{"id":110508,"date":"2021-01-08T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110508"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:49:35","slug":"the-third-wave-and-the-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/08\/the-third-wave-and-the-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third Wave and the Tourists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarath Bulathsinghala<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

9 Jan\n2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\ncountries are experiencing a Second Wave of Covid pandemic, while some others\nhave graduated into a Third Wave, this time with new and more virulent mutant\nforms of the virus. If these mutant viruses arrive in Sri Lanka it will be\nbeyond the capacity of the Sri Lanka government to handle. Sri Lanka is already\nbattling through the second wave. If the 70% more virulent mutant arrives in\nSri Lanka it will be shutters on all activities. The UK has already gone to a\nshut down. Just on the news this evening Greater Brisbane in Australia is to go\ninto a three-day lockdown to stop the UK variant spread. In the UK and in the\nUS \u2013 California they are already almost running out of beds! This can very well\nhappen to Sri Lanka if not extremely careful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is best\nthe authorities closely look at how other countries are now affected and also\nmost importantly other countries are getting ready to meet the mutants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is with this developing situation that Sri Lanka should be taking a fresh look at bringing in tourists into the country at least for the time being. Sri Lanka should explore the danger associated and as well as the certainty which they can assure that the virulent version of the virus will not enter Sri Lanka?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is said\nthat the total weight of the virus that has so far infected the whole world is\nless than 1.5 gms. This shows how minute the virus is and how easy for such a\ntiny speck of death dealing viral matter to creep through any human attempt to\nkeep it contained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is no\nsecret Sri Lanka was found going it easy after the First Wave. Here we are not\nblaming the government for it can happen to any other government elsewhere. It\nhas happened to more rich and powerful Governments who are trying to balance a\nmultitude of factors \u2013 the economy, security, the feeding the nation, keeping\npeople employed in order to keep the wheels of industry moving and most\nimportantly the health of their citizens. The priority of the most powerful\ncountries has been their security and not the health of the nation as we have\nseen in the US, the UK and France! These countries are willing to take the\nCovid-19 related deaths as mere \u2018collateral damage\u2019, second to maintaining\ntheir security apparatus intact! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Sri\nLanka we are still trying to come to terms with the Second Wave. Are we ready\nfor the Third Wave and certain disaster unprecedented?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarath Bulathsinghala 9 Jan 2021 Some countries are experiencing a Second Wave of Covid pandemic, while some others have graduated into a Third Wave, this time with new and more virulent mutant forms of the virus. If these mutant viruses arrive in Sri Lanka it will be beyond the capacity of the Sri Lanka government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110508","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=110508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}