Mysore/Mysuru: On the one hand you have Government announcements and press notes which talk about stern measures being enforced to prevent the third wave of the pandemic and also Omicron threat from damaging economic prospects and asking people to exercise restraint while moving in public places without masks and without sanitisation.
On the other hand, you have politicians who are brazenly demonstrating daily that all such regulations and warnings are for common folk and do not apply to netas and their followers. Clearly, politicians do not pay heed to the warnings of the Government or health officials as it is being made clear by the way campaigns for the MLC polls from Local Authorities Constituency are conducted. As parties scramble to seek support of the electorate, the scare sparked off by the Omicron variant does not seem to have made any impact on the campaigns by political parties. When they and their followers do not wear masks and maintain social distance, they are playing with the health of others.
