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Why Rahul Gandhi got it all wrong about the lockdown

I was watching Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Rajiv Bajaj on a left-wing channel, and the utter tosh that was being tossed around made me stop listening midway through.

Rahul calls the lockdown a failed lockdown. Really? India has had six thousand plus deaths. The United States well over a hundred thousand. So India has failed? Actually, the lockdown will be remembered as the signal achievement of Narendra Modi.

Bajaj called this the most draconian lockdown anywhere in the world. Really? What about the lockdown in Wuhan, China where people were being beaten when they came out on the street. Remember the absolutely deserted streets in Italy? Bajaj praised the Swedish model. The Swedes let things be and now they are paying the price.

Modi had all the country’s chief ministers, including Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal and every Congress chief minister, right behind him. None of the chief ministers has been preening to become PM, unlike the US, where Cuomo, the governor of New York, and Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, have tried to bolster their presidential and vice-presidential credentials during the pandemic.

I suspect that many of the Congress chief ministers must be secretly admiring the decisive and resolute leadership of Modi and not these wishy-washy conversations that Rahul gets into with the high and mighty.

Bajaj said that we should have looked east and not west. But Modi looked towards Wuhan and implemented his lockdown on similar lines, which is all to the good, because India has lost so few lives compared to so many other countries.

Acting quick and fast flattened the curve in India. Similarly in California, acting quick and fast flattened the curve. If you sat on things, as New York and Sweden did, you paid the price. And it’s not true that once the lockdown is lifted, fatalities will jump to pre-lockdown levels. The data in India and California does not support that assertion of Rahul and Bajaj.

It’s stunning that India’s glitterati, which has the opportunity to travel overseas, as Rahul so frequently does, seems to know so little about the world. The virus has destroyed the mightiest economy of the world, the United States’. Why then bemoan that it has crimped the Indian economy and blame Modi for it? Just blame Modi for everything, never give him any credit.

The fact is that after getting his house destroyed in two earthquakes, in 2014 and 2019, Rahul has not been able to repair his own house. It seems that he has nothing to do now. He won’t make any changes to the Congress party. Rahul is pretending as if the Congress has answers to the pandemic. With all the same old people in place, all those who destroyed UPA 2 from 2009-14, including Rahul and his mother, how can you expect any good answers to come from the Congress.

Maharashtra has an able chief minister in Uddhav Thackeray. Rahul recently undermined him by stating that Rahul is not a decision-maker in Maharashtra. Rahul’s men are in Thackeray’s government. Without Rahul’s support, Thackeray’s government will collapse. And Rahul says that he is not a decision-maker in Maharashtra.

Where then is Rahul the decision-maker? What is his title in the Congress? President? Vice president? President, to be? Has he suffered enough and/or been punished enough for 2019? He acts as the boss of the Congress. Why doesn’t he take it over formally? Why is he hiding behind mama?

The truth is that Rahul loves to get together with known-Modi baiters like Bajaj and Raghuram Rajan and then get time on left-wing media to bait Modi. Yes, there have been massive issues with the lockdown, principally the migrants crisis. But to say that COVID-19 is not fatal? Rahul and Bajaj, are you smoking something? The whole world is terrified of the virus, especially the kind of death it can bring.

Rahul needs to give Modi a bye on managing the pandemic. The prime minister revels in disaster management. He has not proven so good in ordinary times, such as in growing the economy. That is an area that Rahul should attack and provide concrete solutions for. How to make India a manufacturing hub? How to get NRIs of repute to contribute to India?

Instead, he is collecting some of his privileged (like himself) buddies and just barking up the wrong tree. Can you imagine how Rahul would have managed the pandemic if he had been prime minister? India would have been awash in death.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/strategic-insights/why-rahul-gandhi-got-it-all-wrong-about-the-lockdown/

 

 

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2 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

Is the guy in the video with big white mustache Gen GD Bakshi? He is a big pro-India/Dharmic guy. Wonder why he was silent?

Tariq Ali, Pakistani Brit...writes in 'The Guardian'.

 

Roy won't have the guts to come F2F with Major General GD Bakshi even on Zoom. Our fauji saab is proper anti-venom for these kind of left rats. 

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1 hour ago, Singh bling said:

He said draconian lockdown. Covid in his factory has nothing to do with it. If Lockdown was so good why we become third most affected nation in world.

Sure, the covid virus flew to his factory via bajaj turbojet rickshaw during the lockdown, so it was meaningless to limit person to person contact. 

 

Either you're unaware of basic virus transmission or you're more likely the whiny/cynical types who just sees a problem with whatever is done. 

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Sure, the covid virus flew to his factory via bajaj turbojet rickshaw during the lockdown, so it was meaningless to limit person to person contact. 

