EDITOR, The Tribune
We hear a lot these days about flattening the curve but one has to wonder why our leaders think that the only curve to be flattened is COVID 19 infections. Or why they can’t see that in trying to flatten that curve, they are creating other curves that will indubitably increase the COVID 19 infection curve. A three-year-old child can tell you that when you squeeze a balloon on its sides, the top, bottom, and adjacent sides bulge out. And so it is with grocery shopping. When you lock down for three, four or five days, you are creating the very COVID 19 Petri dish that you had hoped to empty. And the lock downs have only become necessary because the population at large seem unable to control themselves and the police have been a dismal failure in doing anything about it. During the curfew hours I personally have never seen a police checkpoint where anyone is asked to explain where they are going, or where they have come from. And if they are not on a route to a pharmacy (with a prescription) or a doctor, or a grocery shop, then they should be turned around and sent back. So the entire country has to suffer because of a police failure?
For God’s sake Dr. Minnis, just allow the grocery shops and pharmacies to open seven days a week and whatever hours they normally are open and stop creating curves that do nobody any good.
MONKEEDO
Nassau,
April 15, 2020.
Comments
ThisIsOurs 4 years ago
"For God’s sake Dr. Minnis, just allow the grocery shops and pharmacies to open seven days a week and whatever hours they normally are open and stop creating curves that do nobody any good."
agree. when people feel they will not have access to food they panic. You only need to look at the drastic difference at foodstores between this week and last. People will also naturally avoid long lines, they'll come back another day
Honestman 4 years ago
Queues at the food stores have been shorter and much more orderly this week (perhaps save for Tuesday which was always going to be busy coming off of a 5 day lock down). There is no need to revert to an alphabetic scheduling system next week. Would agree with 7 day shopping but only if police can keep people off the road who have no right to be there. Otherwise, I support a total lock down every weekend until we are over the worst.
Well_mudda_take_sic 3 years, 12 months ago
The problem is, with each passing day that locally owned businesses remain shut down, there is an increasing likelihood they will never recover and simply go out of business. This would significantly ratchet up unemployment. It would also put serious pressure on the capitalization of the commercial banks through higher loan losses. Not good. We are now at the point where the economic harm done to our country will likely result in more deaths to our people than the Red China Virus itself.
Porcupine 3 years, 12 months ago
I truly hate politics, but is this administration thinking, or just reacting? The only thing I have seen are changing policies that do nothing to keep social distancing as a priority. It seems more about controlling people than keeping us safe. Is this a tendency of authoritarian personalities?
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