Coronavirus or Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is a viral disease that turned into a pandemic in early 2020. The first known case was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Coronavirus has multiple variants such as Delta and Omicron, and its most common symptoms are fever, chills and sore throat.
The young might be less susceptible to dying but are not less likely to contract the disease. Many of them will be asymptomatic carriers and will silently spread the disease
Besides, exposing such a large cohort to even a low risk of death means that in absolute numbers, there will be lots of young people dying.
Why is every solution about the people helping themselves ? Why are we not holding our governments responsible for testing more, tracing the disease more effectively and for providing relief ?
The article is written to whitewash the BJP and Modi. That is obvious from other articles from Hindutva Hindus which claim (1) India has an opportunity due to Covid and (2) India can teach the world how to handle Covid (Shah) because it claims low % of fatalities despite high numbers infected.
This author is another gobar filled type who wrote another article claiming Modi has liberalised India from labour laws and now India is ahead of Europe and US, and the economy will rebound ahead of them in the coming days.
We similar articles claiming India actually got the upper hand with China.
Death of economy will be deadlier than the assault by Cornoavirus. In the aftermath of this pernicious disease, we will see massive unemployment, massive starvation and massive casualty. Corna will leave behind a bitter trail. The need of the hour is generation of massive gainful employment. Massive employment means massive investment. Where is the money? The govt is almost bankrupt. . Our existing resources must be harnessed. We have 24K tonnes of Gold in our houses + 4000 tonnes of precious metal in our temples. The Govt must come up with a New Gold Bold with 12% interest, tax free, locked up for 10 years, can be pledged in case of necessity. ( The existing Gold Bond with 2.5% interest is utterly foolish, totally lacking an iota of business acumen) If monetized, these gold will yield 6 crores 50 lakh crores of Rupees. The massive collection can be used for developmental projects which will create wealth for the Nation, create jobs for youths, step up demands, increase production, enhance tax collection and expand the economy. Sooner it is done, it will be better. Secondly, for this year, the Government must put a cap on the earnings of the individuals – it should be 48 lakh per annum. Any thing excess of 48 lakh must be confiscated through IT up to 95%. This will yield 6 trillion rupees for the govt coffer. All citizens, including doctors. lawyers, CAs, private sector executives must be covered under this scheme. Massive employment is the only key for resurrection of our economy, which is in shambles now.
a k pattabirman, chennai
Confiscating people’s incomes surely makes them less likely to employ others and to conceal their activities.
Crises such as these can make governments more autocratic and less democratic. Let that fever not spread to the citizenry who start demanding the bitter pill themselves
The govt. extracts money for elections and to finance RSS. Modi has bought a Boeing for his tours. He is rebuilding the complex around the Parliament area in another vanity project. He wears a new suit everyday. He is a true Third World leader adulated by unthinking sycophants.
The same advise was posted by economist Debraj Ray via YouTube on 15th April . Is this collaborative work ?
The sanghis have hired some journalists and economist to put a positive spin on Modi’s failures : be it Covid handling or China.
According to them, Modi has created new opportunities for India to seize, and get ahead of China, EU and the US.
In reality, they have given up because they do not know what to do. Economy, China and Covid have gone out of their hands, so they hire some of their supporters in India and abroad to say actually India has a brilliant opportunity and we are seizing it.
They think all of us are dumb bhakts.
This was voiced by and videoed by economist Debraj Ray on 15th / 16th April on YouTube and earlier in a Facebook post .
In joint families, elderly should be kept separate in the house with mask on all the time and all the other things like clothes should be kept separate and food should be served separately. Social distancing at home too from elder . Keep 2 meter distance when we interact.
In India, most young people live with their parents or vice versa.
I would like to ask, respected epidemiologist Dr Jayaprakash Muliyil the question of how will we protect the elderly if the young are allowed to go back to work.