No. Not THAT elephant, nor the one which turned itself into a telephone. Neither are in the room. The compass is not in the room either and there’s palpable evidence that even the lotus bud has got displaced. That’s if ‘people’ constitute ‘the room.’These days, the proverbial elephant in the room is the Coronavirus. The room is enormous and constitutes almost the entire landmass of the earth or rather those parts inhabited by humans. Today we are told that the virus is going to hang in there for quite a while, vaccines notwithstanding. We are told that we better resolve to live with the virus.The elephant we are talking about is a tad larger than the virus. We are talking about the pachyderm, the behemoth, the elephant. Elephas maximus. And the room is the country or at least almost two-thirds of the territory.To read full story visit: http://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/The-elephant-is-in-the-room-and-will-not-go-away/172-202789?fbclid=IwAR1EKTjRCaCUphdVECE_c6fGr8K-tuTiQrGK38m_1AHpEZk_a5jBGoWNviI