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Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Omengboji: 6:36am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Our dear gallant soldiers, pls note its not a death sentence. We got ur back for quick recovery. Just stay calm and do as instructed for medication and u will b healed. And to all others affected, I wish u all fast healing |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Bobbysmicky(m): 6:37am On Mar 30, 2020 |
JamParkMe:U think u made sense? |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by alphaNomega: 6:47am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Fuckkking bloggers Sahara reporters Just like disguy and justwise |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by SpaceAngel: 6:50am On Mar 30, 2020 |
It's good to wash hands after handling money. Think this could be the fastest mode of transmission. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by mvem(m): 6:58am On Mar 30, 2020 |
JamParkMe:guy this is not Ebola...98% of people with coronavirus recovers and test negative within few weeks...hundred of thousands are recovering. It morbidity, that's its spread is the issue not even its potency that is about 1-2%...even your lassa fever has higher mortality rate. You guyz are taking this thing in another way. Thousands are recovering and about 5% end up being severe cases because of old age of they have underlying Ill health...what even kills the few is the pneumonia it causes because it behaves as a flu virus....stop all these misinformation... 1 Like |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by chewwie(m): 7:01am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Ustec:Really? Airborne??! We're in trouble oh! ��� |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by qtx(m): 7:04am On Mar 30, 2020 |
SpecialAdviser: Superlative ignorance of the highest magnitude Please study the Bible and not missal |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by mjay26(m): 7:05am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Read again, the both soldiers returned from a pass, that's is to say the both of them were given a pass out of camp and when they both return has the virus symptom. That doesn't mean it airborne into borno state. Ustec: |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Nobody: 7:07am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Badmod:If you like stay at home, the virus could still walk up to you in your abode via infected currencies. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by francdec4(m): 7:11am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by oweman: 8:02am On Mar 30, 2020 |
FAKE STORY OR WHO CONDUCTED THE TEST . won't be surprised if its posted by ipob agents . |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by XshegzzyeeiX: 8:19am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Skyfornia: |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by omohayek: 9:04am On Mar 30, 2020 |
grandstar:No, the fear is not overhyped at all, but perfectly justified. This is an extremely contagious disease with a fatality rate at least 10 times that of the flu even under the best care, and without said care - as is nearly always the case in poor countries - the death rate can be as high as 6 percent across all populations, meaning something like 10 percent or more in older people. Starting from just 1 infected individual and using a doubling period of 3 days (which is what we're seeing in many western countries right now), it only takes 2 months to get to more than 1 million infected people, and in another 2 weeks that number rises to approximately 20 million people. Can you imagine what that would mean in terms of daily deaths? The scenes you're currently seeing from Spain and Italy would look like child's play by comparison. If anything, I'd say this is a good time to err on the side of panic rather than complacency. The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 that killed 50 million people "only" had a mortality rate of 2.5 percent, and given the state of healthcare and nutrition in most of Africa today, the likelihood of keeping COVID-19 death rates that low is vanishingly slim. This disease has to be nipped in the bud now before the numbers start to spiral out of control, by aggressively testing, contact tracing and isolating. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by IJEYdiamond(f): 9:10am On Mar 30, 2020 |
JamParkMe: Please explain further.. how did their ashes cure coro?? |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Tsam96(m): 9:23am On Mar 30, 2020 |
omohayek: The worst form of misinformation is one delivered with confidence. The fact that u sounded quite serious and quoted statistics will convince anyone reading this. Sadly most of the facts u presented are flawed. For instance, how can u say the Spanish flu had a mortality rate of 2.5%. Pls check and adjust. I'm not saying we shud be complacent tho. In fact now's the time to act so we can curtail the spread and have this episode over once and for all...but spreading misinformation is not going to help matters |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by omohayek: 9:31am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Tsam96:How hard would it have been for you to take your own advice before spouting your ignorance? https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article An estimated one third of the world's population (or ≈500 million persons) were infected and had clinically apparent illnesses (1,2) during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. The disease was exceptionally severe. Case-fatality rates were >2.5%, compared to <0.1% in other influenza pandemics (3,4). Total deaths were estimated at ≈50 million (5–7) and were arguably as high as 100 million (7). https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News) ... The effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5% compared to the previous influenza epidemics, which were less than 0.1%. The death rate for 15 to 34-year-olds of influenza and pneumonia were 20 times higher in 1918 than in previous years (Taubenberger). It takes a particularly intense kind of intellectual disability to boldly accuse others of the very things one is guilty of. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by grandstar(m): 9:58am On Mar 30, 2020 |
omohayek: A lot of the points you made are valid. My chief worry is that paranoia may make finding effective treatments complex. The present methodology used in treating the scourge presently as you've "said" is not pragmatic. Africa will be decimated in no time. We mustn't forget HIV and AIDS in South and East Africa. Does hydroxychloroquine work? Can a hybrid system work where testing or mass testing is commercialized? Private companies involved in mass testing could be paid N5, 000 per person tested for instance by government? Government should target about 100,000 a day, considering South Korea with 44m people does between 15,000 - 20,000 tests daily. If hydroxychloroquine works, patients can be referred to hospitals designated to treat them. You can have treatment centers run by the private sector. They could be found everywhere in the country. What I'm saying is let us think outside the box. I'm not a health professional but what's presently on ground does not give reason to hope. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Tsam96(m): 10:05am On Mar 30, 2020 |
