Sometimes we are harsh on our own

Botswana is not spared. We have seen how tens of thousands of people died from the disease in Italy and how health systems are overwhelmed in first world countries like the U.S and United Kingdom. This shows that whether the country is developed, rich or poor, no one was ready for this pandemic looking at failures in many health responses.

Therefore, sometimes as a nation we do not need to be harsh on ourselves in the way we responded to the health crisis. In Botswana, the handling of the pandemic by responsible authorities has been called to question by a number of politicians, journalists and the general public.  Many of these claims makers are not natural scientists, as some come from the broad disciplines of social and human sciences.