{"id":116350,"date":"2021-07-21T06:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116350"},"modified":"2021-07-21T06:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:47:02","slug":"only-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/21\/only-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Only In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

U. B.Gunasinghe<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

After listening to the news from Sri Lanka I could not believe how disgusting the behaviour of some people, especially some selfish politicians, trade unions, and health workers unions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only in Sri Lanka did doctors and nurses organized strikes demanding pay hikes and solutions for other job-related matters during a pandemic.\u00a0 These problems may have existed for many years before the pandemic started.\u00a0 Miraculously they woke up suddenly and jumped into action during this pandemic not limited to Sri Lanka, but all over the world.\u00a0 It is shameless behaviour obviously backed by some of the political parties who want to disrupt government efforts to control the situation.\u00a0 I have read about some countries’ retired nurses volunteering in hospitals where help is needed.\u00a0 These nurses are called travelling nurses.\u00a0 They work expecting nothing in return.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow when hospital strikes are over again backed mainly by opposition parties teachers started the same thing.\u00a0 One of the leaders who have the same name as a Russian dictator acts like a mad fox.\u00a0 What I have heard is that he is not even a teacher.\u00a0 He seems to be handled by some NGO.\u00a0 Among protestors are monks.\u00a0 Nowadays monks behave like madmen.\u00a0 Why do they need money?\u00a0 If they are real Buddhists they must help people not participating in rallies during the pandemic.\u00a0 If these teachers are really concerned about their students they never participate in treacherous activities.\u00a0 I am sure these rallies definitely create Corona hot spots.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is so sad to see none of the opposition parties has given a modicum of support to combat the pandemic.\u00a0 They looked like vultures to see any misstep taken by the people working to combat the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another disruptive activity is trying to stop vaccination.\u00a0 Public health officials started a strike in the middle of vaccination efforts. Fortunately, our army took charge of vaccination and they do a fantastic job and continue to do so. \u00a0 At the same time, some doctors and other health officials spread bogus claims highlighting the unfounded ill effects of some vaccines.\u00a0 Someone even tried to stop importing Chinese vaccines.\u00a0 These people do not care how many died during the pandemic. Their priority is to grab the power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the political front, I saw a gathering of opposition parties to create a common front to rescue the country.\u00a0 I am not going to make anything more than people who were very vocal about how to rescue the country.\u00a0 One guy was a crook who imported expired medicine and gave it to cancer patients, and another one was who tried to hide from a hit and run road accident and he also destroyed Avangrad company stopping foreign exchange to Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Another one was a racist Tamil politician talking about the Tamil problem. He should talk to Mr Sidhartahan, who is a community activist trying to help underprivileged Tamil people.\u00a0 He can get a good answer from Mr Sidhartahn: what are the real Tamil problems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is so pathetic these selfish politicians’ behaviour. My suggestion to the government is to stop paying salaries to striking government workers.\u00a0 Why in the world do these morons get paid during these disruptive activities.\u00a0 Also, the army should take the front line in vaccination projects.\u00a0 This is the only way we can have a successful vaccination programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U. B.Gunasinghe After listening to the news from Sri Lanka I could not believe how disgusting the behaviour of some people, especially some selfish politicians, trade unions, and health workers unions.\u00a0\u00a0 Only in Sri Lanka did doctors and nurses organized strikes demanding pay hikes and solutions for other job-related matters during a pandemic.\u00a0 These problems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-b-gunasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116350","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=116350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}