Instead of declaring an emergency-style lockdown, why not prioritize public education through accessible channels like TV, newspapers, and anganwadis?
Look at America, Italy, both of which we can all agree have way better education, resources, efficient government etc, look at what happened to them, Muricans were
literally protesting on the streets because some couldnt get their nails done, bars werent open or a million other trivial things, Italy had one of the largest death tolls in Europe iirc, Covid norms/advisories had been disseminated world wide and anyone with working internet should have known what to do to prevent covid, and yet did this work in vastly advanced,richer countries? and its not Italy or America, I can give you other examples too.
Why do you think this would have worked in India? where a vast majority of the population didnt have access to Internet, are plain ignorant or just dont care? like you do know how fast covid spread? Lockdown was the only way to stop the spread as much as possible
Why wasn’t there early consideration for the millions of migrant workers who were forced to travel long distances under desperate conditions?
early considerations? brother reports about Covid came out in December yes, but it wasnt until Feb-end and early March when it really spread, and lockdown was declared in the third week itself iirc, like what early considerations could have been? keeping in mind we are talking about
millions of people?
Why was there no clear long-term strategy from the start?
not a single country in the world had a long term strategy, all were reeling from the shocks of economic impact, scrambling to stem covid and the same time save their economies from going bust
Why didn't the response begin with strengthening the basics—such as increasing ICU beds, setting up oxygen plants, or ensuring sufficient PPE kits?
yes, this should have been done, but Oxygen demands
were being met, if certain parties like AAP hadnt inflated the demand and causing panic, we wouldnt have had so much scarcity, as for ensuring enough PPE kits etc, like who do you think is gonna meet this demand? setting up production lines aint easy, supply, transport, labor, there are lots of things that you need to arrange at once to meet demands, its not just a phone call or a press of the button, and in the later stages PPE etc were abundantly available
Why were political election campaigns allowed to continue, even as the threat of a second COVID wave loomed?
this is India brother, ask yourself this, what kind of response would have been there had the current govt done something for this? or any other party for that matter?
Why was there a premature declaration of victory over COVID, leading to complacency?
complacency? more like they had to, if they hadnt opened up the lockdown, the economy would have fallen even further, things were reaching a breaking point, business had to continue otherwise what do you think would have happened if more SMBs (the backbone of employment in smaller cities/towns) collapsed because they simply couldnt stay afloat because of zero cash inflow? there's a term that MBA grads learn, you should look it up, "fixed expenses", just because you are not selling/doing anything doesnt mean you dont gotta spend money.
Why weren’t vaccines procured proactively? And despite a low domestic inventory, why were vaccines and PPE kits sent abroad?
Wdym? I dont know about other states, but atleast in UP, Covaxin/Covishield were available after they were released and stocks were maintained at vaccination centres, thousands were vaccinated each day, were there any shortages in either PPE kits/vaccines once situation had stabilised? and as for sending them abroad, I can't comment on this, aside from aid was being sent to countries from all over the world where covid impact was the worst, India did its part, and if all countries were to hoard their supplies and not help other countries out in emergencies, death toll would have been way higher globally.
While seemingly trivial things—like home delivery of alcohol—were swiftly implemented, basic and vital measures like public health education were neglected.
Using population as a blanket excuse is not acceptable. If that's the justification, it could be used to rationalize our failures in every domain—be it food scarcity, inflation, healthcare, education, governance, corruption, or law and order.
this is where I disagree with you, when some case studies of Kumbh mela comes out, I would suggest you to read those, population
is absolutely a reason, you dont the scale at which a country like ours needs to operate to manage it, unless you are China with a regime so authoritarian that they literally starved people in Wuhan, supply lines
will break no matter what you do, all you can do is do your best and thats what happened, you want more examples? go on reddit and look up events in Europe like Coachella, or even formual 1 races, like I am pretty sure there was a race in Spa? (not sure) where there portable toilets overflowed, people leaving trash on the ground due to lack of bins, people being stuck in queues for hours etc etc, like even developed nations cant handle scale gracefully, why do you think you are expecting us to handle it? but I do agree with you, Corruption and governance are something we really suck at, but its a systemic issue, and nothing's gonna happen unless there'a change right from the root and no party will ever bring that radical a change in fear of alienating their voters.
Yes, compare with other countries with similar weather and genetics. In 2020, India's cases per capita and deaths per capita were thrice that of Pakistan and Bangladesh, four times that of Nepal.
In 2021, after kumbh mela, it was 50 times that of Pakistan and Bangladesh. 5000 percent. This time Nepal was also bad because they too participated in the kumbh. So India not only screwed itself up but Nepal too.
any source for your information?
Inspiration! Nothing works without inspiration. Everyone inspires from something. If it wasn't the case, logically, cave man could have written it. No reason AI can't do the same. LOR was inspired by a lot of mythological-religious books and fairytales of the time.
I have literally explained to you thats
not how AI works, at this point, either read up on the research or just shut the **** up, because what you are doing is like trying to explain to a doctor, "well akshually, you are wrong, medicines do not cure people",
You'll have to give proof that innovation can happen in the vacuum.
I'm under the impression that you think creativity or innovation are something that appears out of thin air like magic.
do you even know the meaning of creativity or innovation? everything has had to begin
somewhere, thats literally how we humans evolved. And if you think that AI is gonna do
that? yeah, you are just being deliberately obtuse, maybe in the future some breakthrough happens and we get AGI, but at current? hell no, and like I said above, either go through research, read articles on the architecture of LLMs, or just shut up, because this is going nowhere, you repeat the same arguments ad nauseam, I give you points against those, explain the terminology and dumb down the process for you, but you come back again with no new questions/arguments.
If that's the case, why do many CEOs of software company agree with me? These are the people who hire the people who hire senior SDEs. They all ringing the same bell. Hiring has stopped for freshers. My neighbor who completed BE last year in CS was still seeking employment for a year, and now he's going into finance. Until a couple of years ago, there was a rush towards IT. Even mechanical, civil engineers and any mediocre coder could get into IT. And, now I'm seeing IT graduates moving to other fields.
CEOs will of course agree with you, and you are ignorant if you really dont know
why they are agreeing with you, they just need an excuse to lay off their workforce, increase their shares and make profits for their shareholders. there are literally hundreds of case studies of short term decisions taken by C-Suites which ultimately ended up tanking the company
.
Not a good example. There are hundreds of startups in China that established after Boston Dynamics and shipping usable robots today. At this point, Boston Dynamics is a hobby project.
Are you serious for real? lol, blud really thinks Boston dynamics is just a hobby project, well OK then, folks time to pack it up.
