Amid TN's 100% theatre occupancy move, tired doctor's open letter to Vijay & Simbu viral

'I am tired. We are all tired', a resident doctor from Puducherry has written in an open letter after Tamil Nu government allowed 100% seating occupancy in cinema halls in an anuncement that came after actors Vijay Master and Simbu's Eeswaran met CM Edappi K. Palaniswami, as ir releases are scheduled to hit screens on January 13 and 14 respectively. 

Amid COVID-19, Aravinth Srinivas, who is a resident doctor at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgruate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry took to Facebook to write an open letter to Vijay, Silambarasan and  government of Tamil Nu which went viral. However,  Facebook post is longer available or may have been removed.

Resident Doctor's Open letter

In a Facebook post, Srinivas said, I am tired including thousand of doctors like me, health care workers, police officials and sanitary workers are tired. I am t glorifying our work but we have worked so hard on ground level to make sure situation is under control during pandemic. But we deserve some break and do t want to fall prey to someone's selfishness and greed. 

He ded that pandemic isn't over yet and people are still dying. A 100% atre occupancy will be a suicide attempt. He compared situation to a blatant barter system, tring lives for money. "Can we please slowly try and concentrate on our lives and make sure we tide through this pandemic peacefully and t reignite slowly burning out flame, that is still t completely put out? I wanted to make this post scientific and explain why we are still in danger. But that’s when I asked myself, “what’s point ?” Yours tiredly A poor, tired resident doctor" he wrote 

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 government's move has received both positive and negative feedback from industry, healthcare and social media users. Several people from Tamil film industry have welcomed government's decision but Health Secretary, some celebrities and many people are against move.

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J Rhakrishnan, Tamil Nu Health Secretary, expressed concerns regarding move and said that he saw order issued by Revenue Department and will look into Indian government guidelines, standard operating procedure (SOPs) and challenges and bring it to ir tice.

Tamil cinema actor Arvind Swamy tweeted and criticised government's decision of opening cinema halls.

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