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Increaser in Covid19 cases

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June 9, 2020
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It seems the federal government is finally waking up to the fact that new coronavirus cases, and indeed the number of deaths, is rising simply too fast for the so called limited lockdown to continue without some modifications. It was precisely this scenario that the government was warned against initially when it talked down the necessity of a nationwide quarantine at every opportunity. The prime minister did not listen to anybody at the time, but the argument that stricter measures would be taken if the number of new cases rose very sharply was self-defeating. That is because diluting the lockdown so early actually created the situation where new cases are now coming in at quite an alarming rate.

Yet even now the measures being considered are not going to do the job. According to news reports, the first step of the new, more serious, approach will be telling people to follow SOPs (standard operating procedures) more seriously. But wasn’t that already being done all along? And has the government not seen the results so far? People have simply refused to follow any manner of social distancing. Therefore it is no surprise that the virus is spreading like it is. The reports also say that stricter measures would be employed if people do not take the advice seriously, without explaining what those measures are going to be. Since this is a truly global problem, and literally all sorts of solutions have been tried and lockdown has been found the most effective by far, there’s only so many steps the government can really consider when it does have to take harder decisions. And if it is forced to go for a complete shut down one more time, aren’t the daily wagers because of whom the PM was apparently so dead against the lockdown going to suffer to no end anyway?

Unfortunately, this crisis has exposed a lack of leadership in the federal government. First it stayed indecisive for far too long as the virus spread all around our neighbouring countries. Then, when it finally came here, the matter was not handled with any sort of seriousness. Most senior officials, especially the prime minister himself, did not seem to think that it would present much of a problem to us even though it was already causing nightmares in many parts of the world. And even when the whole world was locking down, the Pakistani PM did not appreciate such measures at all and thought they were forced on the people by the elite; whatever that meant. The government must finally appreciate the real magnitude of the problem, and the futility of its initial approach.

Unfortunately, this crisis has exposed a lack of leadership in the federal government. First it stayed indecisive for far too long as the virus spread all around our neighbouring countries.

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