Okay no long stories, Corona virus as we know it started in wuhan China, and in all honesty we have to commend the Chinese government on how they were able to combat the virus giving their very huge population. But we can’t deny the fact that this virus took a huge hit on the country.
Now sitting here in my balcony over looking the vibrant city of Guangzhou and seeing life gradually return back to normal, it got me thinking, And I just got to realize that if proper Care is not taken we are doomed in Africa. And here are my reasons.

1, THE STRAINS OF CORONA VIRUS :according to Chinese researchers the virus is a family of ABCDE, with C being the son ofA and B and DE being the children of C, but in over 80k cases of corona virus in China only the C strain was found, which was why it wasn’t fatal to young people and Blacks.
But guess what some countries in Europe and Africa Are recording the A and B strain which I actually more fatal. How that happened? Topic for another day.

2 AFRICA CAN NEVER BE PREPARED ENOUGH: for a country as industrious as China to suffer this much, Shows that Africa should be prepared for the worse, reason being how many countries in Africa can build a functioning hospital in 6 months? Some even can’t in 2 years, or how many of them have factories that would be able to produce protective gears and testing kits in such a short time? The answer is none, so we are are still going to rely on China, given the fact that they don’t really care about us, they going to send us Used ones that I’m sure of and our government will gladly accept, either way we are doomed.

3, LACK OF PROPER WAY TO PASS INFORMATION: in China, put a message on wechat, and I can assure you that 95 percent of Chinese if not more would definitely get the message, but is it so in any african country? Or can we even do anything like that? If it’s done in Nigeria I’m sure too many fake news is going to make us hate it so much.

4. CONTROL AND FEAR: and last on my list, Control. You see an average Chinese might be very stubborn, but one thing is certain once an order comes from Beijing the fear factor in them makes them obey and there by becoming very easy to control, but in Africa Nigeria for example.
Until u involve the military or begin to beat us like Goats, we would never listen. to us until our next door neighbor or a close relative feels the impact, then it’s always a joke. So we can’t be scared. And this is one reason I think this virus has already bitten harder than we think .

In conclusion beloved Nigerians the only way to combat the spread of this virus is to Stay home, always wash your hands and avoid touching your face as much as possible. It’s going to be difficult but we’ve Always survived and we will always survive.
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lalasticala Seun, mynd44

I'll never forgive the Chinese.

This message is a reply. The comment which my argument replies was given in a Coronavirus thread . This reply is valid, factual and does not break any rule of Nairaland.

Jeromejnr:
I have been seeing some deluded Athiest on here bashing religion and saying things like all religions (especially Christianity) are waiting for scientists to find a cure then they will thank God instead of the scientists.

First of all, many of those scientists are Christian's.

Secondly, most of the drugs you enjoy today were discovered by Christians e.g. Penicillin.

Thirdly, Hospitals were first founded by Christians.

Fourthly, United States were most of these cures come from was founded by strong Christian fathers who gave the country a good foundation.

Lastly, Athiests enjoy the benefits of Christian prayers today (although they don't know it). Because of this, most of them are still alive. But with that same breath, they choose to curse God.

So the question is, what has Athiesm contributed to the world?

Not up to Ten centuries ago when modern science was still young, Galileo Galilei, a Catholic, was standing before a criminal court which was also Ecclesiastical (christian bishops were part of the court). Skeptical Galileo had worked on his telescope , he was not lying. He saw that there were other planets and that the Earth revolved around the sun. In his time, religion was mixed with governance and not distinct from the State of Rome.

Galileo, like other scientists of his time , was at the verge of being sentenced to death for apostasy and blasphemy. The government not only beheaded scientists in that dark age, but also hung and burnt them on stake. Why was the Father of Modern Day Astronomy, the one whose foundational argument about the solar system has led to the establishment of space organizations like NASA today, risking a death sentence at a christian court?

The answer is simple. According to Joshua in the Bible when he went to war (would be termed a genocide today) he prayed to God and the "Sun stood still". The christian court argued that if Joshua in the Bible agreed that it was the "sun that stood still" then it means the sun was the moving solar body for nothing that does not move can stand still. The Christian court also argued that David in his Psalms acknowledged that God makes sun to rise from the East and set in the West. How then could a "stupid scientist" argue that the sun does not move . How could such "fool" rather the earth revolves.

There is no doubt that Galileo was a Catholic and a christian. But there is huge doubt that Christianity influenced his breakthrough in science. Christianity wanted to alter , disrupt and hinder his breakthrough. Christianity wanted him dead for apostasy and blasphemy even though he agreed to being a Christian. What do you think would happen if he outrightly said he was not one?

That's the story you do not see. When we talk about science and religion , we are not asking whether a Christian, Muslim , Buddhist or Atheist made a positive breakthrough in science. No, the procedures of science are Universal and as long as a person of any religion , race or gender follows that procedure, he will arrive at a scientific and real conclusion.
When we argue about science and religion we argue whether a telescope or a bible gave humanity initial knowledge about the status of the solar system.

When we argue about science and religion we argue whether it is a hand sanitizer (based on reason) or an anointing oil ( based on faith ) that washes away strains of the Coronavirus in our palms.

Seun, the Founder of this forum, is an atheist. My last paragraph replies yours.

Xavi2019:
I'll never forgive the Chinese.

what did they do?

cue64:
Okay no long stories, Corona virus as we know it started in wuhan China, and in all honesty we have to commend the Chinese government on how they were able to combat the

How dare u say that??!! Chinese that could have warned the world but lied to heads of states and arrested the doctor who first blew the whistle. They also kept on lying: solid circumstancial evidence is that they lost close to 8m people to the virus!

Nigeria... Negative signs I see

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CanadaOrBust:


How dare u say that??!! Chinese that could have warned the world but lied to heads of states and arrested the doctor who first blew the whistle. They also kept on lying: solid circumstancial evidence is that they lost close to 8m people to the virus!

thats what the world media told you about right? And what stopped the world leaders from isolating China and stopping all flights and goods coming from China 2 months ago? If they had done that you think the virus would not have ended in China?