Lock down of India beyond April 14 2020 may be more dangerous to our economy and livelihood of millions and millions of Indians than the danger likely to pose by Corona.
Today we are shivering with fear and tension over increasing number of Corona positivists as a result of increased number of tests. More tests done therefore more positives are getting recorded and we should not limit our interpretation and hype our anxiety over just increased positive cases of Corona.
The test positivity comes only because the people are carrying the virus. That means they have got the virus much before the test was conducted. How long before they got the virus or for how many days they have been harbouring the virus should be our question although we may not able to get the answer accurately.
All those positive cases would have transmitted the virus to many others so on and so forth. We also must ask the question of whether all those positive cases exhibit the classic signs and symptoms of corona prior to test or only after knowing their PCR results to be positive. Then we have to tread carefully the role of psychology in worsening the disease than corona virus. Another question is also very relevant that is about death that happened exclusively due to corona.
By harping corona too much we should not land up later in a situation like dandruff, a disease or physiological disorder and Pityrosporum ovale is whether the actual cause?
Abundant scalp scales increases the population of the commensal scalp and skin flora Pityrosporum ovale population or increased population of Pityrosporum ovale increases abundant scalp scaling in the scalp? Till date the medical science does not have any clear answer and if anyone dares establish experimentally to prove the Koch’s postulate with Pityrosporum ovale in double blind, randomized, statistically significant human population of different age group including equal sex ratio that would be a path breaking outcome. No one would, because, the truth is different and the only point of difference some stand on the other side of the science and hence both group does not want to prove the truth. Truth is bound to shake their scientific belief system and hence they do not want the factual science to emerge. Further dandruff is not such a medically important disease.
The point of debate is that even to simple dandruff, science offers nothing but confusion, imagine about corona!
States may be asking for lock down beyond April 14 not with any logic but mostly due to political reasons.
The lock down may cause acute unemployment problem, lethargy in people to seek employment if lock down continues for long period time, closure of many MSME start-ups become inevitable, sick units just getting revived with the government loan will go back to death chamber, unorganized traders are likely to go dry fry, the supply chain that supports the unorganized trade, small farmers, milk producers, home-made eatable sellers, all would vanish, employees working in various private sectors like IT, education, manufacturing, marketing, all of them may die due to loss of job and livelihood. Poverty and penury will unite India and not the spirit of Indians as one.
People will certainly recall the pain of demonetization and GST and the continuation of lock down if it exceeds beyond April 14, India will go hopeless. State governments can afford to demand for continuation of lock down, but the central government should not be party to such an exercise and should let the states to use its prerogative to go ahead with lock down.
If the lock down continues for another 14 days or more or one or two months, after revocation lock down, the second wave of corona if emerges vigorously, what the government would do to deal such situation. As of now, Corona is present in India only with reference to PCR positivity and not in terms of number of deaths. Indians may survive corona but not the loss of livelihood.
Restrictions must continue, hotspots must be contained, people’s movement must be restricted but at the same time, manufacturing activity especially the MSME sector, un-organized sector etc., must be allowed to function and so shall be movements of goods across states.
The possible people congregation spots such as schools, colleges, recreations centres, beaches, cinema theatre, worship places etc., must be closedown till the state is reasonably free of corona. However government must ensure all private schools, colleges and other organizations pay salary to the employees during the closure period.
The choice before the nation is not vote bank politics but safety of people and safety of our economy. Economy and human life are inseparable in a country like India and hence the government cannot offer any safety to people by not protecting their livelihood. India is highly a materialistic county, poor at large, ignorant and illiterate and our economy is highly un-organized.
Just to prove the chastity of mother Sita, Lord Ram asked her to enter into fire and such an act although shows how open Ram was to heed to the views of even the last man in the street, but still the blemish remains with Ram.
Death of the nation will be imminent if lock down continues in the same fashion. The proposal worked out by the state of Kerala for revocation of lock down is quite impressive and the central government must borrow the wisdom of Kerala government to deal the revocation of lock down. Save humanity pledge should not be unidirectional by caricaturing and accusing corona alone, we need to save the economy also to save people.
