People will have strong opinions on this thread on both sides. The outrage is justified. Yet I still maintain that most commentators( not the one below, he is impartial and argues with data) are in an unprincipled way claiming that the severity of the second wave was fully...
https://twitter.com/UntergrundmannG/status/1386347737487077379
...predictable. It simply was not. Though all of us would like all policy decisions be based on pure data, we all know that is neither the case in highly developed nations nor in India. Sure in India, we are behind the curve in general in basing our public policy on pure...
...data, but that is just a matter of degree. Plus that is pointing to a gap in technocrats( who should watch these data based graphs)- politician feedback and execution loop and is a general lack of institutional governance malaise in India and is not a ‘BJP’ or ‘Modi’ ...
...specific mis-governance as such. So I do not think we can fully conclude it was easy to predict a second wave and the government slept, but your point about PM not doing a follow up with his bureaucrats is a valid one and we need to know more there.
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