The asymmetric power of sarkar over society and markets is the weakest link in our fight against Covid. Governments are used to not treating citizens and businesses as peers, but solving large, complex problems requires such a relationship.
Since governments prefer a 'we know everything' stance, they are the most who have to answer for the current situation. Broadly, we have to conclude that whatever is happening is mainly the result of the government's handling of the pandemic.
That's usually acceptable to governments because they don't need to worry about catastrophic outcomes, and they can get by with slow and minor interventions. In the face of a pandemic, however, slow and steady can only get us buried before the race is over.
That's why they're now playing 'pass the parcel' among the themselves to see how to place the responsibility for failure in someone else's lap. While they normally make common cause among themselves against the public, now it's each one for himself.
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