EVERYONE is commenting about the 45-minute address to the nation by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and are left scratching their heads.
What we received was a full history tutorial that was outdated and given to the nation as an urgent matter instead of a message from the nation’s leader on what innovative new master plan the Government intended to use to counteract the upsurge in the Covid-19 ravaging in our country for the month of November.
The deadliest month in our history since this pandemic has hit us.
The citizens were so frustrated with the disappointing address that memes appeared all over social media going viral instantly. One particularly humorous one stated: “if beating around the bush was a person” with Dr Rowley’s picture on it. Again it seems that our Prime Minister and his administration is out of touch with the people and his address agreed that the parallel healthcare system will collapse in a matter of days yet he goes ahead and speaks about opening up beaches, with the icing on the cake that we can have a modified Carnival in 2022 with “safe zones”.
If this is not blatant electioneering, what is? All because of the upcoming Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections that will be held on Monday, December 6, 2021.
Where exactly has our Prime Minister been for the past weeks is confusing to me, I just do not understand how he can speak of these issues without noting that in one weekend 63 people died from Covid-19, our mortuaries are overloaded and some hospitals are in “critical event mode.”
While it’s touted that we are in a third wave, the great leader dangled another carrot in front of our faces stating that if there is not an increase in the number of cases significantly in the next couple of weeks, the Government will open up beaches to early “therapeutic dips at dawn” from 5 am to 12 noon. This is a blatant attempt to promise something that we will never see.
Another attempt to gather votes and give Tobagonians a light at the end of the tunnel to vote PNM.
Even as the parallel healthcare system is on the brink of collapsing he’s able to spin the bad management of a terrible situation to give hope to the voters of “better days are coming.”
I’m sure that the experts and epidemiologists are pulling out their hair at this very moment, after these pronouncements of the PM; I’m sure they are insisting behind closed doors that what we really need is more measures to prevent transmission of the virus and the Delta variant that is now spreading rampantly through our communities.
There is not any doubt in my mind now that we will not take the data of the spiralling trend seriously, not before December 6 at least, as the Government main focus is to win the THA at any cost and be damn the consequences of the fallout.
Only after that date, it would be highlighted how many people have died and how much the virus has spread because of this election campaign and what consequences we may have to face.
We cannot take another lockdown as it would be detrimental to many businesses, lives and livelihoods yet with this part chosen, we seem to be headed in that direction.
The inevitable abyss.
(Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of NP. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.)
Beating Around the Bush, Mr PM
EVERYONE is commenting about the 45-minute address to the nation by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and are left scratching their heads.
What we received was a full history tutorial that was outdated and given to the nation as an urgent matter instead of a message from the nation’s leader on what innovative new master plan the Government intended to use to counteract the upsurge in the Covid-19 ravaging in our country for the month of November.
The deadliest month in our history since this pandemic has hit us.
The citizens were so frustrated with the disappointing address that memes appeared all over social media going viral instantly. One particularly humorous one stated: “if beating around the bush was a person” with Dr Rowley’s picture on it. Again it seems that our Prime Minister and his administration is out of touch with the people and his address agreed that the parallel healthcare system will collapse in a matter of days yet he goes ahead and speaks about opening up beaches, with the icing on the cake that we can have a modified Carnival in 2022 with “safe zones”.
If this is not blatant electioneering, what is? All because of the upcoming Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections that will be held on Monday, December 6, 2021.
Where exactly has our Prime Minister been for the past weeks is confusing to me, I just do not understand how he can speak of these issues without noting that in one weekend 63 people died from Covid-19, our mortuaries are overloaded and some hospitals are in “critical event mode.”
While it’s touted that we are in a third wave, the great leader dangled another carrot in front of our faces stating that if there is not an increase in the number of cases significantly in the next couple of weeks, the Government will open up beaches to early “therapeutic dips at dawn” from 5 am to 12 noon. This is a blatant attempt to promise something that we will never see.
Another attempt to gather votes and give Tobagonians a light at the end of the tunnel to vote PNM.
Even as the parallel healthcare system is on the brink of collapsing he’s able to spin the bad management of a terrible situation to give hope to the voters of “better days are coming.”
I’m sure that the experts and epidemiologists are pulling out their hair at this very moment, after these pronouncements of the PM; I’m sure they are insisting behind closed doors that what we really need is more measures to prevent transmission of the virus and the Delta variant that is now spreading rampantly through our communities.
There is not any doubt in my mind now that we will not take the data of the spiralling trend seriously, not before December 6 at least, as the Government main focus is to win the THA at any cost and be damn the consequences of the fallout.
Only after that date, it would be highlighted how many people have died and how much the virus has spread because of this election campaign and what consequences we may have to face.
We cannot take another lockdown as it would be detrimental to many businesses, lives and livelihoods yet with this part chosen, we seem to be headed in that direction.
The inevitable abyss.
(Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of NP. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.)