Triage is the need of the hour for India’s apocalyptic oxygen crisis. Hospitals are packed, care centres missing. The government must now urgently set up protocols to determine degrees of urgency, prioritise patients by critical care needs and allocate resources optimally to save maximum lives. And a bit of reputation.
On Covid, govt should know foreign media isn’t saying anything that Indian media isn’t
The government’s hammer-handed reaction to foreign media criticism is knee-jerk and paranoid. International journalists aren’t saying something that the Indian media already isn’t about India’s pandemic mismanagement. The government knows that foreign media can’t be intimidated into submission by angry diplomatic rejoinders. These tactics are enacted more for domestic audience.
The virus doesn’t care for causes or beliefs. Time for farmers to suspend sit-in
Farmer leaders should suspend their Delhi sit-in. This virus thrives on congregation, be it Kumbh, election rallies, or protests, however pious or virtuous. Madras HC has threatened EC officials with murder charge for allowing rallies. Everybody can’t make an exception for their own causes or beliefs, because the virus won’t.
Judges get 5-star treatment. Don’t ask why public hospitals and govt hotels are dumps
Delhi HC demands special Covid facilities for judges, staff, families. Dutifully, a Delhi magistrate invokes the Epidemic Act to commandeer 100 rooms in 5-star Ashoka hotel. He also orders Chanakyapuri’s premium private hospital favoured by diplomats to serve these rooms. Don’t ask why public hospitals and government hotels are dumps.