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Morton’s Fork, Hobson’s choice, or neither of the two?
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India has faced an unenviable choice between a draconian lockdown of 1.35 billion Indians and the prospect of many deaths from the novel coronavirus.
Closing down the elephantine engines of the Indian economy and depriving millions of ultra poor workers their daily bread brings with it starvation, deprivation and loss of well-being.
But doing nothing would have resulted in a tragic number of mortalities, morbidity, and societal despair. In the gathering gloom of the pandemic, is there room for rational yet ethical policy choices?
Or are we faced with a Morton’s Fork—a choice similar to one given to English taxpayers in the 15th century in which both options are equally unpleasant?
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