₦airaland Forum

My brother the thing for bloody for us but God is fair. Maybe all the churches and mosques we have over here are working you never know.

But seriously we THANK GOD

Bigchristo:
When Virus first emerged in Wuham China it took the world leaders almost 1yr and some months to start imposing travel bans but a new variant of same virus was found in Africa ooo the world is swinging into action in Banning Africans from traveling to their countries, that speaks volume of how the world sees African, its time for us to wake up and stop depending on these people for our entire existence because they literally do not want us regardless of how much they tried to hide such from their words but their actions indicated all signs, thank God we are somehow immune to the virus if not e for bloody for our side.

Must everything b conspiracy theory pls.
So here is your submission rephrased "most people dying from polio are fully vaccinate because almost everyone has been vaccinate",pls how is this for a logic.
To b clear am not againt this treatment it's forcing it that's defying logic. If u vulnerable go take it

PoliteActivist:
Did you read the article or you just interested in conspiracy? Most people who die are vaccinated because almost every one is vaccinated

This doesn't fit the narrative, they have already run away with the news that it's the unvaccinated that are creating the mutation and people are buying it.e b like say na jazz these guys jazz human mind,matter of fact they don't even hide it again https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/why-most-people-who-now-die-with-covid-have-been-vaccinated but still they are forcing people

malcom1X:
The Botswana government has reported that the new South African variant was initially detected in FULLY you VACCINATED PATIENTS

But that is where the problem is these day (submit = slavery)and I don't think most will agree with you.
You are perfectly right with you submission

Belteshazzar1:
Chai understanding differs
Honestly any man who beats her girl while dating her, will do more than that when they are married. What you are seeing during dating is chiefly what you will have after marriage.
Sometimes we become so adamant to understand clear signs that will lead to our freedom. Thinking that receiving beating from a man you love is what you deserve, then I'm sorry one day he will kill you.
I do know that a precious creation like women are to be loved, cared, respected and listen to. This can be possible when there is submission first from the woman to man he loves; and the man is expected to also fulfill his duty and love her.

Wow this is so rich . Everything you wrote make so much sense. Its crazy where am told speaking my own language means am an illiterate, it doesn't make any sense.where am told it's the left hand u should use to put the food in your mouth. Where our traditions n culture a term fetishism.
Africa must wake up!!!
Like mugabe said(u don't av to like him tho) "we must think Africa"

darichlife:
Oh Africa see what the white man's greed and hunger for domination has done to us, see the evil, wickedness and lack of value we no longer have for ourselves and who we are. We accepted to live our lives based on the rationalization of another cultural experiences life. Sometimes i cry bitterly that total strangers gave us a means to interface with nature therefore demeaning the potentials of our true nature as designed by the Almighty, i battle with the African me and the European me even in my dreams, i have never spoken my language in my dreams, i hate that am a victim of Colonialism, i hate that i must speak it to be better than my brother who only speak his mother tongue, i hate the things they made me believe in that my language is an inferior language, i hate that my ability to master another mans language is the means that will only show how educated i am.
Will i ever connect with real me in totality and think how nature designed me to dominate and subdue the earth?
Am sad in this loop. GOOOOOOOD

Yea i stated there is no proper study why its virtually very mild here.

Its either no covid in africa (Nigeria) which i know there is covid here or maybe we acquired the immunity to it spiritually since there's no study.

anyway see below why the scientist are still baffled and never want to invest in finding out the truth in Africa

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-pandemics-united-nations-fcf28a83c9352a67e50aa2172eb01a2f

TMKsouth:
If there's no study how do u know herd immunity has been reached?

This is a big lie.

Covid has already run its course in Nigeria and we have achieved herd "natural" immunity but nobody want to do the study. We will continuously be experiencing mild form of covid here. the question is how did we achieve this with virtually no "vaccination"

Here is a UK publication

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/why-most-people-who-now-die-with-covid-have-been-vaccinated

TMKsouth:
Yeah, 96% recovery rate

Vaccination rate stands at 24% despite dumping AstraZeneca and having long delays waiting for J&J and Pfizer. Now there's an oversupply of vaccines in SA - we asked pharmaceuticals to halt exporting for a while.

Noticed Nigeria only sitting on 1,7% vaccination rate. If this new SA variant indeed is the most transmissible and worst yet much of Africa will be in big trouble with these dismal vaccination rates.

