We have had people in positions of authority stating that the virus is a false alert by people who want to earn some advantage over others, which is pretty credible, because since when did we have any situation where people did not want to gain an upper hand when an opportunity presents itself.
Until a few days ago, we were told that the disease struck, among others, old people and that the young ones were largely safe although they could be the ones to carry the virus to their older people.
In fact, I am now hearing people saying—now that they know the symptoms – that they had the disease a year ago, well ahead of Wuhan.
This is so important in those areas where there has been a sense of celebration because people have been shanghaied into believing they have beaten the virus simply because they prayed to a god that loves them more than he loves the rest of humanity.
It may be true that Africa has largely been skirted by the virus, and that we may have to live with it the same way we live with cholera, but we have to remain wary of a deadly illness which, as we have seen in other countries, takes few prisoners, and which is spread by the most natural process of human interaction.
