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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
India extends coronavirus lockdown for two weeks
2020-05-02
[NPR] The world's biggest coronavirus lockdown has been extended by another two weeks.

For the past five weeks in India, more than 1.3 billion people have been required to shelter indoors, with few exceptions. The lockdown was due to expire Sunday night.

There was speculation Prime Minister Narendra Modi might speak to the nation this weekend, to explain what happens next. But on Friday, the government issued a notice saying the nationwide lockdown would continue for an additional two weeks, through May 18. It had already been extended once before, on April 14.

While testing has not been widespread, the country has recorded more than 25,000 active cases and more than 1,100 deaths.

During the extended lockdown, all domestic and international air travel, passenger trains and interstate buses will remain suspended. Schools, hotels, gyms, theaters and places of worship will stay closed. Grocery stores and pharmacies are allowed to stay open. Face coverings are required in all public places, and gatherings of more than five people are banned.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7   In all this, the rounding up of the jihadi and the marxist has become a bit easier.

Good. Carry on, dear boy, while your German counterparts go after the 1050 or 1500 resident Hizbullies they just declared outlaw. No cloud without its silver lining, ‘tis said.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-05-02 20:06  

#6  Nothing to do with Gates. Gates has to fill out 11 forms in triplicate just to donate more than $1000 here.

India can just afford it. The middle class saves more money than it spends. The government is apparently more socialist than most socialist utopias. People are being practically paid to stay indoors. The very rich are pitching in, billionaire philanthropists and corporations are distributing ventilators, PPEs and food; some seeking to get tax cuts and political favours later. Doctors and nurses aplenty in India, and meds are of course cheap.

Also, Indians are the most fearful of disease and dying, so there's a self actuating exercise in discipline and circumspection underway. Couldn't hurt. Personally, I've never seen such serenity in cities. There's a ghost town outside.

In all this, the rounding up of the jihadi and the marxist has become a bit easier. Since the black robes cannot be bothered to come out of their mansions to save them, and the domestic agencies have a freer hand under the scope of 'enforcing protocol'.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-05-02 13:09  

#5  But, why would anybody lockdown without being coerced by Bill Gates? Well, maybe he's not the real mastermind.

Because Monkey Boy Modi is a tyrant and would be dictator
Posted by: Hupusomble Sproing7479   2020-05-02 09:31  

#4  /\ Bill & Melinda are simply willing enablers, oftentimes referred to as 'useful idiots.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-02 08:12  

#3  ^But, why would anybody lockdown without being coerced by Bill Gates? Well, maybe he's not the real mastermind.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-02 08:10  

#2  Thankfully, the Indians gave Gates the boot a few years ago.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-02 08:08  

#1  Bill Gates' tentacles reach far?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-02 07:12  

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