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COVID: LoC and my need of premise to blame

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Long back in my college, I studied about LoC - not "Line of Control" but "Locus of Control". Locus of Control, introduced by Julian B. Rotter in 1954, explained the degree to which individuals attribute success or failure to themselves (internal LoC) or to others (external LoC).  It is also found that people with internal LoC are happier than people with external LoC. And I see many unhappy people in social media during this COVID period blaming others. Even I would like to do so but somehow I am not getting right premises. People will say there are many premises readily available: Premise 1: Indian Govt was not at all prepared for 2nd wave! Below graph shows daily COVID cases for different countries (source: worldometer ). Nobody expected such serious scene with such magnitude in India considering wave patterns, summer season and antibodies among people. But the reality was different from projection.  Was Govt. solely responsible for such stiff increase in cases? W