Nnamdi Obiaraeris RANDOM THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC INFORMATION, HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES 24 HOURS AFTER THE EBOLA SCARE SALT WATER BATH, IMMERSION, CONSUMPTION SCARE, SCAM AND CON! IN THE BEGINING It revealed how gullible and unenlightened we are as a nation. Yes, we were rattled and scared stiff. It has revealed that not even the educated is free from the blight of palpable ignorance and hysteria. Yes, ignorance has no barrier but education should serve as a tool of empowerment and enlightenment. It has revealed that there is no nationally approved and recognized or reliable medium for dissemination of important information on public health, public morality and public security issues. Yes, we gather our information from any source the most potent being rumour and other variants of unprocessed information from beer parlours, free readers association at newspaper stands, Okada riders, Molue and Keke drivers. It has shown that we are vulnerable as a nation and as individuals because a major national disaster was precipitated by that wicked, malicious and unfounded scare and scam. Yes, relations were anxious about the safety of their loved ones and some unfortunate people died from wrong application of the wrong salt and hot water Ebola cure prescription. TRUTH IS >>>If you transmitted the scare info whether wittingly and or unwittingly, you have peddled unfounded rumour and should ask for forgiveness and learn to cross-check next time. If you resisted the allure, you deserve a national award but in the interim give yourself a pat on the chin! >>>if you did not receive the salt and hot water information from either a parent, relation, loved one, friend, neighbor or casual acquaintance, it means you are on your own and need to re-evaluate your lifestyle. Regrettable as it is, you are an Island and nobody deserves to be an Island. >>>The telecommunication companies laughed to the Bank at the peril of the hapless masses and you can be sure they will be looking forward to such a doom inspired windfall soonest. Ditto for the poor merchants of salt who wished endlessly that they had bigger supply. >>>The Ebola disease scare is still with us as some unscrupulous spiritualists and commercial religious leaders and voodoo men are waiting to take their own pound of flesh from the hordes of curious adherents littering our land. >>>The FGN is at the last count making good effort to tackle the killer disease and the citizens must reciprocate by appropriate buy in efforts and strategies. ONE LAST WORD ....State and Local Governments, autonomous Communities, Public institutions, and religious bodies and the like must adopt proactive measures and not reactive measures on the disease and associated illnesses by massive enlightenment campaigns, clean up exercises, refuse disposal, personal hygiene (no more indiscriminate #eating of akara or #buying of corn from the roadside sellers near dirty gutters) etc. ...We must offer a word of prayer to the dead and those afflicted including safety of all the Medical and Health Officers who by call to duty are exposed or likely to be exposed to this and other hazards. ...We must think public health and safety next time we want to pull any joke, or make fun or undertake an excursion in tomfoolery. >>>Since all of us are potential victims if the scourge continues unabated, GOD FORBID, we must live sensibly and responsibly as we await a cure to the dreaded Ebola outside the fake Salt and Hot water solution scam or scare that it is! SO HELP US GOD#NextSenator
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 06:26:36 +0000
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