Vigilantism because of THE virus

Here is the story.
Last Friday a plane came in from Mexico. Aboard were locals and foreigners. One Italian was tested positive, has been communicated and put into quarantine. The Guatemalan official took phone numbers and addresses of the passengers. They put 80 people in quarantine by calling them when they learned about the Italian. One passenger from Ohio, USA refused to collaborate. The authority out his picture on facebook. People recognized him and started to follow and push him around. They took him to the police station.
About 8 people of this flight are still missing.
The government uses the phone of the people to track them.

To me scary things are going on here. Of course on one side I’m happy the government takes such measures to protect the Guatemalan people. On the other hand my civil right heart is one alert.
Some of the Central- and most of South American countries are not doing well economically.
I’m afraid that countries activate military law to best contain the virus and control the people.

But what if once the crisis is over they won’t give the power back?

In the meanwhile in Guatemala there are 6 confirmed cases and about 300 person that might carry the virus.

The government told the Guatemalan to not party at the beach. What do they do? A big group parties at the beach???

As in Europe everything is shutting down. When we went to the institute today the streets were much less crowded. Less cars, less people.Leggi altro