First Gentleman with Wilson Orhiunu
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The secret to sustainability is propagation from one generation to the next. If the elders do it but their children abstain, then the activity rests in peace as the elders drop off one by one. But alas! Syphilis is here with us today as it has been throughout the ages.
Everyone hates syphilis. The symptoms are bad to look at and if left untreated, it goes for the brain, nerves and heart leading to a miserable death.
People will flee if they saw someone infected with syphilis covered with sores and telling them sweet tales of love and affection.
Two things are required for the nasty bacterium Treponema Palladium to spread.
One is an incubation period where a JJC (new comer) to the fold is infected and has enough bacteria to spread the disease but not quite enough in them to manifest its presence. That is when the spreading occurs.
Secondly, sex is sweet. Need I say more? The combination of a comely carrier of the dreaded spirochete and sex appeal means that propagation is guaranteed. Once infected, there is the conversion from sexy personality to patient. The rashes marks one out and like we all know, rashes make you go into hiding. You don’t see many people on social media flaunting rashes now, do you?
The doctors see the illnesses but not the general public and what is not seen is sometimes deemed not to exist. The invisible cork screw shaped bacteria works best in anonymity wrecking lives along the way.
The stages of Syphilis
Primary syphilis – once contracted shows itself usually by way of a chancre; an ulcer in the genital area which soon disappears
Secondary syphilis – in a few weeks, a widespread rash occurs particularly on the hands and feet
Latent phase – no symptoms occur while the bacteria live in the body in ‘sinister peace’.
Tertiary syphilis – this is the final push to a coffin. This stage is not contagious (and why would it be?). The sufferer is deformed by illness as the brain, nerves and heart are attacked.
Congenital syphilis – this is when an infected mother passes on the disease to the unborn child (children are the ultimate sufferers as they are a vulnerable group who cannot protect themselves. The child in the womb cannot prevent intra uterine infection by wearing a condom. That is the job of adults. Everywhere in the world with high levels of corruption, innocent children die).
Corruption is a disease as is poverty. They go hand in hand with one opening the door for the other like a couple in love (A bit like syphilis and HIV). Wars, disease, failed states and death are all kinsmen and in-laws of corruption.
People say there is corruption everywhere. That is the same thing as saying there is disease everywhere. True, but the incidence of death from diseases varies from place to place.
Some places are suffering from the effects of corruption which is; like the effects of Syphilis, a painful life accelerating to a painful death. These are ill winds that blow no one the right way.
So, why accept corruption? While syphilis rides on the back of the sex-horse, corruption rides on the back of the greed-horse. Money is sweet and ill-gotten wealth comes quickly and is much sweeter; short term.
The money for childhood immunisations is sweet to steal initially while leaving only a slight ‘chancre’ on the conscience of the thief but in a year or two, the community acquires a rash. Coffins are going into the ground of infants dying from measles, meningitis and other preventable illnesses. People might not see the link between the large expensive houses of the corrupt and crowded cemeteries but that is the ‘beauty’ of corruption. Thieves cover up the cracks of society with a false glamour while the bones of the community rot away.
Greed is contagious. Like Treponema Palladium, it spreads in social gatherings. People see the clothes and cars of the corrupt at the weekend and vow to strike come Monday at the office. They too get their first taste of secret meats and stolen wine and decorate their hearts with a ‘chancre’.
Foolish observers fresh from the burials of loved ones who died in road accidents on pothole-filled highways, without street lights, in towns without emergency medical response teams all comment on how ‘sharp’ the corrupt guy who stole public funds is.
By the time the corrupt guy runs out of money as they always do and sits there lamenting about all those who have abandoned him in his hour of need, the people call him old and crazy. They know not that everyone is crazy. Corruption has produced the general paralysis of an insane society. A society where creativity is crippled by parasites eating away the brain.
The solution is to study the natural history of the disease and look for areas where transmission can be broken. One would have to accept that the benefits of measures implemented may not yield fruit in one’s life time as some people would rather die than change. However, if transmission to the next generation is cut out, society has a chance to recover.
