The Swine Flu.
Dozens of people have died from it already.
This has struck like lightening! I’m serious: around 1,500 people die every
year from lightening strikes! The swine
flu could eclipse lightening strikes as one of the most unusual ways to
die.
Such a terrible outbreak clearly needs to
be brought under control with some well thought out policies and
procedures.
This is precisely what the Mumbai government
decided to do: stop the swine flu in its tracks, prevent it from becoming an
epidemic, and save the masses from the devastation that could eclipse the
number of people in the city that die from motor bike accidents in a single
day.
With only 200,000 people having caught the
flu and about a dozen dead, the Mumbai government is taking drastic action:
Schools and universities will be closed for an
entire week.
This should give the flu time to run its
course and prevent further contagion.
But the Mumbai government is taking even more drastic action:
Shopping centres and multiplexes will be closed
for three days
Clearly the Mumbai government is pulling
out all the stops and leaning heavily on fact-based scientific research on how
to stop the flu in its tracks. And they
have thought of everything -- there’s no escaping to the cinema to spread your
evil germs:
Cinemas and theatres will also be closed for
three days
And taking it one step further:
Commercial businesses will be closed for three
days.
The next three days are official holidays,
which is a happy coincidence -- not that that would have had an impact on the
wise decision of the authorities.
Seriously, I wish I could make this sort of
stuff up. These guys are running around
completely directionless and trying to compromise between doing something
stupid and doing something useless. They
seem to have met half way on this one.
It’s simply a case of too many Indians and
not enough Chiefs.
