

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The measure of a caring society will always be how it takes care of the most vulnerable. The news some elderly persons are being denied access to being vaccinated against Covid 19 by relatives is cruel. The Covid Dashboard for all countries confirm senior citizens have been affected more than any other group.

The other concern with deep implications for Barbados society is the inability of government to get children back to face to face learning. It is one thing to see key players in the education sector grip and grinning in the media receiving electronic devices to be distributed to children to support online learning, it is another to observe children on the streets during school time. A chat with any teacher about the challenges of online learning an a few become emotional. There is no need to list the challenges in detail, the education directorate and stakeholders are aware. We need to fix it!

Before the pandemic there were legitimate concerns about the quality and relevance of our education program and indiscipline among our youth. We make a lot of noise about the so called lost decade. Soon we may be discussing the lost generation.

A word to an educated country should be enough.

Attached are the charts for the week ending 19th November.  I reduced the intervals on the time axis of the daily incidence graph to more clearly show the clear current decrease in the 7-day trendline.  The decreases are quite gradual suggesting that control is not likely to be as precipitous as say in the recent Grenada spike.  Positivity is also slowly decreasing but we are still far from the 5%. Vaccinations are increasing – Source: Lyall Small

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119 responses to “BU Covid Dash – The Lost Decade…lost generation(?)”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David
    Pardon the interruption!

    Just a few days ago this writer raised the spectre, in retrospect, that there may well be several lost decades as maybe determined by social scientists..

    Then, you resisted that notion. Now, you suggest that could be a possibility, at least. For a generation is about 28 years.

    Is yours an admission that this Mottley regime was misguided, or at least shortsighted, in so coining the Stuart regime?

  2. David Avatar
    David

    @Pacha

    The blogmasterรขย€ย™s position must be interpreted as being provocative at times, you know this from being a long time BU family member. Nothing has changed regarding the will of the political directorate to oversea transformative policies. We continue to tinker at the margins notwithstanding challenges that will present day to day.

  3. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    My idea is that the children should be back in school in January. It is not the children who are dying.

    For the teachers, a vaccine is available to reduce their chances of serious illness. Any teachers who are vulnerable due to comorbities such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and other conditions that compromise their immune system should be afforded special consideration.

    But the damage being done by allowing children’s brains to be idle for so long will be worse than many imagine.

    Bad habits are very hard to break.

    There is no end to this pandemic except in its being declared endemic.

    In other words, we have to learn to live with it and accept that a small minority will die with it.

  4. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “The news some elderly persons are being denied access to being vaccinated against Covid 19 by relatives is cruel.”

    It may be obvious to some, but it is not obvious to me. Can someone suggest a valid reason why someone would prevent an elderly relative from being vaccinated?

  5. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Some would be wanting to get rid of the elderly relative.

    Others believe they are protecting their loved one from the “killer” vaccine.

    Just yesterday, a thirty-something year old couple loudly proclaimed to me that “Fauci bring vaccine to kill people!”

    Apparently, Fauci once publicly declared his intention is to “depopulate” the earth.

    And Obama is to be vilified for promoting “homosexual relations”.

    Donald Trump is to be praised for reversing some of the homosexual rights.

    Also Christians have the responsibility to proclaim the evils of homosexuality because in the Bible, such people were stoned.

    Also, God made them male and female. It is simple to determine which is which.

    If one had a penis, one is male. If one has a vagina, one is female.

    And that would have been the end of it had I not asked what one would call a person who has both male and female organs.

    (Maybe a SHEMALE?)

    I don’t expect these evangelical Christians to spend one second contemplating that question.

    These people just don’t want to know.

    But why does everything revolve around sex for evangelical Christians?

    Even these black ones have based their assessment of Trump SOLELY on his policy on gender and homosexuality. They will excuse every bad policy, even those that discriminate against their own race and do them harm, once homosexuals and transgender people are made uncomfortable for doing things that DO NOT EVEN AFFECT THEIR LIVES.

    So I say all that to describe the nature of the stupidity beast that we are fighting in Barbados.

    Some of these vaccine withholders believe they are saving mummy’s life.

    Logic be damned!

  6. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Yet another example of how you guys have a tendency to think the worst, completely oblivious to the fact that there is often an alternative scenario.

    SMH.

  7. John Avatar
    John

    Grenada still holding, 0ne case yesterday, 7 day average remains zero.

    https://imgur.com/BfDPsOY

    We are down to a 7 day average of 262, down from 369 about 3 weeks ago.

    https://imgur.com/aaKJh1a

    Grenada’s water supply is superior to ours in that much of it is in the mountains and separated from sewage so their case occurrences recovered quicker than ours.

    They also did not go as high as ours so they fell from a lower maximum.

    Once the floods hold off we should be like Grenada come the New Year.

  8. John Avatar
    John

    TheOGazertsNovember 20, 2021 7:49 AM

    โ€œThe news some elderly persons are being denied access to being vaccinated against Covid 19 by relatives is cruel.โ€

    It may be obvious to some, but it is not obvious to me. Can someone suggest a valid reason why someone would prevent an elderly relative from being vaccinated?

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

    The people I have spoken with who will not take a vaccine are in their mid to late 60’s.

    That may not be elderly but I suspect it is the same all over Barbados.

