Ahead of Flypast, Twitter Has Suggestions For Armed Forces

Armed forces will be showering petals on hospitals on 3 May.

It was recently announced that the armed forces will be paying a special tribute to “corona warriors” by conducting flypasts and showering petals on hospitals where COVID-19 patients are being treated. This exercise that is aimed at expressing gratitude to those fighting coronavirus will take place on 3 May.

Soon after this announcement was made, disappointed netizens took to social media to express their thoughts on the matter. And many of them even had suggestions for the armed forces.

Check out what they had to say:

Can the IAF planes airdrop testing kits & personal protective equipment across the country during the nationwide fly-past on Sunday?

At least that’d justify this otherwise utterly pointless exercise.

— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) May 1, 2020

Food packets to moving migrants would be better.

— Upright (@GATHOBIAS) May 1, 2020

Y waste fuel & flowers, instead donate money to frontline #CovidWarriors & needy....who gives such ideas 💡

— मुंबईकर (@s_ac_hi_n) May 1, 2020

Can't they airdrop Duo atleast ?
Rest the country will manage .

— dr suresh shah (@drsureshshah) May 1, 2020

Also carry stranded people? No?

— Soumya (@Soumya_Ray) May 1, 2020

What the @IAF could've done https://t.co/48sW9smQ8J

— MeanderingWonk (@MeanderingWonk) May 1, 2020

If you are flying planes then why not also take migrant workers, students and all other people who are stranded in different states, away from their homes and help them reunite with their families ???

— Avishikta Paul (@shikta) May 1, 2020

Can they drop food packets for ppl stranded just like they do during other natural calamities. I am sure they can, but would the ppl in power ask them to.

— Navneet (@Understand_me) May 1, 2020

Our armed forces was the last bastion I imagined that would fall prey to optics. Fly past and rose petals? Surely that money could be conserved to help the less privileged in these terrible times? And does any Indian need a fly past to love and admire the forces? We already do!

— SUHEL SETH (@Suhelseth) May 2, 2020

Why????
Feeding poor and packages to small industries are more important.
Sorry.... Forgot... This is TASK time in the house of Big Boss...

— Mohammed Dalvi - محمد دلوی (@dalvimohammed) May 1, 2020

I would have saluted the armed forces if they had announced community kitchens for the poor and hungry. Flower petals and lit ships? Is this a political exit strategy? #coronaviris

— Harinder Baweja (@shammybaweja) May 1, 2020

Helicopters will shower flower petals on hospitals on 3rd of May. Government has figured out exactly what Hospitals need during the Pandemic

— Joy (@Joydas) May 1, 2020

Govt couldn’t arrange a single airforce plane for the aged parents to attend last rites of Army Officer who died of cancer. They travelled 2000 Km by road. But Govt got Airforce to deploy Aircraft’s for Fly Past and helicopters to shower petals on Hospitals as a show.

— Joy (@Joydas) May 1, 2020