Mumbai is overwhelmed with the number of COVID-19 cases, and there is a very real struggle to provide facilities at different quarantine centres. Social media is awash with messages targeting the central government, the state government and the BMC’s ineptness and apparently myopic reading of the pandemic situation.

While some criticism may be justified, some of it may not. It is time the people themselves, the patients who are getting care in the quarantine centre, those for whom doctors, and nurses are slaving and putting themselves in danger, hold a mirror to themselves.