    The Groun Keeper’s cousin passed on the offer from the Groun Keeper to drive her to get the vaccine.

    Many older folks know their minds and are not easily shifted from their principled positions even though the principles applied by them may be incomprehensible to younger folk.
    .

  9. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ John November 20, 2021 8:52 AM
    โ€œOnce the floods hold off we should be like Grenada come the New Year.โ€
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Even those (and fast expanding) consumers who are supplied by the Desalination plant โ€˜downโ€™ Spring Garden would be โ€˜freedโ€™ of Covid?

    You speak with a forked tongue, oh ye Diviner John!

    Why not simply blessed the springs to turned the water โ€˜holyโ€™ and all will be ‘well’?

    Why not share your โ€˜ideaโ€™ with the BTMI to turn Spring Garden into another โ€œLourdesโ€ in the Caribbean?

  10. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I thought we were speaking about those elderly folk who were dependent on younger relatives for access to the vaccine, not those who do not wish to be vaccinated.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CWcHclZF6M3/

  12. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, surely this is a case of you being wonderfully provocative re “The news some elderly persons are being denied access to being vaccinated against Covid 19 by relatives is cruel”.

    @Donna speaks to the *’benign’: I am saving Mummy perspective, but pre-cov19 ur pages were periodically full of the rather ‘cruel’ ELDER ABUSE that seemed quite prevalent in Bim!

    It was done by family members who shuffled old parents to senior homes (and then paid scant attention or visits) in order to get hold of family property ; some just shuffled them to their rooms but treated them with even more disregard; or they were cases of preying friends or unknowns who befriended the lonely old folks and then swindled then into nothingness.

    So your remark speaks to many things … but for those with eyes wide open there is indeed a sinister side to the actions you anecdotally mention!

    Unfortunately opportunities for good and bad acts are endless during periods like this … I could suddenly ‘die’ and with very careful planning start a new life somewhere else … that would be a good thing right!๐Ÿคฃ

    BTW, the online school debate is a real toughie … you know several kids THRIVE with remote learning right… and then revert to the nonsensical peer pressure (I don’t want to be seen as a nerd, BS) and lax effort and poor grades when in the classroom, yes!

    Of course being IN SCHOOL is important and better for the majority but we do need to fix the issues (precovid) also.

    @Donna, a ‘seminal’ aspect of Christianity is THE procreation. not so! …

    So indeed SEX, SEXUALITY etc is a fundamental aspect of their entire ethos.

    The fact that the good Lord also created hermaphrodites or men more ‘estrogened’ than full of testosterone (so to say) or females flipped the other way is, as you said, NOT a debate they are willing to entertain. Otherwise they would have to unreservedly embrace ALL God’s creations.

    Ain’t going happen.

    Lata all.

  13. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    DPD,

    Elder abuse does happen in Barbados. It is not the norm. Again, some are guilty of taking the few cases and exaggerating.

    For instance – we speak of elderly relatives being abandoned at the QEH.

    But,,, HOW MANY ARE PICKED UP FROM THE QEH DAILY?

    For every elderly person who is abandoned, there are many many many more who are promptly picked up.

    Having sat observing just that happen regularly for several years as I sat on the benches outside, awaiting my own transportation after treatment for a life changing injury, I speak about what I KNOW.

  14. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Holistic medical practitioner, Dr Robert Rowen MD, in his latest newsletter says a major publisher has asked him to write an article on the therapeutic use of Oxidation Therapies (which includes such things as ozone therapy, ultraviolet blood irradiation, high dosage Vitamin C) for inclusion for one of their conventional medicine publications: Elsevierโ€™s Encyclopedia of Infection and Immunity.

    Dr. Rowen and other MDs and naturopaths who advocate for wider acceptance of oxidation therapies believe these alternative treatments are low cost and have proven in peer reviewed small scale observational and RCT studies to be safe with minimal side effects and have significant effectiveness against both bacterial and viral infection, including against infection by Sars-Cov-2. However, medical orthodoxy required large scale randomized control trials before a new medicine or procedure can be promoted to the pubic at large (recent notable exception to that rule being experimental, gene therapy vaccines that actually fall short of offering full immunity like vaccines are supposed to do and as was initially promised).

    Large scale RCTs can cost millions of dollars and since the oxidative therapies, like ozone etc., can’t be patented there is no opportunity for the money invested in running a large trial to be recouped. Also, should oxidative therapies be confirmed to work, they have the potential to cut into the profits of the purveyors of patented medications and vaccines which are often expensive and can have very serious side effects at times.

    Wonderful News. My Chapter on Oxidation Medicine for Conventional Textbook now Online

    #78 The Rowen Report

    The good news that I have for you today is this. Months ago, a major publishing house approached me to write a chapter on alternative approaches for infectious diseases in a CONVENTIONAL medical encyclopedia. What an opportunity, I thought, to perhaps open eyes to conventional medical readers that there might be non-Pharma ways to save lives in an increasingly hostile bacterial world. I did write the chapter, it was peer reviewed, went through some revisions, and was accepted to Elsevierโ€™s Encyclopedia of Infection and Immunity, which will come out in full in the spring. However, my chapter has just been published stand alone, and is available here: (go to original for link to Dr. Rowen’s article)

    I am very honored and proud to be a part of this work, which is a first for us in the oxidative medical field โ€“ to have a chapter about oxidation medicine in a major conventional medical book. I believe most people, lay and conventional medical alike, will enrich their knowledge with this peer reviewed manuscript.

    https://drrowen.substack.com/p/wonderful-news-my-chapter-on-oxidation

  15. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I understand that procreation is one of the fundamental aspects of Christianity but it is not the be all and end all that they make it out to be.

