The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune

To say that those of us staying at home were delighted that Dr. Minnis was going to allow Hardware Stores to open this week, would be a gross understatement. Even if only for two non-consecutive days of the week. (What’s that all about?) Open Wednesday to take orders for Friday? But almost like everything else that the Government has done in this emergency, the whole situation is never thought through to the end.

I finally reached someone at my favourite hardware store to see if I could get some lumber on the first truck smoking tomorrow, so I could finish a project begun back in February. Seems like years ago. So, I get a call back from my insider contact to say, “hardware stores can open and sell nails and screws, but not the wood to put them into”. I guess the lumber warehouses are too confining for free flowing air, (really ?) so it would be more conducive to COVID infection. Next fly in the ointment – If the owners are not those nasty super-wealthy ones, living in mansions and eating caviar washed down by Champaign, and per chance have furloughed their staff into the care of NIB, to re-engage them, even for two days a week, would cause their NIB benefits to be cancelled. I thought NIB had a heart ? Why be so uncaring.

BRUCE G RAINE

Nassau,

April 21, 2020