Praxeology: My Reflexions on India

After 17 days of lock down in India, the   official figures   for total infections and deaths due to Coronavirus are 6,600 and 228 people respectively. At the   beginning   of this lock down the same numbers were 614 and 9 people respectively. Despite the lock down, infection cases in India have gone up 10  times and deaths 25 times. Regardless of this, Modi government, as usual, has started claiming the success of their draconian lock down. Such kind of response was expected because governments will never admit their failures while taking all the credit for others’ successes. Indian government   claimed   on Thursday: The Indian government on Thursday claimed initial success in its fight against the coronavirus epidemic, saying it would have been hit with 820,000 cases by next week had it not imposed a nationwide lockdown. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to order 1.3 billion Indians indoors for three weeks in the world’s biggest lockdow...

Covid-19 Pandemic The world is in an unprecedented   lock down   over a threat of a flu virus’s new strain called SARS-Cov-2 that causes a respiratory disease called Covid-19. All the data so far coming suggests that the only group most vulnerable to this disease are very old people with underlying health issues like diabetes, heart surgeries, organ transplant, cancer, hypertension, asthma, tuberculosis etc., which has compromised their immune system, and those young people who also have above mentioned underlying health issues or who are smoking or drinking or doing drug abuse etc. Basically, anyone with a compromised immune system is at risk of dying because of this virus. Worldwide data also suggests that the mortality rate of this pandemic is approximately   0.1%   or even less. All in all, the data coming out so far tells that the virus is benign and not a monster that is out to kill us all. But governments around the world have seized this opportunity and...