Monday, 1 February 2021

Does The Spike In Active COVID-19 Cases Result Directly From The December 2020 Election Campaign Rallies?

Ghana is now increasingly gaining notoriety, as a nation of unparalled-impunity, in which a wealthy and politically well-connected few, get away with destroying forests, in fulfillment of their greedy ambitons. Yet, we are also aware that forest-loss, invariably results, in an increase in zoomatic diseases. Amazing.


The question is: As an aspirational people, what should we do, to enable us plan effectively and and efficiently, strategically, so that we can, more or less, permanently, live with COVID-19, instead of allowing it to destroy our national economy, through repeated lockdowns?


For example,  instead of Veronica buckets, and tissue paper, we can incentivise  local manufacturers, to produce barrel-type wash-stations, with sensor-activated automatically-dispensed running water, for hand-washing, and hot air, for hand-drying, nationwide, through the use of tax incentives. 


And, for institutions such as banks, schools, supermarkets, etc.,  etc., which are regularly visited by large numbers of people, locally manufactured  airport-style walk-through-arches, which spray  disinfectants,  would help check the spread of COVID-19, in Ghana.


Above all, we must ban spitting in  public places, and, as an alternative to galamsay, provide Ghana's base-of-the-pyramid demographic's youth, with green economy opportunities, such as growing industrial hemp, to produce flax cloth, hemp blocks for building and to manufacture vehicle dashboards. 


Finally, we must be brutally frank: The spike in Ghana's active COVID-19 case count, results, directly, mostly from the massive December 2020 election campaign rallies, which were all  super-spreader-events. We must call spades, spades, for once - and not resort to euphemisms. Haaba.










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