Alternative solution to COVID-19, worth considering.

Demographics of deaths by age in Italy.

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Nigeria shouldn’t have a lockdown like first-world countries like Italy, US

Our Economy isn’t strong enough to cope with the Wuhan-like 76days lockdown.

Plus even if we succeed in doing that, we have to maintain the borders stay closed until “no end in sight”
Life expectancy in Italy. 84years
Life expectancy in Nigeria. 53years

From the stats posted above.
Italy is having more deaths because of their amazing system that keeps them alive long enough

Nigeria’s horrible system have put us in a better position than first-world countries
94% of the deaths in Italy are 60 and above.
90% of the deaths in US are 55 and above. (100M with Diabetes)

We don’t have much of those ages here anyways.

Can we create a plan to keep the older folks and strategically introduce young (less-at-risk) ones get back to work?
We have 200M people, with an average age of 19years old.

But only 14M of those 200M are aged 55 and above.

According ( https://www.indexmundi.com/nigeria/age_structure.html)

186M are aged 55 and below.

**Can we create a system to allow those aged 59 and below get to work?**
The chance of mortality as a <55 is 6% of 3% mortality rates of the Coronavirus in general population.

Nigeria shouldn’t make her decision based on general world convention.

We can have a version of the lockdown peculiar to Nigeria, Africa.

My proposed solution in next thread
- Enforce Healthy habits, no going out without facemasks, enforce social distancing, encourage continuous hand washing to limit the spread.

- Strategically reopen the Economy, to curtail the suffering of Economy and people dying of Hunger. 90M people already living in poverty.
- Build industries to manufacture facemasks, sanitizers etc for local use and export, they could give us the much needed forex, springboard the economy.

- build hospitals massively (GTB in 5days) and train doctors plus healthcare assistants.

Opposing thoughts are welcome.
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