Saturday, 4 April 2020

Corona - Continue lockdown till 30 April

 Relaxing lockdown on Construction, Agriculture, Domestic & International Flight by 14 April seems little early. Related industries would also seek relaxation. Train Minister is also adovocating resumption of 20 train operations across the country. So this lockdown could fall due to domino effect as everyone would like to go out to make a living. Consequently, Coronavirus snowballimg could take place, Hence, Govt must reconsider and delay till end of April. Please Please Please
Agriculture industry due to harvest season of wheat may be allowed with due caution, proper awareness, due training and under supervision of Agriculture Department.  Hopefully, for once this department may also collect deserving pay of the current month. 

I'm associated with construction industry and all my projects have ceased to function and company is shut down over two weeks now. But putting personal financial loss aside, I don't have right feeling about this particular decision of the govt at this particular moment in time.
Reason is simple , worst of Pendamic is yet to hit Pakistan and letting people out before its peak can increase chances of spread manifold.
We have taken the brunt of lockdown limitations, social distancing and economic losses for so long and another couple of weeks wouldn't affect as much as so as disease spread could play havoc owing to our limited capacity to deal with it.
So far, due to special mercy of Almighty we have had relatively good run. Numbers of affected and fatalities remained lower than many Western countries. But this decision of officially calling social distancing off could be dangerous.
بھوک کاتنا پیاروں کو (خدانخواسطہ) کرونا کے شکنجے میں دکھیلنے سے بہتر ھوگا. 
If govt doesn't reverse its decision, then I pray to be wrong in this assessment.
Only Allah knows the whole Truth.

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