I've been hearing calls for the implementation of yet another lock-down. No rational resident of the country would ever agree to such as we are still trying to recover from the negative effects the previous one had on us.

It's okay to be concerned about the rising cases in the country, but, what can we do about it? We can't just lock ourselves in while wishing the virus magically disappears, Covid 19 has come to stay, the earlier we realise this the better for us.

I want to go through some numbers with you all, let's put things into perspective.

- We are an population of about 206,000,000.

-Only 912,114 of us have been tested, that's 0.44% of populace tested.
Lock-down brings positive results when you go about massive testing, isolating and treating infected people, the question is can we afford to do that right now? If no, then, I see no need for another lock-down.

- You currently have a 0.04% chance of getting the virus.

- From the 912,114 tests carried out so far, 831,192 came back negative, that's a 91.13% chance of testing negative to the virus. Only 8.87% of the tests came back positive.

- Currently, your chances of dying from the virus 0.006%. But, when infected, your chances increases to 1.53%. That's a 98.47% survival rate.

Is this enough to lock-up healthy people in their homes? Make them lose their means of livelihood as a result? Then, go on to hoard stimulus packages meant for them till they get rotten? It makes absolutely no sense.

The CDC has declared that 94% of those who have died as a result of the virus are people who are elderly with weak immune system and those with preexisting health conditions. These are the group of people we need to isolate and keep safe not healthy people.

- Jubilant

Make the Corona go round abeg

Make people wey wan die, die make we wey dey alive see road

DuBLINGreenb:
Make the Corona go round abeg

Make people wey wan die, die make we wey dey alive see road

Natural selection that is right?

jubilantagida:
I've been hearing calls for the implementation of yet another lock-down. No rational resident of the country would ever agree to such as we are still trying to recover from the negative effects the previous one had on us.

It's okay to be concerned about the rising cases in the country, but, what can we do about it? We can't just lock ourselves in while wishing the virus magically disappears, Covid 19 has come to stay, the earlier we realise this the better for us.

I want to go through some numbers with you all, let's put things into perspective.

- We are an population of about 206,000,000.

-Only 912,114 of us have been tested, that's 0.44% of populace tested.
Lock-down brings positive results when you go about massive testing, isolating and treating infected people, the question is can we afford to do that right now? If no, then, I see no need for another lock-down.

- You currently have a 0.04% chance of getting the virus.

- From the 912,114 tests carried out so far, 831,192 came back negative, that's a 91.13% chance of testing negative to the virus. Only 8.87% of the tests came back positive.

- Currently, your chances of dying from the virus 0.006%. But, when infected, your chances increases to 1.53%. That's a 98.47% survival rate.

Is this enough to lock-up healthy people in their homes? Make them lose their means of livelihood as a result? Then, go on to hoard stimulus packages meant for them till they get rotten? It makes absolutely no sense.

The CDC has declared that 94% of those who have died as a result of the virus are people who are elderly with weak immune system and those with preexisting health conditions. These are the group of people we need to isolate and keep safe not healthy people.

- Jubilant

u re on point.. there is certainly no need for this lockdown

you make sense

@lalasticlala & Seun, don't you all agree with me?