1. If it hasn’t dawned on the regime, then its security apparatus is sleeping on the wheel. The pandemic is a national security risk. Instead of pursuing coercion against political opponents, the regime should be prioritising the COVID19 defence strategy.
2. Last year, a colleague said the pandemic has the potential to cause a fundamental rearrangement of the political landscape. At the time, the risk seemed low. The regime & everyone went about their business as if it wasn’t a big problem. Not anymore.
3. Some in the regime defied the very laws they had crafted, part of the arrogance that comes with too much power. They even held parties. But even as they applied the law selectively against the poor, they forgot that this pandemic does not discriminate based on power or wealth.
4. The regime is putting opposition leaders & critics in harm’s way, by detaining them in squalid & crowded prisons. It is weaponising the pandemic. But the laws of the universe are t easily bent to the will of cruel regimes. They don’t obey the commands of sadistic rulers.
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