No vaccine is 100% we all agree but this thing is not really a vaccine. I believe they went with calling it a vaccine as that is what most are comfortable and relate with. The thing doesnt contain the covid pathogen that should stimulate your natural defense mechanism matter of fact its bypassing it and acting to reduce its severity. which i thought was bad before the advent of these "vaccine",the so called asymtomatic individuals where derided way back then but now that the vaccine basically makes you asymptomatic its ok. so you can carry the virus and spread as vaccinated and it ok. but its not ok anyway, thats why they are still asking you to mask up and social distance after taking the "vaccine". Why is natural immunity under attacked and never get a sniff?
This thing is not vaccine but gene editing therapy
https://guardian.ng/opinion/what-to-know-about-the-covid-19-vaccine/

passion007:
So?

Which vaccine ever claimed to be 100% effective?

From the very beginning, it was established that the vaccine will prevent severe disease especially among those vulnerable.
No scientist ever said that once you're vaccinated, you'll never get covid. God knows where you read that from.

Well it all depends on what u value most. Do u value wot u c than wot u don't c?remember marriage is not a sprint but a marathon can u visualise dis person 20 - 30 years from now. Are u matured enof to bear responsibility n b tolerant cos its not b age?I can c u wan to rush, nothing wrong with dat but u av shorten u window again plus u age(according to u o)
I wud advise u travel around abit around d country so u get a beta perspective. Above all choose what u can't c over wot u c. Get knowledge n get wisdom.

oldienavie:
I clocked 36 years 2 months ago, I look fit for my age compared to many Nigerians(I realised most Nigerians dont pay attention to their physical fitness).
I have been outside of the country and just got back with the aim of trying to get a wife.
Am I too old to expect to find a decent woman ?
What suggestions do you have with regards to getting a good woman in the shortest possible time ?
Thanks all.

Was ever any wave in the first place.

I (we) use God to beg this people not to copy what's obviously not working from the white please we are begging ejoor

iwaeda:
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has raised the alarm over the imminent fourth wave of the COVID-19 in Nigeria.

Abayomi, at a briefing on Friday, said passengers coming into the country from high-burdened countries may likely increase the spread of the virus.

He said, “Many Nigerians staying abroad will be returning home to celebrate Christmas with their families. Most of these people will be coming from countries where there is a heavy burden of COVID-19 and where we know the virus is changing and mutating.

“The potential drivers of a fourth wave in Lagos and Nigeria are passengers arriving, especially from heavy-burdened countries in Europe and the United States into Lagos. 86 per cent of all inbound flights into Nigeria come through Lagos.

“It is only inevitable that if passengers are travelling in large numbers from these countries where they are about to experience a fourth and fifth wave, we should expect some activities in Lagos as a result of these movements. At the current rate of the response across the country, we are likely going to encounter a fourth wave of the COVID19 pandemic in December 2021.”

The commissioner lamented the low vaccination rate in Nigeria, saying many countries had vaccinated more than 50 per cent of their eligible populations.


“The other problem we have in Lagos and Nigeria is that our rate of vaccinations has been quite low; it is just below three per cent, whereas our target should be over 40 per cent. Many countries around the world have exceeded 50 per cent vaccination of eligible populations.

“At the current rate of the response across the country, we are likely going to encounter a fourth wave of the COVID19 pandemic in December 2021. Lagos State has only vaccinated about 2.6 per cent of its population, leaving it susceptible to a fourth wave. Fully vaccinated people with a vaccine breakthrough infection are less likely to develop serious illness than those who are unvaccinated and get COVID-19

“About 360 health facilities have so far been identified for the administration of the vaccines in the next phase of Lagos State’s vaccination campaign. Of this number, 225 are public facilities, while 135 are private facilities,” he said.

https://punchng.com/covid-19-fourth-wave-imminent-lagos-commissioner-warns/

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.

“COVID-19 is gone, when did you last hear of anyone who has died of COVID-19?” Ndou said. “The mask is to protect my pocket,” he said. “The police demand bribes so I lose money if I don’t move around with a mask.” Earlier this week, Zimbabwe recorded just 33 new COVID-19 cases and zero deaths, in line with a recent fall in the disease across the continent, where World Health Organization data show that infections have been dropping since July.

When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it’s still unclear what COVID-19’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of the continent.

