THE ALMIGHTY EBOLA- a sarcasm to those who do not know their God: I was waiting for my luggage just yesterday when I decided to talk with a long-known-friend (if any expression like that). When I told her I was at the airport, she screamed and hoped it wasnt Lagos airport- someone just died of Ebola there! I assured her I was coming into Abuja from a different state in Nigeria. She then told me about Ebola. Not that I havent heard a bit about it, but that I didnt until then have the details she gave me and the interest to read more about Ebola. Before I got to Google, a mail was already waiting for me: my big sisters husband is a Dr, consultant. He sent her Ebola mail, she forwarded it to me. I read with weight and depression so much about Ebola. From the discussion with my friend, to the mail, to Google, heres the crux of this broadcast message: The true meaning of Ebola 1- No more familiarity with strangers and loved ones because loved ones could get familiar with strangers, collect Ebola and give us. No matter how much you love anybody, your life first. 2- Ebola means no more touching of anything or anyone. For instance, you cant just laugh and hit someone jokingly or let someone hit you. Your mechanic cannot test-drive your car after service or repair: you dont know whether him waka go near Lagos airport. 3- no more collecting money from people ; Ebola likes dirty things and Nigerian money na one of them. Even from Central Bank, as long as someone else has touched the money, you cant risk it. 4. Ebola....chai! No more ATM because na people dey pack the money and they fit don get Ebola we no know. 5- with Ebola, no more buying meat from Mallam (or fish from mama Nkechi or amala from Iya Iyabo or anything from anybody) again because even people wey kill the cow or the cow itself may be Ebolish. 6- Ebola means you will not go to any mosque or church again because your neighbours may sweat and transfer the virus freely to you. Na salvation we go find for those places no be virus 7- no more school for your children because the papa of their classmates go fit don get Ebola while coming in from America, give the mama during night prayers, and the children got it as she was preparing them for school. 8- Ebola? No more visitors and you too will not visit anybody because youre a suspect too . If you manage allow someone visit you, you have to quarantine the fellow throughout his or her stay. 8- As for collecting peoples phone, ipad, tabs etc, Ebola says NO! You cant give yours or collect theirs. You no know where them waka enter neither do we trust you. 8- Ebola also means no carrying of your new born baby by those who are supposed to celebrate with you. No o. If they must, you give them sanitiser to bath with because if na to just rub for hand, how sure are we that Ebola no dey under their clothes? 9- Be not deceived, God is not mocked, whatsoever any body dashes you, dont collect! Even brand new car because apart from the driver who drove it to your house, who may have been infected, how about the company that manufactured it? You know whether na Ebola patients do the upholstery and finishings. 10- if your husband or wife has cold or malaria or any symptoms of Ebo or something you dont understand, quarantine am. Its better for one person to die than a whole family. Dont let anybody blackmail you with you dont love me. Love is not synonymous with lack of wisdom. If youre not sure where your husband is coming from, quarantine yourself. At least, no one should blackmail you for quarantining your own self. 11- no more laundry man, house boy or girl, driver or cook, gardener or security. All these people, their personal hygiene is not worth your own life! 12- Ebola has just arrived so dont attend to any body who has just arrived. Eg Arrival Halls at airports and bus parks. Even if they come to your house, dont mind them. If you choose to, quarantine them. Make your personal prison and name it QUARANTINE QUARTERS. Who no want make e dey go. Your own is to make s[truncated by WhatsApp]
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 08:14:06 +0000