• Latest
A new pandemic approach

A new pandemic approach

5 years ago
Enforcement of Physical Planning and Development Control Act #23 of 2016

PDA extension of deadline for Expressions of Interest — Check Consultants Register

4 hours ago
Lower gas prices for January 2025

Gas prices for June 2026

11 hours ago
Inland Revenue Division outreach and 5% rebate deadline

IRD reminds property owners of 5% property tax discount for early payment

11 hours ago
Island Life book launch celebrates young authors at Belmont Estate

Island Life book launch celebrates young authors at Belmont Estate

1 day ago
The total siege against Cuba

The total siege against Cuba

1 day ago

REOI: Consulting Services – Individual Consultant

1 day ago
CYEN Grenada calls on youth to recognise, respect, and restore land

CYEN Grenada calls on youth to recognise, respect, and restore land

1 day ago
SGU, champions of 2026 GCIC Inter-Sector Windball Cricket Competition

SGU, champions of 2026 GCIC Inter-Sector Windball Cricket Competition

1 day ago
Lucky Republic Bank customer heads to Miami for FIFA World Cup qualifier

Lucky Republic Bank customer heads to Miami for FIFA World Cup qualifier

1 day ago
Interrogating Black Fatherhood

Interrogating Black Fatherhood

2 days ago
Beacon Insurance vacancy: Manager — Grenada Operations

Beacon Insurance vacancy: Manager — Grenada Operations

2 days ago
EC$1 Million paid in Crop Insurance to CORP-EFF

Grenada invests millions in disaster protection

2 days ago
NOW Grenada
  • Front Page
  • Categories
    • General News
      • All
      • Agriculture & Fisheries
      • Arts & Culture
      • Business
      • Education
      • Environment
      • Health
      • History
      • Lifestyle
      • Law
      • Politics
      • Technology
      • Travel & Tourism
      • Weather
      • Youth
    • Sports
      • All
      • Athletics
      • Cricket
      • Football
      • Watersports
    • Community
      • All
      • Tribute
    • Crime
    • Features
      • All
      • Today in History
    • Opinion/Commentary
    • Press Releases
      • All
      • Advertisements
      • Notices
  • Video
  • Notices & Vacancies
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Front Page
  • Categories
    • General News
      • All
      • Agriculture & Fisheries
      • Arts & Culture
      • Business
      • Education
      • Environment
      • Health
      • History
      • Lifestyle
      • Law
      • Politics
      • Technology
      • Travel & Tourism
      • Weather
      • Youth
    • Sports
      • All
      • Athletics
      • Cricket
      • Football
      • Watersports
    • Community
      • All
      • Tribute
    • Crime
    • Features
      • All
      • Today in History
    • Opinion/Commentary
    • Press Releases
      • All
      • Advertisements
      • Notices
  • Video
  • Notices & Vacancies
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
NOW Grenada
No Result
View All Result

A new pandemic approach

This story was posted 5 years ago
31 August 2021
in Health, OPINION/COMMENTARY
3 min. read
Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay
0
VIEWS
Share

by Cheryl Fletcher

I am passionate about the rights and freedoms of all people. I am also firm in my belief that rights and freedoms come with responsibilities.

As someone who is immunocompromised, I confess to having fallen victim to CDC, WHO, PAHO and Fauci propaganda, and I’m even now eagerly awaiting a booster. I try attaching a key to my neck every day to see if I’ve suddenly developed magnetic capabilities, but alas, that superpower continues to elude me. On the extremely rare occasions that I venture out, I double mask-up and have even on occasion donned goggles. My hands are dry and chapped from excessive washing and sanitising. Those are the choices I have made.

