Kenyans Let Guard Down Amid Worrying Spike Of COVID-19 Infections

It is not how fast you start into a race but it is how well you keep your momentum to the end, Kenyans were once soldiers in the fight against COVID-19 but our lack in maintaining self-isolation is slowly turning us to helpless victims of our own habits.

When Kenya registered its first COVID-19 case on March 13th, 2020, Kenyans retreated to the safety of their homes and we all foresaw a win against the fight, we were gallant soldiers that were sure would not go down in history as we had seen in Italy.

Schools were immediately shut down after the first COVID-19 case was announced, it was one case and the government’s excuse was the country’s healthcare system was too faulty to withstand a crisis such as a viral outbreak, discussions to have them open with already more than 800 positive cases are now on.

Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha is now under pressure to give a tentative date when schools can reopen even as the numbers that used to be reported of COVID-19 have scaringly

Matatus were ordered to carry a maximum of 60 percent of passengers, to fumigate after every trip, and ensure every passenger sanitized before boarding the vehicles, the measure is now becoming cumbersome as the idea of COVID-19 is being regularized never mind the country has 50 deaths as per now.

Markets, the mama mboga got the masks after Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe warned that Kenyans would bury each other in big numbers if they did not adhere to the Ministry of Health’s guidelines and behold the market traders begun wearing masks but a few weeks later when numbers have ballooned, the masks rest on their chin.

The water jerricans outside shops and restaurants are mostly dry or faulty with tiny pieces of bar soaps next to them, some are even fetching the water from faulty water pipes near sewage farrows which often end up mixing with sewage water, as long as the directive for the government to fight COVID-19 is met.

The town centers, well those are now back to being crowded with old disgusting habits such as spitting back and worse as whenever one feels as if their mouth is dirty they spit in the name of spiting the virus in the scenario that they got it around their lips, ignorance is bliss, they said.

Do not be surprised to notice people coughing or sneezing into the open air or rubbing their noses with bare hands, old habits have slowly returned and the consequences are dire, this means an increase in the rate of COVID-19 transmission which translates in an increase of infected people.

An increase in COVID-19 infections translates to an increase in deaths which results in an increase in the number of orphans, the gaps in the job market, and every other aspect of life but do Kenyans really care, the change in behavior says they don’t.

The notion that for Kenyans flooding the streets it’s a choice between starvation and COVID-19 is totally misleading and untrue, most Kenyans are going out for leisure, to meet and hung out with friends, to be out and be witnesses of what is happening and simply because, for them, the law is created to be broken.

Each government owes a responsibility to its people but each individual owes themselves and those around them some level of responsibility, the cost of ignorance in the fight against COVID-19 is the death of those we love most so it is probably time we shut the politics among ourselves and be intentional on saving lives during this COVID-19 pandemic.

In Mombasa, the 35 cases are distributed in the following estates;

✅Mvita 22,
✅Likoni 4
✅Changamwe 3
✅ Nyali 3
✅Kisauni 2 cases and
✅Jomvu 1 case. #KomeshaCorona update

— Ministry of Health (@MOH_Kenya) May 17, 2020

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