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A serious and worrying side effect of the heavy-handed methods employed by authoritarian governments against #COVID19: People scared to report their symptoms, because if they do, they may be taken away to quarantine and their entire village may come under lockdown.
Even worse, residents in some areas are expelling people who show symptoms or think about reporting their symptoms, afraid of what that will mean for the entire village or neighborhood. Some poor regions cannot afford lockdowns.
But please let me hear from the morons who insist that autocracies are better at handling pandemics.
"You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want". Applied to the pandemic, you go into this with the societies you have not the societies you want. Berating people for their "ignorance" doesn't do jack shit to solve the problem.
Without buy-in from the communities, any pandemic response anywhere will fail. Unless that's the point - you want to pressure certain communities in order to justify your autocratic methods, and complain loudly that they're "not ready for democracy".
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