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That's illogical though some may grant salary advance. Others may just be kind if they have cash. Most companies are just surviving and close down of business means no more money flow.

I am contemplating going on a rural lockdown for the rest of the year and live like a caveman. Just me and my tobacco farm.

sammychimex:
Please what kind of year is this? Vision 2020 could this be you?

Lol... This can't be it o.

Bluezy13:
Hmmm...

Noticed Winners no long shout "Year 2020!!!"

Which Winners? Winner's Chapel?

What! This is too much for Africa.

They took Lagos money meant to fight and ease the virus induced lockdown to the north so let them share the pain. Simple logic.

SLAP44:
Who even allowed them to leave Lagos in this lock down sef?

Because they are northerners they were allowed to drive masses in trailers and return Covid19 to the north?

Let a trailer load Ebony people from PH to Abakaliki, na police cell them go stay complete the lock down period. But, finally na tribalism go finish this country.

I love this one. Let Lagos release those nose blowing fella to Sokoto, Zamfara and Katsina. Since they have taken the cash for relief there, let them also face real issues Lagos is facing. How can u leave the tax capital and go to the north to share relief ?

We all know how black man thinks, the idea of transferring cash to people will only appeal to them if it secures votes for them and they found a list that does just that. They used election demographic list. Can you imagine that? So Lagos that generates tax with lots of heavy weight taxpayers is ignored and the ones in their settlements and community up north are the real beneficiaries. a

Seun:
I saw this coming. We all saw this coming. Our leaders saw this coming. Yet they failed to prevent it. The absurdity of shooting people dead to save lives.

In Nigeria life is give and take. A man does yahoo in order to have extra to give out. He took life to give some cash. Welcome to the jungle!

Funny enough, Ignorance is always killing more folks during plaques than the plague itself. Ebola and salt water was like this also.

agadam:
Instead of this lockdown of a thing, Let us use this face mask and gloves in Nigeria as well so that we wouldn't die of hunger.... Cause our government has failed us oooo

Ha ha ha.... I suggested we stop lockdown with a thread and was derided for that. We go see...let them be forming copy and paste of policy.

In the absense of reliable data, sim card spending pattern and account cashflow becomes a criteria. Better than that useless election list they are calling poorest of the poor.

I also recommend they use tax record. If I pay tax in past and the lockdown is affecting my income it makes sense I be included and prioritized above tax defaulters.

ofeco:
Is blocking roads during prayers the same thing with threatening disintegration?

Who is quilty of the bold? please be specific.

Daum:
While staying indoors because of Covid 19, my mind flashed back to my visit to a Village about 10 years ago.

One night, we were outside as always and there was no moonlight so everywhere was dark just some few local lamp on. We were seated outside with a man in his 70s and he was telling us some stories.

There was this local dog opposite us just lying down. After a while she started barking. At first we thought she was just disturbing but the dog stood up and was barking continuously facing a particular direction. What caught my interest was how she walked towards that direction and stood there barking.

Later she stopped but she lied down there. Less than 10 minutes again she stood up like she heard something and started backing again, this time we were concerned, we pointed our torch light at the direction but we couldn't see anything, it was then the old man told us to relax, that the dog knows why it is barking. She probably had seen an evil spirit or witch and as long as she keeps barking, the spirit can't come close.

Has anyone had a similar experience before?

Recently there was a thread by EternalBeing about his witch neighbor using dog to attack him. I think it was a case of the dog seeing the spirit doing the attack and not the dog being the attacker.

China US row continues but I think Trump was right about not doing enough to get into China and verify things.

budaatum:
Questions as these rely on a definition. Yours, CodeTemplar seems to imply "effortless wealth, health, or brilliance like in the garden of eden in the Holy Bible, or fame, good job, love, charity, generousity or to grow old and have seeds", while wiki gives:

Religion is a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

The "essence", taking the definition I've given above, is simply to educate, albeit, archaic. If you could imagine a world where those around you have not been religionised into recognising commandments and loving their neighbours, you just might understand.

I can bet you wouldn't like living in a world devoid of people who have been religionised, unless you think there'd be brains in peoples' heads without it, which the evidence does not support.

You are taking my question as a definition and that not what it is. I was only asking when I listed those things I bold in your post. The question still stands anyway. What should a true religion do.

@dignity33, well said.

SocialJustice:
Op, ignorance will not kill you. I pray for you to receive sense. You better start preparing your mind to be in lock down until the Pandemic ends even if it takes 6 more months.

Your account balance green well well abi. If it must remain let FG and state govts do a proper cash transfer.

As black we know our own character. We also know the Chinese for their frugal approach even at expense of life but above all we know Covid is quite deadly.

So true.

