Messages from above: Colombia's army takes to the skies to enforce quarantine

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From helicopters blasting messages over densely crowded areas to issuing fines, Colombia's military is deploying all kinds of methods to ensure compliance with a national quarantine to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

A Colombian national army pilot wears a face mask inside a helicopter amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Bogota, Colombia April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

The Andean country is in the midst of an obligatory isolation that began late last month and is set to last until April 27. Some people, however, are wandering streets and riding public transport at the risk of contracting the virus and infecting family members, according to the police. “We carry special speakers ... to fly over parts of Bogota and the surrounding municipalities in order to prevent, mitigate and contain the pandemic,” Colonel Jorge Alfredo Martinez, second commander of the Army Aviation Brigade, told Reuters.

 

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in other words target practice ;-)

Using equipment not to run drugs and destroy people 🤔 but to help them 🧐 🦠 🦠

They gonna strafe the stragglers?

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