candidtalk:


You're missing the point. In fact your point actually shores up Gate's astoundment. Most intelligent analyst know Africa is massively undertested meaning actual covid-19 transmission is likely much higher than reported.

Even with that, Africa is not devastated. If Gate's and co are not trying to complicate what should be simple, they would know the immunology quality of vitamin D that most Africans get more than enough of from natural sunlight. Also Influenza viruses, regardless of what anyone says, are less potent in very hot climate.

Without complicating the science involved, Covid-19 is a flu variant which becomes dangerous because of lower chest involvement, i.e lungs, whereas most influenza virus will attack the upper chest i.e above the lungs.

I would actually posit that as many as millions have had covid-19 virus in Nigeria rather than the under 90k cases officially reported. Symptoms in most folks are probably so mild, with even many of us asymptomatic, that no test was sought by most Nigerians.

It is not Rocket science and our leaders always await direction from the West. Otherwise we should have hinged our own fight on covid-19 with an acceptance of the protective qualities our hot climate and vitamin D assimilation from sunlight affords us.

This way we could have cashed in with fully active economies that run parallel with our own covid-19 reality instead of panicking and shutting down when the West does when they actually have a totally different disease load and potency to that Africa is experiencing. African solutions to African problems is still a concept very alien to many Africans and their leaders.


https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirms-vitamin-d-protects-against-cold-and-flu/

candidtalk:


You're missing the point. In fact your point actually shores up Gate's astoundment. Most intelligent analyst know Africa is massively undertested meaning actual covid-19 transmission is likely much higher than reported.

Even with that, Africa is not devastated. If Gate's and co are not trying to complicate what should be simple, they would know the immunology quality of vitamin D that most Africans get more than enough of from natural sunlight. Also Influenza viruses, regardless of what anyone says, are less potent in very hot climate.

Without complicating the science involved, Covid-19 is a flu variant which becomes dangerous because of lower chest involvement, i.e lungs, whereas most influenza virus will attack the upper chest i.e above the lungs.

I would actually posit that as many as millions have had covid-19 virus in Nigeria rather than the under 90k cases officially reported. Symptoms in most folks are probably so mild, with even many of us asymptomatic, that no test was sought by most Nigerians.

It is not Rocket science and our leaders always await direction from the West. Otherwise we should have hinged our own fight on covid-19 with an acceptance of the protective qualities our hot climate and vitamin D assimilation from sunlight affords us.

This way we could have cashed in with fully active economies that run parallel with our own covid-19 reality instead of panicking and shutting down when the West does when they actually have a totally different disease load and potency to that Africa is experiencing. African solutions to African problems is still a concept very alien to many Africans and their leaders.


https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirms-vitamin-d-protects-against-cold-and-flu/

aribisala0:


Do Africans get more vitamin D than Brazilians? Than Texans? Than indians?
Is Africa hotter than Dallas?

Where are you getting these whack theories from

COVID IS NOT A FLU VARIANT> THAT IS A RIDICULOUS CLAIM
This stereotype of a "hot" Africa is funny.

Does all of Africa have the same climate?

Why are black people worse hit in the USA

Be humble enough to admit the truth

We simply do not know why the numbers are low.

Spare us the funny theories

African solutions to African problems remains the rule and has always been.

Influenza Vaccination
Although data are lacking on influenza vaccination for persons with COVID-19, on the basis of practice for other acute respiratory infections, the Panel recommends that persons with COVID-19 should receive an inactivated influenza vaccine (BIII). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided guidance on the timing of influenza vaccination for inpatients and outpatients with COVID-19

There’s typically a somewhat regular “flu season.” Do we know at this point if COVID-19 likely will have some sort of seasonal aspect to it—perhaps a spike before it burns out?

We don’t know. COVID-19 is a very similar disease to influenza. This new coronavirus seems to cause similar symptoms and to progress in a similar way to flu. And, as a respiratory disease, COVID-19 likely is transmitted in a similar fashion to the flu, via direct contact with respiratory droplets

pyyxxaro:
Bill Gates your Father

Seconded

theFilmtricsay

candidtalk:


Not a fan but Bello is 100% right that covid-19 is a marketing strategy in Nigeria certainly.