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Scientists emphasize that obtaining accurate COVID-19 data, particularly in African countries with patchy surveillance, is extremely difficult, and warn that declining coronavirus trends could easily be reversed.

But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said.

Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.

Some researchers say the continent’s younger population -- the average age is 20 versus about 43 in Western Europe — in addition to their lower rates of urbanization and tendency to spend time outdoors, may have spared it the more lethal effects of the virus so far. Several studies are probing whether there might be other explanations, including genetic reasons or past infection with parasitic diseases.

On Friday, researchers working in Uganda said they found COVID-19 patients with high rates of exposure to malaria were less likely to suffer severe disease or death than people with little history of the disease.

“We went into this project thinking we would see a higher rate of negative outcomes in people with a history of malaria infections because that’s what was seen in patients co-infected with malaria and Ebola,” said Jane Achan, a senior research advisor at the Malaria Consortium and a co-author of the study. “We were actually quite surprised to see the opposite — that malaria may have a protective effect.”

Achan said this may suggest that past infection with malaria could “blunt” the tendency of people’s immune systems to go into overdrive when they are infected with COVID-19. The research was presented Friday at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Christian Happi, director of the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases at Redeemer’s University in Nigeria, said authorities are used to curbing outbreaks even without vaccines and credited the extensive networks of community health workers.

“It’s not always about how much money you have or how sophisticated your hospitals are,” he said.

Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, said African leaders haven’t gotten the credit they deserve for acting quickly, citing Mali’s decision to close its borders before COVID-19 even arrived.

“I think there’s a different cultural approach in Africa, where these countries have approached COVID with a sense of humility because they’ve experienced things like Ebola, polio and malaria,” Sridhar said.

In past months, the coronavirus has pummeled South Africa and is estimated to have killed more than 89,000 people there, by far the most deaths on the continent. But for now, African authorities, while acknowledging that there could be gaps, are not reporting huge numbers of unexpected fatalities that might be COVID-related. WHO data show that deaths in Africa make up just 3% of the global total. In comparison, deaths in the Americas and Europe account for 46% and 29%.

In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, the government has recorded nearly 3,000 deaths so far among its 200 million population. The U.S. records that many deaths every two or three days.

The low numbers have Nigerians like Opemipo Are, a 23-year-old in Abuja, feeling relieved. “They said there will be dead bodies on the streets and all that, but nothing like that happened,” she said.

On Friday, Nigerian authorities began a campaign to significantly expand the West African nation’s coronavirus immunization. Officials are aiming to inoculate half the population before February, a target they think will help them achieve herd immunity.

Oyewale Tomori, a Nigerian virologist who sits on several WHO advisory groups, suggested Africa might not even need as many vaccines as the West. It’s an idea that, while controversial, he says is being seriously discussed among African scientists — and is reminiscent of the proposal British officials made last March to let COVID-19 freely infect the population to build up immunity.

That doesn’t mean, however, that vaccines aren’t needed in Africa.

“We need to be vaccinating all out to prepare for the next wave,” said Salim Abdool Karim, an epidemiologist at South Africa’s University of KwaZulu-Natal, who previously advised the South African government on COVID-19. “Looking at what’s happening in Europe, the likelihood of more cases spilling over here is very high.”

The impact of the coronavirus has also been relatively muted beyond Africa in poor countries like Afghanistan, where experts predicted outbreaks amid ongoing conflict would prove disastrous.

Hashmat Arifi, a 23-year-old student in Kabul, said he hadn’t seen anyone wearing a mask in months, including at a recent wedding he attended alongside hundreds of guests. In his university classes, more than 20 students routinely sit unmasked in close quarters.

“I haven’t seen any cases of corona lately,” Arifi said. So far, Afghanistan has recorded about 7,200 deaths among its 39 million people, although little testing was done amid the conflict and the actual numbers of cases and deaths are unknown.

Back in Zimbabwe, doctors were grateful for the respite from COVID-19 — but feared it was only temporary.

“People should remain very vigilant,” warned Dr. Johannes Marisa, president of the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association. He fears that another coronavirus wave would hit Zimbabwe next month. “Complacency is what is going to destroy us because we may be caught unaware.”

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-pandemics-united-nations-fcf28a83c9352a67e50aa2172eb01a2f

Maybe they shud start testing for malaria cases too and reporting them daily as well.

