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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2020-04-01 09:23 pm
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Back into the future

Coronavirus quarantine in Philippines sounds so 16th century:
"It is getting worse. So once again I'm telling you the seriousness of the problem and that you must listen," Duterte said late on Wednesday (April 1). "My orders to the police and military ... if there is trouble and there's an occasion that they fight back and your lives are in danger, shoot them dead."

"Is that understood? Dead. Instead of causing trouble, I will bury you," he warned.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/shoot-them-dead-duterte-says-he-wont-tolerate-violators-of-lockdown-against-coronavirus