Italy is suffering for being woke. Shouldn't we learn?

Responding to a call for 'janata (public) curfew' by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India went into an almost complete shutdown yesterday. Since it was a Sunday, and everything was closed anyway, people stayed at home. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a lockdown of Delhi with borders closed to interstate traffic, except for essential services. All shops, offices, religious services and Delhi metro are to stop. Malls, cinemas, markets and restaurants were already shut down. Banks will run with skeleton staff and groceries, shops selling fruits and vegetables, pharmacies, petrol pumps and home deliveries to will continue to function. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was furious with Indian Railways for allowing workers, who had migrated to other cities looking for work, to return without screening at stations. Railways is canceling all passenger trains till 31 March in an attempt to localise infections. However,  when the news got out, thousands of panicked people in Mumbai rushed to station, completely overwhelming railway officials and security personnel, and packed into trains to get back to their homes in other states, completely oblivious to the danger of catching the virus from such close proximity over days. "Ram Sagar Mistri, 32, a native of Danapur in Bihar, said people like him depend on daily wages. 'Once we stop getting work, it is not possible for us to survive more than a week in Mumbai,' he said." "Due to the sudden surge, we plan to run 14 special trains on Friday and Saturday from Mumbai and Pune. Out of these 14, nine will be to UP, Bihar and West Bengal," said CR (Central Railway) chief PRO Shivaji Sutar. That is India's unique problem in a nutshell. The world's largest population of very poor people. "More than 90% of the country's workforce is estimated to be in the informal sector. The Economic Survey of 2017-18 had said that 87% of the firms in the country, representing 21% of total turnover, are purely informal, outside both the tax and social security nets." Other countries are enforcing home quarantine, telling those who have had contact with anyone testing positive for the coronavirus, to stay at home. But that would almost impossible in India. "The largest chunk of Indian houses have only one room which is followed by two room houses. Together, these two types of houses comprise 69% of total houses in the country or 170 million households." "Also, there are about 10 million households that do not have any exclusive room for living as the room in which they live is also used as a shop or office." About 400,000 people die every year of tuberculosis in India, 200,000 die of diarrhea and pneumonia, 150,000 die of traffic accidents and 10,000 are electrocuted to death, wrote TK Arun. If only 5% of patients infected with coronavirus need intensive care (ICU), why not allow it to spread? Because, the rich will take all ICU beds and only the poor will die. Arun recommends increasing healthcare facilities. That's as silly like hugging Chinese, as the Italians did. The only answer is to reduce population by 80%. Woke solutions will not suffice.