As people go back to their old tricks – Ebola Here I Stay
As the government decides to allow the people to be moving from one end to the other; the people have started doing just that but amazing in the exercise is that people in some areas are totally going against the bylaws imposed by authorities at all levels.
Last Thursday and Friday I travelled to Bo by road and on arrival and during my two days stay in the Bo township all I observed is that people look like putting aside on their own all measures taken before to contain the spread of the EVD.
They are now shaking hands openly loading 3 passengers on bikes in the township, hugging each other, allowing commercial vehicles to take more than three passengers in small cars and occupying all seats in the buses including the overloading benches in the corridors from Freetown to Bo and Kenema without any objection by the police or the passengers themselves.
Customers queue in Banks behind each other without leaving any space in between for hours before they could be attended to as if we are still in the middle of the 20th century.
When I asked one stake holder in Bo town last Friday 30th January 2015 said: “People are no longer care here whether there is Ebola or not as they see it as mere money making strategy while the masses depend only on their day by day hard earnings”, let whosoever is going to die, dies and whosoever is going to live, lives as we are tired of this thing called EBOLA!” he concludes.
“This behavior in return could unexpectedly escalate the spread of the EVD or kick start any recurrence sooner or later of the deadly diseases in the mere future”, one anonymous interviewee suggests!!!!!!
Many other citizens when asked by this medium cast the blame on the government in case anything goes wrong for calling off the restrictions of movement between chiefdoms and regions too early, without conducting any public opinion on the matter.
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