{"id":115517,"date":"2021-06-25T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115517"},"modified":"2021-06-25T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T23:24:44","slug":"the-nations-foremost-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/06\/25\/the-nations-foremost-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NATION&#8217;S FOREMOST PRIORITY."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sunil Kumar<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>For a nation that enjoyed the prestige of world\nrecognition regarding how the Covid virus situation was handled Sri Lanka seems\nto have rolled to the bottom of the pile as the nation today rests in\ncircumspect speculation of what to expect next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While It is no easy task however to maintain stability in\na an already teetering nation of financial and economic instability with the\nperils of the Covid pandemic staring her in the face ot uncertainty there can\nat least be some restitution granted to a people who had supreme confidence in\nthe leadership of the President and his allies where all they are experiencing\nare speculative apprehensions about what next, where is the Nation headed&nbsp; and will the pandemic eventually overwhelm\nour nation to a a point of no return ? which is unhealthy at best and needs to\nbe set right post haste where unscrupulous politicians seen to be a thorn in\nthe flesh of progress and merely contribute to the turmoil&nbsp; and people continue to panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheap Words and bulletins seem to be the order of the day\nwhere promises are made and the nation is kept in limbo but&nbsp; nothing beyond a latent panic seems to be\ntaking over and there are warning signs of dissent which could spell trouble\nfor the administration as the fires of fear mongering are already being fanned\nby the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nation&#8217;s leadership consists of a sensible, well\nstructured and disciplined individual in whose hands there should be the\nsupreme confidence that he could steer the nation into calmer waters and the\nnecessary steps taken to alleviate the needs of the people and placate their\nlatent fears as it is only in his hands that the safety and well being of the\nNation rests rather than become the laughing stock of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; There can be no room for errors as the nation meanders\non into an abyss of uncertainty&#8221; a conclusion that many observers have\ncome to in recent times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this respect overcoming the spread of the Covid Virus\nand its strains have to be the nation&#8217;s foremost priority beyond the shadow of\na doubt WHERE THE ENTIRE NATION NEEDS TO BE IMMUNIZED THROUGH WHATEVER IT TAKES\nTO ENSURE THIS !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise the consequences could be grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Kumar For a nation that enjoyed the prestige of world recognition regarding how the Covid virus situation was handled Sri Lanka seems to have rolled to the bottom of the pile as the nation today rests in circumspect speculation of what to expect next. While It is no easy task however to maintain stability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunil-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115517","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=115517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}