Too Many Indians

The Swine Flu. 

    Dozens of people have died from it already.

    This has struck like lightening!  I’m serious: around 1,500 people die every year from lightening strikes!  The swine flu could eclipse lightening strikes as one of the most unusual ways to die. 

    Such a terrible outbreak clearly needs to be brought under control with some well thought out policies and procedures. 

    This is precisely what the Mumbai government decided to do: stop the swine flu in its tracks, prevent it from becoming an epidemic, and save the masses from the devastation that could eclipse the number of people in the city that die from motor bike accidents in a single day.

    With only 200,000 people having caught the flu and about a dozen dead, the Mumbai government is taking drastic action:

Schools and universities will be closed for an entire week.

    This should give the flu time to run its course and prevent further contagion.  But the Mumbai government is taking even more drastic action:

Shopping centres and multiplexes will be closed for three days

    Clearly the Mumbai government is pulling out all the stops and leaning heavily on fact-based scientific research on how to stop the flu in its tracks.  And they have thought of everything — there’s no escaping to the cinema to spread your evil germs:

Cinemas and theatres will also be closed for three days

    And taking it one step further:

Commercial businesses will be closed for three days.

    The next three days are official holidays, which is a happy coincidence — not that that would have had an impact on the wise decision of the authorities.

    Seriously, I wish I could make this sort of stuff up.  These guys are running around completely directionless and trying to compromise between doing something stupid and doing something useless.  They seem to have met half way on this one.

    It’s simply a case of too many Indians and not enough Chiefs.