It is impossible to think of COVID-19 without thinking of the Prime Minister too. For one, there is his image on the ‘final certificate’ issued by the Health Ministry after the second vaccination. Unlike the choice of vaccines, we don’t get a choice of politicians on our ominous-sounding ‘final certificate’. The premature triumphalism was frightening. The visuals on television, of desperate families, of undignified cremations, of shortages of beds, shortages of medicines, shortages of vaccines, shortages of qualified personnel, shortages of oxygen, of sharks making the most of other people’s misery sear through our souls.

Source: The Hindu April 24, 2021 16:41 UTC