Not just for Covid-19. For all eventualities.
Globally and in the Njoku household, we are officially in pandemic mode. I woke up on Friday 13th March 2020 to news that Ghana had joined the global list of many countries who had their first cases of Covid-19. That's fine. It was inevitable and to be frank, I believe it's currently massively underreported in Africa due to inadequate testing. If US, China, UK and Italy can bungle testing, I'm pretty sure Africa isn't doing it right (or at all). Then things got a little scarier this Friday 13th. As I landed from a Lagos --> Accra flight, I received an email from my daughter's nursery. They had started closing schools in our area. I then received a message from my older kid's school. They too were closing for 2 weeks. My kids happen to attend the most international of international schools in Ghana so I totally get the over abundance of caution. This does appear to favour the globe-trotting 1%. Okay. Time to execute doomsday plan. Th...