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    View: Till vaccination becomes universal, crack down on Covid sociopaths

    The Sars-CoV-2 virus is notoriously national allegiance-agnostic. So, aatmaraksha over showboating aatmanirbharta any day.

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    But with the vast majority of people yet to get vaccinated — and those flouting rules are largely under-45 for whom shots are not available yet (for which we need more supply) — not only are they liable to ‘catch Covid’ and fall sick or worse, but they are also the virus’ best agglomeration-based hailing app for spreading.

    For a country — indeed, a culture — that has little qualms in spotting and then ‘taking care’ of perceived miscreants jeopardising the perceived safety of communities, strangely, there has been little reaction, never mind uproar, to the overwhelmingly large number of people openly flouting Covid protocols and behaviour. Even if an ounce of the ‘spirited’ vigilance shown in tackling a ‘love jihadi’ or a ‘beef transporter’ — or the various other
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