As of 8:00pm yesterday, 27th March NCDC posted:

Five new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 3 in FCT & 2 in Oyo State

As at 08:00 pm 27th March there are 70 cases of confirmed #COVID19 reported Nigeria. 3 have been discharged with 1 death.

https:///ptbxknBV7b

However, less than 4hrs later NCDC in what seemed outrightly shocking to many Nigerians posted:

11 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 8 in Lagos, 2 in Enugu & 1 in Edo State

As at 11:55pm 27th March, there are 81 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 3 have been discharged with 1 death. https:///7p3v3qAcGM

This is grossly huge if compared to the number of cases detected in previous times.

Dear Nigerians, please stay at home and prevent the spread of COVID-19

stay at home, drink carry if necessary

Ok

darealez:

This is grossly huge if compared to the number of cases detected in previous times.

Dear Nigerians, please stay at home and prevent the spread of COVID-19

SadiqBabaSani:
stay at home, drink carry if necessary

But stay home for how long??
Below is an argument I presented to somebody. If u read it carefully you’d agree it is the best way forward for Nigeria:

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Ok, it is established fact that AT MOST we’d lose less than 2% of those who get this virus (though currently it is 0% for Nigerians permanently living in Nigeria!)
How many people do u think will die if there is mass starvation plus all the social ills that’d come with closing down everything? Plus the irreversible damage to the economy?
If u calm down and look at it UNEMOTIONALLY you’d see the sense in what I’m saying. (Also remember that both our birth rate and population density are quite high).

Also, SINCE THE DEATH RATE IS SO LOW, we can go the herd immunity route - gradually as more and more people recover and therefore develop immunity to the virus, we’d eventually develop herd immunity, at which point the virus is defeated.

Here’s the rest of my argument to the guy (which is totally original by the way):

First of all we’d be doing everything other countries are doing EXCEPT totally shut down our society. People will be sentisized to not crowd together, social distancing, to wash hands, to use face masks, etc, PLUS we’d also be treating those we can which will save some. So there’d be no “everyone is allowed to be infected at the same time, with no one taking care of anybody“.

Secondly, it is established that 97% of the infected, get well without needing any special medical care (so for them it is just like, say, malaria)

Thirdly we’d have more people who have survived the virus and therefore whose blood have immunity and can be used to treat the sick (this has been shown to work)

Fourthly we should remember we are overpopulated.
It is better that we fight a war and win and come out stronger (though losing some people), than to close everything and hide like cowards because of an enemy we know we can defeat (though we’d lose some people while doing it). Countries have gone to war instead of surrendering, knowing fully well they’d lose half their people!

CanadaOrBust:




But stay home for how long??
Below is an argument I presented to somebody. If u read it carefully you’d agree it is the best way forward for Nigeria:

—————————

Ok, it is established fact that AT MOST we’d lose less than 2% of those who get this virus (though currently it is 0% for Nigerians permanently living in Nigeria!)
How many people do u think will die if there is mass starvation plus all the social ills that’d come with closing down everything? Plus the irreversible damage to the economy?
If u calm down and look at it UNEMOTIONALLY you’d see the sense in what I’m saying. (Also remember that both our birth rate and population density are quite high).

Also, SINCE THE DEATH RATE IS SO LOW, we can go the herd immunity route - gradually as more and more people recover and therefore develop immunity to the virus, we’d eventually develop herd immunity, at which point the virus is defeated.

Here’s the rest of my argument to the guy (which is totally original by the way):

First of all we’d be doing everything other countries are doing EXCEPT totally shut down our society. People will be sentisized to not crowd together, social distancing, to wash hands, to use face masks, etc, PLUS we’d also be treating those we can which will save some. So there’d be no “everyone is allowed to be infected at the same time, with no one taking care of anybody“.

Secondly, it is established that 97% of the infected, get well without needing any special medical care (so for them it is just like, say, malaria)

Thirdly we’d have more people who have survived the virus and therefore whose blood have immunity and can be used to treat the sick (this has been shown to work)

Fourthly we should remember we are overpopulated.
It is better that we fight a war and win and come out stronger (though losing some people), than to close everything and hide like cowards because of an enemy we know we can defeat (though we’d lose some people while doing it). Countries have gone to war instead of surrendering, knowing fully well they’d lose half their people!

Your submission then is that we should proceed like COVID-19 ain't no big deal? Those who recovered where supposedly on Ventilator. If Nigeria's cases reaches over 60k cases, how many Ventilators will be available... A case of chronic pneumonia isn't a joke even with a ventilator, talkless of without one. I've seen what Italy and USA looks like with COVID-19, the best option is to prevent a COVID BOOM.

darealez:


Your submission then is that we should proceed like COVID-19 ain't no big deal? Those who recovered where supposedly on Ventilator. If Nigeria's cases reaches over 60k cases, how many Ventilators will be available... A case of chronic pneumonia isn't a joke even with a ventilator, talkless of without one. I've seen what Italy and USA looks like with COVID-19, the best option is to prevent a COVID BOOM.

You have it wrong - it is the very ill that go on ventilators NOT those who have recovered! Those who recover test negative twice and go home.
As far as I know no Nigerian permanently in Nigeria has ever been sick enough to need a ventilator.
The thing is we are sheepishly copying other countries without adapting to our own unique situation. FOR SOME REASON CORONA DOES NOT SERIOUSLY AFFECT US!
China lost about 8million people; u didn’t see them worry about shortage of ventilators because they realise they are overpopulated - they realized they needed to lose some people as long as they could lie to the world about it!

CanadaOrBust:


You have it wrong - it is the very ill that go on ventilators NOT those who have recovered! Those who recover test negative twice and go home.
As far as I know no Nigerian permanently in Nigeria has ever been sick enough to need a ventilator.
The thing is we are sheepishly copying other countries without adapting to our own unique situation. FOR SOME REASON CORONA DOES NOT SERIOUSLY AFFECT US!
China lost about 8million people; u didn’t see them worry about shortage of ventilators because they realise they are overpopulated - they realized they needed to lose some people as long as they could lie to the world about it!

Na wa o! Sorry sir but this information is very wrong.

CanadaOrBust:


You have it wrong - it is the very ill that go on ventilators NOT those who have recovered! Those who recover test negative twice and go home.
As far as I know no Nigerian permanently in Nigeria has ever been sick enough to need a ventilator.
The thing is we are sheepishly copying other countries without adapting to our own unique situation. FOR SOME REASON CORONA DOES NOT SERIOUSLY AFFECT US!
China lost about 8million people; u didn’t see them worry about shortage of ventilators because they realise they are overpopulated - they realized they needed to lose some people as long as they could lie to the world about it!

U're looking for who to die with u. U're probably suicidal. Just imagine the rubbish u typed. U want people to die to reduce the population? U're probably an orphan and u think cus u have no aged one to worry about, your age makes u unlikely to die from the virus, other people's parents should be sacrificed. May God forgive u. Na u go die. U have a wicked heart. Suggesting we sacrifice people to reduce population. U said Nigerians barely use ventilators? Are u for real? Do u even know what that machine does? Get informed and shut your whatever u use to make noise