Marcus Fenix
Innovator
To be honest this is not entirely Modi's fault.What?? Each day after 3rd will take the economy back by few years. Modi at his best. The virus will kill 1 generation, Modi will kill 3!!
He is dealing with the joke that we have as healthcare infrastructure. We can scale up manufacturing of tests all we want but without enough hospitals what can he do in a country where people have the propensity to procreate like rabbits.
He has two equally crappy options-
Extend the shutdown which will be akin to a nuclear strike on our economy as well as the livelihood of people in the informal sector.
Stop the shutdown and risk an avalanche of COVID mortalities along with the public backlash.
Whatever the bhakts may think the guy is not Superman who can conjure miracles out of the air.
We have been ignoring healthcare as a government deliverable for a long time and spending our money on stuff like nukes, space exploration etc. and this has been carried out by successive governments.
They try to focus on shiny milestones as a improvement metric to beat our chests on the world stage whereas the large majority of our population still defecates outside and is more worried about basic necessities for survival like jobs and onion prices (read inflation rate).