How we can execute proactive operation in the face of coronavirus

We Kenyans are averse to the concept of ‘personal space.’ The government has to warn us to stand a metre apart at the supermarket line for good reason. On a normal ‘coronaless’ day, the person behind you on the supermarket queue will ‘feel’ that they are not properly in line unless they are as close to you as possible.

I don’t know if this is because of paranoia (that someone else will swoop in and cut the line if they see the smallest gap) or if it is because we are just communal people who feel safe in a tight knit herd. It seems like we are just happy breathing down each other’s necks in banks, supermarkets and any other space we get a chance to engage in mass huddling.