ChiefMinister Pramod Sawant has been announcing the extension of the ‘curfew’ everyweek. As curfew is an order specifying a time during which people must stayindoors, will the Chief Minister please tell us what curfew he has beenextending? Except for the conveniently curtailed session of the Goa LegislativeAssembly, everything seems to have returned to normal with all the requiredprecautions in this current pandemic thrown to the wind. Doctors and expertshave rightly expressed concern about the droves of tourists that are floodingGoa and a predicted catastrophe with the inevitable third wave expected.
The economymust move on but the health and well-being of Goans is more important. So, thegovernment needs to get its priorities right. There is currently a symboliccurfew in place which the authorities have not cared to enforce from day one.Clearly, a sign of a government in power but not in control, failing to carryout its number one duty which is to defend, protect and provide for itscitizens. We need to open businesses up, but it has to be all done whileobserving the prescribed precautionary norms.
