The way forward with the Coronavirus

Aug 21, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I would humbly like to voice my opinion about the novel coronavirus that continues to plague our shores. Let me start with reminding your readers, when the virus first hit our shores, I did write and indicate while I am not in the medical field that a two weeks total lockdown could have possibly eradicated what we are experiencing. However, calls for this by myself and other citizens fell on deaf ears; we heard the reason for this was because the treasury is empty and the whole political saga. Now here we are months later, with a new Government that has increased testing and as such we are seeing a spike in our active cases, mind you, most of these cases are deemed to be asymptomatic. I now see the call once again by many of those who were against a total lockdown from the inception, now wanting a lockdown. How can we do a total lockdown given the mere fact that our cases are mostly asymptomatic? How do we shut down a country without ensuring each and every citizen receives a stimulus package? What criteria will be meted out for such a lockdown at this point in time? As much as I am paranoid about the virus, I do not see a total lockdown being the solution what I can suggest and again this is only my humble opinion, is that we:
– halt all flights to and from the USA and Canada
-start our own research on creating a vaccine (because we have many brilliant people in our country)
-enforce hefty fines for those that refuse to wear masks while in public and for those who dare to break the curfew regulations (these fines should be anywhere from two hundred thousand Guyana Dollars to five hundred thousand Guyana dollars)
– continue to educate our populace about the dangers of this virus
-keep a rotation schedule for public and private sectors
-enable a rotational system for supermarkets and banks for example, if there are 3 supermarkets in one area then one can open from 8 to 11 and another from 11 to 2 and the last one from 2 to 5. Banks can work throughout the week with one day being allocated for senior citizens, one day for foreign transactions, etc.
In addition to all of this I would like to remind your readers that they should always wear a mask when in public, stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary to go out, sanitize and wash your hands when the need arises. Unless there is a vaccine in our country, this is the only way we can be safe again. Protect yourselves and your families!

Sincerely,
Tanya Niamatali

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