#DELIBERATE_NEGLIGENCE_TO_WESTNILE_PEOPLE. YOU CAN NOT LOCK MILLIONS OF POOR STARVING UGANDANS AT THE EXPENSE OF IMPORTING CORONAVIRUS FROM NEIGHBORS (FOREIGNERS).
It seems Ministry Of Health is testing patience of Ugandans.
You cannot lock in innocent 45m Ugandans and keep importing expensively Corona virus from neighbours simply because we are land locked.
What motivation do they have to assume Ugandans will remain loyal even in the face of hunger and monetary poverty? It should be noted that loyalty and discipline has limits. An hungry man is angry. You cannot convince anyone anymore to stay indoors, closing down thousands of businesses, hiking unemployment, thwarting education, sabotaging many institutions, spending over $65,000 per day on testing non citizens and treating them using Ugandan resources without an exit plan yet assume citizens are that gullible to continue dancing to your neocolonial tunes.
Cushioning the well off at the expense of the already squeezed between rock and a hard surface doesn't make sense. Given Uganda's current very poor (near non existent) social safety nets, the people now think otherwise; MoH is MAFIA. Given this school of thought, when their last line of defense; subsistence is crossed, the inevitable will happen (Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth).
If untrue; the MoH therefore, should come out clear and avoid seeming to fall into mafia trap by jumping out while there is still time. If lay men can see, why can't the professionals??? Something somewhere is not adding up.
*WHAT CAN BE DONE*
1. Let companies fast track testing of all their truck drivers and allow those healthy to drive those trucks to the border.
2. Given the uncertainties along the way from the port up-to the border, we should allow relay driving such that known negative Ugandan drivers pick the trucks from the border points (upon proper sanitization of the trucks) and complete the journey. This is far cheaper in terms of testing, isolation, tracking and treatment. It also reduces alarms akin to spiking confirmed country cases.
3. Keep the airport locked to passenger flights.
With the above, lock down can be eased systematically so many Ugandans can get back to work and fend for themselves and their families as opposed to the current unsustainable dependence on hand outs.
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