₦airaland Forum

fortran12:
Social distancing and lock down are not the same, social distancing can be encouraged while the economy reopens, lock down cannot be managed as people get hungry, no money, recession, increased crime rate and still having corona cases

Difference is the prospect of having a MASSIVE amount of cases against having a MANAGEABLE amount of cases...
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fortran12:
Social distancing and lock down are not the same, social distancing can be encouraged while the economy reopens, lock down cannot be managed as people get hungry, no money, recession, increased crime rate and still having corona cases

Neither are the mutually-exclusive...
Accordingly, no reason we cannot use BOTH.

Neither a lockdown nor social distancing can be implemented 100%...
Nonetheless, the less people you have roaming around, the less the chances for transmissions even if distancing is not 100%.
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erico2k2:
Vaccination trials began 2day in the UK!

A trial is NOT a cure nor a slam-dunk. Trials fail regularly...
Even with successful antidotes, you still have to weigh any side-effects... and that can only be determined with the passage of time.

You are NOT going to see a Covid-19 vaccine in use tomorrow or next month, perhaps not even this year at all.
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fortran12:
What is Nigeria's plan then? Lock down then what?

oyeb15:
Lockdown achieve nothing.

There's NO cure or vaccine for Covid-19...

The Lockdown/Social Distancing slows down the rate of infection...
So that instead of (eg) 10,000 cases in 1 week or month, you have maybe 1000.

That enables even a rickety healthcare system like ours to better manage the crisis...
The absolute worst case scenario would be having so many simultaneous cases overwhelming the system by sheer numbers.
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SenecaTheYonger:
STOP THIS NONSENSE. STOP COPYING THE WEST AND OPEN UP THE ECONOMY WITH COMPULSORY FACE MASK AND SOCIAL DISTANCING.

THIS STUPID LOCKDOWN WILL NOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING.

FAMINE IS COMING. GHANA HAD THE RIGHT IDEA TO OPEN UP BECAUSE LOCKDOWN DOES NOTHING.

YOU CANNOT REDUCE CORONA VIRUS TO ZERO, NOBODY HAS DONE IT, NOT EVEN WITH THE STRICTEST LOCKDOWN.

FAMINE IS COMING.

Lagos' population is about 67% of Ghana's...
Crammed into a landmass less than 2% of Ghana's.

You cannot transpose Ghana's situation to ours.
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timibare:
Lagos should be a country abegiii

Lagos would be a 'second world' middle income country....

EKO ONI BAJE!!
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RIP...
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StarUp:
If you believe that report, then you can believe anything in this world...

I remember a video that leaked from Kano isolation center showing only 4 people when they initially claimed 21...funny enough the four people were busy discussing in Hausa that they don't have any virus... Adding that the government just wants tobuse them to make money...

There's NOT only one isolation center in Kano...
And sadly many asymptomatic Nigerians live in denial about Covid (witness the Benue woman).
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andrewtosin:
I used to think illiteracy varies directly as a person's inability to speak/write simple and correct English but I was wrong with my thinking. You have proved that a person's eloquence in English has zero correlation with his illiteracy.
You typed simple and correct English but unfortunately, it was overshadowed by ignorance

I rest my case

haba...
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greall12:
I no cum understand this again are they counting people who killed by malaria join.

With PCR molecular testing, there's no way to mistake the Covid-19 viral DNA with malaria...
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tallerSSS:
Wait for Kano to surpass FCT tomorrow.. who want bet me?

The only puzzle was that it's taken so long...
Sadly, or any communicable disease, the North has always been hardest hit.
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RealSolution001:
Na wa o. It's unfortunate this thing is hitting thousands in Nigeria. No thanks to the government of the day for neglecting vital preventive measures they were supposed to put in place. I'm only praying let's not witness what is seen in Italy, Spain and US. Let God help us cos obviously, we are helpless.

Also, with this rate, who says extension for lockdown won't continue? Which kind wahala be this sef. Me need to go back to my hustle o. I can't stay home any longer while hunger is ravaging at a more devastating rate than the Corona itself.

