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Covid-19 Tumetoka Analog Tuko Digital

 After spending days without a smartphone, only with my ‘kamulika mwizi’ (finished power a few hours after isolation started) and not talking with anybody, I could here the Smart Joker digital migration advertisement at the back of mind amid the Covid-19 thoughts and reflection going through my mind.

Since the first case of the virus was confirmed in Kenya on March 13th 2020 by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Health Honorable Mutahi Kagwe, the government urged people to stay at home, and avoid social gatherings, among other measures to slow down the spread of the virus, forcing everybody to start using the internet as their new lifestyle order.

Learning, social interaction, work, businesses, entertainment among other life activities are now taking place over the internet. Before coronavirus, a section of Kenyans have been reluctant to embrace the new era of technology in their life. They had become so accustomed to the contemporary ways that they did not see the need to shift with the rapid technological tide. In a span of few months, coronavirus has now convinced even the hard headed fixated neo-luddites that technology such as smartphone in this new age is not a luxury or a government conspiracy to spy on its citizen but necessity.

Covid-19 has made us realize that digitalization is the new norm of life. Therefore, to answer the many people who have been asking me what can they do to survive through this pandemic, I urge them and all other Kenyans to stop thinking in the pre-coronavirus ways, and start thinking how they can use the various technological platforms to their advantage to make their lives easier. The earlier a person realizes that coronavirus has digitized us, the faster he/she increases his/her chances to survive the pandemic.

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