If Only We Could Bribe The Death
Israel paid double for vaccines and skipped the lockdown. India had the officers, the rest houses and the reach. What it lacked in April 2021 was the will.
We know that Israel vaccinated its entire population by thinking much ahead of its time, placing the order for the vaccine at double the cost, and having avoided any lockdown. It was a simple mathematical decision cost of vaccination is less costly than a lockdown.
Israel has spent NIS 2.6 billion ($788 million) so far on coronavirus https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-has-spent-788m-on-vaccines-could-double-that-in-future-health-ministry/
I have been told that Israel is a small country and with a small population; therefore, it was easy for them
However, I refuse to accept that argument. Indian is not a new country like Israel. It’s an ancient country where a system of “lagan” (agricultural tax) collection has been in place for centuries.
The revenue departments administrative structure is very well laid out; each State has subdivisions, each division has a district, each district has a subdivision (where necessary), then there is Tehsil/Mondal/Taluka.
After that, the areas further subdivided into urban and rural regions and we have an administrative officer at each level. Rural areas have blocks, and then villages and urban regions have municipalities. Beautiful rest houses exist in remotest of places!
If someone was thinking of vaccinating at the block and municipal level, we have enough registered medical practitioners & nursing and paramedics staff. After all, it’s not a spinal cord surgery; it’s a simple shot in the arm, literally.
The bureaucratic structure could have executed the operation, and the Political representative could have monitored the execution.
The Infrastructure of the Mughal and British Era Exists for Bureaucrat to Function. Political Will is Missing!
I am hundred percent confident we could have executed it in a month, if not weeks. A well thought out execution plan from the top, and India could have done it!
We Don’t Have Funds to Vaccinate Everyone is the Next Argument of Mr Shammer and His Touts.
Well we could have asked for a loan from the IMF or World Bank, saying we will save the economy from lockdown and our nation will work to pay the debt off.
Do you think the economist sitting there would not see that going daily wage of India is slightly more significant than the cost of one dose of the vaccine, and one-day of NO lockdown will offset the cost of immunisation of the entire population!
Now throw in the corruption kickbacks, black marketing, and all that Indian is famous for; even then, it WAS POSSIBLE! and an ECONOMICAL VIABLE OPTION
Unfortunately, no one was thinking! We suffer today not because it was not possible. We are suffering because India lacks officers, courage and character!
If No Corruption Means No Action, Resulting into Innocent Deaths, I Rather See Corrupt India Again!
After all, Israel is as big a mammoth in front of our tehsil as much as India is in front of Israel
If They Could Bribe the Death Why could We Not?
A Nation Where Even Gods Accept Money for Blessings!
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