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[Sandy]

Uou'd be right I think, it's affecting our trade and tourism at present and could do so for at least 12 months, our borders are closed to tourists at present and are likely to have strixt rules in olace from the time we go back ro level 3 down to nothing, after all the alerts levels are off I feel there's going to be harder rules in place before someone gets through customs.. Our trades taken a knock too, from what I can gather there's at least a third less ships leaving here with cargo destined for places like Britain and such, we rely on tourism and trade here for the countries main income, the governments spending money on bailout packages for businesses so they'll keep their staff on, welfare has seen extra people collect unemployment benefits and a lot of existing benefit collecters getting graants for extras for food and getting bills paid.. I think the government had allowed in excess of $1.4 billion for the business bailout alone, welfares likely needed another $10 million so far, it could be some time before it's paid back to either the IMF or World Bank..

Once our trades up and rolling again I suspect there will be a lot of new rules in place for checks and safety measures before ships can leave here, tourists coming in may face a harder tine getting through customs which may put them off coming here.. IMO the Covid 19 has been a wake up call for most countries, not just us, scary wake up call really eh..