In India we successfully evaded the 1st wave of COVID-19 with minimum casualties. This was due to macro scale lock downs resulting in minimum people movement and hence breaking the viral multiplication chain. 

Have you ever wonder the collateral damage the lock downs have done to the people and economy; thousands of crores (Billions of dollars) worth labour, time and opportunities were vanished in the 4 month period lock down. India was in a verge of robust development and a pandemic bought a country down to its knees. The biggest erosion of wealth took place in the unorganized sector(UOS). I who is an employer of the unorganized sector want to share my experience. Here are some stats on the UOS:-

1. 82% of the workforce is being employed by the unorganized sector.
2. 16+ crore people work for this sector.
3. Agriculture is biggest employer of the unorganized labour force employing around 94% contribution 40 lakh crores per year to the GDP of India.
4. The next sector that employees is the Hotel and restaurant business around 50%.
5. The contribution to GDP from the unorganized sector is around 49%.
6. 40% of the MSME hire from the unorganized sector.

The reason behind these stats is amount of people whose lives are dependent directly or indirectly on the unorganized sector.

There is a direct co-relation of Unorganized sector and Covid that's because the Main stream media is hyping the issue; it is forcing local and central governments to take blind decisions of lock downs harming this sector heavily.

The above statement seems heartless by telling that the Main stream media is hyping the situation, as thousands of people are dying due this pandemic. But let me explain the truth vs hype vis-a-vis deaths and death rate with actual evidence.

In 1960s India had a death rate of around 2%(death due to various reasons). In 2019 the death rate has decreased drastically to 0.719% which means every year 93 lakh people die for various reasons (assuming our population is 130 crore and 0.719% is 93 lakh). Lets break that number per day, that would result in around 25,000 people dying. 

SO IN INDIA 25,000 DEATHS PER DAY IS NOMINAL.

CONCLUSION:-

I am not denying the fact that corona virus is deadly as we have seen a lot of fatalities in the last few months. But look at the figures, they are very clear - Out of the tests done only 10 - 20% (info source: google) of them report positive and deaths are a minuscule 1% of the positive cases. Even if we quadruple the death rate it is still a small number compared to the overall death rates. The media hyping the issue is obsolete. They are pro-lock down, that's because they want people to sit at home and watch television that in turn increases their viewership (4 person viewing is better than 1).

Let us look at it 

The collateral damage the media hype is doing to the unorganized and semi organized sector is enormous. If a small portion of humanity is loosing life, there is a very large portion of humanity loosing livelihood.

Info source about unorganized sector stats:https://geographyandyou.com/the-unorganised-workforce-of-india/