what will you do in the covid 19 pandemic if you was the prime minister? (essay)
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Explanation:
Some people, including a senior columnist, has asked what the government could possibly have done differently in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. So, let me list a few things that are not outlandish suggestions and could easily have been done.
• The first is, treating India as a priority over his SAARC friends. The Prime Minister had a video conference with SAARC leaders to discuss on the strategy for the pandemic four days before he got around to meeting the state chief ministers.
• Instead of giving four hours’ notice for a 21-day lockdown, the PM could have made his announcement in the morning itself. This was eminently possible given that the announcement that he would address the nation was made much earlier and kept the nation on tenterhooks.Even if one accepts the argument that it was difficult to anticipate the migrant worker problem before his announcement of the first lockdown, the problem was clear within 24 hours after the lockdown. His team could have come up with the same solution within seven days that was finally announced five weeks later about special trains.
• The special trains solution was apparent to all, including non-senior columnists like your truly. The Railways had boasted that coaches had been converted to isolation wards and containment facilities had been set up, so it was possible with screening to allow migrant workers to board trains.