What happened to the COVID-19?
For over two years, we were locked up, masked up, restricted in every possible way. Our liberties were curtailed, our rights trampled upon. We couldn’t visit sick relatives or attend family gatherings. We were denied the right to bid proper farewell to dead relations.
We were told that it was all designed to save us from ourselves.
Then, Russia invaded Ukraine and COVID-19 appears to have made a sudden and mysterious vanishing act.
Suddenly, borders that were closed for two years were thrown wide open. Unlike non-European refugees who were refused entry because of COVID-19, Ukrainian refugees were welcome with open arms. No one asked for masks or vaccine certificate.
So, what happened?
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Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ is a writer and author