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Guy go find job. I know you are hungry and you need to eat. But go find job. Even if na construction job. This one no go pay you.

Seun:
47 cases out of 74,000? I don't understand. If I were an Italian COVID-19 patient, I guess I would love to be one of those 47 lucky people.

Are all the 74000 critical cases? Or you don't understand the concept of priority?

Over the past few weeks, the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has made its way into Nigeria and more cases are being discovered daily. The virus seems to be able to affect everyone with equal measure and no one, neither laity nor literati, seem to be safe anymore. Despite the deaths that are happening around the world and are probably going to be recorded in Nigeria, I am going to argue in this write up that this virus has its advantages and it provides us a unique opportunity to reassess ourselves and our culture as a nation.

For all the media attention and hype, coronavirus has a low mortality rate compared to other less infamous viruses like Ebola. A country so poorly equipped and prepared like Nigeria wont stand a chance if coronavirus had the mortality rate of Ebola. The good thing about Ebola then was that it usually killed the hosts quickly before they are able to infect too many people. But coronavirus hosts live long enough and become contagious before they even begin to show symptoms. With a mortality rate of 50% like ebola we would have been doomed. Thus is not the worst epidemic the world has seen. And we will likely see worse in the future.
As it is now the countries of the world are now reevaluating their models and are likely to adopt better strategies to be better prepared economically and socially in the the future. I think Africa will do the same too. And this brings me to the advantages.

1. Development and Economy
Our politicians will probably begin to see the need to develop the country now. The rate at which global supply chains have broken down should show that in the next global pandemic, a country of over 200 million people cannot be relying squarely on help from outside. Our economy should be able manufacture and refine our own resources to the best of our abilities. The amount of GDP lost to the virus would have been reduced if we had our own economic machinery and were not just a nation of consumers. Face masks, quality hand sanitizers, ventilators, hospital beds, medicines etc... would not need to be shipped from elsewhere here. We would have just quickly modified our economic output to go with the times.

2. Healthcare
This just goes without saying. Politicians who could just easily jet out of the country at the slightest sign of a headache cannot do so now. But countries like Cuba with far less of a population can actually export doctors. If this doesn't make us reconsider our position in the world, I dont know what will.

3. Science and Technology
Its is time to start emphasizing science and technology talents the way we do dance shows and BBN in this country. A country that can be riveted on a bunch of needless drama on TV but is unable to provide proper healthcare despite the thousands of biochemists, microbiologists and science lab technologists graduated each year is country headed for destruction and failure. We need science shows to attract the best and bright minds to science. We need better reward systems that ensure they keep on and contribute to the economy and country. We need to make them famous like we do every pointless and meaningless viral sensations on the internet.

4. Religion
Its no argument that religion is one of the most active areas of Nigerian life. Countless hours are spent on religious activities. Every street has a church and there is a mosque as soon as you turn a corner. Governments have invested monies better directed to productive outcomes to pleasing religious leaders and sponsoring pilgrimages. Religious activities have become perfidious in Nigeria that all manner of knaves and shady characters now find it easier to start a religious gathering rather than pick up a gun like it used to be in times past. Every indolent student who spent precious time in school on frivolous pursuits suddenly find God as soon as they graduate and the reality of their choices hit them. And as soon as they start their religious careers, they begin to teach all manner of impractical things.

Industries and warehouses, once teeming with products and goods, have been converted to church halls in most places. Thoughtless people go in their to pray for jobs and blessings without internal reflections as to how the jobs and blessings will come in the light of the economic drudgery evidenced by their presence in that building. I dare say all those miracles prayed for yearly at different crossover nights will continue to be elusive without a corresponding increase in the national economic output.

Even more instructive is the fact that religious leaders who used to predict outcomes in the past failed woefully at predicting this one. They could neither see the fall of oil, the fall of the naira, the global deaths by a virus and now, more importantly, they have been unable to heal a single sick and raise a single dead. And people have taken noticr. Most of them have now started thinking up new strategies to recover and distract from their failure to foresee it despite their claims to speak to God daily. Instead the world is relying on science. Italy had to import lots of doctors from Cuba. Not lots of pastors, imams or babalawos.

If we are going to improve as a nation and survive future similar challenges, our religious fervour most turn into economic and scientific fervour.

Conclusion
I believe this virus is a blessing in disguise. It is God, Mother Nature, The Universe or Providence (depending on what you believe in) telling us to get our acts together. Contrary to what some zealous people are parroting online, the world is not ending anytime soon. It didnt end during the ancient plagues, Spanish flu, two world wars and so it is definitely not ending now. Nor is this virus the sign of any religious apocalypse. Humans will survive it and life will continue. The question is what will we do with the lessons and experiences we got from it.

LordReed:
Look him face the guy don already dey chop tithe and offerings. LMFAO!

Na true o

Another fake pastor peddling foolishness as usual. Why didn't god reveal to u before Coronavirus started. Stupid charlatans.

Lol. Another scammer is about to begin his ministry.

