
Vaidehi Tandel on Urban Economics in India
Ideas of India
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Lock Down - How Do You Think About It?
How do we calibrate government responses to respond to certain key indicators that they may track? This means that if the government is trying to track the reproductive rate, it just goes after that indicator. Soif if it's slightly above your threshold, then you can try more benign sort of interventions. But if it's extremely high, and if its a very, if it's likely to become a major hotspot, then that's when you decide to completely lock down and force a lock down.
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