AntivirusGy 3 : Life with 7 Covid deaths; and 12 road deaths, 21 murders



Life
Ignoring the news and just glancing at headlines and one day the generated email newsletter from one of the news organisations only has stories about crime.  And the crime stories are hidden between the elections court stories and the updates about Covid.

Seven persons have died from Covid complications as far as we know. 

So I go through Stabroek News online, from 1 March 2020 to 18 April 2020 and count in this kind of strange way of noting death instead of celebrating life.  12 road deaths, 21 murders, two reported suicides. March being the month of Covid in Guyana.  There might be some marginal errors in my counting.




12 road deaths
In a time of lock down, and curfew, people have died on the roads. Since the beginning of March, 12 people have died on Guyana's roads.  Others have been injured in accidents.  All road deaths are preventable.  



21 murders

A man killed his daughter. Four men killed women who they were supposed to love, one of the men killed a man who was with the woman at the time.

Another man attempted to kill a pregnant women who managed to stab him. He died and she is now imprisoned. 


Another man killed his father.

17 other murders - guns, knives.  police man shot a man who he said was coming to rob him.
There are two reported suicides. One with a gun.

People are being charged.  The Curve though .. there is no curve for these other ways of dying.

And people have come near death. Bandits are going into homes, attacking people. Other robberies. Sexual violence. A man attempted to kill a woman and her child.

Life

While we can be grateful for Covid recoveries, wouldn't it be nice to also count, measure evaluate the recoveries of those who might have wanted to kill or hurt their family members, of those who have managed to not to kill or hurt anyone on the roads?

Imagine if we had to do the national task forces on road deaths and violence. Imagine if there were daily or weekly pretty infographics with the numbers.  Would it make things different? With graphs.

And to have the same, maybe more attention to 'flattening' the curve for the other ways of dying or suffering from violence in Guyana.





Hotlines
There is a toll free number for Domestic Violence - 0910. The Suicide Prevention hotline is at 223-0001, 223-0009, 600-7896 and 623-4444.



(Antivirus Gy is a collection of ramblings on things which have changed since Covid 19 entered our vocabulary )

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