“I don’t want the Bahamian people to walk around talking about these things; this is what COVID-19 caused.

If you lost your job, lost your business, COVID-19 did not cause that, a political decision as to how to respond to it [COVID-19] cause it.” – Wayne Munroe QC, former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) candidate for the Free Town consistency.

It is this type of irrational reasoning  and logic which has become very prevalent in the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), as they now seem to attempt to diminish the Free National Movement’s (FNM’s) government efforts in mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country. 

In this statement Mr. Munroe, seems to downplay the serious nature of the virus and wishes to switch the focus to the effect that the efforts to mitigate it have had on the economy of the country – a case of lose in revenue versus lives saved.

Mr. Munroe claims that that the decision behind the Emerge my Orders were political but they were made in agreement with the consensus of the wider spectrum of the Bahamian society and within line with worldwide guidelines in order of preventing the spread of this very contagious virus.

In a nutshell the Emergency Orders were put in place to save Bahamian lives, as to why Mr. Munroe would now like to make it about politics is totally irrational and reckless but this seems to be the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP’s) new strategy and it is very unfortunate that they would choose to “toy” with the lives of the Bahamian people and “toy” with their emotions in order to gain political ground leading into the 2022 General Elections.

But as usual Mr. Munroe flip flops to make a political point. 

He asks if the virus was dangerous when we first went into the lockdowns, why open up the country now while we still have cases and more than when we had the country locked down?

This question seems logical on the surface but it makes no sense in light of the fact that we have seemed to have reached a point and found a way to control the spread of the virus but is Mr. Munroe really concerned about the country and the potential damage that a serious outbreak can cause or is he just looking to shore up his nomination for the Free Town constituency?

I ask this because in one breath Mr. Munroe is suggesting that the country should have never been shut down and in the very next breath he seems to suggests that we should not be opening in order to get the economy back up and running.  Mr. Munroe is being VERY disingenuous with the people of The Bahamas and he should be ashamed of this flawed argument but we all are coming to find out that he seems to lack the ability to experience shame.

He should be out chasing ambulances in my opinion.

The COVID-19 virus has proven to be a very contagious respiratory infection without a cure to date, other than to let it runs its course.  It is more dangerous than the flu which has a seasonal mortality rate of about one percent (1%) of those infected and COVID-19 having a mortality rate of about just over three percent (3.4%) of those infected. It has proven very fatal, as has been seen in certain regions of the world, and for this Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) opposition to suggest anything less is totally ridiculous and should call their character and judgment into question.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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