I Can't Breathe!

Pic credit: Google Images Anis Wani for The Kashmir Walla. I Can’t Breathe A third Corona wave is at the threshold, and this may sound as an alarmist for the panic-stricken citizens of India. The principal scientific advisor to the PM of India reiterates that it is inevitable, but the exact time of its arrival cannot be predicted though. What we do know that this wave could cross age groups putting even children at the same risk as adults. We need to mask up and prepare, and we also need to introspect, draw the lessons from the past to fix the lapses, not the narratives. At this time of chaos and confusions, it is apt to go back and try to track the rampant and reckless growth of Covid 19 virus which has unleashed its belligerence in our motherland refusing to be tamed. After the initial grip of Covid-19 outbreak and unprecedented nationwide lockdown followed by the exodus of the migrants, India saw a dwindling of positive cases. In January 2021 India felt that it is on its...