Lockdown trade-offs in a young country call for wide public deliberation | The Indian Express

Lockdown trade-offs in a young country call for wide public deliberation | The Indian Express

Lockdown trade-offs in a young country call for wide public deliberation

APRIL 8, 2020 9:14:48 AM

One needs more systematic thinking about the hard choices India now faces — the trade-offs between the lockdown paralysing the economy and decimating the poor on the one hand, and on the other, lifting the lockdown thereby allowing the infection rate to soar, and taking a heavy toll on the old.