₦airaland Forum

This is why I am against the state by state approach to tackling this crisis. The PTF and NCDC and president should make the rules about how things should be done at the national level, and every state must follow the rules. If some states handle the situation seriously, and other states are not serious, the serious states will have to remain under restrictions indefinitely to avoid being affected by people from the unserious states.

His isolation center is very nice. I wish all infected Nigerians would be isolated in centers that look like this. Good luck to the man and his wife.

Lorazepam:
1340 tests conducted within the last 24 hrs

Thanks. Where did you see this, so I can check it next time?

We need to know the number of tests conducted during the day to make sense of this.

This is the way.

sanny1:
NO MORE BIRTHDAY'S ON NAIRALAND THE CODE HAS BEING REMOVED ENJOY

You can still see if it’s a users birthday on her profile.

It is highly unlikely that Kogi state is free of COVID-19. The NCDC is absolutely right that the virus is everywhere. After what we have seen in Kano, Jigawa and, frankly, the entire world, the position of the Kogi State government cannot be taken seriously.

However, I empathize with this part of what the OP said:

He left the impression of certainty that the virus would reach every nook and cranny of the country. I paused and asked myself: who is NCDC working for? Are they working to curtail the virus or spread it? If indeed they're working to arrest the spread of covid-19 in the country, why was the NCDC DG so sure that it would get to every state?

I am not a fan of the NCDC’s defeatist attitude either. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought they were trying to wipe out the virus from the country by isolating all active cases, hence the drastic measures. Lately it seems that the NCDC’s goal is just to observe and inform us about the progress of the virus.

When is the next election?

Seems nice.

I don’t think he was talking about making vaccinations mandatory. He was talking about making the vaccine available to everybody. The truth is that, even when the vaccines become available, it will be difficult for people in poor countries to get vaccinated. Just as there is a shortage of PPE and test kits right now making it hard for poor countries (and rich countries with bad leaders) to protect their people, there will be a shortage of Coronavirus vaccines for a long time, and rich countries will get them first. The WHO might intervene to get health workers in poor countries vaccinated early but the rest of us will remain unprotected for a long while. People who afraid of mandatory vaccination will have nothing to worry about for a very long time, sadly.

The key to vaccine effectiveness is to get a large majority of people vaccinated. 60% and above, depending on the disease. If enough people volunteer to be vaccinated then there will be no need to make it mandatory. If not, then it must be mandatory. But we won’t have enough vaccines for everyone for a very long time.

Omoluabi16:
We don't have the tools to enforce it. Our force men are poorly trained, and will end up killing people. A report shows the border security are aiding interstate movement after collecting bribe. We ate in trouble.

The enforcement of face-masks is simple. Entry into banks, markets, motorparks, government offices and other places will be denied to those not wearing face-masks. As for the ban on inter-state travel I am opposed to it. The goal is to wipe out the virus, not to limit it to a particular location. The number of people infected by someone carrying the virus is the same regardless of which state he is in. We need a national approach to it.

Jakemedg:
The question is are Nigerians ready to comply with the social distancing rule？ you and i know that most Nigerians have this i don't care attitude

Are they ready to comply with another lockdown? If the government can enforce another lockdown, then they can surely enforce social distancing rules. After Funke Akindele was charged to court we've not heard about any other celebrity throwing a party during this crisis. Government 101.

If Lagosians are not following the rules, it's because you are not enforcing them. There's nowhere in the world where enforcement isn't needed. If you truly believed that everyone would comply with the directive to wear unbreathable ankara masks in this hot weather without any enforcement ... that's not a good sign.

Medical researchers have reported that the novel Coronavirus causes blood clots in many patients. Blood clots in the brain lead to strokes.

Can you imagine how many people must have the disease for there to be 100 known deaths?

itsRhamzy:
all designed by yours truly.

my pictures are not uploading. seun why?

any error message?

