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Bogotá's mayor is once again rolling out major restrictions with virtually no notice, shutting down public transportation that most of the city relies on to get to work and other essential locations. Because of a football game? How do people out get home? Unacceptable governance. https://twitter.com/ClaudiaLopez/status/1343252837439066112
Last Sunday, with about 12 hours notice, a restriction on going to shops, bank, notaries and more was enacted for Monday morning. People found out Sunday night that the would only be able do these essential tasks every other day (depending on their cédula number).
Health measures that limit the spread of COVID are fine. Necessary in many cases. But as has been happening all year, the announcement, communication, and timing of the changes is absurd. People shouldn't have to stay glued to Twitter to know what is happening later today.
After all the ham-fisted, thoughtless, poorly conceived, retracted, and amended health restrictions rolled out this year in Bogotá, you would think they would have learned how to do this better. Staggeringly, and embarrassingly, they somehow keep getting worse.
Feeling to need to shut down public transportation later today -- so people won't gather to watch a game scheduled long agi -- is next-level negligence. There are people working shifts currently who won't learn about this until they are stranded 15 km from home this evening.
We've been living with this for 9 months. Restrictions are a lever politicians can pull when infection/ICU rates spike. No reason to smash buttons in panic mode. Give reasonable notice, leave rules in place as necessary. Rash, ever-changing laws are not useful and undermine goals
