If Modi haven't locked down, threads would be about "why he didn't lock down the country" He wants to kill people using Corona, infect Muslims with Corona etc...
When he locked down," why he locked down the entire country, how Indians are going to suffer, how economy will collapse".
These people always find something to knock at. So, it's better not to entertain these kinds of useless threads. Nobody has the faintest idea of how to contain this epidemic without causing the healthcare system to break down. All they have is opposing arguments to what's being done because even the people giving opinions have no clue how to handle it and arguing for the sake of it.
Actually the point is that Modi didn't put preparations in place for his lockdown. He's cut and pasted the European model - poorly at that by rushing it through with half a day's notice - and failed to realize the economic and physical traumas his nation's poor will succumb to far quicker than any corona virus.
But then, we know the chai Walla is only really good for cutting and pasting what others do.
His own innovations like hugs and cuddles and cloud cover for radar are all thoroughly laughed at behind closed doors and openly.
Amateurism leading the willing masses is a recipe for disaster.
Ok so the Miya Bhai GC again ...
Moving rapidly on.
Very good. Straight bat.
The real question though is WHY did Modi dramatically announce the lockdown when he only spoke of a 15 hour or so "test" the day before?
Most analysts agree that India has shot itself in the foot by undertesting and underestimating the real case burden, putting their epidemiologists and public health officials in a quandary. BBC summarizes it thusly:
"It has been testing low, and below its capacity, for some weeks now, and it still doesn't have a handle on the extent of the spread of the infection. (India has recorded 649 cases, and 13 deaths so far.) Data is scarce."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-52043465
How do they suddenly explain the need for a full nationwide lockdown with a seemingly very low number of positive cases? Also noteworthy is the continued insistence by the confused and beleaguered officials that there is "no community transmission" and the cases are mainly "imported" - as if that even matters apart from to the misplaced egos of eternal Hindu rashtra types, for whom the "foreign invasion" by COVID19 is as easily dismissed from current affairs as bygone "foreign invasions" by Muslims is dismissed from Indian genuine historical legacy. These inferiority driven mental mechanics aside, a collective "dismissal" of COVID19 as a mere foreign entity falsely aligns the mentality of the populace, engaged obsessively in airport and port quarantine when it is clearly already too late for that step. It's high time Delhi admits what we already know, COVID19 truly is in the Indian community, the homes, the shopping districts - why cover this up any more? India was told it spreads silently and asymptomatically. India was also told that in other countries, WEEKS AGO, there had been plenty of cases not traceable to a recent foreign travel history. India chose to ignore these points and pursue an almost nationalist agenda by pretending it was immune to community transmission. And so, here we are. A western style lockdown in a country where poor people will die out on streets with their children clinging to them, if not from exposure then from the inevitable community spread that has been wilfully ignored hitherto.
