Extreme
anti-hopist gambit… Competence
can’t be faked
I
will start today from an unrelated development. On 27/8/21, I saw a report on
the front page of ThisDay that the author and finisher of Hopism,
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state had declared free marriage between Fulani
settlers and Imo ladies, undertaking to offset the bride prices and imposing
stiff penalties on reluctant parents. I was dazed and wondered whether this was
another principle of Hopism. Anyway, I opened a file for the story, placed it
on the queue, to be interrogated when time and space permitted, which may be in
the next 6 months or even a year. Before
long, there were disclaimers all over the place, from ThisDay itself and from
numerous others who now showed the original and fake ThisDay publications for
the same day. Around that period, there
were also pictures of a fully turbaned
Hope (which may also be fake!) You see, I am not a journalist and I
depend mostly on published reports. And whenever I confirm a report from the
likes of Guardian, BusinessDay, ThisDay, Vanguard, Punch, Channels, AIT, I am
at peace. This is an eye opener. I know that the ‘mathemagics’
of Uzodinma’s ascendance created serious ‘hopeless’ ( anti-Hope)sentiments in
the state and indeed, ana-Igbo. He has
been accused of recklessly pursuing
the fulanisation of
Imo State as a payback for his magical electoral victory. However, I never
imagined that somebody would go to this extent just to ‘show him’. The
perpetrators forgot, as our people would say, that that you do not lie
about a place that could easily be visited. This is an
extreme anti-hopist
gambit and they have given the great Lai another bullet in his multidimensional
war against fake news, hate speech and social media. I am still in shock but I
have learnt a lesson: Caveat Emptor. Meanwhile, competence cannot be faked as
in the case of fine-boy,
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, who has just been appointed as Deputy DG of WHO(
Health Emergency Intelligence). This may be in recognition of his leadership of
the Nigerian Coro challenge. May he not
forget his roots as I wish to remind him that the reward for hard work is more
work! Now back to business.
Coro has been coming and going like Abiku, these three
seasons. More worrisome is that each new season emerges with new
and more wicked variants, which readily confound our medical systems and hit
the people below the belt. The data from everywhere is scarry as more and more people are
afflicted and affected, directly or
collaterally. Nigeria had a single-day record of 1149 cases(18/8/21), the
highest since early 2020 and7246 fresh infections and 85 Coro-induced deaths in the 12 days from 16th to 27th
August, with Lagos, A/Ibom and Rivers as the key drivers. 39366009 people have
been vaccinated (as at 27/8/21) and we received 129264 doses from UK
in August (the usual ‘papa-dash-me’)while NAFDAC has
announced that Nigeria would soon start
manufacturing its own vaccines. However, our vaccination record is poor
at 0.69% fully vaccinated as against Egypt, (9%),Ghana (1.3%)S-Africa, (6.7%) Kenya (2.5%) and Togo,(2%). On the other hand, WHO has
ranked Nigeria 4th best in response to the second phase of vaccination with more resources and
logistics. This is as the FGN has lined up at least N36bn for the 3rd
wave and has committed about N1.5trn in the war against Coro since onset.
Reports
on vaccines across the globe is still far from comforting as the Pfizer vaccine
is just 39% effective in Israel where the Delta variant ( now in 90
countries)is dominant though it is still 88% effective against hospitalization
and 91% against severe illness while generally, it drops to 84% after 6
months. But it is still good business
for Pfizer which had sold $7.8bn covid shots in the second quarter. As some
countries are forcing their citizens to be jabbed, Biden is suggesting that
people be paid $100 to jab( N52700!!). If Nigeria would offer 10% of this sum,
surely many vaccine-hesitant Nigerians would repent.
Meanwhile, Lagos State now consumes
about 400 oxygen cylinders daily( up from 75 when this wave started) and about 1100 returnees had absconded from
isolation centers and as it happened in the two previous phases, our big men
are succumbing to the virus, including Ona Ekhomu, a security expert whom we
hosted on ‘Electrocom Half-Our’ (our rested TV program) on the
deployment of technology for security management, Professor Bankole Oke( whose
death amongst others forced UI to go virtual) and Mohammed Fawehinmi. This
shows that it is not yet uhuru. But our people still ignore the
anti-Coro protocols, as it happened at the Buhari wedding of the other day.
Yusuf Wedding:Poor Distancing Prof Oke Ekhomu Fawehinmi
POTUS Biden is proposing a booster shot after 8 months of vaccination.
This evidences that vaccines are not cure-all.
Just the other day, Reginald Shepperson, a Southwest Airlines flight
attendant died of Coro, even after being
doubly jabbed. Anti-vaccine fellows would say: I told you so! But
no vaccine has been adjudged 100% efficacious.
A vaccine with 95% efficacy implies that for every 100 jabbed, 5 may
still be coronised. That means that if the entire 8bn people in
the world were fully vaccinated, about 400m still stand the risk of being coronised
and that is a better statistics that lets say the entire 8bn being at risk
There are other interesting developments about Coro around the globe and I will start with Nigeria where an APC chieftain Up-north had wished that Coro had killed our President( this is condemnable) . The Ministry of Petroleum has also announced that Coro has reduced the cost of oil production in Nigeria. I don’t know how it came to be but that is it. In Pennsylvania, Margaret Ann Cirko will spend 2 years in prison for purposely coughing and spitting on $35000 worth of fresh produce, bakery and meat items shouting “I have the virus, now you are all going to get sick.” The shop had to dispose of these items.