    We have already gone forth and multiplied.

    And now we need to spend a little less time multiplying and a little more time logically thinking.

    What’s the deal with hermaphrodites?

    Should we embrace them as God’s creature or leave the little “devil’s spawn” in the forest/jungle to be eaten by wild animals?

  16. /John Avatar
    /John

    MTA

    It is far more likely Grenada and Dominica will have a natural and renewable product to offer the world after the world realises how good their water is.

  17. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Greenie
    Good get! But you are unlikely to find a following here. For this is just one of the crtitical factors exacerbated or ignored by allopathic medicine, popular diets. Insulin resistance and inflamation are another two. Of course, starvation or intermittent fasting, one meal a day, a plant-based diet, with nothing in between, is the best medicine by far. Over to Saint Georgie of the Porgy!

  18. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Greetings to all

    Bloggers can look at the same set of circumstances and focus on different parts. I would like to believe that I have the ‘correct’ focus.

    If I see a thousand men and only three are starving, I want to know why they are starving, I want to relieve their starvation and I have little or no interest in the 997 who are doing well.

    I am certain that others share the same concerns for the three as I do, but the fact that 997 are doing well, weakens their voices.

    The true measure of a society is not the number of people who are doing well, but in how it treats the less fortunate, how it looks after it’s elderly and children, how it treats it weak, hungry and poor and how justice is dispensed.

    Use these metrics and, as is often pointed out, many rich nation fail, but my interest is on Barbados.

  19. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Funny thing about auto correct
    It’s, its and it
    The day it autocorrects to ‘tits’ then I will believe having autocorrect is useful.

  20. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    @TheOGazerts November 20, 2021 7:49 AM

    I will attempt to answer your question.

    Despite what the health authorities would have us believe, the vaccine is not for everyone and it does not make logical sense to give it to certain elderly persons.

    Some elderly are at the palliative stage or are so weak that the vaccine response alone can overtax their immune system and hasten their demise. People on the outside that never had to care for an advanced ailing elderly relative will have great difficulty understanding the inherent risks any new medical intervention has to make their condition worse or more painful.

    Vaccines should only be offered to cognitively aware people able to make decisions on the own. Otherwise, they should be left unvaccinated to live out the rest of the little time they have left.

  21. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    CA

    You remind one of Dr. Kevorkian. Yours is one of the problems with pragmatism as a philosophical construction.

  22. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE The fact that the good Lord also created hermaphrodites or men more โ€˜estrogenedโ€™ than full of testosterone (so to say) or females flipped the other way is, as you said, NOT a debate they are willing to entertain. Otherwise they would have to unreservedly embrace ALL Godโ€™s creations.

    WHEN DID GOD CREATE hermaphrodites ? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? HOW?
    ARE HERMAPHRODITES COMMON OR NORMAL?
    WHAT IS THEIR ROLE AND FUNCTION.?

    EXPLAIN men more โ€˜estrogenedโ€™ than full of testosterone……AND females flipped the other way

    WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS TALKING SHITER BOUT STUFF ABOUT WHICH YOU KNOW NAUGHT?
    EXPLAIN AND GIVE ME SOME MIRTH. PLEASE.

  23. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Religious groups stoutly defend need to maintain countryโ€™s religious backbone

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/11/19/religious-groups-stoutly-defend-need-to-maintain-countrys-religious-backbone/

  24. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Saint Georgie of the Porgy

    Prepare thyself to be pilloried. By “men” “woe unto men” and all those in between. LOL

  25. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ GP November 20, 2021 2:41 PM
    (Quote):
    WHEN DID GOD CREATE hermaphrodites ? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? HOW?
    ARE HERMAPHRODITES COMMON OR NORMAL?
    WHAT IS THEIR ROLE AND FUNCTION.? (Unquote).
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Your god Yahweh created hermaphrodites the same way he created homosexuals or conjoined twins.

    Are you saying your god, like Mother Nature, is not perfect?

    Why do you think your King David was so enamoured with his best โ€˜friendโ€™ Jonathan?

    Are you blaspheming by denying that your friend Jesus had a bosom buddy (the โ€˜one most lovedโ€™) as a hermaphrodite called John the Divine Apostle?

    Shouldnโ€™t you be asking a known homo Leonardo da Vinci about the sexual orientations of those twelve disciples sleeping together in some Garden smelling of only testosterone instead of roses and ladies of the night?

  26. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Steupse! Distractions!

    I want to know what we should call hermaphrodites. Whether they are normal or not. They exist.

    Are they male or female?

  27. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Distraction. lol

  28. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    What does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with God? The man painted a picture. That’s all.

    What in the Bible indicates that John was anything that you described?

    And what is odd about brotherly love or twelve men who share a common cause lying together in a garden.

