As witnessed during the past two years, government inaction and apathy shall ensure that Goa will soon be swamped by Covid 3.0. While the state is ushering in Christmas and New Year festivities, the positivity rate has ominously doubled to 3.5 per cent from 1.8 per cent earlier, but the CM in his infantile wisdom has thought it fit not to impose any kind of night curfew or even nominal curbs to check the spread of the virus. Instead, the Centre and the state government have exhorted us to remain ‘satark’ and ‘savdhan’ (alert and careful). The elephant in the room, the super infective, vax resistant omicron variant is being royally ignored much to our peril. With the state machinery, resources and manpower deployed towards winning the impending elections, expecting the sarkar to take care of the citizenry would be a bit too farfetched. So let us look after ourselves, stay masked and take all possible precautions.
