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Unforgivable ignorance -Prabhat Patnaik

-The Telegraph

The government and the elite know nothing of the working poor’s problems

A very distinguished virologist whom I happen to know believes that the lockdown in India was an overreaction. His argument is that since the coronavirus was coming to India from outside, testing and quarantining people coming from abroad, and those with whom they might have been in contact within the country, should have been quite sufficient to prevent its spread. To lockdown a whole country, instead of isolating such enclaves, was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

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