What preventive measures abegi? There's NO vaccine for Covid...
The ONLY preventive measures are isolation/lockdown and social distancing.

These preventive measures will only be effective...
If EVERYONE (including ORDINARY CITIZENS) buy into it.

Good luck to us all.
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lastgenious:
Some people are saying covid-19 entered kano long before it was officially announced.

This is NOT how Covid kills...

Covid is not a silent (or even quick) killer...
If it was Covid, the hospitals would have been crowded for weeks with respiratory illness patients.
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WILLuKPquiet:
Do I need to get out to the world to know what is right or wrong?

I may not have been out of Africa but I have traveled wide within Africa. And I know what obtains in other places.

And you thinking its food or soup kitchens that the people need at this moment, beats my imagination.

If they do that in the morning are they coming again for lunch and dinner?

I bet you. That once they did is all the palliative they've got in stock for the citizens.

I am not one of those that dont see anything good in whatever the government does but this one is a No, No! For me.

You the one going on about “the world” laughing at us...
When the exact same thing is done even in those parts of “the world” considered as advanced.

However, that’s not the only thing Lagos government is doing...
It has been distributing raw food (rice, beans, garri, tomatoes, water), and will make CASH transfers.

Just don’t weep more than the bereaved....
Since those folks eagerly lining in an orderly fashion don’t seem to mind one bit.
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Ghostmode2two:
cooked food? Is it school children they are feeding or what?

What’s wrong with cooked food?
You’ve not heard of food and soup kitchens abroad before?

However, that’s not the only thing Lagos government is doing...
So, those who feel too “big” or “proud” to accept cooked food can leave it.

Just don’t weep more than the bereaved...
Those folks eagerly lining in an orderly fashion don’t seem to mind one bit.
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Xda59:
Nobody is mentioning the root of this menace. Guess who must have sold her to the Lebanese man? A fellow nigerian without a doubt. Who brought the chinese, Indians and Lebanese people to nigeria and made them demigods? A fellow Nigerian. We are our own problems.

Even her passport looks likely forged...
But why emigrate to Lebanon when the Lebanese are running away and moving to Nigeria?! SMH
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dangermouse:
u may have a point, but do they have to still come to nigeria and enslave us?

Sadly, as the saying goes...
No one can ride on your back unless you are bent over.
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chidi500:
Good for her. Nigeria women values money more than any other thing. she traveled out for ashawo.

No need for the crude MISOGYNY...
It’s not women who are doing ritual killing and kidnapping all over Nigeria!
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Infinity988:
That's how they use to do. I so much hate them.

Buffalo2:
I know a day is coming when all these Lebanese, Indians and Chinese will be paid back in their own coins write on our soil here.

dangermouse:
Enough from these lebanese, indians and chinese slavish attitude towards nigerians even within our shores!. Enough!!

othermen:
Most of the Asians and the lebanese I have seen close or from a distance are abusive, racist and exploitative...and when they are nice, it is to wealth.

Xda59:
Nobody is mentioning the root of this menace. Guess who must have sold her to the Lebanese man? A fellow nigerian without a doubt. Who brought the chinese, Indians and Lebanese people to nigeria and made them demigods? A fellow Nigerian. We are our own problems.

Unfortunately, you can say that about ANYONE - even Africans...

Look at the way many Nigerians treat/exploit their househelps....
Or even the way so many Nairalanders speak about other ethnic groups.
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Yohh:
Now that covid 19 curve of the rest of the world is plateauing and descending, ours is peaking.
This is no joke.
God! deliver us!

Not everywhere o...
But just as it started in Asia before Europe, it’s gotten to Africa later than the rest.
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For those calling on the Almighty...
Call out to your neighbors as well - hygiene, stay at home, social distancing, and quit hiding symptoms.

Good luck to all of us!
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SUPERSTITIOUS ZOO! SMDH
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ignis:
I blame our leaders for this.

Most Nigerian ladies travel to Dubai, Italy, Lebanon and other countries for voluntarily prostitution.

Even in our Country Nigeria, similar things are happening. 95% of staff in most organization like banks are contract staff. The bank outscored job to selfish companies and pay salaries to the outsourcing firm who pays the contract staff a little penny from the huge sum. What is the difference ?

