Posted on 05/26/2021 12:45:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Authorities have sealed off a hamlet in southern India after hundreds of people ignored a coronavirus lockdown and crowded the funeral of a horse considered divine in local tradition, a government official said on Tuesday (May 25).
The containment measures were introduced after around 400 people in a hamlet near the town of Gokak in Karnataka state gathered at a local Hindu monastery for the horse's funeral on Sunday, Gokak administration official Prakash Holeppagol said.
Visuals from Reuters partner ANI showed people walking shoulder-to-shoulder to the funeral, many without face masks, in violation of physical distancing norms and a state-wide lockdown. Face masks are still mandatory across much of India, which is battling a massive wave of coronavirus infections.
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These people have nuclear weapons......................
Did The Prince Who Was A Thousand make the funeral?
Too bad. I wanted to see a picture of the Divine Horse.
Link with picture: https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/karnataka-hundreds-gather-for-divine-horse-s-funeral-covid-norms-go-for-a-toss-1806291-2021-05-24
These people have nuclear weapons......................
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Worse.
We are importing them a half-million a year to take decent American middle class jobs while Americans are forced to do menial labor in our own country to survive.
Thanks for the link. Looks like a pretty standard horse, but if it had miracle powers, great! But why was it ‘lurching’? These articles are fairly entertaining reading but they don’t tell you much.
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