A lot of old people have died from
Covid-19 in Italy and Spain than in Germany and other European countries. Some experts
have investigated the situation to determine why it is so.
Their study shows as
follows.
In Italy, old people live with their families. In Germany, old people live on their own.
Young people go to nightclubs, pubs, etc. where they contract the virus.
In Italy, young people return home to infect their grandpas and grandmas living with them.
In Germany, young people from clubs, pubs, etc won’t be going home to their grannies, thus the grannies are safe to an extent.
In Britain, which has a similar family lifestyle to Germany, the British PM (Boris Johnson) warned Britons not to visit their old parents this past Mothering Sunday.
However, in the circumstance that
people live with their parents, precaution takes precedence. For instance, a British
nurse, who was living with her mother-in-law in their family home, rented a temporary
accommodation as a precaution.
Now, in Nigeria, people live with
their old parents like in Italy and Spain. If you follow Italy’s situation, that’s
what is likely to happen in Nigeria. Young people are going to bring the virus
back home that will eventually attack their grannies.
Old people and everyone who has
existing medical conditions are at risk. Therefore, what are the plans to safeguard
these people? As usual; none.
Instead, the ‘poor masses’ are
busy on social media mocking politicians for not building hospitals. This is
not the time for post-mortem - why politicians didn’t build hospitals, this is
the time to save lives, especially, the lives of your old parents at home.
The time you spent mocking
politicians, use it to educate the people. Let them know that healthy young
people will contract covid-19 without showing the symptoms. And since they are
unaware that they have the virus, they will quickly spread it to their old parents/grannies
at home.
It is not everybody that
contracted the virus that will require treatment or a ventilator. But if your situation
deteriorates, seek medical help. Prince Charles has been diagnosed with covid-19,
he is not in any hospital, but in isolation at his home.
There’s self-isolation because after
14 days in isolation, if the disease didn’t progress, you become immune to it
and cannot infect another person. Covid-19 is not a death sentence but maybe
for your old folks. They need your protection now.
Unfortunately, Nigeria is not following
other countries’ methods of battling Covid-19. Perhaps, because Nigerian leaders
who are supposed to lead have all contracted Covid-19 and are in isolation.
~liberate your mind