Now that the forensic pathologists – THREE of them from foreign whose qualifications took Frank Anthony 15 minutes to read out!! – have pronounced that poor Adrianna actually drowned, there are more questions than ever before in the minds of Jahn Public. Right off the bat are the risk factors for drowning. Now even though he’s read literally read thousands of “detective books” and looked at as many crime shows on the Boob Box, your Eyewitness doesn’t think he’s qualified as those on social media who’re pronouncing so definitively on the matter. So he googled “eMedicine health” to get their take on drowning.
On the “risk factors” they declared flatly: “Lack of supervision in the bathtub or other body of water
A swimming pool is a risk factor in itself. Children, who have drowned, usually have been out of sight for less than 5 minutes.” Now we know for sure the Motel didn’t have any lifeguards and anyone else to keep their eyes on the children. And they must be held accountable for this! But this raises the question of what the grandmother who brought Adrianna and kids for the swim?? Was she responsible enough to be watching them all the time?? Was she possibly – as tends to happen in Guyana – doing her own thing with friends and left the kids by themselves?? This ain’t a matter of casting “blame” – but simply to account for the poor child’s death.
Then there’s the question as to whether she could’ve drowned in the pool while frolicking with her cousins?? Were there others from different families around?? Even if she’d drowned on her lonesome – without anyone “holding her down” – most people think Adrianna would’ve flailed around and this would’ve been noticed by those around?? We’ve all seen that in the movies, haven’t we?? But this presumption mightn’t necessarily be so and the movies present drowning like that more for the dramatic effect. So he looked at eMedicine-health’s take on flailing while drowning.
This is what they said: “In real life, drowning doesn’t look at all like it is depicted on television or in the movies. The victim does not flail and thrash in the water. Instead, drowning tends to be a deceptive quieter act…Symptoms of drowning may not be easily seen by bystanders. The victim may be expending all their energy keeping their head above water and may not be able to shout for help. If they breathe in water (aspirate), their vocal cords may go into spasm; this prevents the person from shouting for help. There is usually very little thrashing and the victim is often found floating or at the bottom of the pool, tub, or body of water.”
But your Eyewitness awaits the official police investigation’s report.
…for BRICS
When BRICS was launched, there were great expectations that it would provide a counterbalance to the unilateralism of the USA and the constant direct, debilitating and destructive competition between the US and the USSR’s rump Russia. It wasn’t necessarily that the USA was ‘bad’ or anything like that but – just like in domestic politics – power in the hands of one entity encourages abuse!!
So even though BRICS included Russia and China as members, the hope was the presence of the other members like Brazil, India and South Africa would give the grouping a broader vision. This was heightened when they took aboard Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran recently. But sadly, while there may be safety in numbers, decision making becomes harder – especially when those decisions must be unanimous.
So a few days ago, BRICS hit brick wall when ironically, the new African members objected to South Africa being the nominal representative for the continent!! And they couldn’t issue a joint statement!!
