I'd say that, while those drugs may factor, they are likely a small factor compared to simple bad accounting.
Uganda is a shithole country with a worse than useless government. I used to have a kid I sponsored from there and back then they had some of the highest HIV rates in the world. We knew this because NGO accounting, not government accounting.
Clearly nobody is offering them any incentives to have Covid cases or deaths. Otherwise those numbers would be higher.
I also doubt that they have as high a population of fat old people who are only alive because of medication and 24/7 assistance from nurses.
That said. I think basically ignoring Covid (aside from the normal attention we give the seasonal flu or pneumonia, ect), like they have, would have been the best practice of the entire world. Our numbers would, like theirs probably are, be artificially low instead of so obviously artificially high and the world would not reeling from insane government overreach. It might have shown up as a high flu year.
Granted Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, and companies making hand sanitizer and PPE would not like this. Nor would the politicians carrying those stocks in their portfolios, but I am fine with all of them suffering.
The executive branch is not supposed to be the top.
Maybe this is not the case in the UK and maybe Whine-stein forgot this after 8= years of masturbating to Obama posters, but the US model is supposed to be a division of powers. Not a hierarchy.
Tasers are a joke. They work on the kind of people that you never need to use them on.
The guy has a record of incidents involving guns, so maybe that is a factor in why the assumption was made that he was going for one.
What would you do if a gun is pointed at you? I generally turn on my listening ears and give them my full attention.
I don't see the justification for you having to risk injury to yourself fighting with a person who, when threatened with a gun, and given a lawful order essentially tells you to fuck off. He's telling you his life is worthless. Why argue with him?
Another big difference is that the blue collar worker is often too tired and preoccupied to leverage things via politics while the hedge fund dealer has the time between hands and thanks to having the funds for other people to raise their kids, do their landscaping, and deliver their groceries does. So the former is a good target for a certain brand of politician that is doing "for" them...., which, of course, is a lie.