Role and duties of an ideal citizen during lockdown.
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With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic — and orders to practice “social distancing” to break the chain of transmission and save the lives of the most vulnerable — many Americans are taking an unexpected spring break, cooped up in their own homes and apartments.
The crisis is acute. Seattle has been on lockdown for weeks, and the San Francisco Bay Area received a shelter-in-place order Monday. New York is warning of a deficit of thousands of ICU beds as hospitals brace for a wave of critically ill patients. As the United States scrambles to avoid the fate of Italy, where doctors don’t have enough ventilators to provide support to sick people gasping for air, daily life has been upended.
Across the country, bars and restaurants are closing, joining shuttered concert venues, sports arenas, and amusement parks. And whether you’re newly laid off, working from home, or trying to balance being a parent and your child’s substitute teacher, let’s face it, you’ve got some extra, anxiety-prone hours on your hands. Instead of filling that void with Disney+ and day drinking (the new “Netflix and Chill”?), here are some civic-minded actions you can take to escape the tedium of this morbid moment and focus on the promise of the future — for all of us.
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court said while the government machinery is expected to take effective measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are also expected to remind themselves of their fundamental duties.
Justice P B Varale on Wednesday was hearing a suo moto (on its own) petition on the difficulties faced by migrant workers, daily wagers and health workers amid the pandemic.