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Preserving vitality and sanity amidst all of the COVID-19 negativity

"Where there's life, there's hope". These words, famously echoed by Stephen Hawking, have never been more apt than in the situation we currently find ourselves in. The world is going through one of the worst crisis in modern history - healthcare, economic, political, etc., all happening at the same time, and it is difficult to predict when things will get back to normal, if things will ever get back to normal or what the new normal would be. There is an overwhelming amount of information that is being circulated across various media platforms. The substance of the information overload ranges from the educative, to the humorous. However, a significant amount of the information that comes to the mainstream are about negative occurrences around the world. A lot of negativity is being passed around in the form of news and statistics. While it is important to stay informed about what is going on around the world, it is also important to recognise the impact that all ...

Between a rock and a hard place – hunger or the Coronavirus?

With over 1.4 million cases and 82 thousand deaths, as at 7 th April 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic has sent shock waves across the world and shows no signs of stopping soon. Projections and estimates about the extent of the outbreak are a dime a dozen, but one thing that most projections appear to agree on is that by the time the virus is contained or a vaccine is made available to the public, most people would have had an infected relative or would know someone personally, who was infected. The grim projection is largely due to the rate at which the Virus spreads and the long incubation period, which leads to many asymptomatic patients ( silent carriers ) being able to spread the Virus even before they become aware of their own infection. For comparison, the 1918 flu pandemic ( Spanish flu ), with a similar mode of transmission, infected around 500 million people (about 25% of the world’s population at the time), killing between 17 million and 100 million people, over a three ...

Armed robbery in broad daylight: a government of the people and by the people, literally

In an address by Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, on April 13 th , he communicated the decision to extend the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, for another period of two weeks, due to the Coronavirus. He also stated that pallative measures had been approved and delivered to 2.6 million households, and that these pallatives will be sustained, with another 1 million households included in the scheme during the next two weeks. As has been seen all over the world, shutdowns such as we currently have in Nigeria come at great costs to the economy, and the President has demonstrated exemplary leadership by extending the lockdown, despite the short-term costs to the economy. Of course, an alternative course of action would result in consequences of catastrophic proportions. Unfortunately, making the right decision does not always result in good outcomes. The tendency for good decisions to lead to terrible outcomes is even greater when the decisio...

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