That's how they start with fake stories. Either they were killers, armed robbers, cultists or babalawos before.
Guy u still dey learn. Them don use this format tire.

Maybe na uncle eating and chain my guy borrow use snap picture then. Now e say na general overseer of cult for Rivers lol. Clown.

Tomorrow now you go open church dey yarn dust like this to collect tithe and offering. We know your way. Lol

Another fake nonsense. One hungry urchin in his room will just come online and be typing fake nonsense looking for gullible desperate people to scam.

Lol. Story on Nairaland of a powerful story shared on Facebook sent by a friend of a story of a doctor.

Just like all those stories of anonymous Muslims become Christians in some anonymous villages in a country in the middle East that you like sharing lol.

See how much anecdotes these guys have to dig out of their asses. How about all the Christians that became atheists or irreligious in this same period? Lol. I know of people personally that have lost their religion after haven just realized that their pastors are scammers and have been making up miracles since they have been unable to replicate the same miracles these past few weeks.

Many more people are even going to become less religious as soon as TB Joshua fails tomorrow. It will happen before your very eyes and there will be no need to make up stories about it like you Christians do lol.

Coronavirus has done more to expose the impotence of religion especially Christianity than anything else. Suddenly science deniers are now observing scientific proven rules for avoiding the virus lol. All the faith healers are now mute and writing stories in their bedrooms instead of going to heal people. Mike Bamiloye is busy writing stories instead showing the power he has been advertising in his movies. Adeboye is just hiding in his room and lying as usual.

Italy where this unverified story you claimed happened took place had to import lots of doctors from Cuba. If your shitty religion worked, they would have invited you and imported pastors and miracle workers instead.

Lmao.

Rennie303:
Let me ask you a simple question... Did God send any plague to the land of Egypt?

Let me ask you a simple question....Did Thanos wipe out half of all living creatures by using the Infinity Gauntlet?

Rennie303:
It will shock you la Las.... I won't beg you to believe.... Hell is not a joke.. Be careful in what you say and do...

More foolishness. Guy heal someone and lets see. Show the power. lol. Fake bleeps.

Old news

Ninokingz1:
You know what I have com to realized here? Not everyone worth your time and attention. So won't go so low with you with name calling. Ratard

Donkey. Keep lying through your horse teeth.

Ninokingz1:
Am only respnonding cause I knw you're seeking for it

Lol clown. You are only responding because it keeps your thread alive. You insecure sheep. This is what makes you feel you like your life has a meaning. Keep lying through your brown teeth.

lalasticlala:
this is an old video

Don't mind the guy. They are trying to distract from his impending failed prophecy about the Coronavirus lol. Watch out they will soon edit a fake video with a new date now and claim they foresaw it.

Also why are you guys not pushing threads that are questioning why pastors are not performing miracles at this most pressing hour to the front page? People need to start thinking and you mods are not helping if all you do is push ridiculous religious news to the front page but not thoughtful threads.

Lies. And old news. Liars

The horrible OP didn't even put a credible source to his lies and he is saying people should confirm. That photo is not even the real photo too.

prekumohtim:
Be very careful, sin against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven . If you label His works as fraudulent, I wonder who else you will believe.

Which holy spirit are you talking about? You must be high on piss. He is a scammer. Both of them. Lying thieves. Now is the time for them to heal the sick like they do on TV so we can truly see it working. Shame on their moronic followers like you who have simply given up the use of their brains.

Lol. Two lying clowns.

What we need from them is to start doing mass miracles they do on TV. Scammers.

Lol. Those pastors won't try this. They are all scammers. All of them. No exception.

Healing actors pretending to be sick on TV is one thing. Healing real sickness is another.

Righteousness89:
Pls Listen to Him!

What He was Saying Shook me!!

What moronic nonsense doesn't shake you? Are you any different from the mad man? Were you not the same jobless clown that is always around on the front page spewing nonsense and wishing for mass murder and calamity on countries better than you?

One mad man shook by the senseless rant of another. What's new? Lol

@OP you mean like Scammer like son right?

A president of a shitty country that he has contributed to mismanaging went to the mountain to pray to the god of a scammer king of failed prophecies and staged miracles lol.

WILLuKPquiet:
I never said Covid 19 will end the world but [b]could be [/b]the beginning of the Apocalypse.

There might be a worst epidemic than this even if the cure for Covid is found.

The Bible says no one knows the season and the time. But things like this must have started happening.

Some may come and go like Ebola and when the last epidemic will come, we will still take it as lightly as this and the mockers of God would still be busy insulting Him.

No one knows the time.

Lol @ "could be". Funny wankers. You guys were all performing miracles on TV and saying shit. Now that's it's time for you to perform the same in real life and prove to the world that your beliefs really work you have suddenly become impotent because it "could be" the end of the world.

As soon as a cure or vaccine is found now, it's straight right back to performing miracles on TV. Lol

Don't mind the scammer.

If God is using the Coronavirus to make a statement then the statement is that people like the GO and his co-travellers are charlatans. This is the time to actually show that they actually talk to God and heal people but they won't do anything.