    Some people see sex EVERYWHERE!

    STEUPSE!

  29. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Hants,

    Very clear. Marriage is a function of the Church. Civil unions are a function of the Government.

    The Church shall decide on marriage and the Government shall decide on civil unions.

    The State has to embrace all citizens equally. All citizens must enjoy equal rights under the laws of the State.

    There must be separation between Church and State because the country is made up of persons of different religious persuasions and persons of no religious persuasion.

    I don’t know why that is so hard to understand.

  30. GP - EX SCHOLAR Avatar
    GP – EX SCHOLAR

    if you answer my questions honestly you will have the answers
    i have longed posted on BU two excellent and erudite expositions on the in born errors of metabolism that results in what some folk call hermaphrodites
    the biochemistry is quite clear–very clear
    and THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR IN GENESIS 1:127 ABOUT WHAT GOD CREATED
    HE CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE—- PAST TENSE
    ITS SIMPLE

  31. GP Avatar
    GP

    Marriage is NOT a function of the Church.
    Marriage EXISTED LONG BEFORE the Church.
    Marriage is a TYPE OR PICTURE of the Church, HOWEVER
    .GET IT RIGHT PLEASE—- ITS SIMPLE REALLY

  32. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    (Quote):
    And what is odd about brotherly love or twelve men who share a common cause lying together in a garden. (Unquote).
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    You were the one is introducing the sex thingie, as usual! And the archives are there to confirm!

    So why are women excluded from such sharing of human love?

    Why not six women to demonstrate the equal opportunity side of Jesus the main actor in the called the play called the Passion written and produced by white people; the same white people all things coming from you reject?

    How misogynistic can that be! Strange coming from a misandrist!

  33. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ GP November 20, 2021 5:55 PM

    “Marriage is NOT a function of the Church.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Agree!

    It is a function of the State with the Church a mere agent of the State.

    Otherwise the Church will be able to divorce those married physically in the Church instead of having to go to the law courts.

    Same thing applies to all other faiths like Islam.

  34. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, RIP to Mr ‘Charlie’ Pilgrim a good man, as these things go. And too to COW Williams may he RIP.

    The former I knew … the latter only knew of.

    ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฟ

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    May they both Rest In Peace.

  36. GP THE EX DR AND EX TRAINED DR Avatar
    GP THE EX DR AND EX TRAINED DR

    DIS INFO DONT FIT THE NARRATIVE SO IT WILL GET TEK DOWN BY HE WHO KNOW NUTTINN BUT TINKS HE KNOW ALL

    Unlike the United States, the European Union is very transparent about the number of adverse effects and fatalities from people who were vaccinated and the numbers are staggering. According to their reports through November 13th, they had 30,551 fatalities and 1,163,356 people who had adverse reactions to the vaccines. The European Union had 448 million people in 2020 compared to 331 million in the United States. You do the math on this.

    According to European Medicines Agency, an official site for the European Union, the data for the report came from ADRreports.eu portal that allows users to keep track of the latest vaccine adverse effects. All of the data on the website comes from EudraVigilance that gathers itโ€™s information from regulatory agencies and from pharmaceutical companies that hold the licenses for the vaccines. They do not report the same in the United States and the CDC does not want to make the reports on the J & J vaccine until 2076.

    What are they hiding
    -Pharmaceutical companies that hold the marketing authorisation of a medicine, as well as medicines regulatory authorities in the EEA, are legally required to submit reports of suspected side effects to EudraVigilance. This includes reports received from healthcare professionals and patients. This excludes non-serious side effects occurring outside the EEA.

    -The web report does not include reports from studies (e.g. clinical trial, non-interventional study) or other types of reports (i.e. only spontaneous reports).

    -A side effect is classified as โ€˜seriousโ€™ if it (i) results in death, (ii) is life-threatening, (iii) requires hospitalisation or prolongation of existing hospitalisation, (iv) results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity (as per reporterโ€™s opinion), (v) is a congenital anomaly/birth defect, or (vi) results in some other medically important conditions.

    Total reactions for the mRNA vaccine Tozinameran (code BNT162b2, Comirnaty) from BioNTech/ Pfizer: 14,303 fatalities and 562,213 cases of adverse reaction to 11/13/2021 as identified in EudraVigilance:

    Fatalities:

    Blood and lymphatic system disorders include 200 fatalities and 12,412 not recovered

    Cardiac disorders include 2,095 fatalities and 10,336 not recovered

    Congenital, familial and genetic disorders include 32 fatalities and 125 not recovered

    Ear and labyrinth disorders include 10 fatalities and 7,561 not recovered

    Endocrine disorders include 5 fatalities and 512 not recovered

    Eye disorders include 31 fatalities and 6,636 not recovered

    Gastrointestinal disorders include 573 fatalities and 25,520 not recovered

    General disorders and administration site conditions include 4,057 fatalities and 82,029 not recovered

    Hepatobiliary disorders include 73 fatalities and 334 not recovered

    Immune system disorders include 74 fatalities and 1,911 not recovered

    Infections and infestations include 1,545 fatalities and 11,502 not recovered

    Injury, poisoning and procedural complications include 235 fatalities and 1,915 not recovered

