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Re-Education

arrested in connection with their test status. In America, patients on people who think? For the families
murders. A local resident said that the organ transplant list are being and friends of those killed, or for
the police only visit the area on Fri- removed from the list because they those beaten up, threatened, bribed,
days and that they ‘should not treat refuse the Covid vaccine – despite denied access to critical care, basic
Covid and the curfew as a source of medical advice from their doctors needs, or otherwise mistreated, there
business.’ that they should not take it. In Sin- can be no positive correlation be-
gapore, a British man was put in jail tween the safety and protection that
The Kenyan Interior Permanent for 6 weeks because of not wear- the government says they are pro-
Secretary, when asked about wheth- ing a mask and recommended for viding, and the violent mistreatment
er the police abuse their power in psychiatric care. A doctor in the UK and even death they or their families
enforcing the Covid 19 protocols is to be brought before the General are meeting at the hands of enforc-
had this to say, “I’m just telling you Medical Council for advising people ers for failing to comply with their
that it starts by ‘are we responsible to do their own research before regulations. The nonchalance with
enough ourselves’? Do you just blindly trusting in experimental vac- which the violence of the police is
want to break the law to test the cines. In Canada, the Prime Minister brushed off and the blame laid at
perseverance of police? Because, the has threatened those who do not the victims’ feet makes it worse. Of
Covid pandemic is not about police, have a medical reason and choose a certainty, at least in Kenya, like
Covid pandemic is about us as a not to get vaccinated that there the person who was interviewed
people, and I don’t want us to take will be consequences. In the US, said, protocol enforcements have
(the) simple excuse of not obeying students are being forced to get vac- become a business for the enforcers.
the Covid restriction(s) because cinated or show proof of vaccina- Bribes are coerced from people who
of police. We have a responsibility tion in order to access facilities such simply forgot to put their masks on
as individuals to ensure when the as Wi-Fi and dormitories. Iceland or who are running a few minutes
government says the curfew starts at ordered the vaccination of women late – which makes a lie of the claim
10, please be home at 10. Let’s stop over 12 weeks pregnant, sparking of public safety. I know of one
scapegoating the police. The police protests. Romanian police arrested incident where the police stopped
could have their own weaknesses, a man for not wearing a face mask. an individual who had forgotten to
but they are not the problem. The German police manhandled and ar- wear his mask and when he went to
problem is us who cannot obey rested an elderly woman for protest- put it on, they told him not to and
basic things like be home at 10.” ing for her rights against the gov- proceeded to ask him for a bribe. If
Not long after this, a 38-year-old ernment’s protocols. Belgian police they were so concerned about his
man in Nairobi was said to have used violent force against a family safety (if masks really offered pro-
been killed by police during curfew whose neighbors reported them tection against Covid) wouldn’t they
enforcement. He had rushed home for violating the Covid lockdown first have asked him to protect them
on a boda boda (commercial bike) when their daughter invited friends from the virus by masking up and
to try to beat the curfew and was over. The police entered the family then gone on with the next stage of
violently assaulted when he got off home using force and then attacked, their interactions with him? Sec-
the motorbike, later succumbing to handcuffed and beat the mother for ondly, a bribe? Clearly, it’s not about
his injuries. filming them, she suffered multi- safety or compassionate concern for
ple fractures. They also cuffed and ‘the people’ as the PS said, but it’s a
I’m not highlighting these issues in beat her husband. All this in front self-centered push to enrich them-
order to single out Kenya. Kenya of their children. Then accused the selves at the expense of the citizens.
is far from being alone in Covidic family of starting the violence. Yet again. Oh, and did you know
weirdness. In Australia, in 2020 that the emerging Covid millionaires
police dragged a man away with his There are more stories to share, through tenders are not an exclu-
7-year-old child, arresting him for more that can be and have been un- sively Kenyan or Afrikan syndrome?
not wearing a mask even though he earthed from across Afrika as well. Covid business around the world
has a doctor’s exemption allowing Such is the Cov-insanity that has has been brisk and extremely satisfy-
him not to. In France, police are been visited upon the world… for ing for those who have been allowed
blocking people from being able to our own ‘protection and safety’. to partake.
purchase food in the supermarket Something I have asked before is, do
because they refuse to show their enforcers ever consider that the peo- Back to the enforcement of proto-
papers indicating their vaccine or ple they are oppressing are actually cols, it’s a funny situation in Kenya

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