Opinion: The Orphans of Coronavirus, By Owei Lakemfa
Not just those who lay helpless in hospitals, homes and isolation centres, hoping to survive or waiting for death. They are not only the doctors and nurses, pharmacists and technologists, radiographers and medical workers who, in a universal war of life or death, have led humanity while the generals hid behind their white overalls. The victims are not just the babies delivered into the world only to be caught by the virus.
The victims are not just the innocent forced to go to work, so the wheels of capitalism can be oiled, only to return home, bringing the virus to their families. The orphans include business owners whose investments went down the drain, traders who can no longer trade and workers who have become unemployed. They include pilots and flight engineers, beautiful air hostesses and handsome flight attendants, who have been grounded across the world, and may never fly again, even if some of the aircrafts return to the air.
However, profiting from the virus is allowable in a dog-eat-dog system. More so, when China, the fall guy, is very rich. Its GDP in 2019 was $14.3 trillion and its natural resources is estimated at $23 trillion. As such, people in a number of countries, from United States to India, Germany to Nigeria, are falling on themselves to sue China for huge sums based on their claimed collapse of businesses and income loss.
So, the Nigerian case is very dear to my heart and I like its boldness. The claimants simply wrote China, telling it to pay them the $200 billion by June 1 or “We shall have no option but to commence appropriate legal action against your country in Nigeria.” It is like someone holding a gun to your head and saying: ‘Your money or a legal suit?’
Secondly, there is no scientific evidence anywhere that COVID-19 is an artificial virus. Thirdly, it insults the intelligence of Nigerians, an highly educated and quite knowledgeable people, that a group of otherwise literate Nigerians would parrot the unintelligent gibberish of President Donald Trump that COVID-19 is a “Chinese virus.”
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