 What are you going to use? I'm going to use... I'm going to mix these. Are you serious? No, you can't. Just use one of them. Just use one of them. You seem to have... which one do you have faith in? This one. Yeah, so use that. Okay. So, good evening. This is not about me loving social media or being obsessed with social media. I'm simply trying to help out, hoping that I can reach out to some people about this COVID. Some people have been asking questions. Some are skeptical. I just want to make a few... a few clarifications and hopefully I can reach out to somebody out there in relation to this COVID-19. My objective is that we can heighten... we can heighten our awareness on COVID and take the precautions as a device. So, but before I go into that, let me first express my deepest condolences to the nation for the death of... for the death of our founding father, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, who passed on today. I'm lucky to be one of those people that experienced part of his rule as president. And I must say that Kaunda really set up Zambia on a foot, especially in terms of patriotism. I think he... Kaunda did much, much... he did very well in terms of making us aware of our nation of being patriot. He did very well. Anyway, I'm not going to say much about that. I suffice to say I tender my condolences to the nation, to the family of Dr. Kaunda. I mean, he's a man that lived... he lived his full life, really. I mean, what more would you ask for? What more would you want than what Kaunda had? Anyway, having said that, let me go to the issue that I want to discuss. Number one, when did I feel, you know, the discomfort? I started feeling the discomfort on Sunday. On Sunday, and I remember on Sunday, it was a full day of political activities, going around campaigning. And part of the things that I did is to go to the dump site. So when I came back, I was not feeling very well. But I thought it is the stench and the smoke from the dump site. So I ignored the discomfort. The discomfort was on my, you know, throat. You know, just on my throat somewhere there, feeling a little bit of, like, you know, like, there is smoke there. So which made me really feel to say, because I was at the dump site and there was this burning continuously, smoke coming out. So I thought it was the smoke that had affected my throat. Unfortunately, it persisted. It persisted for about three days. Until about yesterday, something else started coming up. I think the day before yesterday, I was feeling, you know, rather tired. But, you know, I felt like, sorry, I give you what? From there. Sorry, I have to give something. So today is Tuesday. On Tuesday, you know, I was feeling like quite tired. I was feeling body pains. And I felt like, you know, like, you know, like when you do a lot of exercises, you know, like you go to the gym and then you lift weights, you know, more than necessary or you lift heavy weights. That's how I was feeling. But of course, I do, you know, gym in the morning. So, but I didn't do anything more than usual. Unfortunately, I was feeling this tired. I was feeling my body, you know, just aching, you know. But I really thought it was just about me working out or anything. That was on Tuesday. Yesterday, things changed. I started feeling hot. I started feeling, you know, having a come out headache. But still I thought, you know, it's a flu because now I was even feeling the nose blocking. So I thought maybe it's a flu that is coming. Clearly the feeling which I got was that of when you have a flu and when you are about to feel malaria. If you have malaria, you know, like going to have malaria. I, you know, when I was telling one of our helpers, she actually said, no, I think in a quarter of a malaria, you have malaria. That's what she said. But in the night, things changed. Last night, things changed drastically. My nose was quite blocked. My headache persisted. And then the body, I was really shaking. I was feeling so cold. And inside me, the body, the way you feel the body, you know, really Corona is different. Corona is different. Trust me, ladies and gentlemen, Corona is different. Corona is different. I've never felt like this. I have never felt like this. You know, you feel inside your body, outside your shivering, you are feeling cold. And the shivering, you actually feel like the lungs, the cold has affected your lungs. But the iron of it is that on top of your body, inside your body, when you're feeling your knees, you feel they are warm. You feel them like somebody is grilling you, you know, like you're being grilled inside, from inside. It is not a good experience. At that point, I realized I've never felt like this. This is strange. I've had malaria, I've had all these other, all these other, you know, sicknesses. But the way I felt it was different. COVID-19, you feel different. My body was really feeling that hot. And it was aching like, like, like you have been bitten, you know, like the way you do the meat when you want to marinate it, you beat it, you beat it. That's how I was feeling. Oh, my body was so, was really just penning like I've been bitten big time. That is how I was feeling. And at that point, I said no. And it was getting worse. During the day, it was not so bad, but during the night, especially around 00, it got worse. My breathing was difficult. My headache was, you know, and that's how I went to the hospital just before 00. I went to the hospital. We were at the hospital just after 00 at Levy Moana Wasa. Now, at Levy Moana Wasa, I'm telling you, if you haven't been to the hospital, you may, you know, doubt the statistics that are coming out. You may doubt them. You know, when you hear 3394, you feel like maybe somebody's playing around with the statistics. Yesterday night, when I went to Levy, I actually witnessed how those numbers are increasing almost per minute because when I arrived there, the reception was full. People kept on coming. Others coming, bringing people with the, you know, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on. They were not able to move by themselves. Others