    Investigations include 440 fatalities and 7,080 not recovered

    Metabolism and nutrition disorders include 247 fatalities and 2,249 not recovered

    Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders include 177 fatalities and 45,626 not recovered

    Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) include 111 fatalities and 369 not recovered

    Nervous system disorders include 1,532 fatalities and 60,907 not recovered

    Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions include 55 fatalities and 253 not recovered

    Product issues include 2 fatalities and 26 not recovered

    Psychiatric disorders include 172 fatalities and 6,633 not recovered

    Renal and urinary disorders include 223 fatalities and 1,213 not recovered

    Reproductive system and breast disorders include 5 fatalities and 19,918 not recovered

    Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders include 1,599 fatalities and 15,449 not recovered

    Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders include 123 fatalities and 17,883 not recovered

    Social circumstances include 19 fatalities and 888 not recovered

    Surgical and medical procedures include 55 fatalities and 237 not recovered

    Vascular disorders include 613 fatalities and 8,618 not recovered

  37. John Avatar
    John

    We are due some rain in the next 2 to 3 weeks.

    November average is normally between 7 and 8 inches.

    So far we have had about 96 parts for the month and if rainfall patterns persist we are due several inches in a rather short time.

    Could be we will see a downpour shortly.

    We fell below the 200 case level for new COVID cases today which is good but we could see a reversal for Christmas or the New Year.

    Ah boy, relax and trust in God, what is to be will be.

  38. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Miller,

    You are a jackass of the highest order! I am not anti-man. I have a son whom I love more than myself. And I can not only love him, I can LIKE HIM AND RESPECT HIM. I have raised him to see women as his equal. I have been so successful that it is amazing. But then again, I did place him before God and ask for help. Not a priest or pastor in sight at the time. I have faith in my own abilities.

    So….. I love, like and respect men who see women as their equal. I love, like and respect men who place no added restrictions on me or have no expectations of me because of my gender. I am pro-equality for women.

    When I encounter such rare creatures I appreciate them to the max.

    And no, the archives show that I do not inject sex into conversations that have nothing to do with sex. I am, of course, happy to discuss sex when it is relevant to the discussion.

    Nothing wrong with discussing sex. I have discussed it with my son. I am absolutely certain that his partners will be appreciative of the results of our discussions.

    Now… if we scroll backwards we will see how sex found its way into the discussion. It was not as a joke or a gratuitous exercise in sexual stupidity as your intervention was (and always is) but a serious observation of the intersection of covid vaccine conspiracy theories with the “Evangelical church’s condemnation of policies that recognise the rights of the LBGT persons and their embracing of Donald Trump simply because of that one position that he so expediently took.

    From the conversation I had with that couple, it is clear that in Barbados, one may be able to draw a through line from Donald Trump’s reversal of some of Obama’s LBGT recognition of human rights policies and blind acceptance of his pronouncements on covid.

    These people belong to a church. It is highly likely that most of the members think as they do.

    Hope this clears it up for you as your mental faculties seem to be in decline at present.

    Perhaps mine will ultimately decline too, beyond the lapses in grammar, especially spelling and punctuation I currently term my senior moments.

  39. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I don’t care how intersex people became intersex people. I care only that they exist. If God made us all, then no matter the mechanism that created them, He made them because the mechanism emanated from what He made. Neither male or female.

    Where do they fit into the neat picture presented by Bible bashing Christians?

    And…does anyone know by what mechanism homosexuals become homosexual?

    Hint: One cannot quote unsubstantiated Bible positions to explain to one who questions unsubstantiated Bible positions..

  40. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I missed another piece of Miller’s crap. There were twelve men and no women who were acknowledged to have been with Jesus because of misogyny.

    That is one of the reasons that I, as I have said on many occasions, NEVER SWALLOWED THE BIBLE WHOLE!

    HOW MANY TIMES MUST I REPEAT THAT BEFORE IT REGISTERS WITH YOU?????!!!!!!!

    My problem with your post was that you ascribed homosexual connotations to twelve men in a garden! You see sex EVERYWHERE!

    Now, wrt marriage, correct, it is true that the Church is acting as an agent of the State but there is also the civil option by non-religious officials.

    So… the Church can continue to do its thing in its way for its people and the State can expand its civil option to include homosexual persons.

    Marriage has been defined for us by the Church. This Church official acting as an agent of the State thing is a leftover from when the Church and State were intertwined. It was convenient to allow it to continue.

    But….what matters is that person’s get their legal unions recognised. It does not matter what one calls it. No need to cause outrage in a people steeped in religiousity or fears that pastors will be required to go against their beliefs.

  41. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    David wrote: “The news some elderly persons are being denied access to being vaccinated against Covid 19 by relatives is cruel.”

    Could be the relatives are doing the old folks a favour if they are kept from getting an mRNA vax.

    The very respectable, mainstream, medical journal “Circulation” recently published a paper entitled Mrna COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning. The paper explains that artery inflammatory markers increase significantly post vax and this condition persists up to 2.5 months post 2nd vax as measured to date.

    I am not a medical person, but I assume the ACS above would probably stand for Acute Coronary Syndrome. The Mayo clinic defines it thusly:

    Acute coronary syndrome is a term used to describe a range of conditions associated with sudden, reduced blood flow to the heart.

