Our Desi brother Narendra Modi asked his fellow Indians to light candles, bang plates and all other nataks for 9 minutes recently and all Indians went crazy and the coronavirus didn't care much. And now, our Prime Minister Oli Ba has asked us to play the National Anthem at 8 am tomorrow, on Nepali New Year's day, as a tribute to the folks fighting on the frontline to contain the spread of COVID-19 in our nation.
Well, the 'Play the national anthem' thing is being organized by an organization and our PM just wanted to help promote it hola but how is that going to actually help our heroes?
Our government has imposed nationwide lockdown since March 24 (yes, a good move!) and will more than likely extend it until April 30 to follow the Desi formula but apart from that, it has failed to get adequate testing kits, PPEs, ventilators and equip our hospitals with resources to fight COVID-19. Instead, it has done nothing but tried to make a quick buck even during such crisis.
Our government has imposed nationwide lockdown since March 24 (yes, a good move!) and will more than likely extend it until April 30 to follow the Desi formula but apart from that, it has failed to get adequate testing kits, PPEs, ventilators and equip our hospitals with resources to fight COVID-19. Instead, it has done nothing but tried to make a quick buck even during such crisis.
Our policewallahs are getting their paycheck cut because the police HQ thought it would be a good PR stunt. No, it's not. Our lawmakers, VVIPs and Madame President can just ask the government to deduct their year's worth of salary instead because our politicians and civil servants get to make money from the illegal channel anyway.
And our Madame President will get at least 2 lakhs per month after she leaves office monthly as perks for being our former President. So, why not give the paycheck now to fund the fight against COVID-19?
And our Madame President will get at least 2 lakhs per month after she leaves office monthly as perks for being our former President. So, why not give the paycheck now to fund the fight against COVID-19?
Our medical personnel are threatened by our government officials to work in the frontline without protective gears. Our garbage collectors are doing their work without proper gears and picking up our trash every other day. And where are our thulo mancheys?
They are at home, drinking bidheshi whiskey and planning on how to make quick bucks from another lot of medical supplies that they have given our Army wallahs to look after, after the media found out that our incompetent bufoons wanted to make a quick 50 Karod from a 100 Karod deal when they asked OMNI Group to bring medical supplies from China.
They are at home, drinking bidheshi whiskey and planning on how to make quick bucks from another lot of medical supplies that they have given our Army wallahs to look after, after the media found out that our incompetent bufoons wanted to make a quick 50 Karod from a 100 Karod deal when they asked OMNI Group to bring medical supplies from China.
I feel sorry for our Nepal Army for being asked to get the medical supplies. It's not the job of the army wallahs to buy medicine. It's the job of our Health Ministry to get the needed testing kits, PPEs and equip our hospitals and it's the job of our Foreign Ministry to ask for help from our bideshi friends for the stuff or cash or whatever if needed, while it's the job of our Home Ministry to ask our police wallahs to use restrain and respect and not laathis and (foul) language while enforcing the lockdown.
Nepal Army should be mobilized at our borders with India to prevent bideshis from entering our land during the lockdown period while allowing Nepali citizens to enter their own motherland but enforce the quarantine thing strictly which the army is capable of doing and not our police or APF or even the local authorities.
Our government should pay for the quarantine of our citizens who come from abroad for at least three weeks. Feed them well, give them better accommodation and all needed to make sure they are okay and test them on their way home and even after three weeks and keep them contacted till it's over.
And our government should ask the provincial governments and our local wards to help the daily wage workers and marginalized communities during the lockdown with adequate daily essentials and not do political bhaag-bandaa at this moment.
Our government should pay for the quarantine of our citizens who come from abroad for at least three weeks. Feed them well, give them better accommodation and all needed to make sure they are okay and test them on their way home and even after three weeks and keep them contacted till it's over.
And our government should ask the provincial governments and our local wards to help the daily wage workers and marginalized communities during the lockdown with adequate daily essentials and not do political bhaag-bandaa at this moment.
But our government is doing nothing at all to help in the works of testing, tracing contacts and if needed, isolating infected folks at the moment. Just extending the lockdown will only prevent the spread of COVID-19 for the time being but once the lockdown is lifted, we are going to be hit real hard and the worst case scenario is that we will have at least 300,000 folks dying from the coronavirus.
But if our government can buy enough testing kits which will probably cost us somewhere around US$ 150 to 200 million (if everyone of us is tested), then we can isolate the ones infected and give the the needed care to fight COVID-19.
But if our government can buy enough testing kits which will probably cost us somewhere around US$ 150 to 200 million (if everyone of us is tested), then we can isolate the ones infected and give the the needed care to fight COVID-19.
