Bengaluru Police issue 2 lakh essential services passes
Bengaluru: The city police have issued over 2 lakh passes to people to carry out essential services amid Covid-19 lockdown, according to an official, here on Saturday.
“We have crossed 2 lakh KSP Clear online passes, issued for seamless service of essentials in Bengaluru,” tweeted Additional Commissioner of Police Hemant Nimbalkar.
The police have issued the highest 41,726 passes to medical establishments, followed by other essential services at 31,623. E-tailers have received 23,270 passes, good manufacturers 14,230 and ration/groceries 15,661.
Other essential services providers who have received passes, include banking and insurance, people engaged in critical IT and biotechnology services, internet service providers and volunteers.
Media professionals accounted for 895 passes.
The police also issue 12-hour passes to enable travel for emergencies. Nearly 56 lakh applications have been rejected.
In case you didn’t realise this is how police state comes…inch by inch, little by little. The public is acting like frog in the boiling water. The emperor knows if water is too hot, frog will jump out.
More people die of unnatural deaths than the corona virus casualties till date. If anyone is interested look at Sweden. Apart from banning mass gathering (over 50 people) and isolating the elderly, they did not lockdown the country and yet their covid casualties are no worse than other countries. So that makes you think if there is some other motive behind all this drama.
Don’t get me wrong, the virus is real, but it’s no different than the flu virus with the only difference being no vaccine exists so far. But it’s not something like a bubonic plague. So total shutting down of the country is gross over-reaction. We all will laugh at this in a few years time, just like how people ridicule the Y2K bug which turned out to be a damp squib.