were able to move. It was just like, like it's not, it's not that night. It was not good. It was really not good. So those numbers really, people are going to the hospitals. And of course, I was attended to, tested and the, the results came, came out positive. But what, but how come if my, if I was tested positive, how come I am home? I am home because my vitals, especially my oxygen saturation in the body was at 93. The normal, I suppose it's supposed to be about 95, 95 to 100 around there. That is, that should be the oxygen saturation in the body. It was at 93. And most probably could be because of the remedies that I was taking, because I was taking remedies even before. You know, just as a precautionary. I used to steam. I used to take, you know, the ginger and all these other things. You know, so I think that helped. So my oxygen level or oxygen saturation was high. The reason I couldn't be admitted in the hospital. So they gave me the medicine. They gave me the medicine and I came back home. But on the medicine again, things are very serious. The hospitals are running out of the necessary medicines. The necessary medicines to cure corona if it is to cure or to help out or to boost the immunity. At the hospital I only managed to get paracetamol and the immune booster. That's all. Azetomycin. That is the immune booster. So I got azetomycin. I got, yes, the azetomycin, the immune booster and paracetamol. And even the paracetamol which I got is not much. It was just the, you know, that moment, I think there were only six in the sachet. Only six. As a whatever, the immune booster I gave, I got seven because I need to drink seven. So I got, that one I got seven. But other medications which were on the prescriptions they are not in the hospital. So this is something that we need to consider to think about. Our hospitals don't have the medicines. And we only bought the medicines today. And I can tell you that the medicines they are not cheap. They are not cheap. The medicines are not cheap. Just that vitamin C 1000 what, what do you call it? 1000 grams? Yeah. The vitamin C I mean cost about 180,000 180 quattro. And then what is that, what is the other medicine? Azitromycin no, the one that we bought, the one which was 250. Yeah. Then the other one is about 250. So the medicines are not cheap. The medicines are not cheap. And the hospitals don't have them. While I was there I saw how the doctor was panicking busy on the phone calling the center for them to bring oxygen because they had run out of oxygen. Right there just at the reception they had run out of oxygen. And he was frantically moving up and down calling for oxygen to come. So the situation is very delicate. And of course you can't blame the government to say they are not buying the medicines. It's very difficult when the situation is overwhelming like this one. It's difficult to have enough stocks including the testing kits. They are also a challenge. The testing kits, they are also a challenge. I had to wait for about 30 minutes for them to bring the testing kits because they had also run out. So clearly you can see that the testing kits are in. It is not a joke it is a serious matter which we need to consider. Hospitals don't have all the necessary requirements to treat COVID. And of course you can't blame the hospital. The best that we can do is if we can try to you know somebody saying vitamin C we are buying vitamin C at 30 koacha or vachan denonde problem where are you buying vitamin C at 30 koacha we are buying vitamin C at 30 koacha we have to use the same color. You are the people that are letting down even this government of yours of PF is because of you people that this government is failing too much kaddurism instead of applying reason you just put in chandarism. Too bad. Take it from me. Take it from me. We are having struggles. We are having shortages of medicines in the in the in the hospitals and these medicines are not cheap out there. And I am feeling I mean for me when I went to buy just when I went to buy to buy everything that I was buying you know I spent 1,000 1,000 1,000 the 400 and the 30 1,000 430 that's what I I spent with that with that that it's in the car yeah there is it anyway I paid that much now you can imagine if I spent 1,000 1,400 who how many people can spend that money for them you know to survive COVID how many people how many of our people I'm also wondering those who are in the hospitals I'm also wondering if they are really getting all the medicines because clearly the hospital facilities are stressed and therefore we need to take care we need to take precautions we need to take precautions so yes I came back because my my my oxygen situation was not bad and that's how I came back home at home we have isolated ourselves myself and my wife we have isolated ourselves because even if my wife has not tested it is clear she has it she has a little bit of a throat and yeah of course she's not she's not bad and everything but you know just to to protect ourselves so we are we have isolated ourselves and we are taking all the medications that she was prescribed to us then yeah so that's how that's how come I am I am I am home how am I feeling right now you know the feeling of COVID is very strange you know you you feel the body I'm feeling the body really that weak weak and aching you know right now I have a neck I can't twist too much like this I have to bend like this it's it's just it's just it's just something else it's just something else and it's it's painful it's it's painful the body pains the body pains trust me you wouldn't want to go through this experience then you are feeling this heat like you are constantly being you know grilled inside you there is a fever you feel like you are sweating and yet you are cold you know not the kind of feeling that we get with Malaria because that one you don't get the body aching me I'm feeling the body aching even when I'm sitting here I'm feeling the body aching I can feel my entire body aching you know constantly aching and when you sleep you can't sleep you just can't sleep I couldn't sleep