The Logic Of Lockdown

The logic of Lockdown

If the idea of a Lockdown / Semi Lockdown is to stop Crowding, cut down social interaction and maintain physical distance and in turn curtail the Covid Spread, then why was there a sharp dip in the Covid numbers since 6 months?

In a country like India, elections, rallies, festivals, processions, cultural and religious programs attracts large gatherings. A Politician's or an Actor's visit to an event make people go crazy and surround them in 1000s climbing over each other for a Selfie.

A curse to our society - Protests and Bundhs! 

If cutting off social interaction, people-to-people contact by way of Lockdown and enforcing wearing masks could reduce the spread, then those protests, elections should have added not less than 25 Lakhs cases everyday!

We saw some of the biggest protests and riots, and not even a single face amidst lakhs of them, had a Mask!

It is logic defying that crowding and not wearing masks will spread the virus, as none of protests, elections and VIP thronging made any dent to the infected cases.

Be it CAA, Farmers, Teachers, Labour unions, Govt Employees, Bank Employees, Fight for Reservations, people just come out in lakhs on the streets. People come out on streets and cause inconvenience to everyone in the name of Protests. They think it's their right to abuse other's rights in the name of Democracy. What do they achieve, has any such protests yielded anything? Apart from the huge traffic jams, causing immense inconvenience to the helpless and vulnerable common citizen. What do we do? How do we protest a protest!?

Lockdown is only a curse to majority of the Society. Businesses, Shops, Small Industries, Service Industries, Hospitality, Entertainment, Gyms, Labours, employees of the unorganized sectors are the ones who will suffer the most, as it's their livelihood that is directly challenged and threatened.

For them, their work is ESSENTIAL! 

Not sure who would encourage and approve of such measures - only those who would still get salaries sitting at the comfort of home, and the only possible, real complain could be - It's boring!

It's frustrating when handful of people who can afford to sit at home, be paranoid, and say "Look at them, no one is wearing mask, Govt should.lockdown to control this indisciplined lot", without an iota of idea on the consequences.

One of my C.A cousin was sharing how she has helped record no.of people withdrawing their P.F last year to survive a no-income phase.

At what cost should these restrictions and Lockdown be imposed? For the fear of being infected, when 0.85% population are infected, with 99% recovery rate and 1% mortality rate?

Shouldn't livelihood, survival and earning the bread, be of higher and obvious priority?

Bottom line - Social distancing is a joke, if such large Protests and elections were held and yet had no impact on the Covid cases, but we are made to believe Lockdown will ease the cases!

For Media and Politics, it's a fun fair.

For Medical professionals and scientists, it's research & experiment.

The sufferer will continue to suffer!

People who claim to be experts should really find the root cause of sudden surge in cases and wave, and not to blindly blame on crowding, social distancing and mask wearing norms, as We Indians have disproved the theory beyond doubt. And it is more of desperation and fight to survive and earn, rather than an intent to break rule or being irresponsible.