{"id":57380,"date":"2021-04-04T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57380"},"modified":"2021-04-04T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:00:50","slug":"indias-experiments-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57380","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Experiments with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India\u2019s Experiments with COVID-19<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Shooting from the Hip<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reminiscent of his demonetization effort in 2016, on 24th March 2020, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, appeared on TV and declared an immediate nationwide curfew. No one was to be allowed to leave wherever he or she happened to be. All flights, trains (after 167 years of continual operation) and road transportation came to a complete, shrieking halt.<\/p>\n

\"\"Stranded in India\u2026 [PT]<\/p>\n

Tens of millions of people \u2014 myself included \u2014 got stuck wherever they were.<\/p>\n

People were not allowed to leave their homes, not even for grocery shopping, the latter of which was amended after a few days when the government realized that people needed to eat. In a country of 1.38 billion people, the initial policy was a shot from the hip, without any consultation or planning, as if prepared by primary school kids.<\/p>\n