Digital Desk: Assam government has particularly cited in the latest SOP for Covid-19 that there will be no constraints on 31st December this year. The favorably slick ruling regime might think that this particular relaxation will cheer up their voting banks. Regardless, this matter has conveyed weighty concern among individuals as well.
The threat of the third wave of COVID-19 started with the emergence of a new variant, Omicron, worldwide. Most of the nation's larger states have already set restrictions for the third wave of pandemic expansion. However, Assam seems to make the delight out of the pandemic threat.
If you strongly survived through the first and second waves of Covid-19, you definitely know the quandary that the pandemic has created worldwide. When the entire world was facing the threat of the pandemic, a particular thing seemed to take parity in India, of course, that's elections.
The first wave made people face the severe sadness of losing dear ones amid elections, and the same happened during the second wave of Covid-19. The same scenario is likely to get shaped in India with the third wave, and once again, states will be witnessing elections in 2022.
When it was time for important matters to be processed in India, like vital government examinations, employment processes, etc., the government announced that we were under the pandemic threat. But, on the contrary, when it was the time for the political leaders and parties to go out for pressing votes (usually based on hard cash), Covid-19 suddenly disappeared.
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Lately, the new SOP issued by the Assam government has made everything absurd. Absurdity connected when a highly intellectual panel decided to skip restrictions for the night, which will definitely cause a threat to the spread of the third wave of Covid-19.
If asked, the government will reply with a single shaft that 'we know people are anyway not going to follow the rules on 31st.' So now, it seems like we already know the answer.
Moreover, SOPs all over India have included night curfews. Is there any requirement to impose a night curfew in a nation where most states hardly remain active 24/7? Okay, to be sure, big cities shine all day and night, yet how does it make sense that night curfew will prevent the pandemic growth? What about the rest of the hours in a day when the public seems to assemble?
The government has made fun of Covid-19 through elections campaigns, night curfews, 31st exemptions, etc. Unfortunately, there is hardly any rationality found in any of the measures taken by the government to prevent the surge of the third wave of Covid-19.
But is it only the government and people in power who needs to be questioned? What about the citizens of the nation? Are people concerned about the threat of the third wave of Covid-19? Or people have started believing that Covid-19 is just a political gimmick. What a dilemma the world is facing.
People need to fight for survival, fight for that last bed in the hospital, sleep on hospital corridors, mourn for the losses, and die out of inadequate healthcare services- only then will the government and people in power deliver words of concern and sympathy. Only then, the headlines will carry titles like- 'Government strictly asks people to abide by the restrictions, or else lives are in threat."
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