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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