{"id":210675,"date":"2020-05-20T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=210675"},"modified":"2020-05-25T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:17:42","slug":"more-droll-stories-of-gotas-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/more-droll-stories-of-gotas-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"More Droll Stories Of Gota’s Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kumar David<\/a> –<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prof. Kumar David<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a surprise that last week\u2019s Droll Stories of Gota\u2019s Lockdown<\/span><\/a> attracted so many readers comments. These long and lonesome curfew days folks must be looking for things to do. They say Russia produces so many Grand Masters in chess because of its interminably long winter. I am going to entertain you again. These are clean; if our Editor relaxes his puritanical comments policy, I will relate tales to match Giovanni Boccaccio\u2019s Decameron; yarns about seven young women and three men who fled Florence for the country town of Fiesole to escape the plague of 1353. Though called bawdy, vulgar and licentious, it is a classic. Anyway, what do you think is going on here under cover of lockdown and curfew?\u00a0 <\/span>[A serious note: The Decameron is a record of physical, psychological, and social effects of the previously unknown yersina pestis<\/i> bacterium].<\/p>\n

Did you know that to get into a bus or train to go work in the Colombo or Gampaha District one has to have a card certifying employment? Try his for a honk if you have a card printer and laminator. Invite your nephew to come to work; for the heck of it sign: \u201cManager, O Conner & Co\u201d. I think there are scams going on. Those of you living outside the country will not believe this. On Saturday 17 May all bus and train services were cancelled because government servants don\u2019t work the weekend. Jesus Christ, what about all the other poor sods!<\/p>\n

Talk about social distancing. Buses in the outstations are packed at times. What do the Authorities make of this ridiculous inconsistency? For a revealing OMG-video of social distancing in Bombay. We ached under an all-island 34-hour curfew from Saturday (16) 8 pm to Monday 6 am and this outlandish routine will be indefinite. Perhaps some whiz in the Health Dept. discovered a virulent mutant SARS-cov2 Dimanche Zeylanicus<\/i> which manifests only on Sundays! Or are we being drilled for life under military rule?<\/p>\n\n\t

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