The first week of March had seen China build a mega hospital
in two weeks. Very excellent for a 2020 man. Corona would be declared pandemic
weeks later, the World Health Organization behaving like another understaffed,
underfunded and dependent organization. The USA president took weeks, deaths
having long troubled Italy and Spain and threatening people in New York to
condemn the body of unpreparedness, misuse of funds and favouring China.
Kenya is good in copy pasting western ways of action just as
a child puts his leg in his father’s shoes. Schools were closed with the report
of the primary patient from Rongai. And the students boarded vehicles
homewards. A mega harm if you asked me. Who had taken Corona to schools? Aren’t
schools the safest zones we have? Teachers who come in and leave would have
been the ones controlled and visitations checked. We exhibited erraticism that
we are good at when we closed schools.
Without forgetting that on March 8th there was one
mega sporty event at Kasarani stadium. Gor Mahia played AFC Leopards, fans
always at pomp. A match that was well attended with the best of the middle
class – politicians. People who like travelling in and outside the country, a
time that the airports were still open. The public asked the government to stop
the flights but Serikali ni nani...?
Forgetting the stereotypes that started being shared left
right and center with the social media being what it is yet to wean itself from
– an abused child. Africans are black, that thing is for white skins. Africa is
too hot for the fat layer of that virus. Then 5G network as a causing factor of
Corona. End time psychos never sleep, or such speculation is good for them and
the curious, people who haven’t read more than ten serious books. Africa hasn’t
reported a case! Before Tunisia and Morocco. Before South Africa…
The government, hardly it being a people’s, people have to
brood and spread fear on the steps going to be taken. A lockdown, a curfew, a
what? The people who suffer most being the poor and the ones hooked to such
people or media that speak to them. A professor in hand washing did trend. And
sanitisers got a name to many. Local linguas struggled to give it a name, and
the mask. What is the name of a mask in your mother-tongue again? And what is
the work of a mask really?
Virologists needed to be the new social and community health workers
but their English was mainly for TV. We are speaking of Wanjiku here. The poor
woman and youth in Vihiga County. What are viruses? How are viruses spread? Who
got the virus? And when a man from Siaya was thrown in a grave at night as it
was with the very first HIV/Aids victims, then the villages were shook further.
What was really happening? Put on a mask, put on a mask, the uninformed obedient
government men and women cried.
Police enforced curfews that started at 7.00pm by beatings
and killings. A day after the violence had surpassed the number of tested
positive cases. When a police kicks you in the stomach, when he hits you with
all his might, is it not the President indirectly hitting you? And the police
were rarely seen with masks on. Funny. Activists joined the night insect buzz –
sanitize, put on a mask and keep distance. Ask them why and they would have
told you that Corona is a disease that is not harmful to a majority, but unlike
HIV that makes the body weak, it is a virus that capitalizes on weak immunity
as of the aged.
Nairobi and Mombasa towns would have occupants barred from
travelling out. Kilifi too. Whereas the government was testing not more than a
handful a day. The idea was that in 14 days there would be so many deaths that
the people in those places would burry themselves. Yes, Corona had a 14 day
killer period and many people bought into this. I wished I was near my
girlfriend. I’d have proposed.
A Nigerian posted a doubt clip. We hear of rising cases
daily. But who are these found positive? What are their names? Where do they
come from? And we also hear of one or two daily deaths. What were the health
conditions of those people? As people are born daily, so are they not expected
to die daily? And that takes us straight to funding that the government has
been able to receive to fight Covid 19. Monies used to facilitate activities of
awareness and others – they know best. Not for any tangible results. For if
Corona wanted to make us know we are stupid it wouldn’t need much energies.
Free ventilators were less than 20 in the whole republic by the dawn of April
2020.
Yes, pandemics are serious. But Corona was a scam of our time
– the way we reacted to it as individuals, societies and nations.
The Tanzanian President John Magufuli surprised the world
when he said that random petrol, goat, pineapple and pawpaw samples were taken
to the labs, incognito to the lab technicians. The kits imported read the
pawpaw as positive. Yes, the kits imported. And Tanzania wasted little time
putting curfews in place and boarder lockdowns as Uganda had done with
knowledge that a third world government has no way it can feed its locked
citizens! An economy on its knees is hard to revive if it sinks further. He in
the very mind told his nation that a plane had gone to Madagasar to collect Artemisia.
The President of Madagascar would later condemn heavily World Health Body as of
the west, for it did not want to show interest if indeed Artemisia was
efficient or lacking … but the run for a vaccine.
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This is very factual, Kenya government just rushing for loans everywhere..then playing with people mind...uuuh
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