This news clip reminded me of my days in grade school.
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AFP reports that the travelers - from Israel, Mexico, Australia and Austria - were caught taking a walk in Rishikesh, flouting the rule that allows people to leave their homes only for essential services like buying groceries and medicine.
Over 700 foreign tourists from the US, Australia, Mexico and Israel staying in the area had disobeyed the lockdown rules, a local police officer said, adding the unusual punishment was handed out to teach them a lesson.
Police said they would direct hotels in the area to allow foreign guests to step out only if accompanied by local helpers, with establishments that do not follow the order facing the threat of legal action.
From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/12/coronavirus-live-pope-easter-lockdown-us-death-toll-uk-boris-johnson-donald-trump-
I remember having to do that a number of times until I got writer's cramps. It usually started with "I must not........"
I'm now to damn old to remember what I was doing to receive punishment.
KY.........
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I thought most nations had ran off all the tourists, as their home nations have had to arrange special flights to get them home.
Apparently, there's still a lot of them stranded in India and they have set up a web site to help:
Link: https://strandedinindia.com/
and, this article reviews the situation in The Times of India:
Link: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tourism-ministry-launches-site-to-help-stranded-foreign-tourists/articleshow/74910492.cms
My impression is that a lot of people around the world were on vacations and rather than waste the remainder of their vacation plans and spending, they decided to stay in denial and remain where they were. Now, they can't get flights home and are suffering, and many will die in a foreign land.
I can't imagine the stress from being stranded like that at this time......
