9jaRealist:




Not even your darling Ghana is testing enough to “curtail the spread”...
Not even the world’s richest-ever country or other advanced countries - US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, etc.

Again, quit blathering on with your childish Strawman Argument...
Nobody is “celebrating” anything. My post merely noted that testing has been ramped-up, leading to a better picture.

PS: Again, if you insist on obdurately regurgitating childish drivel, then have it hoss. Sounds like you enjoy misery. SMH.
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Seenyo:
bullcrap!...if lawmakers are the first to break same laws, damn government!

iwaeda:


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MainJoe:


You can gladly confirm that other countries need to do more but you want me to celebrate us doing far worse than these countries. Please, I am not used to celebrating mediocrity.

Seenyo:

bullcrap!...if lawmakers are the first to break same laws, damn government!

9jaRealist:


Rather ironic, given the mediocrity of your Strawman Argument...
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BreconHills:


Your indignation is laudable however it is not factual. The UCL infectious diseases centre in London is located in Gower street, bang in the middle of a very busy area of london frequented by tourists and university students. I know because I went to university there. Even if an infectious disease centre is located in sambisa, people still have to get there. No infectious disease centre can control what happens outside its gate, what they can control are the processes that minimize infection including pickup, testing admission processing, treatment, visitation ( almost zero) convalescence and discharge and post discharge care.

This drum you are beaten is broken but you will bang it anyway. Goodluck. Enjoy.

9jaRealist:


Here are apparently more lawmakers...



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pyyxxaro:




Your pikin papa naa imbeecile


With ur lizard face

MainJoe:
Ironic you can state that America that have tested over 2.5 million people are not testing enough but praise Nigeria for testing under 10,000 people. Like how do you justify such mediocrity.

TheGoodJoe:


Which right direction? With the very slow pace? Why did it take so long to set up centres? While other nations were equipping and testing, these guys were joking and sitting on it.

I am talking about the present that we are not testing enough. Not the past. We need to channel all resources to fight these virus. What the heck are they doing with the N15 Billion released by the Presidency for the tackle of Covid-19?

9jaRealist:


So the US has successfully “curtailed the spread” of Covid-19...
It would be rather ironic if you have a comprehension issue since that would be mediocre.
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Ricchcream:
There is nothing slow about the pace abeg. The incubation period for the virus is 14 days, and if it had truly seeped into the Nigerian sphere to cause serious damage as our fears might want to have us project; the dense population and all, then, we should be having dead bodies scampered all over the place right now, so calm down, sit at home and sip tea.

However, as Lagos ramps up testing this week, I'm expecting scary figures. We might hit hundreds of thousands! (I hope not too). So yeah, testing testing testing, because undeniably, there is fire on the mountain. But, we have to know the size of the shit we are in, before cleaning up.

MainJoe:


You agree that we need to know the magnitude by testing but feel having done about 10,000 after ramping up is a pacy response. How does that add up to you?

Ricchcream:
Lagos is ramping up testing this week. Let's wait and see. No need for paranoia.

akinjojo1234:


You guys can insult sha

Which one is his pikin papa naa im-becile? Just tell him he is an im-becile

Nairaland

Ps- I hyphenated the im-becile as nairaland keeps changing it to slowpoke

MainJoe:


South Africa started mass testing March 31, 2020. Now do you see that we are too slow?

Ricchcream:
There is a curve to study before you begin to take actions. You dont just swing into baseless actions...

MainJoe:


And how do you get the base to act?.......

By sample testing. Which until now we are doing at a very limited capacity.

There is no defence for mediocrity.

redcliff:


Give it to them small small.. One week, 2 weeks, three week and so on...lol

Macsjebs:
Did NCDC even observe that a good number of Nigerians don't care about their daily update of cases again...Can they test 10% of Nigeria's total population...we are still watching in 3D, kontinue, e sha go end when other western countries own don begin end since it's what they do, we copy...as if presidential task force on covid-19 is what we need

Copy copy!!!

Ricchcream:
There is so much you can do with limited resources. I am not defending mediocrity, just saying it as it is.

AmTruth:
Testing comes as a result of available testing kit. And daily testing kit are increasing and available so expect higher result.

Even in USA at the earliest stage testing kit where not available every where but was later provided and testing increase. Nigeria don't produce testing kit but only import for now which will certainly take some time

MainJoe:


One of the things that can be done is sample testing in multiple locations and then calculate possible spreads and enforce mass testing at areas that shows the possibility of high spreads.

For Christ sake, the FG released N15 Billion. What are they doing with it?

MainJoe:


One of the things that can be done is sample testing in multiple locations and then calculate possible spreads and enforce mass testing at areas that shows the possibility of high spreads.

For Christ sake, the FG released N15 Billion. What are they doing with it?

Ricchcream:
We already know it's Lagoos and Abuja, leading the race. Lagos is ramping up this week.

MainJoe:


How do we know when we have not done comprehensive sample testing in the whole country? This is just guess work.

Ricchcream:
15 billion naira is still limited a resource, if you dont want to take a conservative approach to tackling the menace. New York released 40million dollars for it, despite having world class health facilities at the wake of the pandemic. South Africa with measly 58 million population, spends 8× more on health yearly in the past 5 years than Nigeria.

To me, this pandemic should be a wake up call, but you can't wake the dead. So, what to do? Just keep it at a lockdown, do your testing at your own pace and have plenty isolation spaces ready, just in case.

Ricchcream:
You're right. There is much to do, but we simply don't have the structure to build on. So, we work with what we have.

MainJoe:


The virus is not waiting for our own pace. We need to act creatively to get ahead of the virus.

Sample testing will go a long way and N15 Billion is more than enough to have carried out sample testing, massive surveillance and to an extent larger scale treatment than we are currently doing.

Heck Ghana has done 68,591 tests. We could have done close that for sample tests.