If not, why is the Government not trying to forge ahead with a solution based on our own unique and fairly mild experience with the virus after almost a year of living with it in our cramped and very overcrowded communities?

By Feb 2021, Nigeria would have been dealing with covid-19 for a year now. More than enough time for us to have fashioned a unique approach based on how covid affects us in Nigeria and Africa rather than always sneezing automatically when USA and Europe catches a covid cold.

Why always trying to paint the picture we are in the same situation as USA or Europe if not that some have realized that this is an opportunity to cash in and rake in billions through unjustifiable scaremongering ?

candidtalk:


Lol. Oga spare us your pedantism and obtuse bellicosity. Covid-19 is accepted to be a flu-like illness by medical experts because nothing else fits now or will fit to classify it differently in future.

That it has differences to classic influenza is no big deal for anyone who knows that similar was established for swine flu and other flu-like illnesses that scientists warily did not affirm as flu initially for obvious reasons.

They are all eventually classified as different strains of flu with better understanding and more established research. The classic symptoms are there. Viral, influenza-like and affecting upper/lower chest tract.

Unless you know better than British health authority then just shut up your attention-seeking and contrarian attitude to responding to others. Covid-19 is treated with an influenza vaccine because it is what it will eventually get classified as authoritatively.

Yes vitamin D is a potent factor and so is warm weather that makes most flus cyclical even in high prevalence areas like Europe with many Countries of the continent getting considerable relief from flu in the summer.

That does not eliminate unique anomalies in Brazil or Texas that dilutes the potency of the virus.

It is not coincidence that the same flu most have taken jabs for in countries like the UK for decades has never been a consideration in Nigeria and much of Africa.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/special-populations/influenza/




https://now.tufts.edu/articles/how-does-covid-19-compare-flu

thebosstrevor1:
2 white people deciding the future of Africans but Africans are there busy supporting them.

Bill gates foundation and dangote foundation are all in the game

Mr gates and his wife are suprised, soon they will Engineer a new disease that will kill many Africans, this time, you and your folks will beg them for the vaccines, but remember you will injected with birth control vaccines all in the guise of curing your sickness

ThatFairGuy:
Our weather has been an added advantage, it contributed heavenly.

Moreso, Hypocrisy apart, AFTER SHUTTING OUR AIR, FG (Nigeria) has been managing covid-19 very well. That's why we were rated (had pass mark) ahead of US.

Same applied to other African countries

aribisala0:


spare the bombast
Flu-like illness does not mean Flu variant

That is an illiterate and ignorant thing to say

Malaria is a flu-like illness . That does not make it a flu variant
HIV infection is a flu like illness .that does not make it a flu variant

Flu like illness simply refers to symptoms and has NOTHING to do with cause
It can be caused by viruses, bacteria, protozoans, cancer and even drugs including vaccination. Even drug withdrawal e.g heroin withdrawal causes a flu like illness

Covid is not treated with influenza vaccine. That is fiction

Everything you have to say is ignorant beer parlour stuff

codedguy1:


Your points don't make any sense in Nigerian setting.

When has the govt forged ahead with a solution on anything based on our unique circumstances?

You think one year is enough for them to fashion a solution peculiar to us but we have been practicing a useless unitary system of govt but call it federal system and expect things to work.

We copy the western world with everything but to copy them where they practice real democracy with everything that comes with it, human rights, freedom of speech etc or true federalism like its done in the U S they decide to not do that.

Bello and the govt are all dumb asses.

candidtalk:



Oga, you will never be a winner in life if you don't learn to isolate problems and focus on the solution needed for that problem alone.

This is nothing to do with politics, unitary system and other bullcrap you want to 'quick sand' yourself with.

This is simply about African leaders realizing the continental and climatic advantage they have in a global universal disease pandemic economic downturn to then leverage on that proactively to the economic benefit of Africa.

