Covid19 confusion

Covid-19 came like a thief in the night and stole all our fun time and businesses. Our gathering and many outdoor activities stopped immediately this monster showed its face to humanity.

We dropped going to holy places to worship. It also stops us from going to hotels, eateries and recreation centres.

It virtually took everything away from us and sends us back inside. What we wouldn't have done ordinarily, like constantly washing of hands, social distancing, using nose mask (when we are not doctors) and other things become the new norm for us.

We had no choice than to adjust or humanity might face a real decline. Even at that, we tried to resume some of those activities but things are not the same. We do thing differently now.

Visitation to friends, family, market and normal house warming, wedding, and naming ceremony were stopped just to straighten the curve and stop the spread of this virus.

In Nigeria, we now have total cases of 19,808 Covid-19. Lagos remains the epicentre of the virus according to the report by NCDC.

Today, i went out to get some things in readiness for my one year wedding anniversary tomorrow, but to my surprise, the street was more than lively.

In all honesty and sincerity, Lagosians did not use nose mask. I had to check myself again to see whether the reality of Nigeria has not left me.

I look around, see people gisting, gather together having fun. Some were in beer parlours enjoying chilled drinks. I had to force myself to make a count of how many people are on nose mask apart from myself. I was only able to count five.

While that is shocking, it is even more shocking that none of these five people covered their mouths or noses with the nose mask. It was below their jaws.

I started wondering what the matter was and had to check online if there is something i was missing.

Lagosians simply don't believe in covid-19 or they have immunity that many of us using nose mask don't have.

Well, you might not really blame them but partially blame the fact that there is secrecy surrounding those infected.

If you ask many Nigerians, they will say 'yes they hear of cases daily but no one has seen anyone that knows anyone who has the virus or died of it'.

In my area, i haven't heard of any but i cannot join such bandwagon to assume that covid-19 is a hoax.

What i saw today proves to me that education and intelligence are two different things. Many so called educated are even the ones championing this view that it's a hoax.

So this is a call to all Nigerians to please protect themselves. Why do we need a proof in the first place to believe that a pandemic declared worldwide is real in Nigeria?

Why do we think the government are lying about it? Why do they create many isolation centres? Why are number of those who died from the infection keep increasing?

Personally, i have done covid-19 test and i can tell you clearly that many people are going out daily for the test.

If these people did not believe it's real, would they have gone out to be tested?

This is a real problem affecting every nation. We should worry that Lagos State Government stopped religious services.

The writings are boldly on the wall for us all to see but i am sad that we choose not to see it. Please guys, protect yourself and your family and stop waiting for proof.

Don't wait until it is too late. Had i know always end statement, it doesn't start it.

Thanks for your time.