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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/18/2008 Posts: 3,434 Location: Kerugoya
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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No breather yet for Italy, +889 deaths in 24hrs. "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/18/2008 Posts: 3,434 Location: Kerugoya
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Quote:But God works in mysterious ways.
That the person who exchanged me with goats, several crates of Fanta soda and lesos on one bright afternoon, was home today, earlier than our neighbours - see you in the evening- chicken is truly the lords doing.
I do not write to Praise Covid- 19.
That virus is nobody's grandmother and we need to listen to our Governments, atleast this once.
Kwanza, we need to send our parents money and foodstuffs back at the village so that they can buy food and supplements to boost their immunity.
What we dont need to do is to visit them or send them our children because we might be exposing them to more danger.
Look, we already gave our parents blood pressure in our teenage years when they discovered we smoked weed, wore thongs and exchanged bodily fluids inside cattle-dips, let's not kill them any further.
Anyway, where was I?
Ehe, due to the curfew, son of man, he who pointed me with several goat ribs at kamakis, He who ensured that he had shifted my pelvic bones before payment of dowry, he who consoled me by injecting another pregnancy after not winning Ms. President, came home at 4 pm today with all the symptoms of denial and betrayal by Government.
Son of man been flipping and discovering new channels on Startimes and Netflix.
But because the TV is owned by a three-year-old, He has so far watched all 65 episodes of Sofia the First, Spongebob square pants and Alladin with a grin on his face because each episode has to be followed by dancing practicals😂
Son of man has not been immune to my telenovela doses.
We have flipped between Maria and Khum Khum Bhagya without any complaints.
We have boiled cereals, He has clipped my nails, served food, peeped at the gate to see if Government was joking, massaged my scalp, poked my huge belly, called his boss to ask if Government has changed its mind, now we are waiting to watch that ratched 10/10 show where I plan on shaking what shakes, swinging hips this way and that way and bending over to pick whatever girls pick when they bend over, bend over, bend over...
And because no goat wife or any woman with a male species nearby has any pelvic bone remaining, the only thing left to break will be the bed and my back which is okay because camel soup fixes everything.
Tomorrow, we paint nails and talk about all the women who have ever called him since 2015, and a guarana receipt I found in his pocket on 18th January 2017.
ha-ha, God of women is overworking and shaming the devil.
Praaaaaaaaaaaise the laaaaaaaaaawd!
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 8/26/2014 Posts: 63
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Hehe....
Nimeona wengine wamekalishwa chini wakithandura bembe
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/4/2009 Posts: 1,982 Location: matano manne
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kaka2za wrote:Bigchick wrote:Taurrus wrote:Mitumba ban, that new CS is serving her former colleagues next she will ban second hand cars! This is a temporary suspension not a total ban.The idea being to reduce the mass humanity that gathers at second hand places to buy.Social distancing that is. The disease is mainly spread by the elite but will hit the poor so hard! In a bid to protect the poor,they are taking from them their source of livelihood! If this persists, there might be social disorder because the most vulnerable will have no food and could be evicted from rented premises. @kakatuza my exact thought. Why ban mitumba importation? Any science to link it to covid19? Any science to link it to faster spread of the same? No. The argument that it creates social distance is lazy since the same govt is struggling to come up with measures to ease economic hardship among such traders.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/4/2009 Posts: 1,982 Location: matano manne
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tycho wrote:We need masks. This is because we know like 80% of cases will manifest with a cough, with 38% experiencing fatigue. Mindfulness and control can be easily lost and the habit of covering the mouth can be easily flouted. We also know there's an asymptomatic period when a good laugh can kill. And if we want to cut the cases to as few as possible, we must control saliva droplet collection, and prevent saliva from getting on other surfaces easily.
Such an arrangement will assist also where we may fail in social distancing like in matatus.
It's possible that there's a shortage of mask supply. So let's make them using our local tailors. We can improvise on materials to use. Besides, that may be the start of the local textile industry we so want. Plus, we will develop confidence in the economy and we might just escape an economic depression. @tycho well said. In India they have improvised masks, cloth that covers the mouth and nose is a must. In Croatia they are making them at home by improvising with commonly available cloth and materials. It mustn't be expensive.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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@Mahegoat said:
[quote]@Tycho, tomorrow is Sunday.
