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COVID in Jamaica, A Crisis of our own Making

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Over the past couple days, I have watching various members of the Government and public expressing shock and dismay at how indiscipline Jamaicans are but I am shocked that they are shocked. It must have been pretend shock because they cannot be that delusional and disconnected, living in their ivory towers. During the pandemic Jamaicans sit at home and watched the advance healthcare systems of some of the world’s most advance countries buckle under the pressures of the COVID pandemic. With eyes open wide, Jamaicans continue to act like idiots throwing caution to the wind and ignoring the danger facing them. Compared to the healthcare systems of first world countries, Jamaica’s healthcare system is backwards. Jamaica's healthcare system is not fit for purpose even in normal times, much less during a global pandemic. But we act as if we are above it all, immune to COVID, listening to an idiot like Buju, that fake ass rasta declaring: " Who fi dead ago dead and who nah go dead ha...

Jamaica's Pandemic Panic, Fear and Incompetence

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As of 05/03/2020 As of 04/22/2020 10 March 2020: Jamaica got its first coronavirus case after an infected British woman flies to the island to attend a funeral.   Fear and Panic has been part of this pandemic since it started. We watched people all over the globe panicked in fear once news broke that a deadly virus was spreading around the planet. As the number of people infected and dying started to grow so too did fear and panic. We saw people in some of the worlds riches first world countries lose their damn minds as they run around panic buying, hoarding things like toilet paper and fighting each other for various goods in supermarkets. We were in shock and awe as the space-age healthcare system in some of the worlds riches countries buckle and collapse under the strain to keep up with the vast number of sick and dying.  Which is why I am at a lost trying to understand why people are shocked that people in Jamaica are also panicking when faced w...