{"id":21631,"date":"2021-07-20T09:55:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=21631"},"modified":"2024-09-05T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T09:40:18","slug":"oli-garchy-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/oli-garchy-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Oli-garchy…In the Times of the Coronavirus Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prime Minister Oli failed to tackle meaningfully the BIGGEST challenge his administration faced–the coronavirus pandemic. I would go as far to even declare that he and his administration did NOT even do the bare minimum! There is no shortage of evidence which show that–and many paid dearly…with their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the evidences is in the way PM Oli used his personal Twitter handle. Nothing he–or those who handle his twitter handle–tweeted over the course of the first ten months of the pandemic in the country indicates, firstly, that the country was EVEN suffering from a pandemic, and, secondly, that they actually cared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know because I tweeted a whole thread about it in November 2020, which is what I am reproducing below. Interestingly enough, the last time Oli or his PR manager had tweeted had been on Ocotber 14, which the official Prime Minister’s handle, @PM_Nepal, also retweeted the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the thread to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/#COVID19<\/a> #Nepal<\/a> Update

I follow PM Oli on twitter (img 1). Not seeing many tweets from him abt d #pandemic<\/a>, I went & browsed his timeline.

If you just went by his tweets, you wouldn’t really think\/know that d GoN was fighting a #pandemic<\/a>!

Read thread for evidence. #COVID<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/8zGjiqLgK0<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) (@Dorje_sDooing) November 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>