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Corona Virus effect : Was lockdown needed?

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Before beginning of this year, we all were busy in your daily schedules-------working, studying, jogging, exercising and the daily routines we used to follow. Suddenly an unknown flu virus came and that changed everything. We are stuck at our home and it’s beginning to make our lives so boring!

 

Post Covid era:

We were busy enjoying and partying to welcome the New Year but little did we know what was waiting to happen this year in our lives. Although we were hearing cases of the new virus, COVID-19 which had impacted so much in the Wuhan province of China, but as everyone, I was also thinking that won’t affect India since we have very few incomings from China as compared to US and Europe. Although he world has been through several major epidemics like Ebola, but those really did not impact our country much and this time also I felt it won’t be much different from its predecessors.

 

The entry of Covid in India:

Although I was partly correct predicting that the virus won’t come to India from China, but soon I was wrong to predict that it won’t hit our country as the first case of Corona was reported on 30th January 2020. It did not take long for the enemy to start spreading its root. The Indian Government decided to bring all the wishful citizens bring back to their homes and along with them came the virus without Visa permit through an indirect route. The selfishness of few people wanting to “live their lives” and totally ignoring the quarantine directives, cost the whole of India. It helped the spread of the disease to a rapid scale in a 1.4 billion populated country.

 

The Lockdown announcement:

On 24th March 2020, PM Narendra Modi in response to the growing cases of Covid announced total lockdown in the whole country wherein no flights, trains or buses are going to run, neither shops that don’t sell essential commodities are going to be opened.

Although by then people in cities were mostly following general instructions such as wearing mask and washing the hands after coming from outside, the announcement was the turning point which led to the disruption of normal life of citizens. The factories, companies, shops-----everything were closed and people were strictly asked to sit back in their home and not come out except for emergency. Police started to take action against anyone violating the lockdown rules and making sure all the citizens follow the guidelines.

Lockdown enforcement in India

 

Lockdown effect:

People initially had no clue how lockdown seems to be, how it feels to be confined in their home all day. Few class of jobs like IT were given Work from Home but most jobs that required to be physically present in the office were fully affected due to which the first thing that happened was economic slowdown. People were initially enjoying the vacation, but soon it turned out to be boring and depressing like living the life in a cage (although it’s fun time for kids without school!). The economic condition of the companies led to laying off of several employees adding to the woes of common people.

But the main section affected were the migrant workers; with no work in the cities and paying bills it was horrifying time for the poor. Since public transport were not available they had no option to forcing themselves walk several hundreds of kilometers to reach their hometown in the scorching heat.

 

India without lockdown:

With so many problems impacting our country, is it the worst thing possible? What if India did not implement this lockdown at all?

The answer is that would have brought disaster and deaths of millions of people. Most of the states of India lack proper equipment to test the virus, very few have required ventilators to deal with the patients. There would not be a single space left in the hospitals and majority of people would have died without treatment. There were few states like Kerala that handled the Covid situation quite well but without the lockdown, this in no way was possible.

The perfect example is United States of America which is just a fraction of our population with one of the world’s best medical facilities and still accounting to the death of more than 100,000 people. They never did a complete lockdown and now imagine what would have been our situation!

 

Conclusion:

It’s unfortunate that these migrant workers had to suffer and even face death for some; had there be better planning, the scenario would have been better, but a lockdown was need of the hour. It not only helped to control the exponential growth of Corona in India, but also gave time for the agencies to prepare our fight. For instance, now we are the second highest producer of PPE test kits in the world. But lockdown can’t go on until the vaccines come out, by that time the economic situation of the people will be worse. Companies having the option of Work from Home should continue to do the same and other sectors should start their work keeping in my mind the precautionary measures. We need to prepare ourselves for post Corona era and build our country again back to the normal state.

 

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