I really think I should have a say here

Why has no journalist asked them for the reason why these people keep running away? It’s very important.

tetralogyfallot:
do your maths well. If they share $311m to 200m Nigerians every Nigeria will get roughly N560 only. Wetin 560 fit do u?

560 in every pocket will actually make a difference to many people. The main issue is that the cost of distributing the money might be too high.

I wish we could see the number of tests conducted on each day broken down by state so we can actually interpret these figures.

If a state is testing more people, a large number of new cases is not so alarming. If a state tests almost nobody, a low number is not reassuring.

enochogaga:
Nigerian's is a pity we cannot think and do research on our own, now pastor Chris gas said so many things on that short clip why can't why just go and do our research.
See everyone, my bro working in the NCDC if I tell u guys what is going on, and many things that is but under the desk. We all we start protesting

Please tell us. Knowledge is power and it can save lives. To make a better country, we all have to get involved.

willy2000:
The problem is not your phone it is nairaland, this is 2020, where phone cameras capture 48 or more MP and you can upload such to FB or insta. but nairaland has refused to leave the 2000s. I don't know why seun has refused to revamp or update the site.

I guess we can enable larger uploads.

Danielhouston:
Guys I need to learn how to work around this website. I can’t believe a phone picture would be too large to post and you can’t post multiple pictures at once.

PS I hate iPhone camera sometimes. It doesn’t capture images as they are without that cinematic effect

what's the size of the image you are trying to upload?

Ajibade123:
how sir??

you just did.

woke4eva:
Remain blessed bros.......Just a matter of simple reasoning ooo.......You cover your nose and mouth with ankara suffocating your body and debilitating your immune system while your eyes are open and a straight passage for the same virus your claim to be protecting yourself from...Where exactly is the sense in this??

I can't believe it made sense to anyone. I was laughing when I wrote it. The ankara mask mainly prevents people wearing it from spreading it to others by coughing, sneezing, shouting, singing, talking or breathing. You can protect your eyes by wearing glasses, goggles or shades.

Concerning the controversy about the origin of COVID-19; whether it was made in a lab or evolved naturally

I believe that the virus could've been man-made. One of the ways of making a vaccine is to grow a human virus in a non-human host such as a chicken egg for several generations. So you grow the virus in one egg, extract it, transfer some of it to another egg, and so on. Over many generations, the virus can mutate into a form that is better at growing in a chicken egg but grows poorly in a human host. This form can be injected into people as a vaccine. Because it grows so poorly in humans, it doesn't cause sickness, but causes the immune system to make antibodies.

So what if you take a nasty coronavirus from a bat and grow it in a succession of human embryos or other human tissue? You might end up with a novel coronavirus that is extremely good at infecting and growing inside humans. There is insufficient evidence to say that this definitely happened, but there is insufficient evidence to say that this definitely didn't happen. The media is rushing to the conclusion that "science shows that it could not have happened" because they dislike Donald Trump, but I'm yet to hear a scientific argument that points to this conclusion.

Sometimes the correct answer is we don't know. Scientists are not oracles and their personal opinions are not the same as scientific facts.

The "facts" of the matter (according to Pastor Chris) are as follows:
1) The lockdown was not science. So he was right all the time.
2) Everything we knew became like we never went to school. (clearly)
3) The lockdown didn't save lives; it put lives at risk. But it is good for politicians.
4) The face-masks are embarrassing to science. Real science.
5) The scientific masks are not useful in public. They are used in clean environments.
6) The WHO and CDC said the mask will not work.
7) If we go by science you should not wear the mask.
8} Wearing of the mask is not science. It's politics.
9) Scientifically, the face-mask is dangerous to your health.
10) This is the truth.

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HarunaWest:
Very Apt. Last week, I had an altercation with another moniker. We engaged in bouts of insults and banters . Just insults oo, I was banned but the fellow was let be. I was so vexed mehn as in why the double standards? Some mods here don't know their function. They just banning upandan..

report him

Wow, that’s a lot of cases. Hope they were tested properly.

most begging posts are offtopic. They should be removed and the posters banned for 2 - 3 days.