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COVID-19: My position to the struggle for Schools in Nigeria to be reopened - Chidike Edmond

My position to the struggle for Schools in Nigeria to be reopened is clearly based on the #NewNormal we must accept.  Is markets and religious centers safer? Will people from high risk state not find their ways to these social events? Questions I have been challenged with but here is my view:  Neither the church nor market is safe following that people will surely make contact... For the markets, the methodology employed in our local market I can vote it even of higher risk. The best is to even keep it lockdown but I tell you this bitter truth; if you totally lockdown our markets, many Africans (Not just that poor woman in out Delta State villages who can not feed well even on a good day, but all poor people in Africa) will die of hunger even before they get infected. It will be worse than it was during the civil war (not as if was there sha, just a reference). Fine, let's protest, let our government feed not all of us but just these poor; then we lost over a tril...