According to various preposterous conspiracy theories, China brought the virus but the beneficiaries are 'likely' to be American; the 'gates' and 'faucis'.
This world is not my home 👣👣

WHO is just telling govts ( indirectly) to start thinking of how to reopen lockdowns and get back to business

Very true. WHO is saying that mass testing, quarantines, curfews and lockdowns are upus. Govts should wait for corona patients at hospitals just like they wait for malaria patients. Magufuli PhD was right.

Not all measures are the same and when they are applied also yield different results.
A good example is "disciplining a child - you discipline them when they are young... if you waste the child's youth - it's pointless to discipline them when they are 21. At that point - just wait for you to be summoned to court or a morgue".
Countries that did not waste time at the beginning of this thing don't have a grown 21-year-old in their midst... amejaa ndevu and you can't even beat them! The difference between New Zealand and Magufuli is "let the kid be - whatever the kid ends up being... shauri yake!". The US tried spanking an 18-year-old. The Kid grows each week wasted in indecision.

I'm glad to have finally learnt the link between climate change and new diseases. Great interview.

It seems even the WHO listened to the voice of reason instead of people (i won't mention any names) who come wielding charts , curves ,graphs and to top it all useless complex mathematics.

Ukweli WHO haitaki upus

Dawa imepatikana. No wonder smokers are less likely to get corona.

https://www.telegraph.co...-19-prompting-nicotine/

Thousands march in Pennsylvania demanding end to lockdown.

Better safe than sorry.

While acknowledging that Correlation doesn't mean Causality - there is a plausible explanation (or at most one of the 'factors') why Black People seem to be dying more from this disease in the higher latitude countries. Vitamin D or at least the deficiency of it. It's a proven fact that Vitamin D really assists in the body fighting respiratory diseases. While black people have lots of biological advantages - synthesis of Vitamin D is not one of them. Why? Melanin! our dark skin (an adaptation to prevent us from dying from skin cancers) prevents us from generating Vitamin D in large quantities when in high latitude countries. Generally - 47% of older people in northern countries are Vitamin D deficient during winter - this number shoots to 84% of older African American men and women. Perhaps this may be that the reason 'seasonal flu' in the US is prevalent in Winter is for the same reason - not everyone is synthesizing Vitamin D (just a theory...). When they compared the cases of people who got infected in a place like Florida vs Northern States like Illinois - Florida has fewer dead people coz of Covid. Florida also has lots more older people and it seems that sitting in the sun may help. Perhaps the lockdowns i.e. keeping people indoors where they cannot synthesize the Vitamin is counterproductive in that way. What needs to be explored is how this observation explains the cases in Australia (it was summer... do they all like staying indoors during the heat of winter?), Ecuador, Brazil are more pronounced in people who are indoors more? Old people and Invalids for example? Young children who play outside in school may fare better because of the mandatory breaks and games times compared to 'hard-working' office people. There are close to 44 countries with 10 active cases or less and most of them are island nations (fish diets and lots of sunshine).

How would this affect us? I reckon most of the people that live by the coasts and eat fish or expose themselves to lots of uninterrupted sunlight would fare better than those who don't. Women in Islamic societies that cover themselves from head to toe would not synthesize the vitamin D. Well - if you work in an office then from the office - you get into a car and never really stay out in the sun - you may not be synthesizing enough Vitamin D regardless of how much sun is out there. we are going into a 'cold' season - most people will be covered kabisa, will stay indoors and my not synthesize enough vitamin D. The West African diet is considered one of the best diets on the planet (rich with fish)... could that explain their low mortality? My advice is while engaging in the well-understood measures - Social Distancing and Avoiding Crowds, Sanitizing Surfaces, Wearing Masks, Staying at home when you can - add a good diet and swallow multi-vitamin tablets. Encourage good diets and vitamin supplements to be taken by your relatives.