{"id":2996,"date":"2020-03-25T19:21:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:34:35","slug":"two-covidiots-being-fined-whilst-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/03\/25\/two-covidiots-being-fined-whilst-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Two \u201ccovidiots\u201d being fined\u2026 whilst swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A picture published by Reuters (March 25, 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This is neither Parlee nor Aboiteau beach. The country is not NB, Canada (the water would be a little bit colder ?). This is Lebanon and these are swimmers who likely enjoy fresh water, like Bambi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Careless people (so-called \u201ccovidiots\u201d nowadays by\nmany) may be religious over-zealous or\u2026 just selfish swimmers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A neighbouring country to Lebanon (Bambi will name Israel) conducted an informative study (report published yesterday) on the ways of transmission of the coronavirus. It seems that places of worships were found to be the top places for the spreading of the virus there, with infections in prayer houses accounting for about a quarter of known cases, not brought in from abroad, or contracted in the community. They have since shuttered synagogues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of note, hotels were next (15% of the total), followed\nby restaurants (accounting for 12% of total cases), supermarkets (7%), various\nother stores (7%), and religious schools (5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above interesting data makes Bambi think of the\nfollowing: If swimmers in the beautiful Mediterranean sea deserve to be called \u201ccovidiots\u201d\nand fined, how do we call Mr. Trump then for having declared today that by April\n13 (Easter), the pandemic would be over in his country and people will be\npacking churches to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus!? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does the word \u201cpolitidiots\u201d or, more sadly, \u201cpoliti-deniers\u201d exist when such mistakes, if listened to by \u201ctrue covidiots\u201d, can cost lives? Mind you, other leaders also can share a sub-part of this title with Mr. Trump, for their delayed, inefficient, or ideologically-driven response, sometimes hidden behind science to justify delays (e.g. Brazil and\u2026 Bambi will refrain from naming anyone domestically). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, all the examples above, explicit and hidden, happen\nto be very large federal countries. Perhaps their mode of operation, in\nnational crises like pandemics, need to be re-visited after this global\nnightmare would end (whether within a few months, 1-2 years, or\u2026 whenever). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This being said, thank Goodness, the places of worships of Lebanon have been much smarter than the American President\u2019s last words. They all closed early on. They did not even wait for the governmental tougher measures. Plus, they cancelled their Easter ceremonies, turning them online. This has never ever happened, even during the 15 years of civil war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Lebanon\u2019s PM said today, \u201csocial isolation is our first line of defence\u201d\nand as Mr. Legault said today \u201cWhen we protect ourselves, we protect others\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have no excuse but to be \u201ccoviwise\u201d, if Bambi may say it that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is neither Parlee nor Aboiteau beach. The country is not NB, Canada (the water would be a little bit colder ?). This is Lebanon and these are swimmers who likely enjoy fresh water, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}