DON WANYAMA: Insisting on Covid-19 super-spreader rallies is irresponsible; NRM supporters should shun them In this opinion, Don Wanyama, the Senior Press Secretary to H.E. President Museveni insists that electoral victory is a product of well-planned and well-executed strategy, involving coining the right message, getting it to your audiences and rallying them. He goes on to argue that under the current Covid-19 pandemic circumstances, large crowds make it very difficult to enforce the Standard Operating Procedures like social distancing, masking, sanitising, among others and the presence of one infected person in the crowd could be a recipe for disaster, causing possible multiple infections in what scientists now call "super-spreader" events.
In June this year, then Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that he would not hold rallies because of the rising Covid-19 cases in the USA. At that time, infections stood at 2,400,000 cases, with 122,000 deaths in the USA alone.
This announcement, as was expected, caused consternation in his political camp, especially considering that the do-or-die election was only five
