Bahamas to Open June 15, 2020 post COVID19

Anytime we use mail in, we have the person swab in front of us and we mail it. You are correct that they can get infected immediately thereafter. Still it reduces the risks to a manageable level.

Since so many carriers are asymptomatic how would you know you've picked someone who's actually clean, and don't you want to know if you have the virus so you don't kill those you love? I don't see any advantage or incentive for fraud in this. Not like it's a drug test.

In today's environment you do have some who are desperate for a job. Store's have had people who pretty well knew they had Covid 19 continue to work. Some of the food delivery companies have had problems. People have used all their fall back resources and can't feed their family if they don't work and aren't coming from a job that pays them still. There are those who will put their own lives at risk to try to take care of their family. Amazon encountered a lot of employees who lied about their symptoms. In our case, an employee who has it will be sent home but will be fully paid for the duration.

I understand all that, but it still makes no sense. If you're symptomatic it will become obvious before the test results come in, and if you're asymptomatic you're as likely as not to pick someone who is infected.

You may never show symptoms others will notice and you'll be getting paid. I agree it makes no sense, but plenty have lied about Covid 19 to get work.

Sad

Sad that in this country anybody should be so desperate. I'm sure your friend is a victim of circumstances. With so much Covid in Texas and Florida she probably doesn't consider it worth mentioning unless she tests positive, and that'll be days after she started spreading it. But it's very easy to think it's ok to relax ones guard, until you again realize that in the last 4 months more Americans have died than in all of the Viet Nam War and every war since combined and it's getting worse. We must guard ourselves and assume that whomever we're dealing with is positive.

Sorry but I didn't realize tobacco and abortions were such a big thing in the Bahamas. What kind of animal or ignorant person can think that 141,000 dead Americans "is not that bad"?

This was your response on March 27, 2020, to someone's comment that there had been 10,000 covid-19 deaths: "here the CDC estimates range between 23 and 59k deaths for the flu". Your goalposts for your death comparisons keep moving with time. This virus has been doing it's thing for less than half a year. I'm just suggesting that you might be wrong in your approach.

So you dismiss it because you don't personally know anyone who died from it? Would you like to meet some of their families and tell them how you feel. No, you'd prefer to use the racist names for it and blame the media.

I got the test results back at 6pm, so around a 36 hour turnaround time. Just submitted for a tourist visa with the Bahamian government, will keep everyone posted on the turnaround time for that.

I see the TS also, looks like it's going to go below Cuba.

As a person who has been addicted to tobacco since age 6, suffering from COPD that will soon kill me in a horrible way unless I go over my handlebars first, I've been calling for tobacco to be banned for most of my life. Unfortunately it all comes down to the rich getting richer. My life and suffering isn't worth the loss of sales and profits. But what does that have to do with Covid 19 and it's effects on cruising the Bahamas. Or are you making the comparison as a way of telling the Bahamians that the lives of their citizens aren't worth the money they're losing by making it harder for you to take some tourists there? We lost over 141,000 Americans and it doesn't matter so what should it matter if a few thousand of their mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters die? Better that than lose money or inconvenience you.