{"id":105197,"date":"2020-08-02T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105197"},"modified":"2020-08-02T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:46:00","slug":"melbourne-in-state-of-disaster-with-overnight-curfew-travel-restrictions-125-deaths-in-6-million-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/02\/melbourne-in-state-of-disaster-with-overnight-curfew-travel-restrictions-125-deaths-in-6-million-population\/","title":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE IN STATE OF DISASTER, WITH OVERNIGHT CURFEW & TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, 125 DEATHS, IN 6 MILLION POPULATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The\nState of Victoria, with its beautiful city of Melbourne, the virtual birth\nplace of multi-culturalism in Australia is in a state of shock since yesterday.<\/strong> \nThe socially friendly, compassionate, kind hearted 6 million Victorians are\nisolated for the second time from the rest of the country.  \nAustralia is a geographically isolated continent, unlike Sri Lanka with its\nclosest neighbours in India, Pakistan and  Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nhas happend to Melbourne is a sad situation.  A large number of aged care\ncenres have recorded several positive cases of covid 19 and deaths. Many aged\ncare centres have been closed down and aged  personnel moved to\nhospitals.  South Australia, Queensland and NSW are sending emergency\nmedical crews to Victoria to combat the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare no more morning coffee tables of Italians, Greek, Macedonians etc. \n There are no more Coffee Parties for Ladies.  There are no more\ntraditional fruit and vegetable markets of farmers products available to\ncustomers.  There are no more cultural events of Indian, Sri Lankan,\nMalaysian, English, Americans over the weekends. There are no more places of\nworship open. There are no more Pubs, Pokies, Casinos open.  There are no\nmore smiling Australians who wish you GOOD DAY MATE\u201d.!  There are all\ncovered with face masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nSri Lanka, both Sajith and Ranil believed in increase in PCR tests as a\nsolution.  But President Gotabaya  and PM Mahinda made an effective\nuse of PCR tests, by placing them in isolation camps until test results\n are released.  Sri Lanka opened several temporary make-shift\nhospitals to accommodate patients.  At the beginning Mulleriyawa IDH\nhospital workers refused to look after Covid patients and went on strike<\/strong>. \nThe vast continent of Australia, did not open a single new temporary shelter\nbut released them to go home, to find positive test results later on, but\n by that time the damage has been done..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith\nPremadasa, pretending to be a Medical Doctor, recommended prescriptive drugs\nfor the patients. Sajith Premadasa, pretending to be an Economics Wizard of\nLondon School of Economics (DUBIOUS BUT COLOURFUL DEGREE OBTAINED IN 7 MONTHS\nOF STUDIES!!),<\/strong> recommended pumping more and more money into the hands of\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did\nincrease in PCR tests work in Victoria? No.  Did pumping Job Keeper\nAllowance, Special Work from Home Payments, Pensioners Extra $750 quarterly\npayments help to combat the pandemic? No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka worked to a plan, without a Parliament, constrained by the ability to\nimpose Emergency and lack of funding<\/strong>,  it declared curfew, restricted\ntravel in suburbs, arranged home deliveries of all essential items, offered\nmere Rs 5000 for each deserving family<\/strong>, but ensured  movement\nrestrictions  using drone cameras and patrolling by Army and Police\npersonnel.   Sajith complained of a military rule in Sri Lanka. \nTheir local and international goons wrote massive articles to Tribune, Herald,\nBBC, Sky News of a possible military takeover in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\ntoday, Victoria was reluctantly compelled to do exactly what Sri Lanka did in\nearly part of April, in spite of pumping money into the hands of people and\nincreasing PCR Tests.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because\nof Civil War in Sri Lanka, if someone in your family had died, you still feel\nthe pain.  Because of Covid 19, if someone in your family has died, you\nstill feel pain .  You need not have  to have a death in your\nfamily in tragic situations, to understand the effective way in which your\nLeaders look after your family.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\npandemic in Australia has not been controlled yet.  Apart from Victoria,\nthere are emerging reports of increase number of positive cases in New South\nWales, Queensland as well.  South Australia, Western Australia  and\nTasmania appear to be in good hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nwish Melbourne and the World  to return to its colourful Glory as quickly\nas possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dhammapada\nVerse 204:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ar\u014dgy\u0101 param\u0101 l\u0101bh\u0101<\/em><\/strong>
\nSantu<\/em><\/strong>\u1e6d\u1e6d<\/em><\/strong>hiparama<\/em><\/strong>\u1e43<\/em><\/strong>\ndhana<\/em><\/strong>\u1e43<\/em><\/strong>
\nviss\u0101sa param\u0101 \u00f1\u0101ti
\nNibb\u0101na<\/em><\/strong>\u1e43<\/em><\/strong>\nparama<\/em><\/strong>\u1e43<\/em><\/strong> sukha<\/em><\/strong>\u1e43<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(<\/em><\/strong>Health is the ultimate profit, happiness is the ultimate\nwealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, <\/strong>Nibb\u0101na<\/strong><\/em> is the ultimate bliss\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE The State of Victoria, with its beautiful city of Melbourne, the virtual birth place of multi-culturalism in Australia is in a state of shock since yesterday.  The socially friendly, compassionate, kind hearted 6 million Victorians are isolated for the second time from the rest of the country.   Australia is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}