Persisting COVID-19 pessimism
Keen observers since the outbreak in this country, of the coronavirus pandemic will admit high level of publicity and public sensitization on the dangers of the scourge. The media are suffused with materials on the reality of the pandemic, its dangers to human co-habitation, the high death toll in various parts of the world and the fact that no known cure has yet been found for the viral disease.
This trend can even be discerned from publicity messages by relevant organs and agencies of the government in both conventional and unconventional media platforms. It is also evident from the ambivalence of a great percentage of the population to the protocols to keep the disease at bay. The same tendency is no less perceptible from raging doubts on the reality of the pandemic despite escalating infections across the country.
A classic case came from Delta Government House, Asaba last week when two prominent sons of the state came public to testify on their experiences with the disease while in isolation centre. The two survivors: Austin Eruotor and Jerry Azinge were unanimous that Covid-19 is real even as they urged the public to strictly adhere to the relevant protocols for protection and to curb the disease.
All these underscore a groundswell of public doubt on the reality of the pandemic. So many people including well educated people still live in self denial of the reality of the pandemic even in the face of daily escalation of infection rate and the attendant death roll. Why this has remained so despite facts on the ground and events around the world remains largely puzzling.
Many of us know there is Covid-19. But many people do not trust the government and its officials. It is this distrust that is rubbing off negatively on the campaign. One major source of this doubt is the figures being rolled out by the PTF on the number of those that have tested positive.
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