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For a poor country of a billion people, a good economy means 5.0%+ growth rate. We are looking at something around 2.0% in a best case scenario. Unemployment alone will have far reaching qualitative impact on the society even if you ignore the quantitative effect altogether. And even the idea...

It seems like our death tolls is going to match that of Italy/USA/Spain scaled to our population, but it will take longer to get there. The lockdowns will devastate the economy.

Bat soup. I will believe nothing else. 😷

But then again, the number of deaths due to COVID-19 will still be marginal compared to the average number of deaths we have per year. In any case, the calculus is depressing. Nothing is guaranteed before the vaccine. Spanish Flu had a terrible second wave in late autumn and winter. The...

Fortunately, it is still linear and with low mortality. Didn't explode exponentially like the naysayers expected/wanted it to. Fingers crossed though, since we have a lot of unreliable data from several pockets and effects of the liquor event will appear in about a week's time. :(

I agree. Just that the thought of more regional parties scares me.

The effectiveness of lock-down has to be measured by the cases being reported from outside of the 'hostsposts', considering the extraordinary scenario we are in with the supers-preaders and people sheltering them. If we can contain the spread outside the hotspots then that is a win. Bengal...

No sources provided with the Tweet though, also an anonymous account. Obligatory: Ghabrana ni hy.

Or the whole "leak" could be another psyop in itself. The whole situation is very foggy.