VOX POP

How would you rate the prime minister’s handling of the pandemic, and has the Government influenced you to get vaccinated?

Tom Jones: You see before the opening, him have it excellent and him mek him entertainer friend dem come talk bout entertainment industry ... . You mek some fool-fool boy a come tell you fi open. Him a run the country good, but him lose this ... . Him lose a stripe fi dat, man.

The vaccine a the right thing ... . See me and me friend just guh tek the vaccine and feel good and all right.

Claudia Fenton: It’s better to do a one-time shutdown ... than you have it open up saying, ‘oh, you have to work,’ and then everybody is dying.

Is like you have cockroach in your kitchen. You just clean out the kitchen, do a one-time cleaning ... . It’s gonna be a lot of work, but then the cockroach them gone, but if you see one and two and you can’t bother, then they’re gonna breed up. Based on what is going on in the hospital, curve (curb) it now ... . I think he is doing the best that he can do.

I am not gonna take it (the vaccine). I have a heart condition and I am diabetic. … I am a firm believer in God. It is he who wakes me up in the morning ... and he has been faithful to me. Them seh once you take it, is like you box God in the face.

Monique Brown: Him a gwaan good so far because if him nuh lock it down, it a guh spread, and a we same one nuh obedient, because when him lock it down, we still a go outside same way.

Me nah tek it because at the end of the day, them say you still can ketch the COVID, so it nuh mek nuh sense. If me did a tek it and me wouldn’t ketch it, me would a do it.

Paula-Jay Chambers: Him a try him best so we cah complain ... . No man is an island, so we have to work with him. Them a mek it seem like a Andrew build corona. Yeah, me a guh tek it anyways, for my own good.

Kemar Bogle: Is a 50-50 pon that part because the no movement nuh help, because the whole curfew order where everybody have to leave same time help spread it, and the whole lockdown where everybody in the supermarket create a hazard.

Who cah hear haffi feel ... so we all a guh have to suffer the consequences. Me tek the vaccine long time, so me nuh have nuh problem.