TRADING THOUGHTS
Shambolic governments depend constantly on devising feats/jumlas for covering up their deadly failures to combat the worsening Covid -19 pandemic. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly denied the threat posed by the coronavirus. Already, more than 5,000 lives have been lost due to Trump’s denials and inaction.
In India, the Narendra Modi government has now resorted to a new brutal feat, after the demonetisation in 2016 — imposing a nationwide lockdown for fighting Covid-19 without preparing a comprehensive strategy. The Centre can claim credit for putting millions of lives of the poorest of the poor to grave risks, particularly by starving them.
It is little wonder that India is now witnessing a Partition-like situation, where millions of migrant and agricultural labourers who survive cheek by jowl are being asked to bear the worst punishment, including a ‘bleach shower’. The trade-off between the hunger and immediate survival of migrant labourers due to the nationwide lockdown and the (inadequate) preparedness for fighting Covid-19 is so stark for the 1.3 billion people.
Almost on par with Trump and Modi, the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has accelerated the spread of Covid-19 by constantly denying the danger of this deadly disease, and now reaching out to his guru Trump for medical and logistical cooperation.
This story is from the April 03, 2020 edition of The Hindu Business Line.
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