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...
...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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The controversial oxygen debate on Covid India: A thread. Though I live outside India, I have family in India and am writing this as people are losing loved ones and are genuinely outraged. Yet we must go by facts though when we lose our loved ones it is natural to be...
...emotional. While there are some who point to data that worrying signs were already showing up in Feb /March and government should have picked up signals should surely be listened to and lessons learned, it was far from black and white. With India's economy battered, the...
...government had to a balancing act between building business confidence and putting more restrictions and where to do spend resources on. Plus unlike other nations , India was not hit by a second wave in November to Dec and some policy makers relied perhaps too much on their...