20/07/2020
A Tale of two Lockdowns: see how two US cities Philadelphia and St Louis dealt with 1918 flue pandemic. It may also explain why the death rate in India is much less than most of the developed nations. But Centre and State governments must learn from the blunders it has committed on poor migratory labourers. It could have been more effective and less painful to casual migratory labourers. The worst part of the Lockdown was suffering of poor migratory people who had no place to live, nowhere to go, and hardly anything to eat. It was a blunder of the Modi Government and it would pay its price in the coming elections.
The SOPs (standard operating procedures) was not clearly defined, officers working on the ground zero were mostly confused due to vague instructions from centre and State.
We should also question why effective measures were not taken at International Airports and on strict early checking (After Mid January, February and March) of people visiting India. Probably our policymakers fail to judge the veracity of the pandemic?
Lastly and most importantly, Centre and state governments did not take advantage of Lockdown to prepare itself for the possible increase in COVID-19 cases. Our health system and its COVID-19 preparations are still worse than some developing countries forget the developed nations.
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