Kemz77:
We would have had tech advances if you afonjas and Hausa-Fulani will get out of the way for Igbos to lead us to the promise with tech.

You mean importation of sealing machine from China to seal fake peak milk in Onitsha is such a big achievement for we Igbo's that you wouldn't stop disgracing your tribal father land.

Cholls:
my brother don't laugh you may be right if we go in this direction with the aid of technology.

I may be right o... but the concoction will be tested on positive members of trado-herbalist first. . . lol.

We have no technology or organisational track record.

Agbo Jedi is up to the task. Bill should invest in food for lockdown.

This is why Asians are making strides. No time for stupîd politicking. They choose a direction in timely fashion and follow it fully.

Seeing we have next to zero tech advances, this is time to organise Olympic for trado-herbal medicine people. All immune boosting concoctions are allowed. . . .lol.

OK.

- Doctors across the US are experimenting with using ECMO to treat coronavirus patients
- ECMO removes the blood from the body of patients on ventilators and in lung failure, re-oxygenates it and returns it to the patient
- The experimental treatment saved the life of Seattle ER physician Dr Ryan Padgett who fell ill after treating coronavirus patients
- Enes Dedic became the first COVID patient in Arizona treated with ECMO and his doctors are now training others in the state to use the method


A Seattle ER doctor who had been tirelessly treating people dying of coronavirus became a patient of the infection himself. A Phoenix man went having from minor symptoms to relying on life support in a matter of days.
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Both men were under 60 and had been otherwise healthy before they found themselves life-threateningly ill with COVID-19 and kept alive by ventilators.
But their doctors took a risk and performed an experimental procedure to add oxygen back to their blood in a last-ditch attempt to save their lives.
Now Dr Ryan Padgett, 44, and Enes Dedic, 53, are breathing on their own and free of coronavirus.
They are among the first in patients in the world treated with a procedure known as 'ECMO' - extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Doctors remove the patients' blood from their bodies, rejuvenate it with oxygen, and return it to the patients when mechanical ventilation isn't enough to save their lives, and these early examples suggest it may be among hospitals' best weapons to fight coronavirus in the sickest patients.
Various hospitals across the US are beginning to experiment with ECMO as a supplement to ventilation, including at least one in New York, as well as the Phoenix and Seattle facilities where Dedic and Dr Padgett were treated, respectively

This is a movie-like save, it doesn't happen in the real world often,' Dr Padgett told the Los Angeles Times.
'I was just the fortunate recipient of people who said "We are not done. We are going into an experimental realm to try and save your life."'
Dr Padgett was being treated at the same hospital where he worked - and, incidentally, where the first confirmed coronavirus patient in the US was treated - EvergreenHealth.

As Dr Padgett ran out of time and oxygen, his colleagues contacted a nearby hospital, Swedish Medical Center, which had an ECMO machine.
Dr Padgett was transferred there and hooked up to the machine in the hopes it could help his body get the oxygen it so desperately needed.
As critically ill coronavirus patients flood into their hospitals, doctors have noticed a bizarre trend.
Even those who aren't struggling to breathe and don't yet show signs of oxygen deprivation have such low levels in their blood that a lab report would suggest they're already dead, Stat News reported.

Putting these patients on ventilators for extended periods may damage their already fragile lungs, and in New York City, 80 percent of ventilated patients are dying.
Coronavirus has a spike protein that attaches to lung cells, hijacking their machinery to replicate itself.
It typically enters the body through the nose or mouth then travels down the airway toward its goal, deeper in the lungs.
There it damages the branches of the respiratory tree, a network of passageways, then on to the tiny sacs in the lungs responsible for gas exchange.
This triggers an immune response that rushes white blood cells to the site of the infection in an effort to eliminate the viral invader.
But because the virus that causes COVID-19 is totally unfamiliar to the immune system, it doesn't have antibodies designed to fight it.
So the inflammation keeps pouring in, eventually building up in those air exchange sacs, called alveoli, and keeping them from being able to take in oxygen to distribute to the body and expel carbon dioxide.