So reported cases are the thing now?since when it has bcom a crime human fell ill?its not the number of cases pls but death n maybe hospitalization.

And if its increasing in Europe, it must increase here too?wot a logic. I still don't no wot it will take for people to com to understand that covid is not an issue for us over here. The fact n evidence is there for all to c,the question is y is it not deadly here. Thats what the research shud focus on.

matify83:
Interesting!!!!

Just when cases are soaring in Europe and Russia (impending 4th wave) , ours are plummeting due to under reporting or outright non testing.

Where is Lagos?

This coming harmattan season will be our litmus test.

Take responsible

A US teenager who shot dead two men during racial justice protests has been cleared of homicide and all other charges after claiming self-defence.

Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, killed the men and wounded a third on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 25 August 2020.

During the high profile and politically divisive trial, his defence said he had feared for his life. Prosecutors argued he was looking for trouble that night.

National Guard troops have been sent to the city amid fears of unrest.

Full story
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59352228

simple answer - nothing.

society basically hype most thing.

i would say the only thing it gives you is focus or a purpose. guess thats why they say your are responsible.

Truth is there is nothing really. when you are are child you dream of been an adult now that you are an adult whats special about it?

Dainy1:
Honestly, I don't understand this. Is this an act of hypocriacy or what truth are they really hiding from us?
They claimed marriage is not important, not for everyone, that you can stay single and be having children outside wedlock, so long as you can take care of them. Yet, they go about talking you down as soon as you're of age and have no wife/husband.

A girlfriend of mine in her late thirties just declared she's getting married and everyone is sharing her up, sending her congratulatory messages as if she has not been existing.

Does marriage really worth that hyping or what's so special about it that civilization is hiding from us?

You see people this is the problem with a democracy system 1 man 1 vote it doesn't add up.
So here it is apga already won 18 out of 21 lga, losing this lga should not change a thing as it already shows the people wanted apga. Let assume apc or accord or any other party dat hasn't won any lga now wins the entire 143000 by dat number automatically the party won the election,it doesn't make same.
That's y the electoral college in USA is a genius and dats what most sensible system should adopt.

sammy329:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/494008-breaking-anambradecides2021-inec-declares-governorship-election-inconclusive.html

Sorry about your situation must b really tuff for you.
However,from your explanation if this whole episode just started about 3 weeks ago which I believe is still early maybe blood vessel surgery could allow blood to flow to this/these cells/tissues.
Second or third option wont hurt as long as its a trusted hospital or even traditional option (yes our tradition medicine has been badly abandoned). But you av to move fast as obviously her case stems from the diabetes and hopefully the bacteria infection slow down all.
We are all praying for you and your mom will be fine. We all always need true motherly love

Spark2:
Hello NL.
I'm going to keep this brief.

It started three weeks ago. my mum, who was walking normal with no problem suddenly could not walk. Her left leg began paining her severely that day. My mum was all in tears... She was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered that her sugar level was on the high side. The hospital gave drugs which stabilised it, at that point my mum was very weak, couldn't eat, each time she eat she throws up and also had some pain in the leg still. After a week in the hospital, we were then referred to a teaching hospital after a test showed that creatinine in her kidney was high.

The teaching hospital tried their best and I can say my mum is now okay. Except for the left leg. She can't still walk on it, the leg feels cold to touch with a little discolouration above the foot.

Doppler test showed that blood isn't really flowing through the leg. And they said they will need to amputate the leg to prevent the infection from growing to the other parts of the body.

Please I want to know if you know anyone who had similar condition and amputation was recommended but was later healed without need for amputation.

Please share your recommendations. I need my mum now more than before in my life. We are confused on whether to allow them to go on with the amputation or seek other alternatives.

Thank you very much.

Pls note that as at now, her sugar level, creatinine and other things are normal.

If you right you probably the only person that has answered the op question but the final you final part doesn't sound humane

Lordsonn:
There are a lot of benefits for men:
1) If your wife died, all her properties belong to you.
2) If your wife dies, you are the one to decide where and how to bury your wife, not her family members.
3) Court wedding stops every family members from interfering in your marriage matter. The parents of your wife do not have a say in anything that concerns your marriage.
4) Court wedding take away every responsibility to your in-law from you. You are not under any obligation to buy anything for your in-law or do anything during burial of any of them
5) Whoever interfere in your marriage relationship is liable to 3 months imprisonment including your wife's mother.
6) If the husband dies, the properties automatically belongs to the wife and children. No family member will come and reap where they did not sow. Even the father of the husband have no say in the properties of the deceased person.

