These poor migrant workers need not necessarily go back to cities and probably be medium of transfer. They can be taught to produce what are necessarily needed in this moment. Masks, PPEs, and medical equipments. All the products that is needed in this hour, not just medical equipments. Find what is important now. And also even if construction work can't be started. Build highways outside the city. Build bridges. Not only migrant workers, whoever are poor, but healthy and young, who will overcome this Covid infection, can be employed in infrastructure projects.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Soft exit from COVID - 19
India may have some resources to put up the lockdown for 6 months, hoping that vaccines will come by that time. But, what will happen to other countries like Africa, which doesn't have such resources. The best possible way is to do a soft exit. Protect the most vulnerable. Elders and children. For children, this academic year only study from home. India can extend even 6 months lock down. The maximum lock down India can do. After that open sector by sector. Africa can't afford even that. There is lot of lower class people who depend on Construction industry. Hunger will kill them, even if corona doesn't. At the same time, open the sector, which gives maximum revenue to government, IT and ITES. There will be virus infection. Death rate will be lower than even 5%, because we are first releasing young people. I guess at least half of them will get mild infection and will recover from it. Also, Corona infection will be spread across states. Not putting heavy pressure on the health infrastructure and health workers, in one particular state. One by one we can release sector by sector. Meanwhile we hope our best that vaccine comes soon. That's the only remedy to completely stop this Virus. People say there is a curve which goes up and comes down, without vaccines, which i completely don't understand, how that happens.
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