kaka2za wrote:masukuma wrote:kaka2za wrote:Bigchick wrote:masukuma wrote:murchr wrote:kaka2za wrote:What happened in Cameroon?
It had the highest number of infections in Sub Saharan Africa then life went back to normal. Did the virus just evaporate?
When a tree falls in the aberdares, we in Nairobi will not know about it unless we are told. The fact that no one tells us will not change the fact that a tree fell.
Many leaders are opting to go mute on reporting even Trump tried but he was turned down.
those test numbers are very exact
They may not be exact but give an indicator
The numbers have stagnated with no lockdown whatsoever while Kenya numbers have multiplied with stricter measures.
87% recovery rate.
It is not about what government is reporting, life is back to normal and hospitals are not under any strain.
Question is why did the numbers and actual fatalities in the ground decline?
I will obtain a photo of what is happening in Douala market. No masks at all.
This floated into a WhatsApp group I belong to (2 Cameroonians in there)
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Cameroon Citizens Raised $40M for COVID Relief, But Where is It?
YAOUNDE - Cameroon has bowed to pressure from rights groups and ordered investigations into the management of the COVID-19 solidarity fund contributed to by civilians. The rights groups said most of the $40 million cash and material had been embezzled. An outcry was sparked after rights groups said 4,000 bags of rice donated to COVID-19 patients were illegally sold.
About two dozen people are this Monday morning at the Messassi government hospital in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde for consultations. Among them is 27-year- old Ernestine Sahmo who is visiting for her weekly diabetes control. Sahmo says she and other patients are surprised at the absence of COVID-19 prevention kits at the hospital.
"Most of the time you go there and there is no water. You just find a bucket being placed there without any water in it and at times too you don’t even meet soap," she said.
(Africa as it is)
I told you. Everything is worringly so relaxed. Bars are full and taxis full to capacity. Why is the disease wreaking havoc in some areas and other areas?
Kenya in particular appears highly susceptible.
I think it's not the disease per se but rather the sensitivity of a society to diseases - In Sub Saharan Africa we are used to death from diseses (I once wrote about how 90%+ of the 400K+ annual deaths from Malaria are in subsaharan africa) and we don't care. I grew up in Nakuru and had lots of Malaria and so it became normalized... when you talk to a Mzungu... Traveled abroad and when you talk about Malaria the Mzungu told me it's a terrible disease to have! the one person who got it describes it in very vivid terms... but since we have been used to magonjwa, umaskini and ujinga (Poverty, Ignorance and Disease) we assume that it's normal to be sick... Most people don't even take days off when they are ill. we have normalized ignorance and rationalized poverty.
That may explain Africa's response to this disease... we were hoping for a spectacular disease but it is a disease that largely has symptoms similar to what we have had before and especially those places where Malaria is rather serious like west africa. After all 95%+ of People seem to recover without problems... then it looks tame. People don't usually go to the doctor when they suffer mild/moderate symptoms. I only go to the doctor when things are thick... Mzungu will go at the earliest discomfort.
I think within subsaharan africa Kenya seems to be taking this disease seriously and rightly so... it does not mean that we are dying more than these countries (Kenya and Cameroon have the approximately the same number of official cases but fewer deaths). People should not normalize getting sick.
Look...
Quote:Bondo OCPD dies after developing breathing problems
Mkapa died after a short illness (Malaria and Heart Attack)... if you check the symptoms of the disease (Uliza @Mphobiz... there are aspects of it that are Malaria like)... but if you don't attribute it properly you may not recogize it.... itakuwa "homa tu".
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