I did Court wedding and I'm enjoying it. Christmas is coming, I have no responsibility to give anything to in-laws and I mean it. I don't even go to greet them and don't want them in my house, because it is not a statutory obligation under the marriage Act.

NEWSCOVID-19: Get vaccinated or be barred from offices, markets – Abiodun warns Ogun residentsPublished on November 1, 2021By Ishola Oludare


Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Monday gave a 60-day ultimatum to unvaccinated residents of the state to obtain the COVID-19 vaccines or risk being barred from government offices, markets, schools and public transport.


Abiodun made this known during the flag-off of the COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

According to the governor, the 60-day is to allow unvaccinated Ogun residents to take the jabs, saying this was part of the moves to flatten the curve of the disease.

He stated that the state was targeting the vaccination of additional two million residents in the new mass vaccination exercise.


“We are going to give a window to allow for this vaccination exercise and that window starts from today till the next 60 days. Anybody that is not vaccinated after 60 days will not be allowed into our offices, schools. Such people will not be allowed to do business with us. We will chase this person in our markets, you will be required to carry your vaccine cards with you at all times.

“This is my vaccination card. If you don’t have a card like this, you will not come to our secretariat, we will not do business with you, we will not allow Okada to carry you, we will not allow taxis to carry you, you will not be allowed in our Market. We will enforce this card, to be forewarned is to be forearmed,” the governor emphasised.


Abiodun disclosed that Ogun had increased vaccine centres from 131 to 509 to allow eligible residents access to the vaccination.

In his remarks, the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib mentioned that the Federal Government was targeting the vaccination of 50 per cent of eligible Nigerians by the end of January 2022.


Shuaib stated that as at September 2021, a total of 5,684,939 Nigerians had taken their first dose of the vaccine, adding that 3,730,937 had been vaccinated with the two doses within the period.

He said the figures represented 5 per cent and 2.8 percent of the targeted population of 200 million Nigerians.

Speaking, the Commissioner for Health, Tomi Coker, explained that Ogun had recorded 5,370 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 80 casualties so far

https://dailypost.ng/2021/11/01/covid-19-get-vaccinated-or-be-barred-from-offices-markets-abiodun-warns-ogun-residents/

Does anyone see logic here please.

Since our tradition is diverse we cant 100% say it allows polygamy but if u look at the history evident points to yes it does I don't think most can argue with that maybe it's the tradition,the individual or even the society.
Now the court marriage it's essentially free u don't need to spend more them 30k maybe less n it's done. Yea it's protects the woman more n obviously we all no dat.now again looking at precedence the court marriages doesn't encourage polygamy but it doesn't stop cheating cos that's not a crime. So has the court marriage made life beta or the family homes beta evidently no. We have higher divorces now compare to olden days yea u may say women enlightenment but is this really progress?anyway its u choice how u want to interprete it.
Is is beta to av 2 wives n not cheat or av 1 wife n cheats uncontrolled,again this is hypocritical situation. Which is beta?it's still com down to u choice cos its has always n will always b "your" choice.
Anyway here is the tin the Law controlls the lesser man while principle control the greater man.marraige like life is tuff any other tin u hear or people tell u is probably not true.cheers

maureensylvia:
Only women who are married monogamously under the marriage act (in court or in an approved church) have the right to say “My husband is cheating on me”! If you are only married traditionally, your husband never vowed to be faithful to you!

when you are married only under native law and custom your husband has the right to marry as many wives as he wants and there is NOTHING you can do about it. Also your children belong to him custody wise under native law and custom.

Constrictive criticism is allowed

Thank you u just confirm it yourself that you are the conspiracy theorist here. We on this side of d world will say goodnight n peace whenever u r

Workch:
All vaccines including polio are GMO products.
Educate yourself

Pls oga I don't do religious or church things pls its not my style but people av a right to choose what works for them

Workch:
Because a professor said it doesn't make it correct. That's appealing to authority.

I'm an expert in this field myself and I'm saying vaccines work and you are deny it for religious reasons

So here is the full article pls try read n open u need.

