Poor people are literally starving as a result of the ongoing lockdown in India. They are not allowed to work and many are getting barely enough food to survive while stuck in tiny shacks with no electricity. The government appears to be interfering with people from leaving their homes even to deliver food to relatives. Here is one description:
“The lockdown was not the right decision,” grumbled Deepak, whose friends no longer came out to play cricket. “The rich can survive even if the lockdown stretches for a year, but what will the poor do?"
Without even a television, he had started going to bed earlier, and waking up later. One day was blurring into the next.
But sometimes, a 17-year-old who knows the streets can be useful.
When a call came that his grandparents had run out of bread, his mother turned to Deepak.
His grandparents live a few miles (kilometers) away. She gave him a half-kilo (one pound) of flour and sent him out into the streets. He jogged through roads, alleys and fields, dodging police checkpoints or talking his way through them, until he reached his grandparents and delivered the food.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/I-am-so-afraid-India-s-poor-face-15206966.php
Of course the WHO has praised the lockdown.
The UN has expressed solidarity with India in its fight against coronavirus, with a top official at the world body’s health agency praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 21-day nationwide lockdown as a “comprehensive and robust” response to the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
When India imposed these draconian measures with 606 cases and 10 deaths in a country of 1.38 billion people. The government recently extended the lockdown until at least May 3.
Is the cure worse than the disease?
What responsibility does the WHO have for encouraging the lockdown?
