Originally posted by: natkhat_angel
I am Malayali (at least by blood) and the thing is, it’s not about the package. Maybe it’s just PR. At the end of the day, what matters is the people. Why should it come down the imposing curfews and emergencies? Are people not even concerned about their own health, let alone their elderly parents etc?
When it was the three students, the isolation worked because the children were smart enough. When people started running around, leaving wards, not reporting to the authorities, that is when things started to spiral. No government can be held responsible for the stupidities of the common man. I heard Sonam Kapoor is in self quarantine, so is the actor who used to play Rosesh Sarabhai, without symptoms. Because they know their responsibility as normal adults. When people go out of their way to avoid screening or run away from wards, how is it the government’s fault?
Secondly, do you know what screening is? Open a Community Medicine book and read about it. The sensitivity and specificity of almost all tests is hard to be perfect. Which is why in case you show no symptoms, they ask you to be in self quarantine, till the incubation period ends.
I’m not a right wing supporter by a long shot, but the fact remains that not everything can be piled upon the government. Maybe it is doing the bare minimum. But even so, does that excuse you from your civic responsibility?
Thirdly, we can learn certain things from Singapore or Canada, but equating them to our country is a logical fallacy. They are different in all aspects.
Being a doctor, it’s hard to believe that we are putting our lives in jeopardy for people who have no importance for anyone’s life. No amount of parties or apparent bad conditions of isolation wards is an excuse for putting the lives of millions of innocent people at stake.
Also, maybe the government has steps in store. Maybe it doesn’t. I am not going to comment on that. But this should be the last moment when we should be throwing dog shit at other political parties. Like Rahul Gandhi was doing. Okay, yes the economy is failing and we have no steps. Does he? Give productive criticism, not just blank criticism. False equivalency with other countries or states is useless at the moment. We have to save lives. Not fight for our ideology. Now is not the time.
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