What to know about the COVID-19 ‘vaccine’
By MC Asuzu
16 September 2021 | 3:03 am

Nigeria as part of the modern world is passing through one of the most frightful eras of a rather strange disease epidemic that human beings have experienced since the beginning of time. Because this epidemic is happening all over the world at the same time, it is called a pandemic. And because the disease is spreading all over the world by the high rate of international travels, the local control of the disease in each country must keep conscious of how it is going in all other countries in order to be able to protect their citizens from such international importations.

Obviously, situations like these keep many people in authority under pressure; and if we are not careful, they will make many unsound but superficially reasonable decisions and carry out such actions thereof.


In addition to this global situation, there has been very much talk, mostly political on the control methods and practices. Some of these have been with not enough solid, essential, and especially reasonably holistic science. Unfortunately, this has been the greatest on the biochemical product that is being propagated all over the world as “COVID-19 vaccine”. No doubt, many people in the medical and health sciences who are employed by the government agencies that are involved in these world political programmes have felt obligated to join in promoting these not fully and truly ethical programmes and in exactly the ways that the governments are presenting or asking them to present it. However, those of us who are involved in the fundamental science of medicine and of public health, known as Epidemiology, and especially those of us also concerned about ethics as well as employed where we can exercise the full rights and privileges of our science and profession, must hasten to educate one and all in the real sciences of vaccines and the disease control principles as related to the COVID-19 pandemics. In this way, everybody should understand and be able to make up their minds on where to stand in the controversies erupting in these regards. They should do so with great understanding for everyone and no animosities or negativisms of any sort.

Now, as a public health expert myself, and most obviously purely by the very grace of God, we are happy of our duty as well as to inform all and sundry, that generally, vaccination is the next best control of any infectious disease, often only just next to its very complete eradication. But that is only if what one is talking about is truly a vaccine. Such a vaccine, however, has many other yardsticks to meet, if it is to be such a useful vaccine.


Of course, not all vaccines are very useful; mainly because of failures to meet these requirements of true effectiveness as such. The disease sometimes may be one in which there happen to be other measures that may be more important or more effective than the given vaccine in relation to the relevant properties of that vaccine as already mentioned. All these have to be understood before a responsible government and her ethically and scientifically minded (i.e., more than being merely politically minded) public health workers can determine the correct combination and hierarchy of these public health measures to take in relation to the given disease.

Now to come to the matter of vaccines, and as anybody can indeed Google, Yahoo, or other, electronically search engine and find out for themselves, vaccines are originally killed disease microbes (viruses, bacteria, etc). These microbes have been killed and then introduced into the human body so that the recipients can naturally develop the antibodies or other immune responses to the disease, in readiness for their being subsequently attacked by the disease. Because these microbes, at the beginning of the history of vaccines, were killed, they were not active enough in some cases and the natural immunities they helped people to develop may not be very great. So, in the second generation and class of vaccine production, diseases in which the immunities produced with dead vaccines were inadequate had to have those microbes only partially killed (or attenuated, as we say it in medical language).


In that way, when introduced into the human body, these attenuated microbes try to mimic a disease attack. But because they are attenuated, they will be unable to do so. However, they would have stimulated that recipient’s immune system enough to actively cause the development of such natural immunity to the highest degree possible for that disease. So, to date, these are the only two types of true vaccines, for what is today referred to as active immunization or vaccination. These two brands of products are what true vaccines are in the modern world! None of these have so far been produced for the current Covid-19 pandemic; even though some research laboratories are trying also to develop them!

Now, as anybody may verify for himself, even though various research bodies are still trying to develop either of these two types of true vaccines around the world, some people have gone ahead to develop what should properly be called Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Actually in this case, no such organisms at all have been produced, but genetically modified biomedical products; and decided to be calling them “vaccines”. These currently available “COVID-19 vaccines” are therefore not vaccines as we know it in solid science. The permission or licenses that they have received for administering it/them to any bodies are also most appropriately called EMMERGENCY (DRUG TRIAL TYPES OF EXPERIMENTAL) LICENCES. Now anybody’s genes (or genetics) are the biological basis of his personhood and inherent personality. For anybody to think that he can invade anybody’s person as such, EXCEPT WITH A DETAILED AND PROPERLY SIGNED INFORMED CONSENT, IS MOST UNETHICAL. So, everybody may indeed take this “COVID-19 vaccine”. But the proper ethical practice of medicine and the health professions requires that nobody may impose such a thing on anybody without full information and documented informed consent. So, this is where we are in regard to the present “COVID-19 vaccines” in Nigeria and the world today.