Margret Cirko: a prank gone sour…… Stephen Harmon & Dr
Karanjo
In California,
Stephen Harmon of the Hillsong megachurch, who
mocked Coro vaccines died after a
month-long battle with the virus and in Kenya Stephen Karanja, an anti-vaccine
doctor died of Coro. Meanwhile, peoples’ phones had been hacked by fraudsters
who claim to be NCDC operatives while people have been advised to wear masks
because at least, it would save them from the embarrassment of their creditors
or spouses, (especially when they are engaged in unholy games), who would not recognize them along the road. Coro
is real, it is still around and is deadly. Take care!
Conspiracy Theories & Vaccine Hesistancy by Professor Uchenna Nwosu, Odenigbo Igbo-Ukwu
I have written on this matter, especially
after my own double-jabbing but it has continued unabated. The most recent was
a report that Bill Gates has called for the withdrawal of all Coro Vaccines
because they are ‘far more dangerous that anyone imagined. It was
a published document but the publishers declared that it was a SATIRE. Yet
people have flooded all the media-space with it, especially, the online media
where everybody is the reporter, subeditor, editor, quality controller and
Editor-in-Chief all in one. Already, a vaccine propelled ‘civil-war’ is brewing in Edo
state between the government, which has ordered that those without vaccines would
not have access to public facilities( Ondo has also made it compulsory),
and a coalition of ‘human right
activists’ led by Kola Edokpayi who had declared that any attempt to force Edo
people to be jabbed ‘shall be
vehemently resisted’. A high court has already restrained the governor
from enforcing compulsory vaccination. I am doubly jabbed and I have no regrets about that. Some people may
also not want to be jabbed (only two of us are jabbed in my family of six!) and
so be it. What I find inexplicable is that those who do not want to be jabbed
are consciously confusing, confounding
and frightening others with all
sorts of anti-vaccine stories, some of which are fabricated. In other climes, there are strong
demonstrations against anti-Coro measures, which they see as infringing on
their human rights.
Anti-Coro
Demonstrations…… Pastor Wiseman & his kit
Pastor Wiseman, a Kenyan
and GO of Bishop Climate Ministries,
London has just been arraigned for
fraud and unfair trading practices for selling "plague protection
kits" for £91 to his congregants as protection against Coro. The
kit contained a small bottle of oil and a red yarn. In Germany, an anti-vaccine
nurse went to the extreme of swapping covid vaccines with saline solutions.
Thus, about 8600 people ‘vaccinated’ by her were in effect, not vaccinated and
they have been advised to do it again!
In China, about 47 officials working in Local Governments, health facilities
and airports have been punished for not doing enough to curtail the spread of
coro..
Anyway, as I
promised in my last Coro-related intervention, here are the brief but
scientifically-based views of Professor Uchenna Nwosu, Medical Director of Apex
Group Specialists on this matter. He intervened when this matter became a hot
one in some of the platforms where I operate. Hear him:
First, let me say
that there are rules for a scientific experimentation or demonstration: It is
carried out and verified in the open. It is not done in privacy, to be followed
by public demonstration of the result; a control is usually included and the
experiment must be reproducible at all times in similar situations. What makes
these COVID-19 post vaccination demonstrations look more like transparent
propaganda rather than scientific experiments are as follows: 1. Even
before COVID-19 reared its ugly spike
glycoprotein attachments the concept of vaccination had already become
politicized by various groups in
promotion of their parochial interests. 2. COVID-19 issue has become an
ideological/religious battle in US between the anti-vaccine white
supremacists/religious right and the rest of the society, now morphing between
the Red States (largely anti-COVID vaccination) and the Blue States (largely
pro COVID vaccination). This ugly battle has left those who do not have in
depth understanding of the functioning of the human body not just confused, but
dazed. 3. Unlike what obtained in the past century, the COVID-19 vaccines were
derived by different principles: some by using the entire viral particle (old
time-tested method use by Astra Zeneca) others by using the viral product
called messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) of the new method (Pfizer).Now for the
claimed absurd side effects, it is well known that the nervous system of the
body has a nano voltage (extremely small) electrical system. However if the
body were to become fully electrically conductive or magnetized as portrayed in
the anti-vaccination videos: a) One would be self-electrocuted instantly; b)
Cardiac arrhythmias would provide another path to instant death; c) of course,
one's inherent brain nano circuits would be burnt out, and not be functioning
normally as I see in those demonstrations; d). one could not be interacting
freely with conductive metal objects while having an essentially powerful
electricity generator inside the body - enough to light a garden variety light
bulb at that and e). lightning, which is a powerful source of atmospheric
electricity, would be killing thousands of COVID-vaccinated people daily -
especially since they do not carry thunder/lightning protectors with them. Finally,
please note that in this age of digital photography, holograms and ultrarealistic simulations anything can be
made to appear real. Do not be fooled. We are no longer in the age of analogue
photography, when what you saw was how it really was!!!!!!!!"Onye
aghowulu ka agbalu".( the person who is fooled or deceived has lost
the game). I have had the viral particle-based Astra Zeneca vaccine as primary
in Nigeria, and the mRNA-based Pfizer
vaccine as my booster in USA (the so-called mix and match vaccination approach)
with no adverse effect whatsoever - other than very transient mild tenderness
at the injection sites for 2 or 3 days, no different from what I experience
with my annual flu vaccinations. Nothing to add because as we say in
the academia, The Prof has spoken!
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