That said, our current handling of the pandemic is clearly not working, and that is putting it mildly. So here are my proposals for the framework of a radical new approach:

  1. Let individuals determine the level of protection they wish to assume. Lift the curfew and all mask, quarantine, testing, social distancing, and other mandates. Return to pre-pandemic life. Stop contact tracing and border control measures. The 72-hour test before arrival is useless if folks are going to take it then go all over shopping for stuff to bring home to Auntie, or for one last lime with the fellas. The one upon arrival is equally useless because at that time the virus has not yet taken root. The financial resources saved here can be diverted to the second item below.
  2. Provide the country’s paltry medical services for only (a) breakthrough cases among the vaccinated; and (b) children and those who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated. I recognise that this is not the time to climb on my ‘Grenada should by now have a first-class teaching hospital’ soapbox, so more on that anon. The general idea here is to direct our very limited resources to those who, according to the experts in item 3 below, are risking death and permanent disability by taking the vaccine, in accordance with advice from the same kooks I listened to.
  3. Allow the QAnon, Facebook, BitChute, Infowars and fringe media experts who abound in Grenada, to handle cases among the unvaccinated freedom lovers. These experts are extremely well-versed and their PR is far superior to that of the government. They can advise on the available plethora of preventive and curative options including our very own Rivers brew, cow deworming pills and bleach derivatives. They insist that 99.99% of the afflicted recover, so our casualties should be very low to non-existent. They are passionate and persuasive, so how about we give them a chance to help Grenada achieve herd immunity? A task force might be a good idea in order to centralise their approach. Let me be clear, my position re the unvaccinated is not an uncaring one. In fact, included in their number are very dear friends. Their rights and freedoms are important and should be afforded due consideration.

I realise that my late mother Cecily might have been entirely correct in her oft-given advice that if you keep your mouth shut no one will know how stupid you are, but as I did with the vaccine, I have taken a calculated risk in speaking out here. And who knows, Grenada just might become the pioneering pandemic ender.

NOW Grenada is not responsible for the opinions, statements or media content presented by contributors. In case of abuse, click here to report.
Tags: cheryl fletchercoronaviruscovid-19pandemicvaccine

Comments 29

  1. Rebecca says:
    5 years ago

    Requiring the vaccine in people who are already immune with natural immunity has no scientific support.

  2. GC says:
    5 years ago

    Cheryl – your ideas are brilliantly expressed and will restore the economy as well, have you ever considered a political career? You have my vote for sure 🙂

  3. Antiquarian says:
    5 years ago

    At the very least, the vaccinated/immunocompromised should be prioritised in our paltry ICU ward. And anyway, people who don’t believe in modern medicine shouldn’t run to the hospital when they get sick

  4. Mike Meranski says:
    5 years ago

    Although your ideas and solutions sound radical, a lot of what you propose makes sense. Given the community spread that we are experiencing now, if our goal is to Lockdown the country once again in an attempt to achieve zero infections and staying at that level before dropping restrictions and opening our borders, then we will be in the same position 3 or 6 months from now with our economy suffering even more. However, given all that we have learned about the virus to date, the goal now should be to make this virus like the seasonal flu. A robust vaccination program encouraging, and where possible, requiring all eligible Grenadians to vaccinate is the most sensible way forward and our best opportunity to manage this pandemic given the resources available in Grenada

  5. Kesri Johnson says:
    5 years ago

    Now Grenada routinely Censor and Delete Comments here that dont support Government propaganda. So having an open debate, instead of one sided government propaganda here, have been damn near impossible.

    Yet I commend you sharing your thoughts, for supporting Freedom and personal Responsibility and for not treating grown adults like ignorant children who must obey all flavours of over educated political donkeys and lawyers who think they know whats best for Free people.

    Unfortunately the Tyrants who beg for power as the people representatives are often power drunk psychopaths, who will keep acting like Tyrants until people finally rise up and kick them out.

    You sound like a nice person Cheryl, so please do not inject any more experimental mRNA drugs to further damage your body. And get yourself some Pineapple Bromelain to help break down and remove those nasty drugs from your system.

    • James S says:
      5 years ago

      I think you are allowed to have an opposing opinion to the pseudo-science vax cult as long as you don’t post any links or quotes to actual science which disproves them. That way they can simply appeal to “authority” as a way to discredit your information.