Preventive medicine, public health or community physicians, and any other health workers whose education and training are as adequate in these regards, will also know that COVID-19 is a flu (kind of common cold) virus; except that this has become one of the fast-evolving varieties of these that are tending to be fairly more debilitating and death causing. Yet, they remain still flu viruses, transmitted only by close hand and face contacts with wet or aerosol respiratory (airborne mouth and nose) human outputs for their man to man transmission.

These viruses have hardly had any vaccines with immunities lasting for more than a few months only. The immune conversion after receiving those vaccines had never been so very high either, and the virus is mutating per second per second, and before you finish with developing one vaccine another or several new varieties of the virus may also have developed, and most probably requiring a new vaccine. As many people will know, these flus are common in the temperate or cold countries of the world. So, they had developed systems of developing and using these vaccines in their yearly cycles of these flus. This is not the case with these flus in the tropics. There may be other factors that make this infection, its sustenance and severity by this flu virus not to be the case in these countries; even as the current pandemic has so resoundingly proven.

Therefore, scientifically and ethically for a reasonable public health approach to the community/country control of COVID-19 (and any other such serious flus in the tropics), the hierarchy of the control measures should be as follows:
1). Stay at home and do your work electronically from there, limiting people visiting you there too, as may be possible for you.


2). If and whenever you go out, maintain a 3 to 6 feet distance between yourself and anybody else, whether they think you are silly or not.

3). Maintain hand and face and other respiratory hygiene, washing your hands with soap and running water as often as you ever can; and if you inadvertently touch any rails, door handles or other surfaces that are easily touched by others, have an alcohol-based hand sanitizer in your pocket or bag to sanitize those hands as soonest as possible.

4). Wear a facemask properly all time outside your home and never touch its front (externally exposed) side. Do not worry about the so-called filtration efficacy of masks. Wear highly effective ones if you know them, otherwise wear anyone anyway; and remind others to do so.


5). Avail yourself of the knowledge of the officially learned signs and symptoms of COVID-19 and test readily if you think that you have them. If diagnosed as having caught some of the viruses early, simple home isolation and following the rules for the same will very easily assist you to develop the immunity you need for the disease.

6). If you would otherwise not desire to take this experimental “vaccine” because of the sound scientific and ethical knowledge of these things that you now have, but still have any other serious grounds and/or currently theorized reasons that you may still take the given risks of this “vaccine” in spite of its limitations and dangers, you may then do so.


But as you must know, the “vaccine” so far has far too many genetic unknowns about it. It does not stop you from catching or transmitting the virus; nor does it exempt you from those more fundamental preventative measures and practices that cost so little, even if it apparently may seem to need them less. If we apply these principles, as well as the “vaccination” for those who desire to do so, we should be able to control this disease both in Nigeria and worldwide in a very short time, obviously. Of the 2 first professors in the University of Ibadan who reportedly died of the recent Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, one was reportedly fully immunized with this GMO vaccine but the other, not at all.

Meanwhile, all Nigerians must pray that the corruption and nepotism that have destroyed our internal capacity to produce vaccines internally for ourselves as we had indeed done before, may be overcome ASAP. If we all do these things faithfully, locally, and globally, this COVID-19 will be all over sooner than it would seem. So, let us do this. Let us pray also that Nigeria will be among the first countries to produce true vaccines of dead or attenuated COVID-19 virus (as well as the GMO “vaccines”) so that we may better ethically meet the needs of Nigeria and the world in these regards. Amen.

Asuzu is a retired professor of public health and community medicine at, University of Ibadan.

Workch:
Because a professor said it doesn't make it correct. That's appealing to authority.

I'm an expert in this field myself and I'm saying vaccines work and you are deny it for religious reasons

Like I said am not d 1 talking it's a Professor talking it's either u no more than d Professor or....
It's your choice anyway this thing is not a vaccine nin it true sense

Workch:
All vaccines are Gene therapy including polio and BCG that everyone born in the hospital from 80s including you until date took.

