Please take note of the entries at 'DD' and 'EE' below, in particular. Sukla
AA. Please look up, for a listing of vital issues on which the Union Government must share info with people at large: <https://youtu.be/lcqJwm426W4> One, in this context, has to keep in mind that the Union Government, in its latest significant move, on Aprl 17, has done three things simultaneously. I. It allowed the states and private enterprises to procure vaccines on their own. Thereby, washed off its own hands. That's unprecedented, in case of vaccines. (Ref.: < https://science.thewire.in/health/watch-centre-abdicating-duty-towards-vaccine-drive-k-sujatha-rao/> and < https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/second-wave-coronavirus-vaccine-serum-institute-7290331/ >. II. Virtually deregulated the price. Now, Covishield would be available to the Union Government at Rs.150 per dose, to the state governments at Rs. 300 per dose and to private hospitals at Rs.600 per dose. For Covaxin, the corresponding rates would be Rs.150, 400 and 1,200. The half of production would mandatorily go to the Union Government. (Ref.: <https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1712710>.) III. *Quite interestingly, without any augmentation of the availability of vaccine doses - which is even now falling far short of requirements, has expanded - w.e.f. May 1, the category, and thereby the number, of those eligible to be vaccinated.* Evidently, with no intention of getting more people vaccinated, but to create serious chaos on the ground and make the concerned state governments face the music and, thereby, make its own colossal failure, and even criminality - in terms of the mode of clamping the lockdown, lack of testing and inadequate contract tracing, disproportionately drumming up the Tablighi Jamaat, duly followed up with mammoth Kumbh gathering and huge political rallies etc., apart from earlier taali/thaali/diya, and, not to miss the huge Loot Maar project tagged as 'PM CARES Fund, shield from public attention. BB. For some more sensible suggestions on how to tackle: < https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/indias-covid-crisis-anthony-s-fauci-coronavirus-death-7297380/ >. CC. For a close peep into what's going on at the ground level: < https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrefKeWuNpQ&feature=share>. DD. Arundhati Roy: <<We need a government. Desperately. And we don’t have one. We are running out of air. We are dying. We don’t have systems in place to know what to do with help even when it’s on hand. ... This is a crisis of your making. You cannot solve it. You can only make it worse. This virus prospers in an atmosphere of fear and hatred and ignorance. It prospers when you clamp down on those who speak out. It prospers when you manage the media to such an extent that the real truth is only reported in the international media. It prospers when you have a prime minister who has never held a single press conference in all his years in office, who is incapable of fielding questions, even now in this moment of numbing horror. Hundreds of thousands of us will die, unnecessarily, if you don’t go. So, go now. Jhola utha ke. With your dignity intact. You can have a great life ahead, of meditation and solitude. You yourself have said that’s what you want. That won’t be possible if you allow this mass dying to continue.>> (Ref.: <https://scroll.in/article/994022/arundhati-roy-we-need-a-government >.( EE. <<(As) citizens, celebrities, international diplomats—and even desperate hospitals—look to social media and each other instead of the glaringly absent Indian state for help, a petition demanding Modi’s resignation has quietly snagged 7 lakh signatures in just six days, becoming one of the most popular in recent years on change.org.>> (Ref.: < https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/as-indians-say-resignmodi-a-petition-races-ahead >.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZij%3DUPLnpjuW73DhPDvDbhLWGRoQZygzKT8fhKB0SP0Vg%40mail.gmail.com.
