This is Guka - Am I Being Paranoid? Rest in Peace, Wa-Kahura.

This corona virus will be with us for sometime. Atleast until a vaccine or cure is found but science hasnt been able to tame viruses the way it has bacteria.

Fact is, countries cant stay in lockdown forever and this lockdown, at most, will allow govts to appreciate the scale of the infections while also killing off those infected without allowing it to spread too much.

Post lockdown, new social distancing laws will come into effect which will include wearing masks in public and such.

Atleast until a cure is found, countries will be forced to invest heavily in contact tracing and its not farfetched to envision that totally new govt agencies will be erected to deal with this as it needs to be done in a structured way that is cost effective. Sio ati unatupwa Changes (Lenana School) and you are paying 2k a day for pathetic living conditions.

Also post-lockdown, I envision investing/donations into companies with promising ways of curing vaccines will be the norm . Billionaire philanthropists like Bill Gates will invest alot more in this not to mention national govts. The loss the world economy has suffered is in the trillions, not to mention highly skilled individuals dying who could have contributed alot to their economies in their lifetimes. A few billions every year may be enough to push science forward to the point we can deal with virus and future bacterias since, on the bacteria front, we also seem to be getting bacterias that are immune to our current treatments.

This Covid thing is a wake up call to the world that alot more needs to be invested to push our medical knowledge forward. It has clearly shown that in our interconnected world, borders are meaningless when it comes to disease.
 
Field Marshal said:
This week I lost a favourite cousin, Wa-Kahura (we people from Ndeiya have this habit of calling everybody Waka-something, like Wakanyama).

Funny thing is, dude developed a slight cough and in a day went into pulmonary distress. In less than 12 hours he was dead, just like that.

Now, I know SDS (sudden death syndrome) has been with us since the beginning of time for a variety of reasons, especially due to CVDs (cardio-vascular diseases).

But Wa-Kahura, 60, did not have a typical CVD profile; he was thin, worked manually, didn't have a history of hypertension and was not diabetic.

Which, in this strange times, leaves Covid. Could it be that this infection is spreading quietly in our villages, towns and cities stealthily knocking off old dudes like my cousin (@Abba , @Mwalimu-G , et al, kimeumana?)?

It is a troubling possibility. Or am I being paranoid?
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Pole sana
 
ingwe said:
This corona virus will be with us for sometime. Atleast until a vaccine or cure is found but science hasnt been able to tame viruses the way it has bacteria.

Fact is, countries cant stay in lockdown forever and this lockdown, at most, will allow govts to appreciate the scale of the infections while also killing off those infected without allowing it to spread too much.

Post lockdown, new social distancing laws will come into effect which will include wearing masks in public and such.

Atleast until a cure is found, countries will be forced to invest heavily in contact tracing and its not farfetched to envision that totally new govt agencies will be erected to deal with this as it needs to be done in a structured way that is cost effective. Sio ati unatupwa Changes (Lenana School) and you are paying 2k a day for pathetic living conditions.

Also post-lockdown, I envision investing/donations into companies with promising ways of curing vaccines will be the norm . Billionaire philanthropists like Bill Gates will invest alot more in this not to mention national govts. The loss the world economy has suffered is in the trillions, not to mention highly skilled individuals dying who could have contributed alot to their economies in their lifetimes. A few billions every year may be enough to push science forward to the point we can deal with virus and future bacterias since, on the bacteria front, we also seem to be getting bacterias that are immune to our current treatments.

This Covid thing is a wake up call to the world that alot more needs to be invested to push our medical knowledge forward. It has clearly shown that in our interconnected world, borders are meaningless when it comes to disease.
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Thisis one of the most informed commentaries I have seen here on Covid.

A lot of people have not woken up to the fact the world has changed for ever because of Covid. Going forward, things will change dramatically. The ability of gavaments to trace individuals will be enhanced. E-commerce will increasingly take over. Remote working will be normalised. Personal interactions such as shaking hands and long-drawn funerals will become rarer. Wearing of masks like has been in Asia will now be commonplace. Tourism and business travel, already under stress from global warming activists, will continue falling. ETc Etc.
 
Kabuda said:
A report out just yesterday found that 2 out of 3 people who have died from Corona virus had diabetes!..
How many men in the age bracket of your cousin have seen a doctor in the last year ,never mind have a general blood and urine test?
Tafakari hayo my friend.
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British or Kenyan figures?
 
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