    One such condition is a heart attack (myocardial infarction) โ€” when cell death results in damaged or destroyed heart tissue. Even when acute coronary syndrome causes no cell death, the reduced blood flow changes how your heart works and is a sign of a high risk of heart attack.

    Acute coronary syndrome often causes severe chest pain or discomfort. It is a medical emergency that requires prompt diagnosis and care. The goals of treatment include improving blood flow, treating complications and preventing future problems.

    mayoclinic(DOT)org/diseases-conditions/acute-coronary-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20352136

    Here is the last sentence from the Circulation paper’s abstract: โ€œWe conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccinationโ€.

    Would be interesting to see how the results would compare if similar tests were run for the other types of Covid-19 vaccines.

    Here is the link to the full Abstract of this paper posted at Circulation:
    https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712

  42. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    It appears that the origin of ‘hermaphrodites’ have stumped both sides. Luckily, I stumbled on the record of Earlestine, the first hermaphrodite.

    “It was just before the flood. Sex was everywhere and every how – men with men, men with women and women with women. There was no discrimination and nobody was a specialist back then

    “But you know how people are we began to have preferences and to do divide ourselves. Well I could not give up having sex with men and women and so I prayed about it. Lol and behold, one morning I woke up and it was just there.. a next organ.

    I had the first threesome and I always found it funny when someone told me “Go f— yourself”. I usually took the advice.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    Entertainers join push for vaccines
    Barbadians are encouraged to take their relatives and friends to get vaccinated.
    The latest appeal has come from members of the entertainment fraternity who say a resumption of major events in the sector depends on more people getting their jab for COVID-19.
    Party promoter and former president of the Barbados Association of Masqueraders, Chetwin Stewart, was among the group spotted at Abedโ€™s in Swan Street, The City, yesterday distributing T-shirts to the vaccinated.
    โ€œThe Prime Minister said it and it is common sense. The ban wonโ€™t be lifted until you reach a certain percentage of people being vaccinated and that is what we in the entertainment industry need. Persons like me havenโ€™t worked for over a year and a half and we need to get back to work.
    โ€œThe entertainment industry is way bigger than promoters like me, DJs and calypsonians. There are lighting and stage people and it affects the sales of hair, nails and drinks,โ€ Stewart said.
    Because of the COVID-19, pandemic major events such as the Crop Over Festival
    were cancelled in 2020 and this year.
    Out of the 250 shirts printed yesterday, Stewart, members of the 98.1 The One team and other volunteers with the National Vaccination Programme had distributed over 150. The shirts which showcase national colours, also have the words โ€œGet Ready, Leh We Goโ€.
    โ€œThe plan was just to meet here at Abedโ€™s and then distribute them, but when we arrived, people were coming with their IDs and in no time we had given out over 150 shirts.
    โ€œThe whole idea is for people like us to convince their friends and family to get vaccinated; that is what we wanted. Everybody wonโ€™t get vaccinated, but we need to get a number that would help us lift these curfews and get back out there,โ€ Stewart added.
    The goal is to print 5 000 shirts and distribute them at other sites across the country.
    (TG)


    Source: Nation

  44. David Avatar
    David

    Expert: Pill another layer of protection
    By Tony Best
    It is not a panacea for treatment, but an important addition to the regimen designed for those people infected with COVID-19 in Barbados and elsewhere around the world.
    Thatโ€™s how Dr Wayne Greaves, a key Bajan infectious disease specialist in the United States, has described the promising COVID-19 pill which is to be manufactured in almost 100 developing countries under special licensing deals signed by Pfizer and Merck. The aim is to give more than a billion poor people around the world ready, cheaper and special access to treatment.
    โ€˜Not a panaceaโ€™
    โ€œThe pill is not a panaceaโ€ for the illnesses caused by the disease, said Greaves, a key scientist at a large pharmaceutical corporation in the US. โ€œThe pill is being made available to infected people and will be helpful for those who donโ€™t want to take a vaccine to prevent infection, hospitalisation and death. It is an important addition to the options that Barbados and many other United Nations (UN) member states have put in place to manage COVID-19.
    โ€œA vital limitation is that a person must first be diagnosed as having COVID-19. That really means that for several countries, Barbados among them, tests must be available and people must test positive and then take the pill. It is not a pill that should be taken by everyone.โ€
    The former professor of medicine at Howard University in Washington D.C. said the pill โ€œmust be taken within the first three to five days of infection in order to be effectiveโ€.
    Under an international agreement, Pfizer and Merck, the two major pharmaceutical corporations which developed separate pills, have agreed to provide royalty free licences to the Medicines Patent pool, a non-profit United Nations-backed group. The manufacturers are to provide 95 countries with the formulas for the pills so that national manufacturers can sell the medication in a long list of African and Asian states, once government regulators in those places have authorised their use as safe.
    UN sources have indicated that Barbados and many of its Caribbean neighbours might not be among the first tier of developing countries which have been given top priority authorisation and access to the pill. Manufacturers in low and middle income states are being given access to the medication at less expensive prices than say in the US, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Cyprus, Japan, Malta, Russia, China and other rich countries.
    The Pfizer agreement will, for instance, allow manufacturers to acquire sub-licences so they can sell the medication for use in many nations under the brand name โ€œPaxlovidโ€. The pill is meant to be taken at home as a five-day regimen of 30 pills, ten of which are a low dose of an HIV drug labelled as โ€œritonavirโ€ designed to slow the breakdown of the Pfizer pill.
    Pfizer plans to waive royalties in all nations included in the special agreement as long as COVID-19 remains a World Health Organisationdesignated public health emergency.
    Critics are complaining that the arrangement did not go far enough to ease the financial and other roadblocks such as inequality of access to COVID-19 treatment in developing nations. Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Jamaica and Brazil have been excluded from the agreement and must buy the pill directly from Pfizer at higher prices.
    Not surprised
    โ€œWhat has happened with the distribution of the pill is typically what happens with COVID treatments,โ€ said Greaves. โ€œThe fact that not all middle and low income countries are among the first to get it is not surprising. If Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, for instance, were getting it but not Barbados, that would surprise me. I am not surprised that the Caribbean as a group is not among the first tier getting it. However, I am confident that subsequently as a group, Barbados, Jamaica and their neighbours will get it. It has happened before.โ€
    As for the overall COVID-19 picture in his birthplace, the Barbadian scientist said that although the death toll surpassed the 200 mark a few days ago, up from 42 in August, it gave Barbados something to be encouraged about.
    โ€œI donโ€™t want to be too optimistic but it looks as if Barbados may be turning the corner when it comes to infections. Death rates seem to be on their way down and so are hospitalisations and fatalities,โ€ said Greaves.
    He has urged the country to impose limited mandates that require certain categories of workers โ€“ health care professionals and employees of security agencies, police, military and fire services โ€“ to be vaccinated.
    โ€œI think the Government should rethink what it is doing in some of these sensitive areas. Many countries are imposing mandates in one form or another in order to save lives and maintain a cap on hospitalisations. Barbados should do so as well,โ€ he said. โ€œI am not sure why it hasnโ€™t acted more aggressively on mandates. Targeted vaccinations are still needed.โ€

