The head of state issued a statement metaphorically comparing the global fight against the pandemic to a military war where the only agenda was a harvest of death.He also cautioned Ugandan’s against misbehaving in the hope that God will save them against the coronavirus noting their Heavenly Father was preoccupied with other important things. “God has a lot of work,
He has the whole world to look after. He cannot just be here in Uganda looking after idiots,’ he said. “In a war situation, nobody asks anyone to stay indoors. You stay indoors by choice. In fact, if you have a basement, you hide there for as long as hostilities persist,” he added.
The president further asked those asking for the freedom to desist from doing so noting during a war, one should not insist on their freedom. According to him, they should willingly give up their freedom in exchange for survival since the war they were fighting would only satiate after turning the world into one big death field. ‘During a war, you do not complain of hunger. You bear hunger and pray that you live to eat again,” he said.
I once again thank the doctors and health workers that have been at the front of this COVID-19 fight. I reiterate my position that scientists should be paid better than non-scientists. You can see how much trouble they have saved us from this COVID-19 danger. pic.twitter.com/2HpYEwjCmJ
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 19, 2020
According to him, the world was in a state of war that does not involve guns, bullets, human soldiers, without cease-fire agreements or sacred zones. The head of state said the army in the fight against COVId-19 was without mercy, without any milk of human kindness and that it was indiscriminate. It has no respect for children, women, or places of worship.
“This army is not interested in the spoils of war. It has no intention of regime change. It is not concerned about the rich mineral resources underneath the earth,’ he said “It is not even interested in religious, ethnic or ideological hegemony. Its ambition has nothing to do with racial superiority. It is an invisible, fleetfooted, and ruthlessly effective army,” he added Museveni also noted the pandemic’s capacity to achieve its aim was not in doubt and that even without a ground, amphibious and aerial machines, it had bases in almost every country.
Let no one bring any bodies of people that have died of COVID-19 to Uganda. Whoever dies of COVID-19 outside Uganda should be buried there, you can also choose to cremate them, but let no one bring the bodies here. #M7Address. pic.twitter.com/ryka4Bh1Xe
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 19, 2020
But he was also quick to point out that the enemy had a weakness and that it could be defeated and that it only required collective action, discipline and forbearance. According to him, COVID-19 could not survive social and physical distancing and that it only thrives when one confronts it. “Its movement is not governed by any war convention or protocol. In short, it is a law unto itself. It is coronavirus,” he said.
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