COVID-19 – LOCKDOWN MY FOOT!

You really do not need to conduct an official survey to gauge the level of apathy towards government and its policies than this covid thing. Since the inception of the pandemic, Nigerians have been taking everything the government has said and done on the matter with a huge pinch of salt.

The fiasco that was the pandemic palliatives did not help matters which also now impacted the vaccine. My brother Femi Olude believes that the vaccine can make someone impotent, and that is why when I went to take my own, I told Duchess to be at alert for testing, and I did not breathe until I climbed and came back with a 98 per cent score. I am usually 70 per cent, but this time I got 98 per cent. Na the fear propel the action. Anyway, from nowhere with relatively no Covid cases (abi how do you want to describe a caseload of sub-50 for the past one month?) government announce one yeye lockdown.

People just hiss and continue with their work. These people are just bent on the continued demystification of governance. Suppose India and the rest are going through a harrowing experience. Is it not easier to contain by strengthening border controls, ensuring strict non-pharmaceutical engagement by both in and outbound passenger traffic and other such sensible protocols? Na to rush and announce comprehensive lockdown when businesses and people are just coming out of the economic tailspin occasioned by all the other lockdowns? For me, I don even know what nightclubs have done these people. They seem to be the ones that the presidential committee no like at all. Small thing they have shut down clubs, next thing, they will raid them. When malls with thousands of Nigerians are left open and laughable, political rallies are allowed to go on, waiting for it – INEC prescribed protocols. Please, let’s don’t be joking na.