    Source: Nation

  45. David Avatar
    David

    Judgment on vaccine mandate
    In September, United States President Joe Biden issued an executive order requiring all federal workers to be vaccinated by November 22, 2021.
    He also ordered the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) mandate requiring certain categories of federal workers who fall under the ambit of OSHA to be vaccinated by January 4, 2022, or provide weekly negative COVID results at their own expense.
    On November 4, 2021, the Biden administration announced that this ETS would extend to private companies which have 100 or more employees.
    Since this announcement there have been 34 lawsuits filed against the vaccine or testing mandate. The most notable was an action filed in the Federal Appeals Fifth Circuit Court on November 6 by several private business owners in which they contested the constitutionality of the vaccine and testing mandate issued against private businesses.
    On November 6, the Appeals Court issued a temporary stay of the mandate pending judicial review of the matter. However, the Justice Department applied to lift the stay but this was rejected by the court which delivered a 22-page judgment reaffirming the stay.
    Although Barbados is not bound by US judgments and in many ways our laws diverge, I still believe the judgment provides useful insight into our local debate surrounding vaccine and testing mandates.
    Protecting employees
    My favourite part of the written judgment is that it confirmed something I have said repeatedly in my articles and public forums for the past several months: an employerโ€™s duty to provide a safe place of work does not extend to protecting employees from diseases that originate in the wider population, but is limited to those caused by workplace processes or equipment. To assert otherwise is to overly extend the duty of the employer to what can be an impossible and intrusive standard.
    Similarly on Pages 8 and 9 of its judgment, the Appeals Court noted that OSHAโ€™s โ€œattempt to shoehorn an airborne virus that is both widely present in society (and thus not particular to any workplace) and nonlife- threatening to a vast majority of employeesโ€ into the purview of its powers under the legislation, was an overreach.
    The court criticised the mandate as being โ€œa one-size-fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for the differences in workplaces (and workers) that have more than a little bearing on workersโ€™ varying degrees of susceptibility . . . . The ongoing threat of COVID-19 is more dangerous to some employees than to other employees . . . .
    โ€œA 28-year-old trucker spending the bulk of his work day in the solitude of his cab is simply less likely vulnerable to COVID-19 than a 62-year-old prison janitor. Likewise, a naturally immune, unvaccinated worker is presumably at less risk than an unvaccinated worker who has never had the virus.โ€
    The court also criticised the underinclusiveness of the mandate, such as failing to enforce testing on vaccinated workers since โ€œin its fullest force, the mandate cannot prevent vaccinated employees from spreading the virus in the workplace or prevent unvaccinated employees from spreading the virus in between weekly testsโ€. It added that the โ€œunder-inclusive nature of the mandate implies that the mandateโ€™s true purpose is not to enhance workplace safety, but instead to ramp up vaccine uptake by any means necessaryโ€.
    I have found the same defects in all the vaccine or testing mandates that have been implemented by companies in Barbados. The policies have been overly broad, such as imposing unnecessary testing mandates on remote workers who pose no threat to the workplace, and conveniently underinclusive by not mandating occasional testing of vaccinated workers. The courtโ€™s decision shows that these factors are relevant in determining the constitutionality and enforceability of these mandates. No doubt these factors will also influence the decisions of our local judiciary when the mandates are litigated.
    Finally, we can no longer logically assert that the COVID-19 vaccines are the same as our childhood vaccines, since the latter not only stopped transmission, but in most cases only required one shot.
    Michelle M. Russell is an attorney at law with a passion for employment Law and labour matters and is a social activist. Email: mrussell.ja@gmail.com


    Source: Nation

  46. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    David

    You’re not going to like this but the US and its White imperial allies are ceasing to be the reference point for most of the world.

