Peru: riot police block highway as people attempt to flee [to their home towns] amid lockdown.

Some of those people have Covid-19 and would bring it to their home towns if they go. However, the overwhelming majority do not have Covid-19, and would die if they stay in Lima. Covid-19 is going to reach those places sooner or later, but it could take time,

A better-organized and wealthier state would test them all, then quarantine those who are infected and let the rest go home. But Peru is not capable of that.

This shows us the sort of disasters that massive inequality can cause. Meanwhile, the plutocrats labor every day to make more inequality.