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Originally Posted by Turbanator Not Even bicycle and this is only for 4 Hours. Cars/ Bikes are impounded daily and proudly displayed. Can someone give one logic on how walking is safe and Cars unsafe?? |
Can't comment about the display of impounded vehicles, I know of places where the cops have run out of space to park them (They can't be parked out of sight either).
Coming to the point of not allowing the cars, for emergency situations; you can directly take the car out and drive to hospital, medicine shops etc. Even a doctor's prescription is enough to cross the barricading. That said, it doesn't mean that more than 2 people will travel in the car.
It's a metal after all, and the virus can stay on it for days. Have you ever noticed that the cops neither touch your car, nor the card or anything you give. These people are exposed to summer heat and infection threat altogether. Now for example, your car is touched by someone infected, it returned back and is parked in your covered parking. Whom will you blame in case of an infection? The local administration, or yourself?
I know that the way of mitigating risk isn't right. But then, anyone is free to suggest a way.
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Originally Posted by joslicx The only logical explanation would be cars would mean people could/would travel longer distances and maybe some/lot may go for joyrides. |
People are doing it, I stand on the other side of the fence, I can see how people happily break a few rules and then flaunt it. Hubby broke it, even wifey and kids feel proud of the same!
Brother in law of an electrical contractor went all the way to Haridwar for some personal work on his pass, later he ended up in an argument with an IPS officer on the state border - quarantined!
Lesson learned: Even if you are making a mistake, at least have the sense of saying 'sorry' and moving on. People aren't doing that either.
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I do not support the lockdown.
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So don't I, but I don't know what other way can be applied. If we start our passenger trains and buses again, we will be back to same thread blaming the government for the loss of lives.
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Originally Posted by xcentrk I can now imagine who will be those zombies. It's us, the regular folks who are hungry, harassed and neglected had enough of it and start protesting. |
And what about the zombies lying outside hospitals awaiting the beds? Here is the selection of lesser of the two evils. Trust me, the first one is way better. You wouldn't want the infected ones to be in that place.
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Originally Posted by Turbanator For a moment, let's agree that few people go on the road during relaxed hours, so what? |
So what? Well, allow a few and let the numbers grow.
The people who are blaming them for being harsh today, will blame the same people for being ignorant. I do understand the frustration of people like us, who are fine and live in green zones; still, no income, no freedom, home confined lifestyle and much more. But, what if the pandemic enters the area?
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This is what Advisor to the Administrator has to say when someone asked him about the efforts of Police-
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What other options do administrators have? Walkers in the sectors are getting harassed - indeed an issue.
Chandigarh is a wonderful city and I too believe that vigil should be controlled in sectors. But the issue lies in the capability of the infection growing in the exponential manner. No matter how much social distancing one maintains, if due to any reason (Or some mischief), a few people infected. We won't even know how things will turn out to be.
The concept of the lockdown was rather simple "if people properly followed it in first 21 days, already the possibilities of a further spread would have been dead", rest is all history now. Loom at the picture from the end of administration, one positive case, with itself brings in a lot of risk, monetary expense for administration (Quarantine, manpower allocation etc, not only hospital expenses), and even above that is the health risk of the medical staff; which is already in a huge shortage in this nation.
We are living in a country where the hospital beds are already in a shortage, and one case renders entire floors of the hospitals useless. I don't know and don't want to imagine either, what thing will turn out into, if it grows further and in same exponential manner.
Is TB capable of growing at the same pace? Problem here is not what the situation is today, problem lies in what situation can be.
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Originally Posted by V.Narayan Just for illustration 1100 Indians die each day because of TB - you read it right each day. |
So shall we let Covid-19 also to attain the similar numbers? Issue is that, the day Covid-19 attains even 75% of this figure, we will be already in a state where hospitals won't be able to serve anyone else. Healthcare system's fragility will come to the surface, we will see people staying home out of fear - of the pandemic itself.
The key here is to contain the growth, we, the citizens, have only screwed up over here. And unluckily, neither we have such a cash rich government, nor we have such a wonderful healthcare infrastructure; that if the cat gets out of the bag - there will be a bit too much to handle for our forces and infrastructure.
Today we want to start things forcefully, but then people will refuse to take flights for their lives. Won't that be even worse a situation?
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Originally Posted by JayKis Companies/Business owners make more money than the salaries no? If you value your employees, you should pay them, right? Most of the people, spend more money on rent rather than on food? |
They are paying fixed costs these days without any income. In addition to that, employees can also think of the company. Right?
Now we have All India Services employees themselves disliking the idea of a wage cut for them. These are the people, who consume a lot from our taxes, even they are disliking the idea. I don't know how govt. is even expecting that private entities will keep on paying salaries.