omohayek:Thanks for the update..this is what u aren't getting...u are skimming information. It's making ur arguement sound smart bt u aren't painting an accurate picture and by so doing you are spreading misinformation. You effectively downplayed one of the deadliest flu outbreaks in history just to propagate a fear of the Covid-19. Even by the facts u quoted an estimated 50 million people died from the Spanish flu. That figure could be as high as 100 million by some estimates. (Note: greater than 2.5% and not "only 2.5" like u quoted in the earlier post). That's not to mention the fact that majority of those that died from the Spanish flu were healthy adults in their prime. (U conveniently left that piece of information out too). Also, u mentioned that mortality rate for Covid-19 could've be as high as 10% in older adults. Can u provide the source to that information to sir. Compare the figures to the mortality figures we have today for the Corona virus and it will be obvious to anyone that the Covid-19 no where nears the Spanish flu in fatality. And that's the very reason why I said u are mis-informing people and spreading fear Once again I appreciate your call for action instead of complacency. But pls don't do so while spreading fear. Thank you |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by omohayek: 10:18am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Tsam96:LOL Wut How did you read my "downplaying" anything into what I wrote? How you could possibly have derived the very opposite of what I was getting at from my words leaves me wondering whether you're drunk or merely sub-literate. It serves me right for responding to someone who lacks even a comprehension of basic English! |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Cubia(f): 10:21am On Mar 30, 2020 |
May God have mercy on you. I wish you what you wish others. JamParkMe: |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by omohayek: 10:32am On Mar 30, 2020 |
grandstar:There simply are no treatments, and there aren't likely to be any for at least 6 months, when the first data on ongoing clinical trials will start to come in. This is in fact the reason why "paranoia" is perfectly justified - the only way to avoid mass mortality for an untreatable infectious disease is to act radically and quickly to contain its spread. HIV/AIDS is less problematic for two reasons, namely (i) as a primarily sexually-transmitted disease it is far less infectious, and (ii) we now have effective treatments for it in the form of combination therapy, the cost of which is already heavily discounted and subsidised for poor countries. You can't catch HIV by merely being in the same room with an infected person, while single individuals have been documented to infect dozens of others with COVID-19 at a single event on numerous occasions. These are all important considerations, but they can be considered while also simultaneously taking steps to ensure the virus doesn't spread uncontrollably in the meantime. Deliberation shouldn't be an excuse for inaction, or else you end up with a situation like the one currently in place in the USA, where 2 precious months were wasted in bureaucratic nonsense as the virus ran rampant. While it's nice to have hope, it's not a useful thing to encourage if that hope is built on nothing but wishful thinking, especially if such thinking prevents people from taking preventable measures that can save both their own lives and those of many others. A single careless person who says "why should I worry?" and then goes ahead to act as a spreader can easily become the initial link in a chain involving tens of thousands of people, as we saw with the Shincheonji church in South Korea, so the last thing anyone should want is a false optimism that leads to heedless behavior. We all need to be at our most careful over the next few months, not just for our own sakes but for those of potentially tens or hundreds of other lives each of us could cut short by our personal choices. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Tsam96(m): 10:33am On Mar 30, 2020 |
omohayek: U know for someone so intelligent u manage to throw too much insults into ur arguments... Again I haven't in any way faulted ur comment or it's intention. I only pointed the tendency for anyone reading the original post to react in fear especially given the comparison to the Spanish flu. Data doesn't spread fear. It is it's wrong interpretation that is dangerous. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by omohayek: 10:37am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Tsam96:And your interpretation is as wrong as it's possible to get, since you completely missed the point I was trying to make: COVID-19 is at least as contagious as the great flu of 1918, and maybe twice as dangerous, so yes, anyone with a working brain should be afraid. Putting your head in the sand like an ostrich because you don't want to be afraid doesn't make the cause for that fear magically go away; it is the height of illogic to say that hard evidence should be discounted because you find it frightening. 1 Like |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Tsam96(m): 10:39am On Mar 30, 2020 |
omohayek: You see what I'm saying... Covid is just as contagious as the Spanish flu. You claiming it's twice as fatal is the issue here... |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by usah4(m): 10:44am On Mar 30, 2020 |
Please help give the virus to Boko Haram |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Tsam96(m): 10:48am On Mar 30, 2020 |
omohayek:I guess it's the CFR that's causing the confusion with ur comparison of both cases..you can go through the article below for context. The author puts it's better than I could have ever explained it here. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/covid-19-is-nothing-like-the-spanish-flu/amp Data doesn't confuse people. Interpretation does... |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Insectkiller: 12:24pm On Mar 30, 2020 |
Every person that has contracted Corona shld be given a gun to go to Sambisa and fight Boko.. Atleast..it's better to die killing 1 or 2 Boko..than to just die like a coward by Corona. Just thinking aloud... |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by mechanics(m): 12:42pm On Mar 30, 2020 |
The numbers of COVID-19 cases is now 111 plus the soldier's making it 113. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by Nobody: 1:56pm On Mar 30, 2020 |
JamParkMe:Stop saying rubbish |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by JamParkMe: 2:16pm On Mar 30, 2020 |
willyjacs: I will ask them to shoot up enough potassium to stop my heart, cremated my body and bury my ashes 100km underground in a remote village. It's best I go alone than start a chain of events that will infect 100+ people. Unlike you and many others, I'm not selfish. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by JamParkMe: 4:00pm On Mar 30, 2020 |
mvem: Yes. Best we eliminate those who tested positive before they infect the elderly with chronic comorbidities. |
Re: Two Nigerian Soldiers Test Positive For Coronavirus In Borno by ReeLoaDead(m): 4:16pm On Mar 30, 2020 |
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