COV-ILLUSION

  I abhor the thoughts of disdain I have for the motherland, I know corruption sits pretty in every economy no matter how minute, it indeed exists. Yet, here, it thrives, it dominates.
  COVID-19 is real, please wash your hands and or sanitize, maintain a safe distance and or wear masks, avoid physical touch via shaking hands or hugging people, flex your elbow and sneeze or cough into it. Just be proactive about safety measures.
  The world has dealt us its hand as regards this pandemic and as things slowly but surely reel into normalcy or what would become the new norm, I can't help but wonder why the avariciousness of our government, state and central grows. They yet sort to make this epidemic a cow that they milk dry. We're a state of well over two hundred million people with thirty six states and seventeen testing labs that have tested (according to recent data) about forty four thousand people, confirming seven thousand eight hundred and thirty nine cases, with five thousand three hundred and fifty active, two thousand two hundred and sixty three discharged cases and two hundred and twenty six deaths.
  The above information is verifiable on the internet and WHO as at the time of this post.
  It is however no news that worldwide there is a shortage of ventilators and Nigeria is not exempted, with no known cure for the novel disease, lack of ventilators and laid down structure, the rates of discharge to death is suspicious.
    According to Doctor Ikhisemojie's article on the punch newspaper, Nigeria is yet to find an alternative source to ventilators as a treatment for the one in six who will fall critically ill as a result of the coronavirus. He said:
It was once my misfortune to observe the serial death of some four patients in an intensive care unit. All were on ventilators and dependent on oxygen. As their machines failed to work in the absence of power, there was not enough manpower to help drive oxygen into their lungs. The two patients able to get that manual sort of assistance survived till the morning at which point a fifth one died. In a bizarre turn of events that unfortunate night, public power supply went off as usual. However, the backup generator failed to come on. The engineers battled unsuccessfully for nearly an hour to get the generator to work but as they did so, the patients died one after another.
 If during this dire period, tragedies like these that can be averted by provision of basic amenities such as light occur, then what is the truth behind the figures we receive daily, with no pictorial evidence, video evidence or both, I'm poised to believe one or both things; the NCDC are propagating false information because they become useless if no cases are recorded over a set period and the influx of money from the federal government ceases. Or the primary healthcare providers are falsifying cases, with isolation centers who share comic (for lack of better words) videos as video evidence of work in progress.
 This can either be higher or lower figures, higher to disseminate fear and panic as well as collect more money from the central or lower numbers to repress fear amidst the populace.
   Typically everything in Nigeria is political, the former to me is more likely the scenario, but if we continue to take lightly the situation at hand as most citizens have taken to social media to make comments like coronavirus isn't real and there are no cases in Nigeria we might find the latter inevitable.