Maybe you won't be arrested but you will surely pay back that amount with crazy interest.

Remember all your bank accounts are linked through BVN, I'll advise you pay them back as soon as possible.

I see a lot of folks here still don't believe that this virus is real especially in Nigeria.

These doubting Thomas need to understand that the prevalence of malaria in Nigeria is the reason why most people test positive for malaria and also for Covid 19. Has there been anytime someone took a malaria parasite test in Nigeria and no trace was found?

To the best of my knowledge, samples of Covid 19 suspects are taken with swabs from their nostrils vs blood tests for malaria...only a handful of laboratories in Nigeria can test these samples. I seriously doubt there is any private lab in Nigeria that is currently testing Covid 19 testing, I stand to be corrected.

I hear every time that some folks want to know someone who knows someone who has died or contracted the virus...to be modestly responsible, don't people come here on nairaland complaining of hunger everyday? Has anyone of you asked to see someone who knows someone who died of hunger?

Stay responsible, be safe, stay safe and keep others safe!

Babapyro:

Your ignorance is on another level,usa has tested more than 50million people, in case you don't know that is more than 1000 times the number your safe country has tested.
It is ignorance like yours that makes me fear for what is about to befall us in the long run,I mean if a youth cannot even think constructively what is the country's hope then.

50million ke? Where did you pull that data from?

This is where you guys get it all wrong.

No government can lock the doors against the citizens of the country. Even if the borders were close since December 2019. The citizens of Nigeria would still have been allowed in.

The part where I blame the government was in isolating the returning Nigerians as they landed.

It is indeed laughable that the whole nation was not locked down because a few politicians were outside the country. Most of them would have rather stayed outside instead of returning to the chaotic health care systems that we have.

atonement12:
Total Lockdown will not solve this virus problem. If it could, USA and Britain wouldn't have had such massive increment in the rate of infections and deaths despite the facts that they started the lockdown before Nigeria and we're more discipline in keeping to it.
What Nigeria needs to do is to keep encouraging social distancing and banning large gatherings coupled with the use of personal protective equipment as initially announced by Lagos State government. The Federal Govt idea of total Lockdown is ill-thought, cynical and retrogressive and will only continue to lead to social and economic disaster for the people and nation.

The US has been able to reduce the projected 100,000 deaths to 66,000 largely because the epi-center of the spread, NY state, was locked down for about a month now.

I quite agree that the lockdown has been an abysmal failure in Nigeria because the time the government got was supposed to be used for massive testing, contact tracing, isolation and treatment of infected people.

However, we cannot rush to open the locked down cities, especially places where multitudes gather. The story of the 31st case in South Korea will humble whoever thinks this virus is joking...

Staphylococcus:



Stop being a nuisance on this subject matter.

You have been schooled and re-schooled on this forum but to no avail.

Read what you composing, They should submit a research work or lab test to you.

You just doing this cos it's a faceless forum. You can't even do on Twitter.

You want to explain 5G and it's relationship to a virus to people who still believe that a phone charger can cause electrocution?

Or explain to people that when their God of Men failed to provide miracles to heal the world from Corona virus they instead became scientists liking a pandemic to a new world order.

I figured out during this lockdown that one doesn't really need to win any argument online or anywhere, until such time when arguments begin to affect a bank account balance.

He had to back track after scientists showed him the curves on the models made for the infection.

Which president won't go sober when confronted with the possiblity of having more than a million deaths... especially in an election year...

Weedsmoker:


They should give them enough garlic to chew, garlic is very effective in fighting viruses and I think Corona can't be an exception.

As for me I stand gidigba,Dem no born coronavirus to even near me,with my face mask,2 hand sanitizers,5 tablets of vitamin c everyday,1 full ball of garlic everyday.

Thunder scatter coro.

You are eating garlic for a respiratory disease?

This paragragph is quite simple to read and understand.

Students were enrolled in the school feeding program before the schools were shut down.
The feeding programme was supposed to provide nutrition for the students and I think to also encourage them to attend schools.

Since the schools are now closed, the president is asking the appropriate ministry to look into how the feeding programme can be sustained during the closure so the students can continue to enjoy the "balanced nutrition". It sounds like a good idea to me if it can be implemented without compromising the health and safety of the students, teachers and others involved.

mattbass:


Man why are you by blabbing So, preventive measures are better than the Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Can we for once try outdated drugs and see the effects rather than waiting for cure for God knows how long it will be out.... These drugs as of today both in France and USA has shown tremendous improvement to those down. Let's know that human lives are more important than anything here. If dogon yaro tree will work so be it joor.

