No Man Is An Island - part the second

Well, it had to happen, as I said it would. Bermuda records its first deaths. What next? Certainly can't say for sure, but remains proof that no moat is wide enough. Just how much trouble Bermuda is in remains to be seen, but it's clearly deeper in the muck than when I last typed about them. Will a 14 day shutdown make a difference? How long, should it happen, until the hospital is overwhelmed? Yes, that's singular; there are two outpatient facilities in addition.

KEMH has 120 acute care beds
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There are nine beds in the ICU

And so on. If 120 beds for 71,000 citizens seems a tad short, well it is. Works out to 1.69/1,000. That's about where Colombia is. If Covid progresses as it does everywhere else, that ICU won't last long.

Wayne Caines, the national security minister, said the public should reduce their movements as much as possible.

He highlighted there were still people who were "not taking this seriously" and leaving their homes.

One aspect of Bermuda that I found unexpected when we visited is that Bermudians cleave to the USofA as much, if not more, than the UK, of which it is, sort of, a member. And Southern USofA, at that. Bermuda of the 1860s cleaved to the Confederacy. It appears it still does. Much of the import shipping comes from Charleston, SC. And, of course, the governor just, finally, made a sieve-like 'work or home' order. Yeah, that'll work. I guess our influence rubs off even at a distance.