China Devastating Sneeze And The Consequences Of A Deadly Global Cold By Emeka Monye

Emeka Monye

Late December, 2019, a new virus was discovered and was announced by a Chinese Doctor, Li Wenliang. He warned of the coronavirus in December, but the Chinese government did not take him seriously, instead arrested him for “spreading fake news” as the government made the Chinese people to believe.

The pandemic which was first reported in the small city of Wuhan, in Hubei Province in China, is an on-going pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome has been renamed, covid-19, which means Coronavirus Disease 2019, the year in which it was first discovered.

It is spreading very fast across the globe, killing thousands of people and the World Health Organisation, WHO, has subsequently declared it a global pandemic. As at April 2, 2020, more than 937,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in over 200 countries and territories, resulting in approximately 47,200 deaths. More than 194,000 people have recovered.

This is a disease that was first discovered in a small Chinese city; That city sneezed and today, the entire globe is suffering from such a devastating cold. Governments all over the world have shutdown; businesses, companies, traders, commerce, schools and gone under.

doctor who fell victim to China’s coronavirus … “spreading rumours” in late December 2019.

If only Chinese government had taken that sneeze seriously, perhaps, the world would not have been suffering from this devastating cold which has led to the deaths of many people who might have been living till date. the sneeze could have been prevented from spreading; China had the tools – information- of preventing it, but they failed to use it wisely; thinking that it was one of the “supposed”m “fake” news that is associated with the internet. But come to think of it, How could china, a technologically advanced nation, be so daft as to think that such news would be coming out from a professional who understands the ethos of his medical profession?

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Today, the pandemic has led to severe global socio-economic disruptions, including the postponement or outright cancellation of sporting, religious and cultural events. Prices of crude oil have nose-dived in the international oil market and widespread fears of supply shortages resulting in panic buying. Misinformation and conspiracy theories about the virus have spread online as well as xenophobia and discrimination against Chinese people and Asian descent have become the order of the day.

Like Martin Luther King (Jr), who didn’t “sneeze” when he was attacked in Memphis, Tennessee , and so his life was spared; if China had not sneezed by taking serious the warning of the Doctor, maybe the casualties resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, would not have been this high.

Indeed, China therefore has a lot of explanations to make regarding this pandemic.

Emeka Monye works for www.lagoscityreporters.com

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