What is your take regarding Religion in Kenia and the use of the palpit to fight or spread the contagion?
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Religion in Kenya may not be perceived and engaged properly in the effort to curb the Covid virus. If you look at the reporting regarding religion - where for example it is reported that most Christians believe that they are an exception from the disease by virtue of Jesus - we find a hasty conclusion regarding the effect of faith in the matter. We have seen similar sentiments across many different contexts and people to say that we may be looking at a normal human reaction of denial using religious language. Many who identify as African, believe they are a disease resistant species.
I have asked myself if congregation necessarily causes a spread of Covid, and my answer is 'no'. Some forms of congregation may spread the virus faster than others. So a blanket ban on congregation may be an overkill.
Therefore, I suspect that this may be an opportunity for government to over reach her power over citizens, and using a population skeptical of religion to score points, by framing questions in a way that presents religion with a false dilemma.
That said, religion in Kenya is generally facing the challenge of what Harvey Cox called 'secularization'. This is the deconstruction of an exclusive narrative to accommodate other narratives and create a narrative that is humanist and universal. This is because relations are now more intercultural and global. Cox invokes urbanization as the cause for secularization.
It is from such a position that religion can be a serious resource in the fight against disease. If we look at the extent of secularization in Kenyan religion we see that secularization is either happening too slowly or not happening at all in some cases. This is likely to cause internal conflict in members in the face of a global experience and may hamper changes to adaptive behaviour against diseases or other evils.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/18/2008 Posts: 3,434 Location: Kerugoya
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@Tycho, this Sunday, our plot is the venue of one of those Church-Based Chama cum Prayer meetings. We are talking about 20-30 women crammed into that narrow corridor between the apartments. In such a situation, social distancing ceases to exist. We, the committee of the Nyumba Kumi committee, had asked the Chama committee to suspend these meetings. The Chama committee declined. A Chama member even had the effrontery to quote President Uhuru, who said: "Even Science requires God". Do we call for Police assistance to prevent such a meeting? That was the gist of my quoting The Economist and seeking your opinion on religion and The Virus.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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@Kaka2za raised an important issue yesterday: most people are working half day, and I add, ineffectively. @Lolest talked about market traders not getting opportunity to work due to rules on social distancing. Then we have our police service alienating the government from the people with their twanga twanga behavior.
I suggest this: let us move into a 24 hour economy that can work with optimal distancing, and controlled movement. Instead of police just beating and crowding people together as they are doing, let them help by securing businesses and geographical areas and ensure a new adaptive behaviour is adhered to.
Let us emulate Germany and have programmers and coders working to generate needed solutions with funding from domestic and collaborative initiatives.
Our matatus and business premises can be redesigned and optimized for such an economy. For example, some matatus can be converted for goods distribution and deliveries.
Right now, we have evidence that the economy is subservient to community and social cohesion at the base. So we need to invest in sustainable community and expect little direct monetary returns. We can think of community operating capacity and sustainability as a goal.
Therefore, let us draw a timeline for getting masked, find ways for medical coordination to the local clinic level, establish a 24 hr strategy, and request the lifting of the curfew.
This is good for us because we will have adopted a security system that will allow us to be resilient in future shocks, and one that is adaptive to a post covid reality predicted as grim.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/8/2013 Posts: 4,068 Location: At Large.
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aemathenge wrote:@Tycho, this Sunday, our plot is the venue of one of those Church-Based Chama cum Prayer meetings.
We are talking about 20-30 women crammed into that narrow corridor between the apartments.
In such a situation, social distancing ceases to exist.
We, the committee of the Nyumba Kumi committee, had asked the Chama committee to suspend these meetings.
The Chama committee declined.
A Chama member even had the effrontery to quote President Uhuru, who said: "Even Science requires God".
Do we call for Police assistance to prevent such a meeting?
That was the gist of my quoting The Economist and seeking your opinion on religion and The Virus. Gather guys from around and thrush them proper as you wait for the police. Love is beautiful and so are those who share it.With Love, Marriage is an amazing event in ones life time, the foundation of joy, happiness and success.
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