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    "id": 1009236,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009236/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "lightly. I also belong to the Abawanga Clan of Mumias through the Sakwa Clan of Luo. So, I am your cousin. Those who are digital, and I am one of them, we tend to consume information through our phones. The fonts in our phones are small and our laptops and other gadgets are gathering dust wherever they are. So, hard copies would be more convenient. I do not know if we are saying we have COVID-19 here and we are asking our support staff to print these things. That is also a way of opening a window or door for COVID-19 to come here. Perhaps, there will be a better way of ensuring that we get the copies and read them. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was saying that COVID-19 is not in a hurry to go anywhere, it is around. If you look the happenings in the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK) and other countries, COVID-19 is spiking. It is likely to spike in Kenya in view of the fact that some of the lock down rules that were imposed on Nairobi, Mombasa and Mandera have been lifted and the time for curfew has also been reduced. The Ad Hoc Committee that is dealing with this matter should look in the future. How are we going to live with COVID-19 disease because it is not going away? It is a visitor that is of obdurate and which does not want to leave any house, village or county. It is here to stay and it is very obstinate. We must start being innovative and advising the Government on how to put up with this obstinate or obdurate visitor. For instance, two of my children were about to graduate and they have been anxiously mark-timing, not graduating. They are so stressed. When I talk about my children, I talk about all our children in the nation who have been waiting for graduation. Graduation in life for the first time is a very exciting opportunity. There are children in high school, primary school, Class Eight and Form Four, respectively whose lives have stopped. We must find a way of living with COVID-19 disease and doing what we must do as human beings. I want to urge the Committee to think out of the box; how are we going to live with it and live as human beings whose lives have not been stopped? We thought it would disrupt our lives and disappear quickly just the same way it came, but it appears that it is here with us. It looks like the original sin called death. We have been hoping that we will vanquish death, but it keeps on popping in every home. Now death and COVID-19 have partnered to multiply in numbers that we cannot count. Madam Temporary Speaker, if our good Committee can find a way of ensuring that we live with COVID-19 as a visitor whose invitation has expired, but has refused to leave, the better for us. The impact of COVID-19 disease, particularly regarding economic matters is the greatest threat to life. In fact, health has been managed and is being managed, but what do we do when our earnings are shrinking? What do we do when our productivity is declining? What do we do when our space is shrinking? I want to conclude by urging the super Senate who is my good cousin; and after this, we should have a drink and toast to the discovery that we are related to do something about our shrinking economy, space and freedom, so that we can live until COVID-19 disease is tired of staying among us. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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