By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Senior Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
PEOPLE who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not need to wear masks or physically distance themselves, whether they are indoors or outdoors in most circumstances, according to the US Centres for Disease Control.
CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing: “We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy. Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases (in the US), the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines and our understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated.”
The news comes during a week in which some residents became eligible in the Bahamas to receive their second vaccine dose.
It also comes as the government readies policies pertaining to the freedoms fully vaccinated people will enjoy.
Some. however, have expressed concern about how local officials will distinguish between those who are fully vaccinated and those who are not.
Last month, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said fully vaccinated people will immediately be exempted from travel requirements.
“Once individuals are fully vaccinated,” he also said, “individuals can participate in a closed environment, once all within that closed environment are fully vaccinated. The mask would not be necessary and they can participate within that environment.
“That means indoor dining can resume for those individuals who are completely vaccinated.
“It also means from a cultural perspective that those, like myself, who participate in Junkanoo, once we are all vaccinated, we can work within the Junkanoo shacks among us all vaccinated individuals.
“This is important because it allows within an enclosed restaurant or wedding facility, once all are vaccinated, it also means that the cultural events that we had yesterday where individuals in restaurants and weddings would have Junkanoo rushing through the environment, that can occur once all, including the Junkanooers, are vaccinated and therefore we can commence some form of normal life.”
Dr Minnis acknowledged that enforcement will be key as vaccination status determines what people can and cannot do.
“Most important as we move forward, enforcement must be adhered to,” he said at the time.
“I recognise (the) excellent work the police and COVID ambassadors are doing and I recognise many of them are probably burnt out, but I ask them to just provide us with that extra burst of energy for the next two weeks so that we can enforce our laws, our order, especially with all the events that are occurring around our islands.”
Comments
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
Wow! So our genius is smarter than the world, which still advises mask wearing as fully vaccinated persons still get Covid. Sounds like fool hardy blackmail and attempted mass murder.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
Sounds like a medical circus.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
The mark of the beast. Cleaned or unclean Ed, vaccinated or unvaccinated. Christian Council were made fools of. The vaccine pass is in effect and will soon need it to worship God.
proudloudandfnm 2 years, 11 months ago
Now this is dumb. Lol. Bout mark of the beast. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😈😈😈😈🤦
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
And it's individuals like you who bear the mark. lol
crawdaddy 2 years, 11 months ago
Now that fully vaccinated persons can shed masks, this leaves the unvaccinated no sensible choice but to either wear a mask everywhere, get vaccinated or take off their masks and take their chances. Luckily for me, I'll be fully vaccinated by Monday.
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
Good luck with that jab....something just instinctively tells me that in the long term it could well prove to be much more than it's presently made out to be.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
Just this week WHO said both vaccinated and unvaccinated should wear masks while on public transportation or any close quarters indoors. Within days it seems persons in authority are switching the rules and many vaccinated persons will get sick.
proudloudandfnm 2 years, 11 months ago
But we will not be hospitalized and die... Good enough for me.
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
I can guarantee you that one day you will die, but hopefully not sooner as a result of your great love for being jabbed. lol
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
What happened to staying healthy no high blood pressure, obesity, smoking, diabetes, vitamins, cleanliness and the discipline and hard work of having a robust body and mind.? Vaccination us an excuse to live unhealthy lifestyle and disregard the broader health issues that lead thousands of early deaths for Bahamians.
DDK 2 years, 11 months ago
Haven't you noticed? Staying healthy does not count, it is not a priority🤣
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
Big pharma has no incentive or interest in us being naturally healthy and free of costly medications and soon to be very costly vaccinations, etc. That's simply not good for their business model and huge profits.
crawdaddy 2 years, 11 months ago
Vaccinations save lives. I'm a healthy person living a healthy life. healthy people still can get sick and die from Covid and spread it to others with co-morbitities. Vaccines are tools that have helped us before and will help us through this now. Please vaccinate and save your country from sickness, death and financial ruin. It is your obligation as a good neighbor and citizen.
traveler 2 years, 11 months ago
100% correct crawdaddy. Covid does not discriminate - it has killed people who are fitness instructors, marathon runners etc. When you get vaccinated it is to protect yourself against getting deathly ill from the virus but equally important, a medical fact is that it lessens the chance that if you do get the virus that you will spread it to others. Stop letting social media, and insane whatsapp messages that spread false information about the vaccine to take over everybody's common sense. If you have questions about the vaccine read what the facts are from the CDC or WHO and not whatsapp.
ohdrap4 2 years, 11 months ago
I never heard that the vaccine lessens the chance of transmission. They do not know it yet.
