{"id":110465,"date":"2021-01-06T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110465"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T01:23:45","slug":"some-new-thoughts-on-the-spread-of-covid-19-geological-reasons-why-corona-victims-should-not-be-buried-in-this-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/06\/some-new-thoughts-on-the-spread-of-covid-19-geological-reasons-why-corona-victims-should-not-be-buried-in-this-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Some new thoughts on the spread of Covid 19. Geological reasons why Corona victims should not be buried in this country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The following map shows the graphic\nrepresentation of the geomorphological structure of the Island determined by\nits geological foundation spreading from the center in all directions <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morphological map of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source Sudath Gunasekara 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will see from this map that all the\nrivers in the Island starting from the Central Highlands flow   in between these trend lines.   Not only the rivers but also the movement\nand storing of underground water table also conforms to this morphological\nfoundation. Hence the possibility of whatever virus or germ that gets in to the\nunderground water table at any point in the upstream area the tendency of\nspreading  downstream under gravity\nradially or storing in underground water bodies in all the directions all over\nthe Island in no time.  Part of it also\nmight come to the surface through capillary action. As such spreading a virus\nin all directions both lateral and vertical in no time and remaiming there from\nany death body with Covid 19 virus at any point in the country could be very\nhigh and therefore extremely risky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am only trying here to illustrate the\nbehavior of the underground water table within this peculiar underlying\ngeological Structure as a student of geography. It is therefore left for expert\ngeologists and hydrologists to elaborate on this point. I hope those more\nknowledgeable in geology an d hydrology \nwill pick up from here and tell the world the imminent dangers of\nburying Covid 19 dead bodies in any part of this country in view of this\npeculiar geomorphologica]  and geological\ncontext that might help  the health\nauthorities to explain to the rioting Muslim lunatics and opportunist\npoliticians who care a damn for other\u2019s lives on the large scale ramifications\nof burying Covid19  dead bodies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If cremation is so antireligious then how\nabout the souls of those who commit suicide like Saharan. Why can\u2019t these\nidiots realize that the dead is dead for good. No one knows where he or she has\ngone whether hell or heaven.  As such\nthere is no point in dabbling with dead bodies. What we have to do is to\nprotect the living in view of social justice. The decision of the government\nshould be based purely on health advice and never petty political\nconsiderations. I warn all those politicians of all communities not to play\nwith human lives for votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is another serious countrywide\ndisaster pending if Muslim Covid 19 death bodies get piled up in government\nhospital morgues. Firstly it might spread all over the hospital and they might\nbecome dysfunctional. If that happens, who will come to rescue those who need\nhospital care.? Will Alla come from heaven to look after those patients, I ask\nthese rioting Muslim fanatics and politicians like Sirisena and those in the\nfold who support them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara\u00a0 The following map shows the graphic representation of the geomorphological structure of the Island determined by its geological foundation spreading from the center in all directions Morphological map of Sri Lanka Source Sudath Gunasekara 1991. You will see from this map that all the rivers in the Island starting from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110465","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=110465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}