OP-ED: Lockdown and our society

Why it is so hard to shut everything down for 14 days and beat the pandemic
“Why cannot we just halt the world for 14 days and beat the coronavirus?” 

In many of our minds, this question pops up whenever we see governments across the world struggling to manage the Covid-19 pandemic. Even in Bangladesh, in separate phases, the government has tried to impose “lockdown.” Many adjectives like hard or complete were added as a prefix. But the measures did not add up. Many disharmonies among different segments of the administration became noticeable as well.