 

Either you're unaware of basic virus transmission or you're more likely the whiny/cynical types who just sees a problem with whatever is done. 

The question is was the extremely draconian lockdown necessary in first place for 30-40 days. What benefit it had on Covid situation. We are already at no. 3 place in world. Some sort of lockdown was always going to be in place after Covid pandemic. 

 

Anyway what do you want. Should he lock the factory and throw the key as Covid is not going from india anytime soon in future. It could even take years to completely eliminate it.

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12 hours ago, Singh bling said:

The question is was the extremely draconian lockdown necessary in first place for 30-40 days. What benefit it had on Covid situation. We are already at no. 3 place in world. Some sort of lockdown was always going to be in place after Covid pandemic. 

 

Anyway what do you want. Should he lock the factory and throw the key as Covid is not going from india anytime soon in future. It could even take years to completely eliminate it.

That's the problem with you cynical folks, just assume hindsight as previously known information. There were no easy answers then and no easy answers now, the world is still trying to figure it out. 

 

We may have to deal with intermittent lockdowns time & again, that's also something happening in India and around the world. But you have to understand the following aspects:

 

1) The countries that dealt with the crisis successfully (Vietnam, NZ, Aus) had a lockdown as a containment strategy. 

 

2) The country that avoided the lockdown (Sweden) still had a major hit on its economy while having many times more death rate than its immediate scandinavian neighbors. 

 

A responsible company should have mechanisms to limit covid spread at its premises. Toyota Kirloskar had suspended production when just 2 cases emerged positive. Here we have this money pinching rickshawala who doesn't see any problem with hundreds infected at his company and some employees dying.

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That's the problem with you cynical folks, just assume hindsight as previously known information. There were no easy answers then and no easy answers now, the world is still trying to figure it out. 

 

We may have to deal with intermittent lockdowns time & again, that's also something happening in India and around the world. But you have to understand the following aspects:

 

1) The countries that dealt with the crisis successfully (Vietnam, NZ, Aus) had a lockdown as a containment strategy. 

 

2) The country that avoided the lockdown (Sweden) still had a major hit on its economy while having many times more death rate than its immediate scandinavian neighbors. 

 

A responsible company should have mechanisms to limit covid spread at its premises. Toyota Kirloskar had suspended production when just 2 cases emerged positive. Here we have this money pinching rickshawala who doesn't see any problem with hundreds infected at his company and some employees dying.

Problem is with you for not understanding the other point of view. A pov which probably is more correct than yours. This is called being a lakeer ka fakeer.

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18 hours ago, Singh bling said:

He said draconian lockdown. Covid in his factory has nothing to do with it. If Lockdown was so good why we become third most affected nation in world.

Once again you push forward bullshit statistics to suit your narrative. India is the worlds second more populous nation. If you add population density into the mix we have heavily curtailed the virus.

 

It must also be noted that the state government which is of a different party from the central government have extended the lockdown even further on their own estimation. The total fudge up in Mumbai for example is the doing of the ruling alliance alone. 

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Problem is with you for not understanding the other point of view. A pov which probably is more correct than yours. This is called being a lakeer ka fakeer.

Join kar lo public policy making mr heat theory. Every healthcare expert and serious politician has used lockdowns and still do while you pseudo intellectuals claim to know better while siding with Trump & his redneck bunch.

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) The countries that dealt with the crisis successfully (Vietnam, NZ, Aus) had a lockdown as a containment strategy. 

 

Coronavirus: How 'overreaction' made Vietnam a virus success

While Vietnam never had a total national lockdown, it swooped in on emerging clusters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52628283

 

The type of extremely strict Lockdown which india had for first 60 days was Hardly in any other nation. 

 

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Coronavirus: How 'overreaction' made Vietnam a virus success

While Vietnam never had a total national lockdown, it swooped in on emerging clusters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52628283

 

The type of extremely strict Lockdown which india had for first 60 days was Hardly in any other nation. 

 

They're battle hardened in epidemic mgmt top to bottom. Forget testing kits, we used useless raincoats as a sorry excuse for PPEs in the early days. The less I say about junta the better.

 

Don't u see the days it takes to add a lakh cases compared to earlier ? That's after all the bombarding of info and news for months. Those triple seat mawalis who roam without helmet & mask were supposed to locked into which cluster ?

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18 hours ago, Clarke said:

Join kar lo public policy making mr heat theory. Every healthcare expert and serious politician has used lockdowns and still do while you pseudo intellectuals claim to know better while siding with Trump & his redneck bunch.

You have always misunderstood purposely on corona issue. Lost a bit of respect in my eye, if that matters (but don't think it does to you which is fine).

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