A lady in Kawangware was found to be Covid 19 positive. Contact tracing started, her family of 7 got quarantined. It was realized that she had 5 boyfriends and she had interacted with them in the last 8 days. 110 members of the 5 families were put in quarantine too. 2 of the boyfriends have girlfriends whose families were traced and quarantined. One of these girlfriends is married at Eastleigh with 3 children, her husband got a clande in Mathare and the clande is also dating a Kenyatta University student who currently lives at his girlfriend’s place in Kasarani! The Kasarani girlfriend usually visits her sponsor in Rongai who has a family of a wife and 6 children, 2 of his sons have girlfriends in the neighborhood whom they meet regularly, the girlfriends live with their families! The contact tracing matrix is now as complicated as a cobweb
Human relationships are complex and convected like a spider’s web. This example is true for spread of hiv aids. It also shows how sex and financial flows work.
Sounds very funny, of course! But I think it was more of an author’s metaphor for us to catch the main message - staying home. Yes, there’s a terrible things going on in the world now. Everything is falling apart - the economy, the social order, sometimes even human lives. I’m talking about how much unemployment level has increased lately. A lot of people went bankrupt and had to go out of business, some had nothing to feed their family. It’s really just a frightening trend. The only thing most of us can do is stay home as much as we can. We have to go to work remotely, go out for groceries only, or in case of emergency. Because the sooner we start doing all this, the sooner things will come back to normal (not completely, of course, there will be more consequences). But we have to at least try to end all this horror faster.