Covid-19 has hit politicians, but not as hard as the poor

President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta take the Covid-19 Vaccine at State House, Nairobi after the Fifteenth [15th] Presidential address on the Covid-19 pandemic at State House, Nairobi. [Courtesy]

Covid-19 is indiscriminate in the way it picks on its victims.

But not everyone suffers equally. Some have had painful encounters that ended fatally. Others have gotten away with no more than the medical equivalent of a slap on the wrist.