aemathenge wrote:@Tycho, this Sunday, our plot is the venue of one of those Church-Based Chama cum Prayer meetings.
We are talking about 20-30 women crammed into that narrow corridor between the apartments.
In such a situation, social distancing ceases to exist.
We, the committee of the Nyumba Kumi committee, had asked the Chama committee to suspend these meetings.
The Chama committee declined.
A Chama member even had the effrontery to quote President Uhuru, who said: "Even Science requires God".
Do we call for Police assistance to prevent such a meeting?
That was the gist of my quoting The Economist and seeking your opinion on religion and The Virus.
It is true that even science needs religion. So a step I would recommend is recognition of the validity of religious congregation working with science. If possible, help design a solution.
The option of the police is valid if the audience fails to appreciate the need for a proper solution.
Imagine the following scenario: if you call the police, then the worst would be taking them to prison, which needs to decongest urgently. You would be shifting covid to your neighbor.
So even the police are supposed to mediate and not twanga twanga!