Keep Africa open, working and profiting. It is what the West has always done to profit from wars, leadership turbulence, ethnic strife, disease proliferation and other challenges in Africa they were immune to in their 'far away continent' .

Why can't we Africans show we have the brains to be proactive and economically cynical, as the west is, for once instead of reactionary, greedy and self-destructive? A fairly simple concept.

candidtalk:



Shut da Bleep up. Not interested in your attention-seeking opinion. You're just an angry and sad loser. Everything you say reflects this.

Nigerians should demand more and busy themselves with making socio-economic hay while the Sun shines, with their climate and continental advantage over covid-19, rather than listen to their leaders or ignorant douche bags like you more interested in your own voice.

If it were the West faring this well against covid-19 then there would not be any ambiguity over why this is so same as vaccines were delivered in record time once their socio-economic interests was under threat.

Africans need to think for themselves rather than wait to be led by the West that will alway prioritize it's own interest and even deceive Africans if they gain an advantage doing so. Now buzz off. Anorak.

cosby02:

You make no sense.

aribisala0:


Opinions are cheap.

Abuse does not make them reality

Good ideas fight for themselves
it is crazy ideas that requre bullies , bulldozers, bombs and Boko Haram]

Covid 19 is not a flu like illness

Your theory about weather is bizarre.
India Brazil Texas Dallas are all very hot places under the scourge of Covid 19

Abusive language changes nothing

Your theories are beer parlour stuff

nsiba:
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Sharap and listen when you being schooled on how to emancipate yourself from colonial and foreign mentality

oaktvnigeria:
We don’t understand why COVID-19 numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa – Bill Gates

Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), has said that he does not understand why coronavirus numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa.

Recall that Gates and his wife, Melinda had in more than one occasion, warned that there will be dead bodies all over the streets of Africa if the world does not act fast enough.

Melinda said her heart was in Africa, adding that she is worried that the continent might not be able to handle the devastating effect of the virus.

But in his end of the year note, Bill said he was happy his prediction about Africa has not happened, “One thing I’m happy to have been wrong about—at least, I hope I was wrong—is my fear that COVID-19 would run rampant in low-income countries. So far, this hasn’t been true,” he wrote.

Read Also: Buhari condoles NMA over 20 doctors killed by COVID-19

In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, case rates and death rates remain much lower than in the U.S. or Europe and on par with New Zealand, which has received so much attention for its handling of the virus.

“The hardest-hit country on the continent is South Africa—but even there, the case rate is 40 per cent lower than in the U.S., and the death rate is nearly 50 per cent lower.

“We don’t have enough data yet to understand why the numbers aren’t as high as I worried they would get — but gave probable reasons Africa was not as affected as expected.”

Meanwhile, Nigeria is currently fighting the second wave of the coronavirus.

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had last week announced a second wave of the dreaded virus.

The Federal Government on Tuesday directed civil servants from grade level 12 and below to stay at home.

They are to remain at home for five weeks following the second wave of the COVID-19 disease in Nigeria.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Friday stated that COVID-19 related deaths now stands at 1,246.

Nigeria currently has a total of 82,747 confirmed cases in the country.

Source: https://oak.tv/newstrack/we-dont-understand-why-covid-19-numbers-have-not-been-as-high-as-predicted-in-africa-bill-gates/amp/

candidtalk:



Oga, you will never be a winner in life if you don't learn to isolate a problem and focus on the solution needed for that problem alone.

This is nothing to do with politics, unitary system and other bullcrap you want to 'quick sand' yourself with.

This is simply about African leaders realizing the continental and climatic advantage they have in a global universal disease pandemic economic downturn to then leverage on that proactively to the economic benefit of Africa.

Keep Africa open, working and profiting. It is what the West has always done to profit from wars, leadership turbulence, ethnic strife, disease proliferation and other challenges in Africa they were immune to in their 'far away continent' .

Why can't we Africans show we have the brains to be proactive and economically cynical, as the west is, for once instead of reactionary, greedy and self-destructive? A fairly simple concept.

aribisala0:
Beer parlour mentality is not the solution to colonial mentality

nsiba:
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Beer parlour mentality is when lab rats like you listens to a billionaire dishing out medical advises to you and your fellow rats

nsiba:
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Beer parlour mentality is when lab rats like you listens to a billionaire dishing out medical advises to you and your fellow rats

aribisala0:


Opinions are cheap.