I have found out that there is no prize for winning arguments, especially on a faceless forum.

If you don't see my line of reasoning, I acknowledge yours.

Firstnebo:


Are you attacking chloroquine as effective in managing Covid19 or are you attacking it as a legitimate drug in itself? Because the latter would be a different agenda altogether.

Chloroquine has been FDA approved since 1945 and still an accepted generic medicine against malaria and lupus all over the world.

It's frowned upon as a use in treating malaria because of many other effective malaria drugs which possess less known side effects.

But if you are here to say that Chloroquine is ineffective, then you are not being truthful.

I am not attacking the drug...I'm not in the position to do so, but if experts are saying its ability to treat the virus is anecdotal, I don't have any reason to doubt either. I am referring to statements made by Dr Fauci, the US director of allergy and infectious diseases and a top member of the presidential task force on covid 19.

My point is prevention is better than cure and proper diagnosis before administering of any drug especially drugs that are not clinically proven to work.

We should be emphasising preventive measures...social distancing, washing of hands, reducing the touching of eyes, mouth and nose etc. With these, we will be alive till scientists come up with clinically proven drugs safe for use.

Firstnebo:


If the most of the infected people have mild symptoms, and chloroquine has been proved effective at managing those with mild symptoms, would you say it's a waste of time to let people know about it?

Another question, if you get Covid19, would you try chloroquine?

Chloroquine has not been proven to be effective, at least not scientifically.

Also the key word is infected people, people are rushing to buy chloroquine without getting tested. People will still fall ill because of malaria and the flu. A fever and a cough is not a straight confirmation of the disease. This drug was banned in Nigeria a few years ago for a reason.

Getting infected to this virus is not a death sentence, the index case in Nigeria got cured.

About getting infected, I'm taking preventive measures seriously, even before most people took this outbreak seriously. I am also making sure that I am taking a balanced diet to sustain/improve my immune systems. Prevention is better than cure!

Firstnebo:


The answer is that because of skepticism raised around the drug, many people are not using it. Many hospitals are not prescribing it. Some politicians are against it.

It's only those that are forcing the hospitals to prescribe it for them based on their human right are benefiting from them.

Like this man below. All the tweet screenshots are verifiable, you can go to their handle and see

If this guy was in the hospital on a ventilator, he would probably not know or remember what drug was administered to him.

8 out of every 10 covid 19 patients will not need to even go to the hospital. Those with slight symptoms will be treated at home with whatever drug that has been proven to handle fever.

The race is to find a cure to save people that are most vulnerable, this cure according to scientists as at now is not chloroquine.

Can someone remind religious leaders and their followers that this virus is not about them?

When Trump moved the idea of this drug, US had less than 500 deaths from the virus, now it's above 2000 deaths, if they had the cure why are they still dying?

For those who don't know and are too lazy to read or learn, 80% of people confirmed to be infected with the virus will see none to mild symptoms. Most will not even notice they were infected.

Of the remaining 20% only a little percentage will require hospitalization. Those who are risk are the elderly, people with pre existing conditions and others with compromised immune systems.

Most drugs used to manage fever could be used to manage people with mild symptoms. Most of the drugs suggested in here are at best anecdotal, with no scientific proof that it works. The watch out however is that, infected people showing little or no symptoms can easily infect others that are significantly at risk.

Don't be a number in the statistics, stay away from crowded areas, most Nigerians do not know the state of their health, not to talk of if they have compromised immune systems.

Caleb17:
I only pity Osinbajo and Aisha Buhari. At least they have little conscience. Others should please get infected so that they can travel abroad as usual for medical attention..

Useless and Hopeless Leaders

A mistake Nigerians should not make at this point in time is to rejoice or be happy that most of the people you have been confirmed as Covid 19 positive in Nigeria are political leaders or people around the corridors of power.

It might seem to be the natural thing to do or say but we have to look at the big picture, these people interact with a large number of people on a daily basis, from close aides and family members to hangers on including beggers, thugs and touts....and that is potentially dangerous.

Citytrend:
I guess you're preaching to your Government who promised you steady power supply and employment, to end Killings in Nigeria and Dollar to Nigeria. Or was that not also caused by over confidence?

My brother let's deal with this rotten Religious and silly ethnic interest that have completely destroyed our country

I cannot understand your point...

