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Frimpongidea of being stuck indoors all day with little to do. Well, I’ve spent some of that time taking notes, and below — presented in no particular order — are my biggest lessons from watching the world burn wrestle almost hopelessly with this challenge.
It isn’t like humans weren’t avoiding each other already, choosing to spend time instead on all the pleasant preoccupations modern technology hands out; we just didn’t think we’d actually have to ‘avoid’ the next person in the strictest sense of the word, not least for the noble purpose of saving the world. For those of us who live alone and are lifelong loners already, we can’t even see the difference. Social distancing, eh? 😏
It all began, I hear, with the choice of meat enjoyed with relish by some in a Chinese port city. Now, given China’s huge population, it’s hardly surprising that the range of delicacies might be quite varied and inclined toward extreme ends, yet, as it turns out, the whole world now experiences the not-so-pleasant aftertaste. Not fair, I know, but there is no accounting for tastes.
Ghanaians, of course, generally are an adventurous lot who could be found nearly everywhere in the world. With the outbreak of COVID-19 and soaring figures regarding the extent to which even the biggest nations have been struck, we’re now only too happy to stay put in our God-given corner of the planet. Even our globetrotting president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo — who, not so long ago, was spotted wandering around the North Pole, all wrapped up — isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but never mind; the rest of the world now find it just as hard coming here, too. All even, right? 🤷🏽♂️
One week without European football has taught me quite a few things I hadn’t realized prior — that books were written to be read, Livescore is a pretty useless app and, wait . . . DStv actually showed movies? — and I’m beginning to think about all the other amazing stuff I’d missed all along. Still, though, I wonder just how long it is before those discoveries cease to hold me spellbound. (Dear football, seriously, when are you returning? 😭)
COVID-19 has killed only a fraction of those who have caught it so far, but the number of the dead — north of 7,000 — is still alarming. Each of those lives matter and should be mourned by the bereaved, indeed, but the world’s population would hardly feel the pinch when it all settles. See, with so many stay-at-homes around the world, couples gon’ get busy and, naturally, babies (‘Coronials’, you said?) — tons of them, I estimate — should be due birth in just under a year’s time. Hopefully, a post-Coronavirus earth would have enough resources to welcome that baby boom.
Covid-19: Vaccines should work against Omicron variant – WHO.
Covid-19: Ghana’s active coronavirus cases drop to 775
Political rallies don’t cause spikes in coronavirus cases – GHS
Covid-19 is not responsible for Rawlings’s death – Kofi Adams
RELIEF: Hearts players and management free from COVID-19, set to play Ashantigold on Tuesday
AfDB Gen Secretary: KIA: $150 for COVID-19 test scary
EC – COVID-19 Ambassadors will be deployed to all polling stations
Big Blow: Three Hearts of Oak players test positive for COVID-19
Beneficiaries of COVID stimulus package will pay back – Ahomka Lindsay