At this stage, a patient has pneumonia, and if it persists, the lungs start failing.
Mechanical ventilation can breathe for them, but it isn't always enough to save a patient's life and the invasive supportive care itself can damage the lungs by forcing highly pressurized air into the lungs and over-saturating them with oxygen.
An analysis of ventilated patients in New York City found that at least 80 percent of them die. Already
Still, ventilators are, broadly speaking, the best hope for critically ill coronavirus patients, but they're in short supply.
So doctors are racing to find alternatives or supplements.
The doctors treating Dedic and Dr Padgett turned to ECMO.
ECMO works similarly to heart and lung bypass machines used during open-heart surgeries, mechanically pumping blood and air for the patient while they are undergoing the procedure.
The machine used for ECMO removes blood from the body, uses an artificial lung to infuse oxygen into starved red blood cells, then pumps that rejuvenated blood back into their bodies, helping to prevent cell death in tissues deprived of oxygen.
In Dr Padgett's case, even ECMO didn't seem to be enough to stop the inflammation overwhelming his body. Blood work suggested that he was still in the midst of a 'cytokine storm,' meaning it was an overabundance of these immune cells that was killing him.
So Dr Padgett's physicians also gave him Acterma, a rheumatoid arthritis and cancer drug that suppresses the immune system in the hopes it would calm the over-reaction his own was having to coronavirus.
Within days, Dr Padgett was off life support, free of his breathing tube, awake and able to communicate with his family.
It took 11 days for Dedic, who was treated at John C Lincoln Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, to wake from his coma, Azfamily.com reported.
He too had been transferred there because the hospital had an ECMO machine, after he continued declining despite two days on a ventilator.
Dedic was the very first person in Arizona to be treated with ECMO, and the doctors that treated him are now training others in the state to use the method as well.
'In the current epidemic it's used as a last resort when ventilators aren't enough,' Dr Saunders, a heart surgeon at Maimonides Medical Center told
GMA.
Dr Saunders himself caught coronavirus, but survived and is now back to work in the ICU.
He said that some of the patients on the ward are in their 30s and 40s.
'It's very hard to predict who's going to get very sick and who's not,' Dr Saunders said.
The hope is that the method can be a secondary aid for patients on life support, help to limit the damage ventilation may cause to their lungs and supplement the short supply of ventilators.
New York City had a stockpile of some 3,500 ventilators when coronavirus started spreading in the metropolis, according to ProPublica.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said last week he thought the city would run out of ventilators over the weekend.

The crisis was averted, for the moment, but the threat of ventilator shortages is far from over, with more than 87,000 people in the city infected with COVID-19.





https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8217879/Two-coronavirus-patients-saved-experimental-blood-treatment.html

beer parlour infrastructure.

It opens doors no doubt. but let op not stereotype them. If the OP's outfit grows into a successful multinational tomorrow, will he prefer third class or first to run his business?

Descorts:
We started as friends. We were so close she could do anything for me and I could do anything for her.

She had a boyfriend who was a serial cheat and treated her like trash. It got to a point they broke up and he left. She was heartbroken.

I gave her my shoulders to lean on. I was there for her throughout those turbulent times and made sure she was never sad again.

She moved on. 2 months on we started dating. It was all fun and rosy. I'm not the type to fall deeply in love or should I say, women don't tickle my fantasy, I'd rather be with my goons than be with any girl.

But this girl came into my life and I don't know what she did to me to make me so in love with her. I loved her, she loved me. It was a heaven made match and a relationship anyone would wish for. On my birthday she got me a really expensive gift and I fell even more for her.

3 months on, her birthday was close and I was planning to make it special for her. Then I heard her ex came back in town, I wasn't troubled, "she loves me so much and she won't bat an eyelid for him anymore" I thought.

And then it happened. She left me for her ex who came back for her. I heard from a reliable source that before he came back, they'd been communicating online and the guy told her he's coming to take her back and he did take her from me.....

I am broken.....
I shall rise again in no time, and when I rise... I AM GOING TO BE A HEARTLESS MONSTER.
These hoes... non virgins or virgins, young or old, I shall toy with their emotions and break them....

GAME ON

So you only gave her your shoulders to lean on because of what you had in view. In other words she owes you some irredeemable loyalty for that. You try.

Abouwaza:
Northerners according to Buhari

They like that tag. It is a long perfected strategy to lay claim to bigger allocation. How come they don't talk about the number of poor people in their state when it is time to sponsor Jerusalem trip and mecca trip? or time to build mosques? or to buy rams, or to steal?
It is a strategic claim to help them access free oil dough.

Ayekotoo:
Phrase that was coined to deceive Nigerians. Poor is Poor. It's either you are rich or poor. No two- way about it.

Even if you are rich and your source of income has been stopped what is a responsible govt suppose to do? For the fact that you pay tax, govt is suppose to prioritize you ahead of any uselèss list anywhere.
In Nigeria, we have been made to believe all poor people are govt's responsibility. That's why the northern governors are happy to lay claim to having many poor people under their state but quickly divert allocation to trivial thing or steal outrightly.

My own issue with this whole cash transfer goes beyond the criteria for determining the poorest of the poor and extends to the exclusion of taxpayers whose source of income has been stopped by lockdown on business activities.
How will the daily hustlers not captured by the phony list survive? The tax-paying 40k a month employee? The food seller, driver, hotelier, and private school teacher?
To our wicked leaders, this is another potent opportunity to kill 2 birds with one stone by seducing 2019 voters ahead of 2023.