before until I took some medicine when I took some medicine that's when I slept today the whole day I fell to sleep I was trying to sleep but I just couldn't sleep then my nose it's constantly feeling you know that irritating feeling in the Sino in the Sino's that continues you know you are feeling like he is chilling in your in your mouth in your nose then in the mouth you feel like like you have you took acid and then your mouth is just dry like your cells have died kind of it's not a nice feeling at all please if you can try to avoid it you are better off than going through this experience I'm sitting here doing this because I want to make this honest appeal that please let us not approach this COVID-19 with you know an attitude that it's it's something that we you know it's just a by the way thing look today how many people have died yeah I'm lucky I'm sitting here talking to you but today as we speak how many people have died and even if we go back how many people have we lost we have lost a number of people this is very serious I thank God that I'm sitting here talking to you but then COVID also has got this strange behavior whereby one moment you are okay the next moment you are gone you know the next moment you are gone so please please let's try to take the precautions necessary this is this is very very serious what are the challenges what are the challenges number one challenge I see is the attitude a lot of people still are not well sensitized on COVID-19 we are still looking at it as just one of issues a by the way story a lot of people are still working around with masks without masks and even those that are putting on masks sometimes they're just putting the mask on your their mouth with their nose left exposed please when you're putting on a mask make sure the mask make sure the mask make sure the mask is on top of your of your mouth like that cover your mask they make sure your mask is like that don't let your nose be exposed a lot of people you find that they are wearing a mask and then it is like that you are not protected like this you are not protected make sure your mask covers your nose up to the chin please please let us protect ourselves this is a battle that we need to fight and we need to win this before it wipes us or out the other issue is the politics unfortunately in this country we tend to politicize everything there are those that think that no the government is trying to play around and then those in government as well you know they are also have they also have a bad attitude they're not setting a good example they're not setting a good example because we have seen particularly this issue of gathering people we have seen the people in government they are in the forefront gathering people in different areas in the name of political campaigns and the so-called road shows to intimidate their opponents the opposition have also not done very well because some of the opposition are also doing the same my appeal is that please much as we are in the campaign period can we try to put the lives of our our fellow brothers and sisters first before our ambitions you know our political ambitions let us try to see if we can protect the people that are that we want to save actually yesterday when I went to Levy one of the ladies I found who was not good actually terrible not good she was sitting on the wheelchair and she was struggling you know to to breathe they were looking for oxygen there was no oxygen one of these ladies I remembered I recognized that she's one of the ladies that attended one of the meetings that I had in one of the compounds I don't want to mention the compound but in one of the compounds this lady was part of the people that attended that meeting when I was at Levy yesterday I actually found this lady and she was really struggling she was sitting on the wheelchair she couldn't stand and they were looking for oxygen you know and I felt I felt bad I was I was with that lady in a meeting where I was where I had this meeting and and yet I found her there so it it hit me that really these political activities are actually spreading covid further and the statistics can actually back this theory because when covid started the statistics were not this high in the first wave even in the second wave the statistics were not that this high you can talk about now the coldness and everything we have had the cold before but the statistics were not this high how come this time around we have high statistics we have high statistics because there are events which are super spreaders which are going on right now for me this is my analysis because in the first wave we didn't have so many statistics in the second wave we didn't have so many statistics this third wave is hitting us where we are doing 3000 I strongly believe that these statistics as a result of the political activities currently going on and on this one I'm not blaming I'm not blaming a political party I think all of us as politicians need to take precautions to see how we can protect the lives of our people politicizing everything is not good it can be anyone it can be anyone if you look at the people that have gone today I mean I don't think they thought they would go because of covid so please let us try to you know minimize our politics let us look at some of the other means that we can use to campaign under these difficulty circumstances from my point of view I think government is doing well and I want to commend the civil servants because at the moment it's a civil servants who are running the show and I want to commend them that they are doing a very good job Dr. Malama and your team you're doing very well I'm actually I actually have a feeling that the civil servants have done a better job than the politicians because some of the politicians took covid as one of the political platform to sell themselves and they were bringing in all sorts of unnecessary issues but this time around the the the these civil servants they are approaching matters with a right attitude and the professionalism I think they must be really commended I really feel like sometimes