Our government will not be spending billions of dollars this year on development works unless they really want to waste it as usual come the monsoon season. Stop all payments to our slimy contractors. Stop all funds to our lawmakers in their so-called development fund and save us some money.
Instead of restricting import on alcohol (I really don't care if you drink or not) or expensive vehicles (I care if our civil servants and politicians use luxury vehicles at our taxpayers' expense but if you have earned your money honestly with hard work and you want to splurge then who has any problem although I prefer electric vehicles but we are all free to choose how to spend our well-earned money), the government should just go ahead and ban all expensive vehicles for our politicians and government agencies. Yes, go for e-vehicles and buses and not Land Cruisers or Prado for our mantris, hakim sahebs and VVIPs. It will saves us billions of Rupees!
Instead of restricting import on alcohol (I really don't care if you drink or not) or expensive vehicles (I care if our civil servants and politicians use luxury vehicles at our taxpayers' expense but if you have earned your money honestly with hard work and you want to splurge then who has any problem although I prefer electric vehicles but we are all free to choose how to spend our well-earned money), the government should just go ahead and ban all expensive vehicles for our politicians and government agencies. Yes, go for e-vehicles and buses and not Land Cruisers or Prado for our mantris, hakim sahebs and VVIPs. It will saves us billions of Rupees!
Our government thinks that extending the lockdown will help. Yes, it will help for now to pause the 'coronavirus' movie but once we press the 'play' button, we cannot just fast forward it till the end. We will just have to play along and see the crisis unfolding before us as our non-existent health care system drops dead and we won't even have time to bury our dead.
So, can we just handle a lockdown for the next six months or a year or until someone gets us a vaccine for COVID-19. No, we can't. And this government will have to pay for it if things really get out of hand. I think our comrades have not realized yet that if they fail us this time, the NCP will be dead come next election.
Yes, for our chor netas, it's all about politics but we are still waiting for our greatest communist government on Earth to act like communists and give us free education, free health care and at least free social services and stuff. But these eggheads are not communists. They are opportunists, who are fake Communist Folkers.
If you are a real man or a woman then be a real communist not a capitalist faking it as a student of old crazy fogies like Mao, Stalin, Lenin or even Marx. At least Marx gets my respect, he was talking about saving democracy with his manifesto unlike the other three folks who destroyed it all and our comrades have fared no better except that we have not yet seen the gulags yet and hope it won't happen here in our land.
Well, it won't because we will always have Delhi to save our thulo manchey's arse as they did during the Rana days when they saved Tribbhy's behind then they saved BP's and then Prachanda's and tomorrow they might save yours if you are thinking of another revolution to topple this system. It's the same thing, the same story keep on repeating when it comes to our 'politics'.
So, can we just handle a lockdown for the next six months or a year or until someone gets us a vaccine for COVID-19. No, we can't. And this government will have to pay for it if things really get out of hand. I think our comrades have not realized yet that if they fail us this time, the NCP will be dead come next election.
Yes, for our chor netas, it's all about politics but we are still waiting for our greatest communist government on Earth to act like communists and give us free education, free health care and at least free social services and stuff. But these eggheads are not communists. They are opportunists, who are fake Communist Folkers.
If you are a real man or a woman then be a real communist not a capitalist faking it as a student of old crazy fogies like Mao, Stalin, Lenin or even Marx. At least Marx gets my respect, he was talking about saving democracy with his manifesto unlike the other three folks who destroyed it all and our comrades have fared no better except that we have not yet seen the gulags yet and hope it won't happen here in our land.
Well, it won't because we will always have Delhi to save our thulo manchey's arse as they did during the Rana days when they saved Tribbhy's behind then they saved BP's and then Prachanda's and tomorrow they might save yours if you are thinking of another revolution to topple this system. It's the same thing, the same story keep on repeating when it comes to our 'politics'.
The best option to fight the COVID-19 pandemic for now is to mobilize all local wards and village development committees to test all residents and all negative ones can in a week or two go back to work and continue to test them again after two to three weeks. All those with COVID-19 can stay home for further quarantine for 21 days and those who really need urgent medical care should be sent to special isolation units.
People must understand that 90 to 98% of us will recover from COVID-19 and for the unlucky 2 to 10%, we need to provide them with the best medical care possible to help them fight it out or help manage their pain well while they lose the battle against COVID-19.
But our government doesn't care. After all, our netas are used to getting medical treatment abroad. If only, these arseholes had thought about building better hospitals and training our medical professionals well then we would have world-class medical facilities.
Learn from Singapore when it comes to medical care and let's learn from South Korea on how to manage the testing, contact tracing, isolating and fighting this virus head on instead of trying to hide from it for a while and expecting it to just disappear. It's not and we just have to face it head-on and win and our government has nothing in its arsenal to fight COVID-19.
