People Coming Out In Large Groups To Applaud At 5 PM Yesterday Is Proof That We Don't Listen
India witnessed a 14-hour-long Junta Curfew yesterday and a 5:00 PM applause fest which was meant to celebrate all health workers. However some people of failed to follow protocol and came out on the roads for the 5 PM celebration. Videos and pictures of people gathering in large groups to applaud are getting slow claps from netizens all over the Internet.
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.
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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'.
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¡ª Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 23, 2020
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*
People have gathered in crowd and playing musical instruments. Purpose of #JuntaCurfew killed.
¡ª Love Charger (@joke_sparrow) March 22, 2020
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.
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¡ª Tabeenah Anjum (@TabeenahAnjum) March 22, 2020
Visuals from #Rajasthan
Men, women , children come out on streets of Jaipur to support unsung heroes of our society
In the backdrop of iconic hawa mahal chant slogans #CoronaBhagao #ThaliBajao #JantaCurfew #JantaCurfewChallenge#Covid_19india #CoronavirusPandemic pic.twitter.com/x7smbL17hD
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.
History will also remember that when the Prime Minister of the country called for a one-day Janata Curfew to maintain social distancing, the Governor of Karnataka was beating a plate in the crowd of hundreds on the same day at 5 pm.
¡ª Khalid ?????? ???? (@khalidmfp) March 22, 2020
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When the Prime Minister himself has requested people to take precautions, why wouldn't the citizens take it seriously?
Why cant some people cant understand the seriousness and the word #jantacurfew disappointed to see people on road when #covid19 is spreading so badly..if you are in this video be ashamed of yourself.requesting police and government to come up with more strict rules @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/tlefmTfofs
¡ª Jay Bhanushaali (JB) (@jaybhanushali0) March 22, 2020
There has never been a simpler message to the public and yet, people failed to follow it.
#coronavirusinindia Nation on Sunday has enthusiastically welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi¡¯s 5 minutes gratitude call at 5 pm for those working amid the spread of deadly coronavirus. But at some places overenthusiastic people came on street in crowd defied motive behind it. pic.twitter.com/iry7V0k50a
¡ª satyendra soni (@soni_saty) March 22, 2020
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?
It's 5:00 PM, you can still see the crowd on the streets.
¡ª Asmit Agarwal (@asmit_agarwal_) March 21, 2020
The people are not maintaining any distance and these people will do the same tomorrow. They are not worried about #coronavirus.
Do something ?.@myogiadityanath @AmitShah @MoHFW_INDIA @narendramodi
Support #jantacurfew pic.twitter.com/BrHxk6JidW
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.
Dear Indians:
¡ª Sandeep Manudhane (@sandeep_PT) March 20, 2020
Any one who arranges a big crowd today, leads it, cheers through the streets, and does that for several minutes or hours has ENDANGERED EACH ONE OF US with potential death. Remember that at 5 pm on Sunday when you stand clapping in that balcony.#CoronaVirusUpdate
Till 5 pm only. After 5 huge crowd was seen on streets. Whole purpose was killed in several cities
¡ª Being Indian (@WellIndian) March 22, 2020
You all were supposed to be indoors.
¡ª Mohan Sinha (@Mohansinha) March 22, 2020
Defeats the whole purpose of lockdown . In five mts the benefits of the whole idea has been destroyed. Even God cannot help us.
¡ª dr.m.govardhan (@drmg12) March 22, 2020
This is the level of common sense our education imparts to our innocent well-meaning enthusiastic citizens.
¡ª Blue Blistering Barnacles (@kcs2010gmailcom) March 22, 2020
It is criminal neglect of a core sector which influences every other.
I feel gutted looking at the great betrayal by our colonialists both imported, &, homegrown post1947
Where is Social Distancing?
¡ª Hari Kishore (@Harikishore23) March 22, 2020
Social Gathering ban gaya.
¡ª Dharmesh Dixit (@theDDixit) March 22, 2020
Weren't we supposed to stay IN our homes while clapping?
¡ª Apoorvaa? (@ApoorvaSingh519) March 22, 2020
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.
