A Second Wave will Doom India
India is a Tipping Point and a Second Covid Wave would spell doom for us. The fraying social fabric, the fragile healthcare infrastructure, and the nascent economic recovery can collapse the country.
With the air heavy with feverish (literally and metaphorically) anticipation of a Second Covid Wave, it is time to be worried. Not only with a Second Wave lead to a dissipation of the nascent economic recovery, it would also exacerbate the social and religious faultlines that are already shaking the foundations of the country.
We just cannot a relapse of the nation into a stage of permanent collapse given how fragile our healthcare infrastructure is at the moment and how porous our institutions are. Moreover, the fraying social fabric would certainly tear giving rise to a violent eruption of existing socioeconomic tensions.
Indeed, India is at a Tipping Point and a Second Wave would almost push us to The Point of No Return. While we were busy clapping and banging our vessels during the First Wave, the Virus mutated quietly and what are we going to do now? Pray to the Almighty? Invoke Divine Inspiration for a very human made disaster.
What is alarming is how clueless our leaders are and how sanguine we are as we stare at the Abyss of a Collapse. This is not the time for politicking and partisan games of oneupmanship. Rather it is time for collective action in the face of what is a mounting crisis. Can we cope? Can we overcome? Can we survive? Only Time will tell.
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