Weekends spend with people glued to the news channels after swine flu started claiming it first victims in India. Panic of the ‘aam admi’ who was denied adequate early testing facilities by the government designated hospitals and clinics. Frustration, chaos and fear for the little ones being adeptly captured and played on primetime news (only to be followed by the latest updates of ‘Rakhi ki Swayamvar’). Political statements leaving the entire govt red faced (atleast this time the BJP did not come out with statements like it was the Congress party which brought swine flu to India and the Commies of Kerala and West Bengal didn’t attribute it to a grand conspiracy theory by the American CIA. Oooo I miss those statements).

All in all yet again India’s reaction to a calamity is still…. predictable. Yet again we were -

1. Unprepared to handle the situation.
2. The reactionary steps taken to ‘control’ the situation are in the wrong direction.
3. Rest assured like the terrorist attacks in India, if swine flu were to resurface 5 yrs later, India would be found in the same situation.
4. Toilet journalism thriving on heart rending footage played in loop.

What if the hotspots of swine flu, in other words the source of this flu was India…. How would countries like the US, UK and Malaysia have dealt with the same situation… That I leave my readers to comment on…..

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