| Summary/Abstract |
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, the government has struggled to enforce regulations to curb spread of the disease. People continued to travel to their desh (home village) not caring about the prescribed health guidelines even after national lockdown was announced. As per many people’s perspectives, they—the pious/Bangladeshis—were immune to COVID-19. Nevertheless, novel forms of stigmatisation emerged. In this article, I seek to illuminate why Bangladeshis violated the government-prescribed health guidelines and put themselves and their families at risk. I contend that, though it can be argued that not many people were aware of the seriousness of the coronavirus, the pandemic has exposed ontological potentialities and differences among the people of Bangladesh.
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