Lockdown in Africa – is the treatment worse than the disease?

Sub-Saharan Africa is following the lead of world governments except there is no safety government nets, poverty and hunger is in full swing and the stupidity, brutality and criminality of their police forces is breath taking. Plus there is Malaria to consider too:

In Uganda, police have shot lockdown breakers:

Five policemen were arrested in Rwanda on suspicion of beating up local men and raping their wives,

In Kenya, police shot dead a 13-year-old boy for playing on his balcony a few minutes after the beginning of the curfew.

Despite many Western media outlets showering the South African government with praise for its supposed “ruthlessly efficient” response to the coronavirus, videos have emerged of police firing rubber bullets on crowds, and the government’s own police complaints agency is currently investigating the case of a man beaten to death with a hammer for leaving his home to buy some beer.

The number of accounts like these could fill a small book already, and quarantine has only been in place for a little over a month.

To make matters worse, several agencies have warned that if African countries fail to keep up their efforts in combating other deadly diseases due to the lockdowns, many more lives could be at risk.

The World Health Organization, for instance has said that if states fail to maintain the delivery of insecticide-treated mosquito nets or keep up the supply of antimalarial medicines, approximately 770,000 Africans could die of malaria this year. That figure would be more than twice the number of malaria deaths recorded in 2018.

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By any measure, comparatively, most of Africa is the worst place in the world. Always.