Topic: India - Complete Country Lockdown - Is it on the Verge of Economic Crisis ? - page 2. (Read 483 times)

I think this is better than people going in and out of the country that might be the carrier of the virus. This is a decision not just because they wanted to take care of their people, they also wanted to manage the economy they have since if there will be a carrier in their country, that would damage more the economy and would really affect the country badly.

For sure, the lock down still depends on the situation, of the virus are not yet contained, the lock down will continue. In our country, the lockdown is one month and will end by next month, but I am not expecting it will soon, I expected it will continue since the number of cases are still increasing.

If they totally forbid people to leave the house and carry out economic activities, then they must provide and distribute food and clean water directly to the people. However, I don't think the curfew is strictly 24/7, meaning that they still can buy daily needs to the nearest shop. In this case, the government must provide money. In Indonesia, it's called "Bantuan Langsung Tunai" or literally translated as Direct Cash Assistance.

It is very frightening to watch how the coronavirus destroys the ties that have been created for decades between States. And now all these time frames for the period of quarantine are only preliminary. I am sure that they will be reviewed and a longer period of quarantine will be established.

if the government has taken that decision is there a subsidy for the people ??
now the choice is in the hands of individuals who want to die of a virus or die of hunger ??
maybe for rich people it's not a problem but for people who are deficient is this worth it?

This is not really surprising.

This should be the correct reaction to the pandemic that is happening. Obviously it will affect the economy and it would be a risk to continue accepting people outside the country since it would affect more if there will be a case. Here in our country, our capital, Manila is in lockdown, still, a lot of people are so annoying and not following the policies to be followed. People are struggling and the government is doing their best to provide for us. These are all expected in a pandemic, people should follow since this will also be for their safety.

Implementing of the total lockdown is the finest to deal with a difficult situation, even we are in line with the total economic crisis, life is more important than money, so it is suitable to obey the orders, not to compare only in India it is all about all over the world since the breeze of the pandemic virus was circulating, it would bring the world to become a unity which is the effects of self-quarantine.

Not enough guidance for the cops from government and medical department of India so they decided to take anything in the view of corona only for the past few days.I head that India announces no tolls will be collected in selected areas and I can't say how much stupidity is this.

They have no measures yet for daily wagers and homeless,even they started to beat without asking any questions.Saw a video that doctor also beaten up.Worse.

Lucky are the Indians they are only locked for 21 days. We're up for 3 months maybe extended to another 6 months. Only the Chinese are having a feast.

Quite the expected outcome. Now the most unexpected thing is the lack of quarantine in individual countries.
In any case, your information needs to be double-checked, because you did not indicate any sources that could confirm it.

there were no proper arrangement simply because everyone is not prepared for this, just think of a tourist feeling well on its first week with the virus going to crowded and popular destination in your country until they die on the 3rd week, he or she already infected many people and now circulating on other places then after detecting the virus they just decided to lock the country down. You can't even complain by how these things getting seriously, you can't just blame your own government for this.

Yeah, there is reality also on this too, some people in authority are abusing their powers, worst situation is that they killed to discipline people but there are also people who is not afraid and disobeying citizen. So it's better to really stay at home and isolate for a month to avoid getting infected.

^to be fair, not that I endorse this stupidity (shaming and not so serious beating), but the victims were already sick before the event.

https://www.news18.com/news/india/post-mortem-report-says-man-who-violated-howrah-lockdown-died-of-cardiac-arrest-cops-deny-assault-2552211.html

It's shame in 2020 we still see this kind of violence. Imagine being dehydrated because 14-days of diarrhea and had to do push ups.

From what I've read, there weren't even arrangements in the lockdown order for people to go out and buy food.

The police are enforcing the order harshly. A West Bengal man went out to buy milk earlier today and was beaten to death by police. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bengal-man-who-was-out-to-buy-milk-dies-after-being-beaten-up-by-police-1659842-2020-03-26

More examples of police violence here: https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/police-in-india-use-force-on-coronavirus-lockdown-violators/

I guess that's one way to keep people inside.

If  do not take quarantine measures, then in such a densely populated country like India tens of millions of people will die out. Therefore, such measures are justified. Moreover, quarantine for the entire population on a state-by-state basis is now accepted in many countries. People here already need to choose: it is foolish to die or to limit yourself for some time in food and other ordinary conveniences.
However, along with this, in all states, the economies are falling, apparently, we can’t avoid the global economic crisis in the near future, or maybe something worse.

Now many states are taking such measures and recommending that the population not leave their homes. I still do not remember that such measures were taken earlier on a global scale. On the other hand, there is now a sharp improvement in the environmental situation on the planet, air and water are being cleaned, and at a very fast pace. Many forecasters predict that our world will no longer be the same, it is changing and is changing irrevocably. At the same time, we are being watched closely now: in near-Earth orbit it fixes directly clusters of alien ships. Something serious is happening or is about to happen soon. Some say that a large asteroid is likely to fall to Earth. There are several of them at once. One thing is clear: if we want to survive, we must unite and act together.

I am not entirely sure if you can keep over a billion people at home all the time, there must be some sort of stuff that makes sure that some people go out, like in Italy perhaps? Like maybe one person from each household could get a paper and go out and do their shopping, and people who are living in vital sectors such as grocery stores and hospitals all are going to work as well, maybe bus drivers and many others so forth.

So, basically the country can't be in "complete shutdown", that is usually done during military coup where you literally keep EVERYONE at home, this is more like medical shut down, where only the "have to" people go out but rest are suggested to stay at home. Which of course would hurt the economy but at the same time saving lives are much more important.

If the government has a cleàr plan on what to do with the crisis, like relief operations for people that are in lockdown.

It just can't work in a very poor country where people lack savings and most live day by day, we are going to see some Corona revolutions in places where anger will turn into anti government sentiment

The impact will obviously affect the economy but I don't think it will matter if the aim is to stop the spread of coronavirus, all major efforts continue to be made in other countries and in my opinion the economy can still be fixed quickly when the coronavirus problem can be resolved quickly. So doing lockdowns and other efforts I think is something that really needs to be done now because after all, this epidemic must be destroyed as soon as possible.

India has experienced a number of epidemic outbreaks starting from HIV in 1984 that were not detected in India. Nipah virus in 2001 was not detected and diagnosed. In 2002-2003 India survived the SARS virus epidemic because it followed the WHO protocol for screening air travelers from infected places, and testing and quarantining those suspected of being infected. All nations followed the protocol, and the spread of SARS coronavirus was interrupted by mid-2003.

In 2009 India failed to prevent the spread of H1N1 virus. What was appropriate for SARS prevention did not work for the flu. Globally, the virus has stayed on as endemic or seasonal. COVID-19 is closer to the H1N1 flu pandemic, which has persisted as seasonal flu. Like with the H1N1, the virus can escape detection in spite of screening. India must anticipate widespread transmission and eventual endemic persistence.

India is actually enjoying a demographic bonus at the moment because many of its population are in productive age. A large number of productive ages is maintained by the Indian government as one of the reasons for locking down because if the coronavirus becomes a pandemic in India, the Indian economy will experience a very deep setback. Besides this productive age is actively mobilizing so that the risk of spreading the virus will be even greater.



Not all countries do the same thing as India. Indonesia despite the positive case of the corona has reached 790 people with a high mortality rate (7.3% for now, but it has reached 9.3% in the last few days), but the government still does not lockdown on the grounds of chaos and lack of distribution of basic needs to water especially for the capital area which still relies on supplies from outside the region.