People must understand that 90 to 98% of us will recover from COVID-19 and for the unlucky 2 to 10%, we need to provide them with the best medical care possible to help them fight it out or help manage their pain well while they lose the battle against COVID-19.
But our government doesn't care. After all, our netas are used to getting medical treatment abroad. If only, these arseholes had thought about building better hospitals and training our medical professionals well then we would have world-class medical facilities.
Learn from Singapore when it comes to medical care and let's learn from South Korea on how to manage the testing, contact tracing, isolating and fighting this virus head on instead of trying to hide from it for a while and expecting it to just disappear. It's not and we just have to face it head-on and win and our government has nothing in its arsenal to fight COVID-19.
Yes, it's time for the government to spend our taxpayers money for the people. The government talks about taking over private hospitals and what not. First, take care of your government hospitals. Make all government hospitals, isolation units to fight COVID-19. Ask all government doctors and nurses to not be afraid and provide them with needed PPEs and life insurance overage of at least 1 to 2 Karod.
And what about private hospitals? We also need health institutions too look after other medical treatment apartment from COVID-19. We have folks who need dialysis treatment, who need heart surgeries and what not. Our government asking private hospitals to set up a COVID-19 ward inside their premises along with other wards is like asking other patients to be infected with COVID-19 as well.
And what about private hospitals? We also need health institutions too look after other medical treatment apartment from COVID-19. We have folks who need dialysis treatment, who need heart surgeries and what not. Our government asking private hospitals to set up a COVID-19 ward inside their premises along with other wards is like asking other patients to be infected with COVID-19 as well.
I feel sorry for our politicians and civil servants. Poor folks, they do not know how to help the people be it during the earthquakes, or the blockades or during floods and landslides and other disasters. Instead, they just want to make a quick buck while most of us have no income now and are slowly losing our savings just to feed our families.
I think we, Nepalese are a patient lot. We have been through this before, well not the virus but similar to lockdowns but of course, now, we have to stay home and not walk around the streets but we know how to take care of ourselves while we stay home for weeks. Most of us are not going crazy but will soon if the lockdown keeps on getting extended even after April 30.
I think we, Nepalese are a patient lot. We have been through this before, well not the virus but similar to lockdowns but of course, now, we have to stay home and not walk around the streets but we know how to take care of ourselves while we stay home for weeks. Most of us are not going crazy but will soon if the lockdown keeps on getting extended even after April 30.
So, the best option for our already weak economy to survive is to at least test the young and working folks and if they are negative let them go to work. The kids and the old should stay home for another few months to be on the safe side. This virus will come back again in winter and it will be as deadly as it is now. We have not even experienced the first wave yet but our open border with India will be a problem for a year or two as the world races to find a cure for COVID-19.
So, the best we can do for now is wash your hands regularly, do not touch your face, eyes, nose while outside, practice social distancing and if you are a genius then try to find a cure for COVID-19.
Newton saw them apples during the Bubonic Plague that occurred from 1665 to 1666 in England and he came up with something right? So, it might be a year-long isolation for some of us and it's now the time to come up with something on your own to help humanity with your theorems or a home-made nuclear device or a vaccine for COVID-19 or even the best momo recipe in the world. Let's start from today, okay?
So, the best we can do for now is wash your hands regularly, do not touch your face, eyes, nose while outside, practice social distancing and if you are a genius then try to find a cure for COVID-19.
Newton saw them apples during the Bubonic Plague that occurred from 1665 to 1666 in England and he came up with something right? So, it might be a year-long isolation for some of us and it's now the time to come up with something on your own to help humanity with your theorems or a home-made nuclear device or a vaccine for COVID-19 or even the best momo recipe in the world. Let's start from today, okay?
So, if you want to play the national anthem then it's fine. It' s not going to help but if it will give you peace and you think that's the best way to pay respect to our frontline warriors then good for you. But this time, do learn the national anthem by heart as well so you can sing it till the end as you play it or hear it on radio tomorrow morning at 8am. What about me? I will play 1974 AD's Nepali Ho ... that's my national anthem... Saya Thunga is good, Shreeman Gambhir, no comment now.. but Yo Man Ta Mero Nepali Ho... Jai Hos!
If you want to figure out how to stay safe from the coronavirus then send an email to maguffadi@gmail.com ... all I can assure you is that I can teach you how to wash you hands for 20 seconds while you sing 'Yo man ta mero Nepali Ho'....
If you want to figure out how to stay safe from the coronavirus then send an email to maguffadi@gmail.com ... all I can assure you is that I can teach you how to wash you hands for 20 seconds while you sing 'Yo man ta mero Nepali Ho'....
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