A growing number of persons within Kingston’s ‘elites’ are seemingly not in favour of the no-movement days imposed by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to curb spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Chairman of Mayberry Investments, Christopher Berry, in a series of tweets aimed directly at PM Holness on Monday (September 13), claimed there is virtually ‘no reward’ for law-abiding citizens who follow the guidelines stipulated by the Government.

The way he sees it, it is ‘full time’ Holness frees Jamaicans from the grips of curfews and lockdowns—letting the chips fall where they may in a cynical thread laced with COVID-fatigue.

“It’s now time to reward those of us who have social distanced, masked up and vaccinated @AndrewHolnessJM set thy people free …. Who live…live… who dead…dead,” Berry began.

“If there is no reward for socially conscious behavior…then we reward and condone the anti social and the anti Jamaican… what type of country will we have? @AndrewHolnessJM (sic),” he added.

Berry was ‘in his feelings’ all weekend, as he mused over the reality Jamaica has found itself in while coping with the ravages of the pandemic.

“There is simply no reason why Law abiding Jamaicans should be denied Liberty…GOJ we support you in taking all measures not including lockdown to enforce mask wearing and social distancing @AndrewHolnessJM (sic),” the Mayberry chair tweeted on Sunday.

“The Liberty of those who wear masks, social distance and have taken our vaccine should not be taken away to protect the non compliant, we are not afraid of getting Covid from them, this is illogical?” Berry continued.

At the same time, he used the opportunity to aggrandise the tourism industry, claiming that “protocols used in the hotel sector have been [a] very successful way of balancing lives and livelihoods and could be an excellent tool for getting Jamaica back to normal.”

There were some parallels drawn by Jamaicans on Twitter, some of whom declared that they were “tired” of the lockdowns; slamming the Government for its reactive rather than proactive approach to the pandemic.

Where sentiments from the Jamaican Twitterati diverged, however, was toward the tourist sector, which some felt eagerly reaps all the rewards of the country’s restrictions while citizens ‘suffer in silence’.

Several Jamaicans, especially those within the public health system, again underscored the rationale behind the lockdowns, which are intended to help bring the high infection rates down and ease the demand on hospitals islandwide.

With only a few exemptions, most Jamaicans have now been at home for the third consecutive weekend of lockdowns as the highly infectious Delta variant fuels a deadly outbreak.