The terror group added that “the healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the afflicted should not exit from it”... #ISIS also reminds followers to “cover the mouth when yawning and sneezing” and cites a hadith about germs and contamination” https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/isis-coronavirus-directives-do-not-enter-the-land-of-the-epidemic-cover-your-sneezes/">https://www.hstoday.us/subject-m...

Other non-state armed groups are reacting with similar advice. With control comes governance, of some type at least. Here’s Comando Vermelho, criminal insurgency in Rio de Janeiro, enforcing a curfew in its favelas by force of arms. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/brazil-rio-gangs-coronavirus">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Continuing this thread on non-state armed groups managing community responses to COVID, here we have El Salvadoran gangs enforcing social distancing restrictions, with threats and baseball bats. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-07/el-salvador-coronavirus-homicides-bukele">https://www.latimes.com/world-nat...