Horus,
I commend Prof. Berhanu for showing a level of maturity above the common and daily political fray of the day in his address in the video. But I think he is also expected to show more guidance in dealing with the current crisis related to the pandemic, as he is not the common joe of the general populace, unlike me. He is one of the top academician that the country may have currently, I assume.
He raised two main points which are more or less generally already availble on the internet, which are taking care as much as possible and the economic impact of the aftermath. These are already said somewhere, the professor should be in a position to adapt these general guidances to the specific situation of our country. His handling seems to me that sort of one-size fits all way of thinking. For exa. he mentioned about not leaving one's home unless there is a compelling reason.
Here is the main question I have for him about this point: how many proportion of our people can afford to sit at home during a single day and wish also something on his dinner plate at the evening? Mind you here I am asking about the proportion of those people, not if there are such people.
I think there are two options for our people on this point: either they go out and risk their lives already before they are sick and look after their daily lives or heed to the advice of Prof. Berhanu and stay at home and face another fatal consequences of hunger and empty stomach.
If God doesn't forbid it, then our people will die this or that way, I am afraid and this seems to me an objective reality currently. Either the pandemic will kill us or the consequences of the pandemic will do so, we can't succeffuly avoid both, we have to choose.
We are collectively to blame for the possible grim final consequences here.
I have already shared my view with this respect at the following post, but I am not a professor or an academician like Prof. Berhanu, just a concerned layman.
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