Why are Jamaicans so stubborn about their health?
IT had to take the intervention of the Government to put measures in places to protect people who ought to have known that they should be protecting themselves against the deadly coronavirus.
Take what happened at Lime Cay and Maiden Cay last weekend — serious gyrating and merrymaking at a time when people have been warned to lie low and do their best to avoid contracting the disease that has redefined the functioning of mankind globally.
What more can the Government do with its education programme? Nothing! Jamaicans are just plain stubborn, and only resort to saying “if me did know” when something happens to them and they live to talk about it.
Entertaining one’s self is good for the body and soul, but putting the structure at risk at a time like this is not worth it. There are other ways of entertaining without the involvement of music, liquor, tobacco or ganja. Parties can be set aside in the interest of preserving and protecting life. The coronavirus will not be here forever. The people of this country can be disciplined, and can wait it out.
The development of vaccines is a major step in tackling the challenge so we should all just continue to play it safe, and take chances only when there is no other option.
When we continue to put pressure on the health sector by driving up the number of infected persons, and increasing the possibility of more deaths, we are really asking for a continuation of trouble.
As the new year emerged, the disappointing news of one of Jamaica’s top-shelf reggae artistes of all time, Beenie Man, being implicated in respect of a breach in COVID-19 protocols popped up like an unwelcome sore foot.
When will people like Beenie Man learn? When? Here is another artiste — another man who thousands of people look up to for guidance, doing the kind of rubbish that will take this country nowhere. Is prison the option?