The BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) has collected nearly Rs 50 crore in fines from citizens for not wearing masks in public places since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. “So far [end of 2nd April 2021] a total fine of Rs 49 crore 15 lakh 46 thousand 800 [Rs 49,15,46,800] has been collected from the citizens walking in public without mask in Mumbai Municipal Corporation area,” said a BMC statement.
The Digpu News Bottomline
During the first wave of COVID-19, Indians tried everything from homemade Kadha to the Patanjali scam COVID-19 med kit. We even tried the Thali Banging and chanting Go Corona Go. When none of this helped, we waited for things to calm down and when they did, we went berserk, along with our Government, both States’ as well as Central.
While citizens went berserk with partying and holidaying, the governments started madly populated election rallies as if the migrant worker crisis, death of hundreds of people on roads and over-loaded hospitals was in the pre-historic era of the country. All this came back to bite us as a nation in the form of the Second wave of COVID-19 and a Double Mutant strain of the virus. While we made the record of 1,00,000 cases a day, political parties including the ruling BJP, refuse to give up on rallying. Maharashtra collects nearly 50 crores in fines for not wearing masks and the photos from rallies in West Bengal are astonishing. It is almost as if COVID does not exist in the polling states.
America under Trump was getting buried under the pandemic but has seen a drastic change under Biden with the country looking to be in control of the virus for the first time.
Is India going the France way and getting ready for truckloads of dead bodies just because a few people cannot compromise on their power hunger?
Is power first and nation second the New Normal?