After science finds a cure now they will rush to the TV and start making fake miracles again.

RedBlackPepper:
Hmmn, this is the time for all of us to go back to God and apologise for all the sin we have committed(sins like furnication , not paying tithes etc.) Fervent prayers and fasting will get rid of this plague that is ravaging the world. Pastor Adeboye saw it in the new year and requested that we all go on 30 days fasting, how many of us listened to him. May the God of Bishop Oyedepo heal the world.

So much nonsense in one post. Now is the time for you and Oyedepo to heal the sick and raise the dead. Your god wants to show power lol. Clown

^^This one is shameless. They will go to any length to lick the asses of theses scammers. So that vague prophecy about battles and victories is what you are now latching on to. Lol

I know even you don't believe in the nonsense you just wrote. You are just finding way to give life to your thread so it can get to the front page. I know that's your own reason for being here. Keep on clowning.

Lol. This joker. This man knows his followers are worse than sheep. So he is just making things up as he goes along.

God didn't tell you of the compulsory holiday before the virus happened. You were busy prophesying of a great 2020. But now as soon as the world government started putting measures in place to contain a disease your blind eyes didn't see, all of a sudden your god is talking to you again. Lol

These charlatans can't help themselves. Compulsive lying is their only ability.

otuekong1:
Grow up boy,its your type that shouts JESUS ,we you are faced with accident or armed robbery attack

Another moronic statement filled with assumption and generalisations lol. You don't even know my religion. You are just mouthing off. That's a sign of stupidity.

otuekong1:
Only a fool will say that there is no good

And you are the only fool here because that's not even what we are arguing about brain-dead buffoon.

Righteousness89:
I Expect one to hit New Zealand!!

In the Midst of this Pandemic, what A nation did is to Approve Abortion...

GOD ALMIGHTY is Watching all of us!!

Zombie. Religion has eaten this one's tiny brain away. The idiotic fool can no longer reason well. So earthquake should hit New Zealand and cause death and damage to people because their leaders approved abortion. Lol
You are an argument for abortion. What an abomination of a human you are.

Rennie303:
He is a prayer answering God... All what is happening right now is just the signs of the end time... Mathew 24...Mind you.. It isn't a TV thing.... Go there and see for yourself

Go where and see what nonsense? You must be joking. You think I was born yesterday right? Lol

End times my ass. Suddenly you all can't do miracles again because of end time lol

Nonsense.

At least this plague is real. His own plague of plagues is a vague mirage with no time and all. It was even supposed to happen in the time of the first disciples. None of them were supposed to see death before it came to pass.

Now 2000 years after some jokers are still insisting that their book of children's tales is still correct and we should model our lives according to it.

Mike Bamiloye is just another clown. Recently he has been talking so much nonsense and his followers are probably telling him he is making a lot of sense thereby causing him to spew more trash as usual.

His movies are full of miraculous deeds by his god and by prayers. Now is the time to show us the thing works. Why don't you go and pray for the sick in Italy and heal them and raise them from the dead like they do in your very very basic movies that is only entertaining to the intellectually challenged. There are many countries that will turn fully to your god if you do that.

He should ask his god to tell him what the cure is so he can do like Moses did in the wilderness and raise snake on a staff so that all those who look on it will be healed. Lol

These religious guys are just all talking and talking these days. Coronavirus provides once in a lifetime opportunity to prove you truly serve a god that influences the affairs of men daily and does greatly and mighty miracles.

Instead they are all hiding in their bedrooms and posting nonsense to get attention. Lol

Omooba77:
The Whole World is panicking and fearful and is almost shutting down because of this virus. What happens if it is brimstone and fire.
We all need to repent and cry to God for mercy!

Unfortunately Coronavirus is real. Your religion and the fire and brimstone in it is fake. That's why all the great miracles and deeds in your religion are mythological tales that are claimed to have happened years ago but have no evidence in history.

Nobody has been able to walk on water contemporarily. Nobody has divided 5 loaves to feed thousands of people. Nobody has been able to part a sea since. Yet your book claims you should be able to do greater things than those. The only thing you guys seem to be able to do is speak in tongues and any drunk nincompoop can speak in tongues. Nothing special there.

If you want us to take you seriously and the fake retribution in your pointless religion, now is time to show us. This is the perfect time for your gluttonous pastors to go in mass to areas ravaged by the virus and start healing them and raising their dead. I am sure the news will capture such a monumental occurrence. And the result can be verified by enlightened people there. So everyone can believe in your god that never shows up but relies on dumb Nigerians and lying pastors to speak for him.

Wait let me get this straight.

So there is war that leads to death and turmoil in the world. People killing people and children rendered homeless and hungry. Your god could have stepped in at any time with a proper solution to stop all the wars and mourning. Instead your god decided to create another kind of turmoil and death to stop the first turmoil and death.

Sounds like a perfect plan. Lol

If you Christians still don't know your religion is a delusion by now, this your explanation should make things clearer.