The blessings of coronavirus
By Tony Okafor
1 Fall in petrol pump price
2 Family bonding once more during lockdown
3Prudent spending
4No more food wastages
5Crimes reduced
6Personal hygiene increarrrsed
7Children no longer left at the mercy of housemaids
8School fees suspended
9Unnecesary visits/ travels reduced
10 No more spurious claims for miracles
11Abroad trips no longer fashionable
12 Sudden recognition of online/distancing learning
13 Emergency philanthropy ( palliatives)
14Firebrigade arrangement in equipping health centres
15 Facemask construction ingenuity
16Court cases reduced.
17Gridlock in urban cities disappeared during lockdown.
18Motor accidents reduced
19Quit notices reduced
20 Beggars reduced during lockdown
21Boom for Ankara materials for facemasks
22 Waste of money in classic weddings, burials, birthdays, naming ceremonies curtailed
23 Commercial sex work reduced
24: Lexicon enhanced: eg lockdown, index case, social distancing
25Communal/Interpersonal conflicts reduce
26 Complaints at police stations reduced.
27 Freedom for inmates of correctional centres across the country

29. Compulsory leave for Civil servants during lockdown
30 COVID-29 Test centres established

Well it doesn't reduce the political thugs from invading on the Election Day in Edo. And it won't stop them sharing national cake. Should I increase the volume

Coronavirus taught me that some of those things we thought we absolutely couldn't live without are really not that compulsory.

@23. I pity their daily bread sha.

But that fuel pump price reduction surprised me. Like why we dey do ourselves for this naija

Hmmmm! I cry!