However, these are not normal times, alas. We are faced with the deadly global COVID-19 pandemic, which has turned our lives upside down, with its: mask-wearing; self-isolations; social distancing, quarantines; travel bans; and lockdowns crippling many small businesses, and throwing millions out of work globally.
Worst of all, it threatens to overwhelm and destroy healthcare systems, and end up infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands, in nations such as ours. That is is worrying and frightening.
For example, when Italy started seeing the first reported cases of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the figures initially started off with low numbers, which rose steadily - and then got to a point where the weekly cases were being reported in the thousands: resulting in its healthcare system eventuallly nearly being overwhelmed.
One is not yet aware of any intervention by God Almighty for Italy - safe for the decision of the Cuban government to send a team of the Black Cuban doctors who were welcomed by Italians as heroes for coming to the help of their beleaguered nation, in her hour of extreme-need. It has had a devastating impact on Italy's economy and lowered industrial output significantly.
Alas, we are now seeing the same COVID-19 victim-case-load-count-trend, here, in our homeland Ghana, too. Hmmmm. Yooooo...
Worryingly, recent relaxation of the COVID-19 restrictions (such as the sanctioning of senior high school students returning to school to sit their final exams), illustrates perfectly, the complacency of our perfidious ruling élites - who seem to have forgotten, so soon, that we are all in the same boat: and that they will never be able to go abroad to be treated in overseas healthcare facilities, were they to contract the COVID-19 virus. Yooooo...
One's fear, as the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by the authorities, is turned into a political football, is that the perfect-storm-combination of the complacency of officialdom and the perfidy of cynical politicians, might result in our healthcare system being overwhelmed, by a sudden surge in the numbers of infected people nationwide.
That is why Ghanaians must stand up to those now in power, over their handling of the effort to contain the COVID-19 global pandemic's tentacles, now encircling Mother Ghana.
This blog boldly predicts that the pandemic will spread uncontrollably, across Ghana, if the concerns of the silent discerning-majority of the citizenry (about the selfish and parochial electoral-concerns of the rulung party's hardliners, being allowed to dominate the thinking of the regime now in power - as opposed to saving our nation from being crippled economically by an out-of-control COVID-19), are ignored. Yoooooo...
Finally, the question we must all ponder over is: If a highly infectious global COVID-19 pandemic, with steadily increasing infection rates across our country, has the potential to overwhelm our healthcare system, and collapse Ghana's national economy, is compiling a new voters register not irresponsible, amoral, unpardonable and untenable? Yooooo...
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