LAGOS – It will amount to a child’s play if laws are made and not followed to the letter; the government and its agencies should ensure they are fully complied with.
Relating this to rules and protocols to checkmate the raging Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), it appears that the governments and regulatory bodies have gone into slumber in enforcing the COVID-19 protocols.
Despite the warnings from the experts that the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic will be more deadly, the masses are behaving as if all is well.
It was gathered that at the moment, all the regulations and protocols relating to the pandemic are no longer obeyed. Social distancing and the use of facemask have been jettisoned majorly among the transporters and the commuters.
Observers have hammered it repeatedly that the importance of our means of transportation to the spread of COVID-19 should not be underestimated. And, for the country not to be plunged into another surge of the pandemic, regulators need to awake from their sleep and tackle the flagrant disobedient, trivial attitudes to COVID-19 rules. The use of facemasks and maintaining social distancing at the parks, in commuter’s buses, and bus stops should be made compulsory.
It is funny to know that some people keep facemask in their pockets, some wear it on their jaws while in public places. Those were practices Saturday INDEPENDENT observed among the masses in Lagos State metropolis and its Ogun State’s neighbouring towns.
A food vendor, Madam Folasade in Ishaga area of Lagos, who refused to be photographed while alighting from a tricycle, said it was an act of punishment to be forcing people to wear masks. ‘’Why are you comparing us with the big men who always jet out of the country? It is their own cup of tea. We don’t have any virus, they should allow us to breathe fresh air and stop punishing with their imposed mask,’’ the woman said.
To avoid another lockdown, which may spell socio-economic woe, government at the various levels and its regulators need to act and tame the inglorious trends by creating more awareness on the pandemic and enforce the laws where necessary.
