(by John Black Eye) Confirmed cases of #coronavirus in Africa are rising, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO / WHO), infections have multiplied in Egypt, while the first cases occurred in Togo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, French Guiana, Senegal and the South. The cases recorded in Africa are probably the tip of an Iceberg of unimaginable dimensions that we will discover within a few weeks on the African continent, when the contagion data will begin to take concrete shape.
If the trend is that of all States on all continents, the presence of only one infected person is a sign of a phenomenon that will tend to widen within a few days.
The data and phenomena of African contagion, however, cannot be considered comparable with those of the rest of the world because if the epidemic has now affected almost all nations, it is to be considered that not all are in a position to monitor the evolution of the disease and among these, with great limitations, are African nations.
Italy, which seems to have become the freak phenomenon of recent weeks, is actually perhaps the only nation that is proceeding with a scheduled and carpet screening in the areas of the outbreaks and it is only for this reason that the numbers of deceased and infected they increase day by day in a real time context that offers objective and truthful data.
Africa does not have this opportunity and therefore it is reasonable to think that those few cases of contagion reported in a good part of African States are nothing more than the tip of the iceberg that could prove to be of frightening dimensions within a few weeks.
On February 27 last year Sea Watch docked at the port of Messina with 197 migrants, placed in quarantine
The question at this point is the following, but are NGO ships that periodically collect Africans from the coasts of North Africa to bring them to Italy, are they worrying about the serious hypothesis that young people already infected or who are incubating the virus are carrying towards our nation?
Provided that they are continuing to move undisturbed, is the quarantine period, if really applied, really sufficient to contain a risk that nobody in Italy, at these moments, asked us to run?
Knowing the way NGO ships operate, which are also ready to ram patrol boats of the Guardia di Finanza to enter Italian territory at all costs in violation of the rules issued by a sovereign state, it is reasonable to think, even in this case, that the the flow of transfers has never stopped. This in total silence, ready to make the Italian people digest even those bitter morsels that would always and in any case go sideways, like the phenomenon of immigration of millions of Africans. This is in the name of “politically correct” or of Christian pseudo charity that has been heralded several times by the other prelates of the clerical hierarchy.
Institutions are certainly too busy trying to manage an emergency that seems to have gotten out of hand, having attracted the interest of economists in a phase in which it was instead managed, right from the start, in the health sector. Yet China, with its example, was there for all to see. We just had to conform to containment standards.
The situation is critical and only a great nation like Italy will be able to get out of it even if it may have to count broken bones. But why add problems to problems? Why complicate our lives to do a favor for someone who apparently doesn't care about the interests of the Italian people?
Is it so difficult to issue a decree that prevents mass transfers from disembarking and docking?
Then let's not complain if once the internal problem is curbed we will have to face the contagions that could come from the African continent. Then let's not complain.