Baba Kadiri,
The situation we are in, I expect President Muhammadu Buhari to say to the nation, it's a matter of all hands on deck!
You and the self-overrated intellectual effigy are on the same side. The intellectual pimps and prostitutes and the educated parasites too, since you all want the best for Nigeria.
The situation in the whole world is so serious that even a charlatan prophet issuing his "fake" doomsday prophecy from the pulpit has to be taken seriously for the simple reason that he cannot be very wrong about the escalating danger being posed by the dreaded Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Even Nigeria's most influential Bible-thumping Pentecostal pastors fear it.
Since the testing for the virus has only been conducted on a very limited scale, the management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital is in no position to downplay the gravity of the situation and may not even know what they are talking about.
The WHO warns Africa to prepare for the worst
The WHO people know what they are talking about and it's a piece of advice should be taken seriously by Nigeria which is Africa's most populous country.
That the Director-General or any individual spokesperson for the management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital could deny that he said exactly this or that, in no way diminishes the utter gravity of the virus which is airborne and is not a respecter of borders or persons. The WHO warns Nigeria to prepare, and the management of whatever hospital or indeed Mr president himself or whoever it is that is in charge or responsible for trying to make the best out of this very bad situation has only this one question to answer: Is Nigeria prepared? Equipped to do the job? How many hospital beds are there?
Right now, there is a free flow of the Coronavirus in and out of Nigeria.
Lagos, the country's commercial capital has still not been locked down, nor have the densely packed Abuja, Ibadan, Kano, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Benin City, Maiduguri, Aba, Zaria been locked down. Quarantined.
Any denial of the fact that " if the pandemic becomes full-blown in Nigeria, it will likely be worse than China and Italy" is the kind of " famous last words" that are guaranteed to come back and bite the denier and the charlatan non-doomsday prophet - and if they are proved to be wrong – as is most likely, then the so-called " fake news" will continue to be proved to be true news or true prophecy and start haunting the rest of us, in the coming months. To get a rough idea of what it was like in China, we could looka here : The lockdown: One month in Wuhan
--Honestly, Mr. Adepoju's contribution is not a doomsday prophecy rather, it is a clear case of propagating unintelligent fake news. Coronavirus pandemic is serious but Nigerian intellectual pimps and prostitutes at home, and some abroad, are turning it into partisan politics. Educated parasites whose education are the real source of economic and industrial backwardness of Nigeria continue to dominate debates. Hence, the swamp pretending to be lagoon could write, "I spoke with the consultant of the Infectious Diseases Unit, LTH yesterday and he told me clearly not to listen to a single thing spoken by the government." Why should the identity of a consultant in the infectious diseases unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LTH), projecting a catastrophic prognosis about the explosion of Coronavirus in Nigeria be anonymous? However, the intellectual pimp pretending to be well connected has been exposed. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/coronavirus/383369-coronavirus-luth-denies-gloomy-prediction-for-nigeria.html
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Ämne: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Anonymous Whatsapp Message Alleges Concealed COVID-19 Explosion in Lagos, NigeriaVictor,
Oluwatoyin's contribution is no doomsday scenario. It is no different than Dr. Fauci's comments and competent leadership should have advanced these warnings several weeks (maybe even months) ago. We cannot avoid this pandemic by burying our hands in sand.
"I think we should be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting,"…. "I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing."—Dr. Anthony Fauci, (US Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases).
What applies to USA applies to every country in the world—thus the WHO declaration that coronavirus is GLOBAL PANDEMIC. We cannot pray our way out of this nor go with our standard resort to "hope" as a "plan". It has to be worked at the highest levels assuming there is competent leadership in Nigeria to do so.
And here for more information on coronavirus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/23/coronavirus-isnt-alive-thats-why-its-so-hard-kill/
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Regards,
Gozie
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Oluwatoyin:
Why are you peddling a dooms-day scenario based on hear-say at a critical time like this that calls for responsible leadership? Who is helped by this sort of propagandist posting that seems to derive from an inner self-doubt, an apparent display of a belief in an innate African vulnerability and weakness and an apparent display of a lack of belief in an African capacity to do? What do you remember of how Nigeria responded to Ebola? What lessons can you derive from that experience?
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 6:13 AM Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:
I spoke with the consultant of the Infectious Diseases Unit, LUTH yesterday and he told me clearly not to listen to a single thing spoken by the government.
A lot of people are already infected and are taking Armatem at home, meaning when the pandemic becomes full blown in Nigeria, it will likely be worse than China and Italy.
Pls tell your family and friends to stay away from needless gatherings, no matter how "important", keep your hands as clean as possible all the time, avoid touching anything outside your house, run away from anyone who sneezes or coughs around you.
Pls I have a note of warning for all of us, especially those in Lagos.
They are dealing with far more than what they are revealing and he warned that everyone should take caution as though the pandemic is already full blown in Nigeria.
He said even those who recover from COVID-19 suffer close to 50% of lungs damage permanently, which means they will be on medication forever or they may die from complications in a few years after recovery from COVID-19.
It's not a flu like China makes people believe, it's more like chronic pneumonia.
The doctor told me the NCDC is telling suspected cases to self isolate when there's no means of checking how well these people isolate. This means by the time they start showing symptoms, they would have infected others.
The virus like most viruses doesn't last long in the body after incubation. Viruses have no "cure", only the symptoms will be managed. The virus takes its course in like two weeks before the body develops antibodies to defeat it.
This is the best possible way to curb the spread. This thing is not a joke at all. It is estimated to claim at least 80million people worldwide. Do all you can not to be one of them.
Avoid people like the plague Cos asthma has weakened the lungs already and they won't survive COVID-19.
COVID-19 will almost certainly be fatal to anyone who has respiratory illness, kidney or liver disease before infection. Cos those organs are usually its target.
If you have asthma, pls treat this like someone gave your name and picture to an assassin.
This virus is not a joke whatsoever.
More advanced countries don't even have enough test kits, how much more Nigeria?
Panic now and act like the crazy one now, so you can be the sane one in the end.
It is capable of infecting every human being on earth and killing up to 10% of the human race.
If you have internet, watch "the worst hit hospital in Italy" on YouTube and see what's going on there first hand.
I don't even care what Lagos State want to tell me.
If they like they should underestimate the virus..
on our own part.. let's stay at home.
It was when I saw how free the roads were at closing time yesterday that I knew that some people are actually already at home.
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