Impaired or double vision?

The matches of the World Cup football have lately been scheduled for 10 pm and 2.0 am. There is no problem of the first match's timing but it is not so with the ones held at the small hours. Earlier the timing at 4.0 was rather convenient. People could snatch a few hours' sleep in between but now this is impossible. Then this is the month of Ramadan and people who observe fasting are particularly at a disadvantage on account of their sheri schedule. If anyone wants to have the best of both worlds, the task becomes all the more challenging.
It is therefore not unusual to come across sights where almost the entire bus-load of passengers on their way to offices or home start dozing with heads drooping or lolling on their chest or sideways, sometimes with mouths open, as the vehicle move along. Some of them even start snorting immediately after they get on board a bus. Those who still feel it below their dignity to succumb to this public sleepiness, somehow keep them awake only to surrender to it when they reach home. But those not reputed for nice words put in, Bangalees need no such excuses to indulge themselves in the luxury of indulging in a nap in buses.
One wonders what the output of an office is during the month of this World Cup! Now here is a combined impact of no work culture, courtesy of both the WC and the holy month. Office timing is changed during the Ramadan to facilitate prayer and break fasting. But there are people who use those as a pretext for not making time for office work. Whatever may be the case, the nightly TV watching at homes has driven thieves out of their trade. Even in villages, the cable TV is now showing the WC and people stay awake to watch the matches. But pickpockets in contrast enjoy a better time when passengers of buses and trains start dozing. Perhaps thieves would have done better if they learnt the art of dexterous fingers from their less illustrious kinds. Unfortunately, daytime is not propitious for stealing. But for pickpockets it is no bar.
Parts of the globe discovering themselves on the opposite hemisphere of Amercia where the WC is being held are suffering the same fate as the people of the sub-continent. This is because the games have to maintain its schedule in line with the prime viewing time in Europe. Asia and Africa are meted out a step-motherly treatment. In tropical Brazil the game is being played and in tropical Asia people are yawning because of lack of sleep.  This is what imperceptibly connects the Latin parts of America, Asia and Africa. But unlike the two other tropical zones, the Latin Amercians have proved their footballing prowess.
Dizziness or tunnel vision owing to lack of sleep may indeed prove costly for many who are likely to lose their usual reflexes when muggers or pickpockets target them in this month of shopping spree. Some may indeed end up with what in medical term is called diplopia or double vision because of inadequate sleep. Delusion is one thing different from diplopia. A joke runs like this: When a patient sees a doctor, the later wants to know what the complaints are. The man says that he sees two images of the same thing. Now that the doctor wants to hand over the prescription and asks him to take the tablets regularly, the patient asks whose prescription he would follow -is it from one on his left or right?
Football lovers may have developed such complications of eyesight, but what about tennis players? Serena William, the number one tennis player in the world, complained of 'no vision' of the ball at all. Under what spell this could happen is beyond comprehension. So severe was her case that the double match she with her sister Venus was supposed to play had to be stopped when the William sisters were trailing O-3 in the first game. Bangladesh's politicians -whether in power or out of it, perhaps suffer from such sightlessness and soon lose their link to reality.