THERE have been 66 deaths due to Covid-19 in the first 12 days of May.
This is alarming to say the least.
The Covid-19 death toll has increased exponentially in a short time that we have now seen the true effects of an incompetent and inefficient Ministry of Heath handling of the pandemic.
It’s now really sinking in that the propaganda machines and virtual media conferences were just for show. A pappy show to use local lingo. To hoodwink the population into a false sense of security that at the helm of the ministry we had a competent leader. A person that knew what he was doing. What a colossal mistake to make such an assumption.
What a terrible miscalculation and to many, a heart wrenching reality that our citizens are being infected more quickly and dying at a rate that seems uncontrollable at this point in time.
With the large increase in daily cases, the minister and health officials are actually begging citizens to stay home and stop gathering in large numbers.
As people continue to gather at supermarkets and public areas that still offer crucial essential services, the number continues to rise. There seem to be no end to the upsurge that has caused the parallel health system to be overwhelmed.
Our overall hospital occupancy is increasing at the same exponential rate and with no proper plan to increase the number of beds. We seem to be at the mercy of a runaway train that has left the station.
We are also now seeing increased infections and deaths among younger people as well as more serious conditions in hospitalised patients.
I’m sorry to say but remembering the invitation to come to Tobago for Easter and with a reported 50,000 and more responding to that call from our prime minister, are we seeing the effects of that crucial miscalculation now?
With imposing more stringent rules with the Covid restrictions, is this now an attempt to downplay this terrible error in judgment when the train is already out of control?
This one single act of misjudgment, of open invitation to the masses maybe the trigger of single handedly making us a little India, where the hospitals are overwhelmed and people are dying on the streets. We need to get control of the situation now.
Not to mention the fiasco with our porous borders and the influx of Venezuelans coming in unchecked with more variants of the virus through the beaches.
This again may have inadvertently brought in the P1 variant to our shores. Both the police and the military that fall under the Ministry of National Security seem to be ineffective as thousands of Venezuelans enter our borders with exemption from punishment and consequences. And we are the ones that have to face the brunt of the lockdown, the loss of jobs and closure of businesses.
We have so many questions that we just cannot get a straight or sensible answer on, like the decision to give out all the vaccines now (limited as they are) without properly knowing exactly when more were coming in and the efficacy of a single dose against the fact that we are not sure when the second dose will arrive.
Will we get enough vaccines to inoculate the population?
Of course the government would not want us to ask questions on their unilateral decisions, even implying that we were being unfair to the Dr Keith Rowley’s government, being difficult or unpatriotic.
It’s important that citizens ask for better performance of our ministers in their portfolios and at the very least, a proper plan to combat this pandemic head-on, humanely and equitably.
We must not just be sheep for the slaughter, as it’s our lives, the lives of our children and the future of our twin islands we are dealing with.
Covid-19 Pandemic: We Must Not Be Sheep For The Slaughter
THERE have been 66 deaths due to Covid-19 in the first 12 days of May.
This is alarming to say the least.
The Covid-19 death toll has increased exponentially in a short time that we have now seen the true effects of an incompetent and inefficient Ministry of Heath handling of the pandemic.
It’s now really sinking in that the propaganda machines and virtual media conferences were just for show. A pappy show to use local lingo. To hoodwink the population into a false sense of security that at the helm of the ministry we had a competent leader. A person that knew what he was doing. What a colossal mistake to make such an assumption.
What a terrible miscalculation and to many, a heart wrenching reality that our citizens are being infected more quickly and dying at a rate that seems uncontrollable at this point in time.
With the large increase in daily cases, the minister and health officials are actually begging citizens to stay home and stop gathering in large numbers.
As people continue to gather at supermarkets and public areas that still offer crucial essential services, the number continues to rise. There seem to be no end to the upsurge that has caused the parallel health system to be overwhelmed.
Our overall hospital occupancy is increasing at the same exponential rate and with no proper plan to increase the number of beds. We seem to be at the mercy of a runaway train that has left the station.
We are also now seeing increased infections and deaths among younger people as well as more serious conditions in hospitalised patients.
I’m sorry to say but remembering the invitation to come to Tobago for Easter and with a reported 50,000 and more responding to that call from our prime minister, are we seeing the effects of that crucial miscalculation now?
With imposing more stringent rules with the Covid restrictions, is this now an attempt to downplay this terrible error in judgment when the train is already out of control?
This one single act of misjudgment, of open invitation to the masses maybe the trigger of single handedly making us a little India, where the hospitals are overwhelmed and people are dying on the streets. We need to get control of the situation now.
Not to mention the fiasco with our porous borders and the influx of Venezuelans coming in unchecked with more variants of the virus through the beaches.
This again may have inadvertently brought in the P1 variant to our shores. Both the police and the military that fall under the Ministry of National Security seem to be ineffective as thousands of Venezuelans enter our borders with exemption from punishment and consequences. And we are the ones that have to face the brunt of the lockdown, the loss of jobs and closure of businesses.
We have so many questions that we just cannot get a straight or sensible answer on, like the decision to give out all the vaccines now (limited as they are) without properly knowing exactly when more were coming in and the efficacy of a single dose against the fact that we are not sure when the second dose will arrive.
Will we get enough vaccines to inoculate the population?
Of course the government would not want us to ask questions on their unilateral decisions, even implying that we were being unfair to the Dr Keith Rowley’s government, being difficult or unpatriotic.
It’s important that citizens ask for better performance of our ministers in their portfolios and at the very least, a proper plan to combat this pandemic head-on, humanely and equitably.
We must not just be sheep for the slaughter, as it’s our lives, the lives of our children and the future of our twin islands we are dealing with.