Coronavirus: Trust in God, but wash hands too

Full disclosure. I’ve been making fun of people who respond to Covid-19 with "Only God can save us"’ or "We need to wash our hands with the blood of Jesus". This is only because it’s such a knee-jerk reaction for Kenyans to revert to religion when it suits us, and desert it when it doesn’t.

Say a cop flags you down because your tyres are worn out. Your first reaction will not be "God is good all the time, afande, when is my court date?" It will be, “Si tuongee bana, haya maneno yaishe hapa?” True story.