India witnessed a 14-hour-long ¡®Junta Curfew¡¯ yesterday and a 5:00 PM applause fest which was meant to celebrate all health workers, public sector employees and others who are making our lives better during this dark time.?
However, some people of failed to follow protocol and came out on the roads for the 5 PM 'celebration', which totally nullified the concept of social-distancing, which was the whole point.?Videos and pictures of people gathering in large groups to applaud, are getting slow claps from netizens all over the Internet.?
Looks like people still do not understand the gravity of the situation and our Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted about the same.
In his tweet, he wrote, 'Some people are still not taking the lockdown seriously. It is my request that you keep yourself and your families safe and obey the rules set out for the lockdown. I urge the state governments to make the citizens follow the rules and laws'.
Apparently, following the simple rule of staying indoors and coming out at 5 PM in the balcony to clap for just five minutes was too difficult for some people to abide by and they took to the streets to do this instead. *Facepalm*
Like in this video where a group of people including children and the elderly - who are the most vulnerable to the virus - can be seen 'celebrating' in a crowd while banging thalis together. Did they not get the memo? Was the Prime Minister unclear about his message? Wasn't the 30-minute address by him enough??
This is a time to be super responsible not only for yourself but for others around you as well, and these people are putting each other at extremely high risk by gathering like this. It's called social distancing, not social gathering.
No points for guessing, it has left others furious because of how irresponsible these people are. The internet is flooded with disgruntled citizens who are calling out such people for being obnoxiously insensitive and daft. The worst part? This did not just happen in one place.
When the Prime Minister himself has requested people to take precautions, why wouldn't the citizens take it seriously?
There has never been a simpler message to the public and yet, people failed to follow it.
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By doing this, they put their and others' lives in danger, and if the Prime Minister himself couldn't get through their thick heads, who can?
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If you don't live under a rock (Even though right now, we really wish we did), you must have seen disapproval for these shenanigans by sensible people on social media.
It is an urgent request to everyone reading this to take matters much more seriously and not make a mockery out of this grave situation. Millions of lives are at stake and that is in no way, an exaggeration.?