Let’s Borrow Common Sense -By Tife Owolabi

Staying healthy this period means avoiding information overload with slim data because Covid-19 has indeed opened a lot of can of worms with different commentaries and verbal diarrhea coming from every quarter particularly from the  hallowed pulpits turning Covid-19 into a jackass. 

Even the governments responses and management of cases haven’t help at all going by what  we see at the isolation centers in some states . The whole thing is becoming a joke, child’s play and charade.

This is why it  is good we educate ourselves here . The novel virus also as coronavirus treatments differ from cases to cases and because you are treated with malaria drugs doesn’t make it malaria . If the diagnosis is different, the treatment will also be different. You can’t transfer malaria to another person but not with Covid 19 . It is  a communicable and transferable disease that is why it is called a virus.  

Also, there is no reason listening to people who have little or no  knowledge about medical field who pontificate on it even though they are pastors with Ph.D. and speaks queens English. Note, that you are not stupid because of what comes into your mouth but what comes out of your mouth.

Lastly, as Leo Igwe will puts it ”The prophets of the new religion are scientists, doctors, and researchers. Their advice and instructions are the new revelations. The new churches and mosques are the laboratories and research centers.However, the new religion is a contingent phenomenon. It appears when there is a global threat and disappears when the threat that caused its emergence expires. The common-sense religion holds sway as long as the threat is out there, as is the case now with the coronavirus. Thus as the new prophets try to find a cure or vaccine for COVID-19, the common-sense religion holds sway.”

Please beware of those Pulpit Merchants  who quickly want to get back to business. They say why will markets  be opened and churches are closed. Simply, man can not survive without food but not with the church. God sent birds to feed Prophet Elijah went he was being chased by an enemy in a hideout and our most savior Jesus Christ was attempted with all manners because he was fasting. The devil wanted him to break his fast knowing how important food is to the body. Science has it that you can not survive without food and water above 10 days. Markets (food items) are essentials and  being religious or spiritual is optional.

So, the new order is to borrow common sense and not what your pastor or papa says. An educated person can be naive, gullible and brainwashed and don’t be amused by those adherents of the conspiracy theories on the Covid 19 even if they are Pastors with PhD . Animals dey wear Coats and Agbada according to Late Fela Anikulapo. 

Tife Owolabi+2348064698045Journalist Niger Delta@tifeowolabi facebook.com/Tife Owolabi ” if it bleeds it leads”…