Okay agree govt could have created more beds ventilators and other but where are you going to get more doctors ? its not one year degree that you are going to have so many lined for your 2nd wave ?
Doctors are not required in the same ratio like resources. If you have double the load, you need twice the amount of ventilators, beds, medicine etc. Not twice the doctors. They can and are stretching.
There are several cases where fourth year MBBS students are being pushed into service. Can't blame anyone there.
When your 2nd wave is 3 times more than 1st wave daily cases no amount of preparation would have solved this issue .
That's not correct. You do as much as you can to prepare for the worst. That's what governments are for.
If the government didn't see this coming, they don't have competent advisors. If they saw this coming and did nothing, they have blood on their hands.
Last year you can argue governments were blindsided and scrambling to keep up. This time they had over an year to prepare.
Lets think with some calm mind ever since the pandemic started did MH ever went below 10k cases ? states like TN which reported 9k cases went down to 1k case and now bouncing back , But MH was always above that 10k range which shows they never even bothered to control the pandemic
letting international passengers out of quarantine by taking money and no test and tracing but PM has to now take responsibility for not helping states .
MH is the worst - I know, I ran away from there.
That doesn't excuse lack of prep by teh center and BJP ruled states. Take Gujarat and see the situation there. It was bad last time, worse this time around.
UP has started spiking as well.
What are vaccines getting manufactured for then ? if govt thought covid is over why would they ask BB SII and Biological E all to prepare for vaccine rollout .
Everything is reactionary in this country , People started outraging seeing US and UK started vaccination why have we not started all bla bla and asked govt , then questioned govt on giving clearance to Covaxin giving all kind of bull shit 3rd phase data is not out . you played with lives of people by spreading fear and questioned the vaccines getting rolled out and today you suddenly realise cases are increasing because there is no vaccine given to all .
Why would PM personally fly to hyderabad to check BB and Biological E facilities for vaccine manufacturing if he was so satisfied with SII production capacity .
Its not that as if govt which runs vaccination program for years don't know what is the capacity of these vaccine manufacturers and just blindly given order
Manufacturing ---Logistics---Storage-Vaccination drive all needs lots of coordinated efforts and these can't be done without any planning
In terms of vaccines, I think the government overestimated the amount of time they had to vaccinate the vulnerable. They should have atleast quadrupled the production rate.
Second, the virus mutated and younger demographics are getting affected more, although thankfully the mortality rate is still low for younger people.
The problem is the virus will keep mutating and we will always be playing catch-up.
It's a war, take it on war footing. Covaxin which is clearly the better vaccine is barely available.
Do what needs to be done to scale it up and make it available to all. There had been no pressure applied here.
My main problem is the urgency which was apparently required was not shown. Now there is little the government can do but restrict and damage the economy.
Atleast they now understand that this virus will be around for a while and plan accordingly. I don't have high hopes though.
Service sector is closed but movie shooting is on. IPL is still on.