COVID-19 REPORT – TRYING TO JUSTIFY THE VACCINE BUDGET

These mumu people have started again. They have come with a report that about 23 percent of Lagosians already have had COVID-19 last October. You see how God want to punish people in this country? Just to justify an erratic attempt at purchasing vaccine? This report is plain dumb. Trying to play games with people’s lives for any reason can be very annoying. So, according to some very young sharp boys on WhatsApp, the figures don’t add up because if you use a base, 16 million people in Lagos, that means that about 3.68 million people have had it. Now with a mortality figure of less than 1,500 as at that time, what does that tell you? So out of 3.68 million people, 1,500 die, and we want to spend N400 billion on vaccines? Is this not madness when we have one Nigerian mother die every nine minutes, for example, from childbirth, making us the world leader in that space, and no emergency has been declared. What is even wrong with these people? We have 818 Nigerian mothers out of 1000 die during childbirth, 300 percent higher than the average world rate. We have only 134,000 hospital beds and only 40,000 doctors for all 200 million of us, and all we are hearing is measly daily reports of 1000 Nigerians catching coronavirus out of which 85 percent will survive.

My people, because the figures cannot justify the huge money they want to spend on vaccines, they have to start throwing up dubious figures. So if 23 percent of us already had COVID-19, did we die? Did we die oh? Have we even looked at the 1,800 that have passed? Have we looked at their medical history? I can swear that the incompetence and inefficiency of handling their matter caused their death; over 50 percent of them. Our problem is not COVID-19, I swear — our problem na greed. Yes, I don talk am, come and beat me: twenty-three ko, 23 percent ni. People have moved on. Bring another pandemic. For me, start publishing daily reports for malaria, TB, and Lassa fever and let’s start looking for their vaccines. Those ones are the real pandemic.