Even if the whites come to Nigeria to buy people for trafficking, majority of the youths will voluntarily follow them. Our leaders have made the future bleak in this country.

You can blame our leaders (I call them rulers) until Kingdom come...
But they cannot be held solely responsible for the average Nigerian’s greed, avarice and worship of money.

Some of you folks really need to get around...
Have been to places in Africa (and even Asia) with poorer people and yet they conduct themselves with honor.
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Concur with EVERYTHING he said...
But that bit about working with “white” men. WTF?!
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This is why Trump and so-called “real” Americans do not want you...
You won’t pay taxes in your own country but come to enjoy their taxpayers’ money.

Meanwhile, even citizens of the US (the world’s richest country) are required to pay for their own fare back for Covid evacuations. SMH

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While I understand the sentiment in this Covid period...
Unfortunately, it reaffirms the lack of moral hazard in Nigeria.

The only reason that anyone would oppose a system that captures the biometric data of staff is corruption. SMH
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ignis:
For how long?

Till at least the end of the lockdown...
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EKO ONI BAJE!

Nigeria is holding Lagos back.
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othermen:
Though I have my disagreement with Nnamdi Kanu, I am often compelled by his approach, he just want better for his people, safety and all and would sacrifice his comfort, peace to earn it. I wish the same can be said of our elected leaders. Wishing him well where-ever he may be.

I am not...

I am all for people PEACEFULLY agitating even for secession (not to talk of a simple referendum), and always contended that if the rest of us have a better argument against secession or remaining in this British-created union then we should make that argument and verbally (not coercively) convince the majority thereto.

However, once I saw Nnamdi Kanu canvassing for arms at the World Igbo Congress, he lost any empathy or support that I had for him as a leader or individual (but not necessarily for the PEACEABLE cause of self-determination or referendum). If the cause ever degenerates into a full-blown armed conflict or conflagration, you can bet that neither Kanu or his kids will be the ones dying on the streets.

Finally, exactly “the SAME can be said for our elected leaders” (btw, I personally refer to this group as rulers rather than leaders). Many of them come touting that they want “better” for the people until they get into office. Perhaps the most visible recent example is “Comrade” Adams Oshiomole, who once in office told the poor (embodied by a poor widow) “to go to hell” and signed an extravagant N300m pension for himself.
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Jaspernubi:
How Lagos which used to be the glory land of Nigeria is now reduced to a beggarly desperation by the Hausa Fulani government, Kings now beg for food, those who house the resources of Nigeria are now lining up in the street to be given minuscule from what is stolen from them
Lagocian who were not meant to suffer if they know that the resources of Nigeria cannot get to Abuja until it is stolen from the Maritime, the Aviation and every sectors in Nigeria where the thieves in Abuja draw mercy from
Instead of these youths banding together and refusing the slavery, they are queuing up to collect food which may also be laced with jazz to destroy their destinies
This is a sad situation considering that we grew up in the same Lagos when things were not as bad as it is
Yoruba people are the new slaves in Nigeria
The Ibos have long been liberated, they only await the total destruction of Yoruba which will give way to the setting up of Biafra
the Hausa have proved that they cannot run the country without Nepotism
Nigeria as it stand is stunted and is motionless
A shame to Africa

ABEGI GO CJHECK OUT THE LONG-LINES OF HUNDREDS AT FOOD BANKS IN THE US, THE WORLD'S RICHEST-EVER COUNTRY!
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mofedamijo:
Nigerians are the dumbest people I have ever seen, why blame the government always. If the government can feed its people freshly cooked and clean meal daily, then I will urge the government to continue. Some of these people can not afford to buy kerosene, or gas to cook, even if you give them raw food, how do they cook the damn food? firewood, then all trees will be out of sight in few weeks. Let those who can still afford Kerosene and gas take raw food and those who can not be fed at least twice a day without putting anyone at risk of the virus.

Drops the mic.

BLESS YOU!

But it wouldn't be Nigerian unless some find a way to extract negatives from any positive. SMH
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