The escalation of the spread of the virus in the US is a combination of the fed's overconfidence. Some leaders in govt said it was under control few days ago, but they just saw a 100 deaths in 24hrs. Is this not sounding like the music we heard from the Nigerian govt a couple of days ago?

San Francisco advised residents to stay at home but they headed of to the beach calling it spring break...guess what - students in San Francisco are now testing positive...Is that any different from Nigerians going to religious gatherings, political rallies and parties last weekend?

Citytrend:
Some people are either dump to ethnicity, religion or partisanship. And I doubt if this nonsense will ever stop as long as silly religious belief and imbalance ethnic interest remains in this country.

Just Imagine people fighting over America that has little or nothing to do with their wellbeing as Nigerian Citizens when their own Leaders are sacking them dry?

How stop¡d can that be.

Funny enough some of these dudes fighting over Trump and American doesn't even have Ordinary international Passport, let alone Ordinary ECOWAS Visa, to talk of American visa

How funny does that sound?

To the contrary, i think, there are lessons to be learnt.

Over confidence from government and Complacency from the citizens...

eduman365:
God is in control...

But honestly, FG caused this nonsense. They should have shut down our airways since last week but delayed it for their own selfish interest cos they wanted their kids to come back home. This disease was brought in die-minute by Europe returnees..

Even if FG had shutdown the boarders earlier...
It would still have been opened to returning citizens, you can't shutout your citizens out in the time of trouble.

I will however blame FG for not quarantining the returning citizens.

Angela Merkel quarantined as one of the doctors who treated her tested positive to Covid 19.

Ishilove:

For real? How many deaths?

300 plus...
Not a bad stat if you compare it to other parts of the world.

This can however change overnight as care providers are already complaining about running out of supplies.

Ishilove:

The number of confirmed cases have risen to 30. Interesting times are ahead.

I hope it stays like that...

Just two weeks ago, the number of confirmed cases in the US was 2,500 now it's 30,000 plus.

Staying at home and social distancing is key...

Ishilove:

So what is now the entire world population if the citizens of the Vatican City are one billion, ehn?

I said the base of one billion Catholics.
Don't you think what is necessary now is staying safe and keeping others safe?

@OP

It's unfortunate that at a time like this we are still as complacent as always...we are not alone in this folly as people in other parts of the world or where we prefer to call "saner climes" are doing same.

How do you explain that we went from calling this outbreak an "audio virus" a few weeks ago and an attempt by government to embezzle public funds to now that we think the blood of Jesus will magically set us apart from the outbreak after falling to heed medical advice.

If Italy, home of the Vatican, the base of more than one billion Catholics can be this devastated by the virus with a record of almost 800 deaths in a 24hr period, I hope we will wake up soon from this folly.

If people were called to defend their world or country by going to war and they gladly obeyed, how much more we that have been told to just stay at home or practice social distancing to stay alive.

Stay safe folks, follow sound medical advice!

Dear friends, I am sorry to announce to you all that I will be leaving this thread as the government has banned groups of more than 50 people due to the Covid 19 disease outbreak. I promise to be back once the law is relaxed.

*Copied.

Be safe out there folks!

Runaway:
In society where things work, the person would be made to understand the reason(s) for the action. If possible paid part or all of the money spent.....

Yes, in those societies where things work...the residents went to the beach completely ignoring the stay at home order by their government.

Thanks @OP.

ikbnice:
It was reported that the case of Italy was because citizens failed to adhere to measures laid down by the government. It even put a question mark on the sustainability of democratic government in enforcing citizens. It got so worse that Italy is now drafting in military to enforce citizens to adhere to rules.
If people will take government measures seriously, the curve could be easily flattened.

Same in San Francisco, govt placed a stay at home order but the residents rushed off to beach calling it a spring break...

We only need to be saved from ourselves...

Even American citizens are not panic buying or using chloroquine, they are rather asking him to keep queit!
Nigerians!!!

About a century ago, amelika brought dozens of ships to the west coast of aflika and ferried people thousands of miles away from their family and friends against their wish...without issuing them visas o.

Now, children of the people ferried away who wish to visit their ancestors' grave are been mandated to apply for visas...Abi someone whose father moved to Lagos or Abuja from village cannot enter bus to go visit him?

Only God can judge...even our Supreme Court go review this injustice tire...

As usual...na humor I dey o.

Rootprof:
Please stop comparing Nigeria with working countries.
Nigeria is not working at all,only the enemies of progress will say otherwise.

You will have a change of mind when you observe the "working countries" at a much closer distance.
My point is politicians are the same around the globe...Nigeria is just a worse version...