I feel like maybe we don't need the politicians you know look at Dr. Malama when he's issuing the statements he's on point his explanation is thorough look at the statement that came from Dr. Mitty his statement was thorough on point everything is being handled well in a professional manner and like when we had these politicians you know bringing in their politics so for me I am saying congratulations to the civil servants you are doing very well and I think many times it's us the politicians who distribute you can do a better job but as politicians come in to mess you up this has for me have proved by the way the civil servants have handled these matters I think they have done they have done very well politicians sometimes we can be very misleading so the moment is doing well I commend them they have employed the 700 700 more health workers but the issue that is of my concern is the motivation on the health workers health workers need to be motivated I saw it I saw the stress on their faces I saw the risk in that you know they're in this environment where they have about 20 people who they have to attend to and they have to touch them they have to take their BP they have to you know take their blood they have to swab them there is so much contacts and they are on their feet from the time that they start their shift up to the time that they end their shift throughout there is no time for sleeping there is no time for sleeping for them through and through they have to wake so surely this is this is very dangerous this is very dangerous and I think a government can do something presented galungu you are still there you are still the Republican president I think you can come in and see how we can you know incentivize these health workers let us motivate them it is not good that at this point in time when health workers are sacrificing themselves like this and we are busy quarreling with them creating disputes you know and sometimes you know I was not very happy with one of the statements that came from one of the civil servants on behalf of government I think we need to be humble we need to take these people with kindness and generosity graciousness so that at least we can motivate them pretty much this is what I wanted to to share if you if you feel if you I wish I wish this this feeling can be projected I wish it can be project I wish it could be seen it's not a nice feeling right now I don't know I don't know if I will sleep you know it's just something else you want you're feeling cold you want to cover but then you're feeling hot and then your body is hacking you have taken this medicine but still the body still hacking and you don't know when it's gonna stop you don't know when it's gonna stop today I'm feeling like am I better than I was yesterday I can't tell because the body still aching and I don't know how long it's gonna take for me feeling like this and there's also the fear that you know I'm feeling like this it could get worse or it could get better so prevention is better than cure I know it's not easy I've been trying to mask up and so on and so forth but certainly there are times when I have been careless especially when people come to say let's take a picture you know and they ask you to remove the mask you know that is not a very good experience unfortunately you are scared to say no let me I can't remove the mask because you're scared of people looking at you like you you're being rude it's a difficult situation that's why I will really try as much as possible to find other means of reaching out to people in my bid for the position of mayor instead of instead of going out there going round risking myself and risking other people's lives so that is the situation my brothers and sisters I just thought that I could emphasize this point please mask up sanitize as much as you can wash your hands make sure you maintain social distance and only if you have to get out of your home otherwise stay home I really insist otherwise stay home avoid these political activities that are going on avoid them these events I strongly believe that they are contributing to the high numbers that we are having to my fellow politicians I say please can we find other means of reaching out to people other than you know these super spreaders you know events I know somebody somebody spoke about Soweto and bus stations you know look but I don't think that is a good argument to say no in the markets how come in the markets we are allowing people how come in the bus station we're allowing people but then we are stopping rallies and the and other political events I don't know how it sorts out the problem because there is because we are we are allowing people to gather in the markets I don't know how it helps us to say since we are allowing people in the markets later also let also the politicians continue a business as usual I don't know how that helps if it doesn't make things worse and I think what we are looking at is reducing the the risk so if we Soweto is is is gathering people and other markets and bus stations are gathering people should we increase the risk by creating some other activities again that will you know boost the spread of COVID I think we need to be reasonable I think what we should be looking at is say okay let's let's see stop this the the the political activities and not stop but find you know find a way of doing it and then creates suggest other measures that can be taken in the markets and bus station instead of creating other events as well just because the markets and bus stations are crowded I would rather we look for solutions for the markets and the and the bus stations and my suggestion is that if you are going to the market if you are selling at the market please mask up and mask up properly and sanitize as often as possible especially after receiving money when you receive money you count money please sanitize because money is one of you know the modes that can spread COVID-19 otherwise thank you very much for watching let me take a rest and I hope what I've shared will help out someone there thank you and good night