      By the way, the vax is working perfectly by creating endless variants carried and spread by the vaccinated. The obvious lesson from this outbreak is that everyone needs to get vaccinated to protect themselves from the vaccinated.

      • BrettB says:
        5 years ago

        Go on then, tell us how the Vax creates the “endless variants”.

        • Kesri Johnson says:
          5 years ago

          Mass mRNA injections results in a mRNA resistant mutant strain evading the mNRA drug which by design is unable to actually kill the SarsCov2 Virus.

          Just like Antibiotics, if a Virus is able to survive that flavour of mRNA and then mutates, as SarsCov2 is doing every 4-6 months,…. then a new mRNA strain have been developed/created/born.

          Thats why the double injected are getting infected and reinfected by SarsCov2 mutations caused by mass mRNA injections.

          But the CDC and FDA controlled by Bill Gates and Dr Fraudcci have the solution, ……after the 12th injection for the 18th mutation, it will be all good. Promise.
          Kaching!

  6. Storm says:
    5 years ago

    This is nothing new as we were expecting this to happen much sooner as the uptake for vaccine drags its lazy feet.
    Government were told that they had to get at least 80% of their population vaccinated by a certain time and that never happened.
    Please note that the vaccine will NOT stop you from getting covid/flu as it should be called but it will help you recover quickly and without going to a hospital.
    Now the above is not what is expected but that’s the best explanation one can give at this moment in time.
    Once that 80% figure been achieved we will get further instructions on what to do next in terms of booster etc….so in the meantime we need something to scare the living daylights out of those people who are dragging their feet .

  7. Mike Meranski says:
    5 years ago

    As radical as some of your ideas and solutions are, you make a whole lot of sense. One thing for certain, is that our goal now cannot be to Lockdown the country once again and hope to get back to zero infections and staying at that level before dropping restrictions. We’ll be back to the same circumstances 6 months from now. Given all that we have learned about this virus to date, the goal should be to make this virus like the seasonal flu by encouraging, and when possible, requiring vaccinations for all eligible Grenadians. A robust vaccination program is the only way forward at this point

  8. Danilo says:
    5 years ago

    Crazy or what?

  9. Christopher Grindlay says:
    5 years ago

    Brilliant let’s start 1st of September tomorrow

  10. Ian Blaikie says:
    5 years ago

    Splendid.

    • Newton Alexander says:
      5 years ago

      Absolutely splendid, I love it!
      Sadly however, Covid is no joke and the sooner we wise up to the situation in which we find ourselves, there will be more than one Minister shedding tears.

Previous

© NOW Grenada Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

No Result
View All Result
  • Front Page
  • Categories
    • General News
      • All
      • Agriculture & Fisheries
      • Arts & Culture
      • Business
      • Education
      • Environment
      • Health
      • History
      • Lifestyle
      • Law
      • Politics
      • Technology
      • Travel & Tourism
      • Weather
      • Youth
    • Sports
      • All
      • Athletics
      • Cricket
      • Football
      • Watersports
    • Community
      • All
      • Tribute
    • Crime
    • Features
      • All
      • Today in History
    • Opinion/Commentary
    • Press Releases
      • All
      • Advertisements
      • Notices
  • Video
  • Notices & Vacancies
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us

Copyright NOW Grenada

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in . Visit our Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

No Result
View All Result
  • Front Page
  • Categories
    • General News
      • All
      • Agriculture & Fisheries
      • Arts & Culture
      • Business
      • Education
      • Environment
      • Health
      • History
      • Lifestyle
      • Law
      • Politics
      • Technology
      • Travel & Tourism
      • Weather
      • Youth
    • Sports
      • All
      • Athletics
      • Cricket
      • Football
      • Watersports
    • Community
      • All
      • Tribute
    • Crime
    • Features
      • All
      • Today in History
    • Opinion/Commentary
    • Press Releases
      • All
      • Advertisements
      • Notices
  • Video
  • Notices & Vacancies
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us

Copyright NOW Grenada

Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Visit our Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.