Goa, July 19 -- Alexandre Moniz Barbosa is Editor, Herald. He tweets at @monizbarbosa

Goa is in the midst of one of those periods in history that in the future will be dissected for what the government of the day did right and what it did wrong. It is facing one of its toughest times, as it struggles to find that balance between safeguarding the people's health affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy that is being further battered by the same pandemic. Whichever way it turns there are going to be repercussions. Maintaining the balance between health and economy is going to be a tightrope walk for the government that will require skill of a completely different level and a slight distraction could lead to either one of them plun...