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Covid-19 Not all Shades of Grey

photo credit: statnews.com COVID-19: NOT ALL SHADES OF GRAY The coronavirus typical of all infectious virus requires a living host to multiply and thrive however living outside a living host the virus can survive ranging from hours to days. In the survival and spread techniques of such infectious microorganisms it's seen as they are dependent on human behaviors, habits to ensure their conquest. Where some host are not hurt by the virus may yet serve as reservoir for these harmful pathogens. Over time humans have been affected by different disease having pathogenic origin of bacteria, viruses, fungi, helminths and protozoans which could be primary or as a result of secondary infections, all of which have the capacity of causing ill- health . The coronavirus have been accused of being the destroyer of worldwide economy, the killer of humans and the narrator of the times as the virus permits.  Enough of all this scientific facts. Before the advent of the novel coronavirus, Afr
photo credit: news.standford.edu A brief history of the entrance of coronavirus into Nigeria The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARs-CoV-2) was identified in Wuhan, China early December, 2019, however The novel coronavirus was reported in Nigeria on February 27, 2020 when an Italian citizen visiting Lagos, Nigeria tested positive for the virus. On the day of the announcement of the first covid-19 case in Nigeria the public accused Government of keying into or have devised a scheme to loot public fund as usual. The announced covid-19 case made a lot of ripples across all social media pools, still unfortunately the public do not still see the fact that the coronavirus is with us now in Adamawa State and unless we take conscious steps to control its spread our land of beauty may be no more than an empty ruin from the deleterious impact of the virus as seen in the United States of America, Spain, Italy and the host of other countries. photo credit: Businessday. com

Emerging Crisis (Nature and Man)

'Is nature trying to reset itself back to equilibrium? Has man forced nature to engage a kill switch? Has the activities of man not changed by force the biorhythm of nature? Has the environment had enough? That a united leadership of the third world that believe in looting and members of the advanced world with legitimate earning share the same environment. Whatever we may believe in or accomplish needs the earth to enjoy success and or brood failure I believe in man but man leads us all to dooms loom I hope i was wrong, the fabric is not all shades of grey For in the end all we will have is each other to stay alive.'   Indeed a crisis is a process of transformation where the old system can no longer be maintained thus crisis is synonymous to the need for change;if change is not as needed than it can be better described as a 'failure' or an 'incident'.  We are in a challenged time in the history of mankind as the earth is in total silence, many bein