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Kungani Mask?

Kungiphatha kabi ukuthi “ipolitiki” yalolu daba. Kukhona empeleni okunengqondo, nakuba kungeyona isayensi ephelele ngemuva kwalesi siphakamiso. Ngombhalo wokuzihlangula wokuthi sifunda okwengeziwe nsuku zonke, esikwaziyo ukuthi kungenzeka kube nomuntu oyedwa kwabahlanu onokutheleleka nge-coronavirus futhi AKUKHO IZIMPAWU. Ngaphezu kwalokho, labo bethu abathola izimpawu, kungenzeka balichithe leli gciwane kuze kufike emahoreni angama-48 ngaphambi kokuba sigule. Lokhu kusho ukuthi laba bantu baqhubeka nosuku lwabo futhi kungenzeka - ngokukhuluma, ukuthimula, ukukhwehlela, njll. - ukusabalalisa leli gciwane. Siyazi futhi ukuthi kukhona labo phakathi kwethu abasengozini KAKHULU yalesi sifo. Labo abaneminyaka engaphezu kwengama-65, abanezimo zezempilo ezingalapheki, nalabo abanamasosha omzimba akhubazekile. Yebo, sincoma ngokuqinile labo abakula maqembu ukuthi bakhawulele ukusebenzisana kwabo nomhlaba wangaphandle, nokho abanye abakwazi ukwenza kanjalo. Abaningi bahlala bodwa futhi badinga igrosa, abanye basadinga ukusebenza, kanti abanye banesizungu. Imaski, nakuba ingaphelele, ivimbela kakhulu ukusabalala kusuka kuwe (umsingathi ongaba khona) kuya kulabo abaseduze nawe. Indlela yokuqala yokuthola igciwane ukuxhumana nomuntu ophethe leli gciwane.

Kungani ngigqoka imaski ngokwami? Lokhu ukusekelwa kwami ​​​​kwalabo abaseduze kwami ​​​​abasengozini kakhulu. Ngingaphatheka kabi uma ngizwa ukuthi leli gciwane ngalisabalalisa kumuntu owagula ngempela.

Yiqiniso, isayensi ayiphelele. Nokho, njengodokotela onakekelayo, ngiyakusekela. Kubuye kube yinto ewuphawu kimina. Kungikhumbuza ukuthi “nginenkontileka yokuxhumana nabantu” nawo wonke umphakathi mayelana nokwenza ingxenye yami yokweseka ukuncishiswa komphakathi. Kungikhumbuza ukuthi ngingabuthinti ubuso bami, ngigcine ibanga elingamamitha ayisithupha ukusuka kwabanye, futhi ngingaphumi uma ngingazizwa kahle. Ngifuna ukuvikela abasengozini enkulu phakathi kwethu.

Amamaski awaphelele futhi ngeke avimbe ngokuphelele ukusabalala kwegciwane kumuntu ongenazimpawu noma pre-symptomatic. Kodwa bangase banciphise amathuba okuba khona ngisho nengxenye encane. Futhi lo mthelela ophindwe ngezinkulungwane, uma kungezona izigidi zabantu, ungasindisa izimpilo.