Abuse does not make them reality

Good ideas fight for themselves
it is crazy ideas that requre bullies , bulldozers, bombs and Boko Haram]

Covid 19 is not a flu variant

Your theory about weather is bizarre.
India Brazil Texas Dallas are all very hot places under the scourge of Covid 19

Abusive language changes nothing

Your theories are beer parlour stuff

Grandmeister:

The guts you have to accuse someone of being abusive when it was YOU who first abused him for his opinion..you guys are past masters in turning narratives upside down. You just abused him few minutes ago and when he retaliated with better points you started playing the victim card. What a performance!

According to the WHO, in the past four weeks in Africa, 77,147 cases were recorded, down from 131,647 in the previous four weeks.

"Africa has not witnessed an exponential spread of Covid-19 as many initially feared," said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's Regional Director for Africa.

"The downward trend that we have seen in Africa over the past two months is undoubtedly a positive development and speaks to the robust and decisive public health measures taken by governments across the region," she said.

In a statement, the WHO said "a mix of socio-ecological factors such as low population density and mobility, hot and humid climate, lower age group, interacting to accentuate their individual effects" were most likely to be behind the decline.

ThatFairGuy:
Our weather has been an added advantage, it contributed heavenly.

Moreso, Hypocrisy apart, AFTER SHUTTING OUR AIR, FG (Nigeria) has been managing covid-19 very well. That's why we were rated (had pass mark) ahead of US.

Same applied to other African countries

candidtalk:


Indeed.



Not such a mystery. Africans have good immune resistance/response to the virus likely because they naturally get vitamin D from sunlight.

Secondly, most influenza viruses, which covid-19 is, thrive and spread quicker in colder climates. The very hot weather of most African nations prohibits rampant spread of the disease on the continent.

aribisala0:

You have an anger and literacy problem.

I have not expressed any opinion on your billionaire and his "advice".

All I am saying is your assertions are just opinionated rubbish.

Coronavirus is not a flu variant.

Climate has nothing to do with the spread of coronavirus
We do not know why ,so far, coronavirus has not spread as expected in Africa( WE DO NOT KNOW)
Those are the issues

nsiba:
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You are a confirmed LAB rat, so you think with the 25million people living in Lagos, with the blatant disregard of any covid19 guidelines in a densely populated cities of Africa the VIRUS hasn't spread like as expected by a computer scientist and his former secretary now his wife....
You are a Beer palour RAT

OneTemplate:



Don't mind that empty barrel who left the shores of Nigeria likely 20 years ago without returning.

Go to any busy market in populous States in Nigeria , to see literally thousands associating in very congested clusters without any social distancing, to appreciate that Westerners are simply arrogant and disrespectful.

Even with the protective assistance of our hot and humid weather it is still obvious that Nigerians themselves have some innate immunity that prevents them developing severe or even noticeable symptoms of covid-19.

Below is how Oshodi market is today. Simply don't waste your time with that doofus. Better to talk to grounded Africans who are intelligent enough to engage their brain independently and not when the arrogant and ignorant western world tells us to.

West that is social distancing meticulously is suffering horribly yet Nigeria where the picture below is the norm right now is faring well and we are waiting for oyinbo to tell us what we who live the life day in day out should know. That's the problem with most black people. Stupid arrogance based on nada.

nsiba:
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You are a confirmed LAB rat, so you think with the 25million people living in Lagos, with the blatant disregard of any covid19 guidelines in a densely populated cities of Africa the VIRUS hasn't spread like as expected by a computer scientist and his former secretary now his wife....
You are a Beer palour RAT

nsiba:
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If our ancestors were fooled by the early Europeans, I can't just phantom the idea in this modern time while people like him aribisalaO can still be fooled much more easily.
The President of Tanzania has vowed to use local herbs as for me and my family no vaccine will come near us