It would appear that the New Day Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government has been delighted for the distraction caused by the Dubai Trip, because it moves focus away from the rapidly increasing Covid-19 numbers in the country and the failure of the present government t mitigates its spread.

“Over 900 new COVID cases reported” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; While 942 new COVID cases were confirmed in The Bahamas between Thursday and Saturday, Minister of Health, Dr. Michael Darville said there has been positive signs that the fourth wave is peaking and additional measures may not be needed.

However, Darville said health officials are watching what happens over the next few days closely before making a decision.

Last week, Acting Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Philip Swann said he was hopeful that the numbers will begin declining soon.

“We’ve been watching the numbers from …December moving into today ad looking at the numbers there are some positive indications,” Darville said in an interview with The Nassau Guardian.

I think the CMO was absolutely correct along with the deputy CMO that the indication is pointing in the direction but we still need a little more epidemiological evidence before I can conclusively say that.

“While I’m sort of optimistic about the numbers, we are on standby to implement additional measures if we have to.”

Exactly which “positive indications” is Dr. Darville talking about?

There is a saying that goes; “Hope springs eternal:, which basically means when you continue to hope that something will happen; although it seems unlikely to happen, and it seems to be several things that this government is hoping will happen here.

One thing that they hope with happen is that as this virus continue to mutate, it will become weaker and eventually “just go away”; but if they liken it to the flu virus, isn’t the flu virus still around and killing people and the only way to prevent unnecessary death is through prevention.

So until such time as it ‘weakens an d just goes away’, the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government has implemented its COVID-19 strategy; which is basically the same as the original protocols that have been in place but only now they have added”free” mass testing as a way of slowing the spread of the virus but let’s looks at the science behind “free” mass testing.

There is none.

Let us ask this question; when you mass test four hundred people and let’s say twenty five percent,  one hundred were to test positive, then what do you do?

I have been told that these people would be sent home to “self quarantine”, and therein lies another problem, how do you get them to do this?  If one were to remember the “72 Hour” policy under the Minnis administration; persons were allowed a 72 hour window to travel abroad without testing but required to self quarantine for two weeks upon return.  This turned out to be a disaster for the Minnis administration and the PLP, while in opposition labeled the Minnis efforts to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus a failure just because of this, but here they are doing the very same thing; telling persons who have tested positive to go home and self quarantine –does this prime minister actually believe that his advice will be adhered to?

But the people have voted for a Davis led Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government to give them their ‘freedom’ – the ability to do as they want, whenever they want it is this very ‘freedom’ which has the New Day government’s strategy  to control this virus seeing rapidly spreading numbers of a very contagious variant of the COVID-10 virus.
My opinion, is this, now would be the time to get control of the spread of this virus by first lowering numbers in a logical and sensible manner and putting protocol s in place to keep them low and easy to manage but this New Day Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government thinks it best to work in reverse; as they seek to fully open the country and now the schools and then deal with the ‘fallout’.

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

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“1,500 NEW COVID cases in four days – Test positivity soar” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “The new years weekend brought with it record numbers of new COVID cases in The Bahamas as the fourth wave continued sweeping the country.

Between Thursday and Sunday, 1,535 cases were confirmed.

On Thursday alone, 520 were recorded – a new single day record that replaced the one set only a few days before.

On Friday, 289 cases were confirmed, and on Saturday, the first day of the year, 249 cases were recorded.  On Sunday, another 477 cases were confirmed.

Of the new cases, 1,320 were on New Providence, 82 on Grand Bahama, 18 on Abaco, 18 on Andros, 10 in Exuma, eight on Eleuthera, five on the Berry Islands, two on Acklins, one on Bimini, one on Cat Island, one on Crooked Island, one on Inagua, one on Long Island, and 67 had locations pending.

Seventeen of the Andros cases were confirmed Saturday in a notable jump for the island after health officials said last week that things had been relatively quiet there in terms of cases.  Another was confirmed on Sunday.

On all four days, the positivity rates were far above the five percent maximum recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).  Thursday’s rate was 39.9 percent; Friday’s was 27.1 percent; Saturday’s was 55.3 percent and Sunday’s was 48 percent.

The figures indicate that testing is likely not capturing a significant number of actual cases.

As of Sunday, 43 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in The Bahamas.

The number is significantly lower than the record 195 hospitalized in early September 2012.

However; hospitalized over the weekend were notably higher than they were last week Wednesday when 23 people were hospitalized.”

Going into the last election the New Day Davis led Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), while in opposition, consistently criticized the Free National Movement (FNM) government for the spread of the COVID-19 virus in The Bahamas.  The Davis led PLP opposition even put together a taskforce and claimed to have made ‘suggestions’ to the Minnis led FNM government on how to control and mitigate the spread of the virus.  They claimed that the Minnis administration did not pay attention to their taskforce and it’s ‘suggestions’, claiming this to be a part of the reason why the Minnis administration had no control over the spread and mitigation of the virus.

We are not at the dawn of a New Day with a new variant of the Covid-19 virus, this one not as deadly as the one that the Minnis administration dealt with but much more contagious and the numbers of the infected has began to hit record numbers but oddly enough we have not heard a word from the PLP’s COVID-19 Taskforce – it’s as if they were just campaign material – were they?   The main point being silently pushed by the PLP through its avid social media campaigners is this…” well at least no one is dying”, so my next question is this; is it alright for the new variant to spread unchecked and should not one really pay any attention as long as it does not kill anyone?

The very suggestion is asinine but this is exactly what is being suggested.

Is this the New Day’s PLP government plan when dealing with COVD-19 in The Bahamas?

If the Minnis administration “failed” in the control and the mitigation of the COVID-19 virus, didn’t the Davis opposition learn from these ‘mistakes’ and if they did, do we really have to being going through this tremendous fourth wave at this very moment?

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

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