And keeping those public officers paid, and the economy throttling - even at very low RPM's - is a major part of the reason the government and the National Oversight Committee has not pulled the trigger on a lockdown - even as the number of COVID cases climbed almost 900% this month.
The Prime Minister said once locked down, twice shy:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"We locked down once, and we know at what cost. If we lock down again, I think the cost will be even more severe, the price we pay will be even more severe. But if that's what we have to do; then that's what we do. We can't run the thing on the basis of popular pressure. You've got to be sensitive to it, but we must make the decision based on seeing things in the round, based on all the factors that are involved. I happen to be in an excellent position to do just that because if we make a particular decision, and as far as the public is concerned that is not the right decision, when they gwen do? Vote me outta office? I noh di run fi office again. And, as The Dean likes to remind the world, and for, since March, I noh di get paid, soh they cyaah even cut mi pay."
