Fuelling Rebellion

Have you ever wondered what fuels jail breaks?

Why do people attempt an impossible and death attracting feat? Are they just plain stupid?

You see, prison is so protected that it is supposedly impossible to break out. It is so fortified and watched over so that it is almost impossible to take two steps without someone entrusted with keeping you in jail noticing.

And the wardens are the best trained in dealing with the characters in jail that they would easily murder you if you attempted to get out.

Yet there are jailbreaks!

Why do they happen?

I think that the life those prisoners lead in prison becomes so bad that it becomes too tempting to attempt that break. Someone thinks that a 1% chance of success is better than life in prison.

I suspect that the kind of treatment they receive in prison leads them to make that decision as they must be aware of all the options.

You see, being caught breaking out is almost certain death. And even chances of being caught again even if you break out are still very high as you are dealing with the government. And there must be injuries even if one escapes and worse injuries if caught.

I suspect that life in prison becomes worse than death itself that someone thinks dying breaking out is a better death as it most likely will be a quick one. Nobody breaks out of prison for fun. They find it as the best option considering the conditions in that prison.

Yet I am not talking about prison here. I am talking about our government and this virus. I use a prison break to give us a context.

You see, the government is desperately looking for those numbers to satisfy whoever that they are trashing the populace. They are punishing us for not giving them those numbers fast enough.

They are therefore condemning whole communities for the failure of getting those numbers.

In desperation they demolish a slum in this rain. Because the cold will then kill people. Then we can say it is corona!

Why do I say that?

Someone has an accident that writes off the vehicle he was driving and dies of corona! Another one dies from an asthmatic attack and is buried as a victim of the same even before the tests are done; which come out negative.

But that is not the only cause.

They are trashing options, viable options.

Senegal has come out with a cheap and effective fast test for the virus. But our government trashes it. And their argument holds as much water as a bottle top – that people taking particular drugs will escape detection. How many of us take those drugs?

All the while as this test they recommend has demonstrated worldwide how unreliable it can be, and expensive. In fact our neighbor has demonstrated that it even finds plants and animals positive!

Again, one ‘recommended’ test would cater for probably fifty of those Senegal ones. Why not use that cheap one for mass testing and then that expensive one for those who can bypass it?

But you are not cheap. Not if you can take tea worth 4 million in a month. And I doubt it is even twenty of you. A hundred shilling test is below your class.

Then Madagascar has found a drug for prevention and cure of the virus. And to date they have not recorded a single death.

Why do you also trash that yet it was a researcher who discovered it? Unless it is also too cheap for your class.

You are blocking all avenues of relief even as you continue not only to curtail our freedoms, but also kill our livelihoods. And you are surprised if we do not take your word for truth.

We also do not believe your facts. You appear too intent on pushing them down our throats.

You see, you wanted 10 000 to be positive by the end of April and failed.

You sacked (demoted? transferred?) the lead researcher at KEMRI. And now the numbers are growing. Very good.

But the Kenyan is not impressed. And your behavior and proclamations have not given him any opportunity to trust you. Not when you condemn him wholesale even as you live so expensively on his account.

And this is why I am using the analogy of a jail break.

Do not stretch this too far. You are not dealing with children.

By the way, I am a Christian minister and not a politician. I am not interested in those positions at all.