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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