LOCKDOWN EXTENSION
Rifa Deka
(The writer can be reached at rifadeka@gmail.com)
The outbreak of coronavirus has killed 149 people and affected over 5,000 lives so far in India, bringing life to a standstill. We’re all being hinted of a possible extension of the 21-day nationwide lockdown. Heads of states are also requesting the Centre to reconsider an extension of the lockdown period and people themselves are coming forward and requesting state governments to enforce an extended partial shutdown at the least.
We know full well that the government and authorities are concerned about how a country 1.3 billion large will be able to deal with this pandemic if numbers continue to rise the way they currently are and an extended lockdown period is what seems to be the right thing to do, but here is a list of some of our problems that we would want solved first.
These are just a small portion of the problems that we’re facing and I’m sure there are many more yet to be discussed. We’re also aware that the extension of this curfew appears to be the only sensible decision at the moment, but if you ask a migrant daily-wage labourer, I’m sure he’ll tell you that he’d rather die of coronavirus himself, than letting his entire family die of hunger.
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