Posted on 03/24/2020 4:46:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
India has instituted the biggest lockdown yet in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a television address Tuesday that the entire country, roughly 1.3 billion people, would begin a 21-day lockdown at midnight, bringing the total number of people on such restrictions to roughly one-fifth of the Earth’s population.
“To save India and every Indian, there will be a total ban on venturing out of your homes,” Modi announced.
Modi sternly advised his people not to break the lockdown, saying “many families will be destroyed forever” if coronavirus continues to spread in the country. There have been 519 confirmed cases of the virus in India, resulting in 10 deaths. Modi has also pledged $2 billion to help strengthen the country’s health system.
“You have seen the worldwide situations arising from the coronavirus pandemic in the news,” Modi said. “You have also seen how the most powerful nations have become helpless in the face of this pandemic.”
As with all other lockdowns, essential services like hospitals, police, pharmacies, and grocery stores have been exempted from this order and will stay open.
Several measures have been enacted in India to help soften the financial blow of this lockdown. Similar to the U.S., the country’s tax filing deadline has been pushed back by three months. ATM withdrawal fees and minimum bank balance charges have also been waived.
“According to health experts, a minimum of 21 days is most crucial to break the cycle of infection,” Modi said. “If we are not able to manage this pandemic in the next 21 days, the country and your family will be setback by 21 years.”
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They got no toilets.
and yet, offshoring IT jobs to India continue. Former employer just purged a bunch of folks and opened up the positions in India. They shouldn’t get a dime of federal assistance.
Watching ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ might give an idea of what India is up against.
Which area will be the first to have riots and civil disobedience? Teenagers rushing onto the beach at Clearwater doesn’t count. The beaches were still open.
Future Trigger: Police say a man falsely heard there was a toilet paper shipment at a Wal-Mart. By the time people found the
report was untrue, hundreds had been injured.
$2B for 1 billion people.
Meanwhile, did anyone notice that the size of the American bailout has now risen to $6T? God help us, yes. That’s what Larry Kudlow said tonight. $2T by regular federal deficit spending and $4T with loans made to businesses by the Fed—who of course just digitally print it up.
So Americans making up to %75K or so get $1200 to buy their silence $5T going to big business and banking interests.
You haven’t read anything but the headline, have you?
Hey, maybe that’ll pause the flood of H-1B visa scumbags!
OMMMMMMM Shanti. Shanti OMMMMMM.
Sat-chid-ananda. And all that jazz.
Except I heard India was joining China in deliberately refusing to send antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals to the United States.
Reuters March 3, 2020 / 4:26 AM / 21 days ago
Global supplier India curbs drug exports as coronavirus fears grow
((After huge dependence upon China, 24-31% of some items come from India.))
You didn’t hear? One prick is trying to INCREASE the flow of H1-Bs.
Indeed. Though the numbers keep going up.
No more "Peggy" in customer service to talk to.
And India KNOWS what this is. We all do now so this action is justified. So why did China lock down half of their population so early over, what they would have only thought at the time, just another spontaneously occurring virus from an exotic animal market?
Destined to fail.
But still the right thing to do.
We’re in the midst of a $10 trillion problem.
The financial system that many loathe is teetering. And at least half of GDP has simply...stopped.
I’ll consider it a win if they hold it to $8T.
High five to them for having the guts to stay inside for most of the incubation time.
Excellent humor. Thanks. We need every distraction we can get.
I have spent several weeks in India touring in years past. Many people there don’t have any doors on their residences...if they even have more than a cardboard shack. Many there live in extreme poverty. In cities like Mumbai over 12 million people live in abject slums. Good luck India.
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