    Embrace, the rise of the Eurasian Block!

    While they posture that some Rules Based Order of the unDemocratic will emerge, based on an a la carte menu of foreign policy they are behind the scenes begging Russia and China to help them control domestic and global inflation through the joint release of strategic energy reserves.. They are not falling for it!

  47. GP -ESCHATOLOGIST Avatar
    GP -ESCHATOLOGIST

    RE Youโ€™re not going to like this but the US and its White imperial allies are ceasing to be the reference point for most of the world.

    Embrace, the rise of the Eurasian Block!

    NOTHING NEW HERE SIR.
    THIS WAS PROPHESISED BY DANIEL EONS AGO
    AND IN THE OLIVET DISCOURSE IN MATHEW 24, JESUS INDICATED AND ENDORSED DANIEL’S PREDICTIONS AS VALID
    WE ARE NOW ENTERING THE STAGE DESCRIBED IN DANIEL 2 AS “THE TOES OF THE IMAGE IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM
    AFTER THAT THE STONE CUT OUT WITH OUT HANDS WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE IMAGE
    DANIEL 7 AND REVELATION 19 INDICATES THAT THIS STONE OR ROCK IS CHRIST
    YOU CAN BELIEVE THIS TO BE TRUE OR REJECT IT AS NONSENSE, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS NOT TRUE CAUSE UM STARTINGTO HAPPEN BEFORE OUR VERY EYES.
    TOO SWEET MAN TOO SWEET
    LIKE HANNIBAL IN THE A TEAM SAYS “I LIKE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER” WUH BOUT YOU?

  48. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    There was never any Daniel.
    And his supposedly 2:, especially 2:44 used to support your lies operating under the rubric of eschatology is of much recent vintage, as fictionalized.

  49. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE There was never any Daniel.
    And his supposedly 2:, especially 2:44 used to support your lies operating under the rubric of eschatology is of much recent vintage, as fictionalized.

    AMAZING
    YOUR OPINION DOES NOT ACCORD WITH THE WRITINGS OF THE SEVERAL EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
    SERIOUS STUDENTS OF THE SCRIPTURES KNOW WHY THE BOK OF DANIEL IS VERY MUCH ATTACKED
    SENSIBLE PERSONS KNOW THAT MUCH OF DANIEL 2 AND 7 ARE ACTUALLY HISTORY

    HISTORIANS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS CAN ATTEST TO THE TRUTH OF DANIEL 2 AND 7 DESPITE THE STUPID CLAMOUR OF BIBLE ILLITERATES

    JUST CHECK THE VARIOUS MUSEUMS HERE AND THERE FOR THE AMAZING EVIDENCE

    DANIEL HAD A MUCH EASIER TIME IN THE LIONS DEN THAN HE HAS IN THE CONTEMPORARY CRITICS DEN
    IN THE LION’S DEN, GOD STOPPED THE LIONS MOUTH

    BUT HE HAS NOW ALLOWED THE MOUTHS OF IGNORANT FALSE TEACHERS AND SCEPTICS TO CHATTER NON STOP IN DEFIANCE OF THE TRUTH OF HIS HOLY WORD

    2 PETER 3 V 9 IS THUS VERY VERY TRUE

    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

  50. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Donna November 21, 2021 6:33 AM
    (Quote):
    That is one of the reasons that I, as I have said on many occasions, NEVER SWALLOWED THE BIBLE WHOLE! (Unquote).
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Now why would the miller want to impute โ€œhomosexual relationshipsโ€ to twelve men (with one being the only begotten son of a god) sleeping in a garden unless there were vagrants?

    You ought to raise that issue with either the Doc GP or Pachamama you best buddy of the Royal โ€œWe Weโ€ family.

    Just wondering why was the poor Mary Magdalene left out of the garden scenario in the play.

    Maybe the Roman playwrights of Jewish persuasion patterned the same Jesus character after their favourite โ€˜figureโ€™ Apollo in memory of their beloved Antinous.

    What โ€˜Weโ€™ take issue with you is your brand of hypocrisy.
    Despite your explained reasons for your incapacity and possible consequential hang-ups about โ€˜shaggingโ€™-a primary act of being a healthy human-you ought to explain to the BU household (without reference to peopleโ€™s โ€œMudduhsโ€) why you enjoy slagging off the English and their royal family but are prepared to put your neck on the chopping block to defend the very icon which represents what it means to be quintessential English; that is, Anglicanism.

    A โ€˜faithโ€™ founded by a man who killed some of his 6 wives and whose descendants in the form of the same Royal Family are its stoutest defenders of the same Anglican faith.

    Donna June 28, 2021 8:58 AM
    โ€œThird Worldโ€ is in the eye of the beholder. That is a white manโ€™s description. I do not accept their definitions of ANYTHING.

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