Lockdown | Aftermath
23rd March 21, we just witnessed a one year anniversary of the Nationwide Lockdown. The media was filled up with memes and lols and of course, rumours of re-lockdown. Everyone smiled, didn't they?
The questions here are
Did we actually beat up the pandemic?
Did we restore the pre-lockdown situation?
Could we really actually move on?
Could we restore our business/jobs/salaries?
If no, why the hell is everyone celebrating out there?
Masks are just for preventing fine
Sanitisers are a new myth for a lot of us.
Social distancing just sounds fun, doesn’t it?
And of course, we witnessed new facts —
1. COVID does not occur during Elections
2. COVID Spreads more after 9:00 PM at the night — that's why we have night curfews…
3. If you play speakers during kite flying — you’ll pick up the virus.
4. Politicians need not maintain COVID norms of course they are exempted from taxes and the virus, ain’t they?
5. If all the employees are paid full salaries, they will be infected…
6. International travelling can infect only normal people
Our Hon’ PM Mr Narendra Modi is exempted, ain’t he?
The sucking truth that everyone must know is
THE PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER YET
THE PRE-LOCKDOWN SITUATION IS FAR AWAY TO GET RESTORED
Have you seen the street vendors? How do they survive as very few people are out.
Have you seen the OLA — UBER — TRAVEL Business, they are badly hit.
Have you seen the Auto Drivers — Ever thought how did they fed their families up?
India is exporting vaccines to all the countries, why aren’t they first giving it to all the citizens of Maharashtra — Has won the race again in a number of cases in Phase -2 of COVID. If the vaccine not effective, as soon as the vaccination started and the election got over the cases got a peak again.
For how long will we all stay at home? Feared, Afraid, Sad, Precautious, Sanitized? Don’t ya all think that its a high time now? Shouldn’t we fight back now? Is it correct to continue work from home for a long time now? Dozens of business are getting affected due to this.
The worst part
— A huge Indian section got financially weak due to lockdown. What should be the solving measure? Reducing prices of almost everything, reducing tax collections, etc. shouldn’t it be?
Here is the true mirror of today.
Petrol price Before Lockdown (Feb — 2020): ₹ 74.30 / lit
Petrol price After Lockdown (March — 2021): ₹ 94.22 / lit
Tax Collections — Promoted on a huge scale:
During the ancient Indian era, even if there was a drought, the tax was reduced or even cancelled by the King, wasn’t it? Now this big pandemic hit dozens of families? Why does the tax collection occur at a huge scale?
The prices will further go uncontrollable beyond this point.
No doubt the government is trying hard to control it but sometimes a right person is all that is needed.
We have a perfect Prime minister, Home minister, Foreign Affairs minister, Railway minister… but what about finance minister? She is no doubt one of the best ones, but is she ready to handle this situation?
We usually fix small problems in our home, but if there is a leakage? we surely need an expert — plumber for that.
So the question is who can act as an expert here?
If the political parties forget the ruling wishes for a while and comes to collaboration, then don’t you think that Dr Manmohan our former Prime minister is one of the best economist and capable of bringing India out of price inflations? Oxford expertise mixed with Punjab di mitti — The place which smells Indian. Why not bring him as a Chief Economic Advisor again? Who made liberalisation effective? If we recall the 90s, he introduced several reforms related to India’s economy. Here, we are not talking about his term as a Prime Minister.
So what do you all think? Shouldn’t the Government forget rivalry and bring in Dr Manmohan to rescue the situation?
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