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A niggardliness that is economically unwarranted -Prabhat Patnaik

-The Hindu

The Centre can afford to step up its COVID-19 assistance to a higher scale; fiscal deficit is no worry

The three-week long lockdown imposed on the country, it can be argued, was an over-reaction. More widespread testing of possible cases, “social distancing”, self-quarantining by the elderly, and selective lockdown of sensitive areas (as the Chinese government did in Wuhan) might have been quite adequate. But while this can be debated, what cannot be is the utter thoughtlessness that has accompanied the actual lockdown.

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