Don't talk about vaccine if you don't know biology

Malaria vaccine has been developed n recently approved by WHO. Am surprised u dis great intelkect doesn't no dis,pls read n keep usef updated

Workch:
Malaria vaccine hasn't been developed sir. It's difficult to develop malaria vaccine because of the complicated life cycle of the parasite.

It's basic biology, it was taught in secondary school.

Please this things is not a vaccine o it gene therapy this where the real issue is. Pls pls try read this article its either the Prof is an olodo or a conspiracy theorist.

https://guardian.ng/opinion/what-to-know-about-the-covid-19-vaccine/

Workch:
That's because people don't know how "herd immunity" works.

Science is not very easy for everyone to grasp, so you don't expect the govenrment to start lecturing everyone again on herd immunity after they all did biology in school and didn't learn it.

For the purpose of heed immunity, reasonable governments like France, U.K, CHINA, Isreal etc have mandated vaccine. They know what they are doing

Sorry to interject please,people are not against the vaccine (its not a vaccine anyway) people r against the mandate pls. People keep saying herd immunity as if its only achieve via vaccines we av bin design to generate dez immunity by default what tru vaccine does is stimulate u body to generate these anti bodies so u body is prepare for the disease. Whenever u r infected with any disease 1s u recover or survive u av build some level of immunity against dat disease.
Labelling people conspiracy theory doesn't make 1 intelligent but diminishes u point of argument.pls try read this article https://guardian.ng/opinion/what-to-know-about-the-covid-19-vaccine/ if u disagree then I support u more learned than a Professor then.

Workch:
The study released by Pfizer before the vaccination started already stated that their vaccine has 92% efficacy rate. So no one was expecting everyone to be perfectly covered, the study already stated that. It's expected that the 8% deficit will show

So what's new? What other conspiracies do you have?

I suppose u will bear d fruit of your own action(school of thought as confirm by u). Remember wen u plant a seed u get a tree full of it it's simple nature 4 u. For every action there is an equal n opposite reaction n there is no void in existence. Watch u ways so u have peace beyond your own understanding.

Evangelynn:
Whatever dude,the foetus is technically isn't human and some will argue that it gets to a certain stage before it can be termed as one.

Every human with their school of thought

You are blessed

efficiencie:
This fool-in-chief leading the US can easily react to invalidating the abortion law but he left Americans behind in Talibanistan, he is mandating vaccines for his people but making it optional for illegal migrants, he is pushing budget provisions that can plunge the US into hyper inflation, he is sanctioning the sack of people who are not vaccinated without considering the teeming cases of persons with natural immunity, his own military advisors revealed how much of a lying fool he is yet he want to invalid an abortion law that does not nothing but disincentivize the killing of babies yet the law does not entirely prohibit abortion. Basically the abortion law stipulates that: abortion is prohibited in Texas once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which may be as early as 6 weeks into a woman's pregnancy. Within 6 weeks any lady can decide whether to keep or terminate the foetus but these blood sucking generation of idiots want to be given the chance to keep a pregnancy for more than 6 weeks and then decide for very dumb or sadistic reasons to abort the child. Some of these macabre individuals seek to use the body parts of these aborted babies for very evil purposes and that is why they are pushing really hard for abortion...and Biden has not spent one year in office ohh...

Like i said b4 everything even inanimate element has a cycle - carbon,nitrogen etc. So all living organism has life cycle,dey move from 1 phase to another. We av ours its how its design by God(or dis super-being)
Trying to justify your(our) failings so u feel good won't change it. I av Don it years ago n I still beat myself till date.u av to b human with conscience not some dead wood.wake up dude!awake!!

Evangelynn:
It isn't disinformation, abortion is not murder and a foetus is technically not a human being with any rights whatsoever

Pls pls stop this disinformation,this is d problem with social media.
my people every organism has its life cycle.by this persons logic a caterpillar is not a butterfly, neither is nymph a mosquito(insect) so u can kill them as u will. This people com online n start deceiving people. A fetus is jus a stage in human(homo sapein)life-cycle dat we all must pass thru this is undisputed fact beyond science. Anything any1 else is trying to convince u to bliv its a lie from deepest part of hell.
My people get knowledge n get wisdom do not b fool by d wicked in high placed. Peace

Evangelynn:
Lol abortion isn't murder and a foetus isn't a human being technically,children are born by parents who prepare and choose to have them so bye bye