A Poisoned Well

Like certain other nations where religious lunatics hold the balance of power, such as the USA and the Recrudescent Imperium of Brexitannia, the Righteous State has suffered worse than most from the pandemic. Since obedience to the law is so important to the mass-murdering djinn who presented Himself to Moses as the one true god, it is conceivable that His wrath has been incurred by the ultra-Orthodox faction propping up the war criminal and alleged crook who calls himself the prime minister. If so, He is for once in agreement with secular citizens, who are suspicious of the Netanyahoo's latest strictures against mass protest, especially as the Likudniks originally tried to impose them regardless of whether or not a lockdown was in force. At the same time, on the advice of his holy men, the Netanyahoo has backed away from imposing local lockdowns because Yahweh, with His abiding and wholly understandable love of poverty and squalor, has placed so many of His chosen in poor and congested ghettos where His wrath can more conveniently consume them.