This is why they telling the vaccinated not to wear mask. To see how well they spread the disease.
Paho and WHO reputation is kaka these days.
ThisIsOurs 2 years, 11 months ago
it een nobody obligation to get vaccinated. Its a choice
DDK 2 years, 11 months ago
It SHOULD be! Especially as the vaccines are in the testing stage!
proudloudandfnm 2 years, 11 months ago
Nah. Not the testing phase that was done last year now we're in the distribution phase...
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
You need to start ask yourself why so few people decades ago were much healthier and free of so many of the illnesses that are so prevalent today, especially children.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
Conjecture and rubberband science that stretches more than Pinocchio's nose. Duty to country is to see which way your science will stretch next minute to coincide with your moralization and patriotism of unproven unsafe poison AZ that reigns supreme as your holy grail.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
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I guess you gave your script written already to convince your mind slave cattle of this next deadlier fear of new again future vaccine. So what new gut wrenching sugar filled dodo will you come up with then.
proudloudandfnm 2 years, 11 months ago
I'll be fully vaccinated in four weeks. Noice. Now lift the curfew for the vaccinated and get us proper documentation so people can't fake it....
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
I distinctly recollect you mentioning on several occasions that you had already been vaccinated. Do I detect a note of vaccine hesistancy on your part? lol
ohdrap4 2 years, 11 months ago
An ankle bracelet, perhaps?
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
LMAO. Good one!
proudloudandfnm 2 years, 11 months ago
Way too many dumb republicans in our little country. Why don't they all move to the US? Just go. Go be dumb trumpies there...
tribanon 2 years, 11 months ago
Aaahhh, come on......don't stop now, you amuse too many of us. lol
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
Is there an uninhabited island in The Bahamas where unvaccinated could live and firm an independent statehood. No cell phones, whatsapp, no Vax, like minded doctors, our own rules, fishing and farming hard living labor. Execution by shark tooth, just give us a break. If you are vaccinated why don't you let me worry about my health. You can't get sick ever. You safe. Just don't tell Rupert Robert's all of his customers need vaccination. So the vaccinated will never buy food. It is here in some places and coming. Non vaccinated will die from FNM starvation not Covid.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
The Bahamas Christian Council was shitititit by this millionaire globalist elite, set to make his grandchild billionaire over us Bahamians. No wonder our Cable News have to resorted to facts spoken by Thedros, chief of WHO and PAHO, as our leader dictating kaka and will cause many private businesses into being sued millions of dollars. All international global, health UN institutions record that no one, a slave or worker could be forced to be vaccinated as it is still in trial phase. This mad man pychomeniac leader stands to loose billions of his grands personal dollars. He showed them shopping at John Bill while we were in home imprisoned to watch life of the privileged.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
Real politicians never knows the suffering of children and should never ever ever never make their royals subject, - unless you are a dynasty, as our Pindling learnt horribly, from their own. Dog eat dog world out there and your best friend could be your worst enemy, especially your tongue. He eats and drinks with you.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
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When this experiamtal vaccine makes Bahamian males sterile next year the lawsuits will start rolling in.
John 2 years, 11 months ago
The devil is a liar. Remember Satan tries to mock or imitate everything that is written in the Bible.
carltonr61 2 years, 11 months ago
That The Qween's Governor General made us slave to Minnis for another six months, that dude on Guardian talkshow needs to stop playing Hail Britannia for her slave colony with a whip on our backs.we are the Queen of England's black slave cattle. The Queen has extended her racist policy I er ys in the guise of vaccine help. Down with the Queen down with the GG. In her name we are made slaves once more again. Chains on on our minds. Chains on our life. Without vaccine they will throw us over the slave shop. We are not free but enslaved to Minnis.
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