There’s no doubting the fact that recent events have proved that our world is dirty.
Yeah! As dirty as we have made it!!
That’s what informed my post about wearing masks yesterday. I just felt we shouldn’t leave leprosy and be expending all energies on mere ringworm.
Indeed, I still very much feel we should emphasize on our personal and community hygiene. In those days, we used to study Hygiene as a subject in our elementary schools. We used to study Health Science as a subject, too, in the secondary schools.
At the community level, even before the advent of the Europeans, I can boldly say the Yoruba placed a high premium on community health.
When the Europeans came, they introduced the Health Inspectorate system popularly known as ‘wole wole’ in those days.
True, the colonists did us a lot of disservice. But they did some positive things too. We had public water system, we had public toilets, we had dog sections, we had parks and even botanical gardens, among others.
I need to be educated about the surviving ones of all these facilities.
The living conditions we subject ourselves to are certainly not good enough for homo sapiens. Even birds in pens live better lives than some humans.
Like a musician once sang, it’s like our world is getting old. But since we’ve refused to leave and since it’s not yet Armageddon, we just must make the world a better place for generations yet unborn.
We could start by getting rid of used face masks and gloves which are becoming environmental problems!
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