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Wisdom in hindsight after Covid second wave caught us off-guard
That the second wave of the virus has caught us off-guard, unmasking our complacency, needs no further underlining.
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A health worker collects samples for COVID-19 testing, amid surge in coronavirus cases, in Amravati, Maharashtra, Friday, April 16, 2021. (File Photo | PTI)
That the second wave of the virus has caught us off-guard, unmasking our complacency, needs no further underlining. In a nation of India’s size and population density, and with Sars-Cov-2’s potency and notorious ability to mutate, there was no scope for taking the eye off the ball. But that’s what we did: we gave free visa on arrival to the UK variant (B.1.1.7), the California variant (B.1.427 & 429), the South African variant (B.1.351), just to cite a few. The Union home minister, in defence of his continuing campaign rallies, pointed out that it’s not the states that went into elections, like Tamil Nadu,