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Editorial: Crisis management 2.0 – collaboration instead of intimidation

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Intimidation has been the primary tool of the current administration and especially of Prime Minister Rama in trying to reinforce the measures necessary for the management of the Covid-19 crisis. Intimidation has been achieved through two types of scaring people off: first by rightly frightening them with the statistics of mortality of the virus and second by trying to frighten them with the penalties and potential imprisonment terms if they infringe the rules. Intimidation has also been tried by more visual props such as the parade of army cars and soldiers in the main streets during curfew…

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