Chaos due to COVID 19 epidemic

Since the government has decided to close down schools, from elementary to high, all over in the country, for a month, there is much confusion going on at various places and people. It will be starting in a couple of days.

For example, the parents should care for their young children while schools are off. Now both of the parents are always working and won't be able to take a long holidays to care for them. The staff at the schools are also embarrassed with this decision. It is the end of schools' year now. There are a lot of events planned there in this season. It might be quite tough for the teachers to deal with them at closed schools. It seems the Prime Minister would do something grandstanding against his reputation that he has not done anything meaningful for this epidemic by himself. Even though the Ministry of Education frowned on the PM's decision early in the morning yesterday, the official residence of the PM bulled it through and announced the decision without approval by the Ministry of Education or of the other offices related with this policy, or exactly, an impromptu idea.

There seem to be no much consideration on the effects and side effects of this policy by the PM or his office. The government has tried to hide the reality of epidemic without testing for the pathogen with RT PCR tests, which have been highly needed by the workers of medical facilities. The government has seemingly limited the number of the tests all over. It seemed to have intended to falsely show the number of the cases lower than real without letting RT PCR tests done as needed. Without knowledge of the size and localization of the epidemic, it must be difficult for anyone to evaluate how effective such a policy would be when the course of this epidemic will be investigated in the future.

The government says they will let the private laboratories to do the test and the capacity of the test will be increased much. It is not yet determined who would care for the suspicious cases and execute the test for them. The primary care facilities are not ready to do that. Economic and man power support will be necessary if they ask the primary care facilities to do that. If the primary care personnel is infected with this virus, they could not carry on their medical service. It means the medical service will be collapsed then.