Nachiket Katha 149 days ago

India had no business to go in national lockdown given we are summer. China (Wuhan happened in winter and it was USA who messed up by delaying repair of kits by 4 weeks to complain about 6 days by China), Japan and Korea are managing without lockdown. And Europe can't be model for India. Deaths in Europe even Yeserday were 4601 vs 344 in Asia despite 1/6 of population. So its temperature which has kept death rate in Asia (including India) low and not lockdown. Instead of aping Europe where temperature advantage would start only in May, we should go for unlock in most of India. More we delay more difficult it would be. And we cant forget that climate would be favourable to virus in monsoon, after which winter will follow. Unless we take virus head on when temperature is favourable to us, we would large number of deaths on our hand. And nobody should ignore large number of undocumented deaths due to hunger where we have 50 crore malnourished (38.1 103/119 in the world behind Bangla Desh 82/119). We have to take holistic decisions. Not ape Europe or USA where conditions are favourable to virus. Even in USA there are hardly any deaths in Texas or Florida where climate is similar to Asia.