IGNORANT Nkayi villagers are parading themselves ready customers to the deadly and novel Corona virus, due to the flagrant disregard of the pestilence induced regulations and restrictions.
This week, a tour by this publication of Nkayi areas such as Sembeula, Skhobokhobo and Magazi unraveled that most villagers do not wear masks.
Further, villagers do not observe social distancing and hardware and retail supermarkets do not sanitise potential customers.
Much more, the villagers, in earnest do not know what Corona virus is and have never heard of anyone who died from the pestilence.
“When we see someone like you wearing a mask and gloves we automatically know that you are not a local,” boasted one Mbonisi Tshuma from Sembeula.
“Here we do not know anything about the disease and we have never seen anyone suffering from it. It’s the disease for the people living in the cities,” added Tshuma.
Style Nkomo, a villager from Magazi, said she only knows about the disease from the radio.
“I only hear every day that people have been infected by Covid-19 from Studio 7 but here I have never seen anyone dying,” said Nkomo.
This publication toured Sembeula shops and observed that all the people had no masks and they did not observe social distancing.
Imbibers happily exchanged a bottle of opaque beer as they took the proverbial wise waters.
One shop owner who refused to be named said: “We are in the rural areas and what do you expect us to do? We want money and we will sell our goods. No one observes all these things you talk about and I have to observe my profits”.
This publication observed the absence of police in these public spaces.
At one funeral, there were more than 500 people and this was in conflict with the government order of 100 people per funeral wake.
“My brother we are one family living in a community and let us be. We have to support our kith and kin when they are faced with death. When we say 100 people to mourn who will select them,” asked Judas Moyo.
“At the end of the day there is no one to enforce these laws so we are left to do as we please.”
The government, in late March declared a national lockdown to curb the spread of the novel Covid-19.
Amongst the raft of measures included inter alia wearing of masks in public spaces, social distancing and sanitization.
