Fear, Politics and Virus
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By their nature, governments feel like governments mostly only when they do dramatic things that affect many people for good or for ill. Governments sometimes feel more important when their leaders can make sudden pronouncements to shut down borders, close airports, curtail immigration, limit the movements of peoples within and across state boundaries and generally invade private living rooms to hector people or tell them how to live their lives on television.
On closer look, over an 80 day period of open encounter with Covid-19, it means that an average of 2.5 Nigerians have died daily from Covid-19. Similarly, an average of 62.8 Nigerians have been infected on a daily basis. If we were to spread the total infected population across the states equally, it means that only 138 persons in each state have been infected by the virus. The daily infection rate in 80 days per state is 1.78 persons.
The recent relaxation of the lockdown regime has freed the people from the vice grip of fear. In the first one week of freedom, people have trooped out in mass to embrace life, return to scaled down economic activities and generally defy even the much needed social distancing. In Lagos, the traffic is back, the crowds in markets and bus stops have returned. Gradually, some junior staff and domestic workers have resumed work in stages.
Nearer home, the Covid-19 emergency has bred some illegitimate political offspring. Impunity and willful transgressions against the constitution are rife. For instance, no one is sure that in declaring lockdowns on Lagos, Federal Capital Territory and Ogun state the President did not violate the constitution which ordinarily gives those powers to the states and territories except in a formally declared national emergency.
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