India’s second wave

Post by davidw » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 11:53 PM UTC

outside1234 wrote: post #346

johnohara wrote: post #318

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Agree. It's disappointing that embargoes on exporting vaccine materials to a country, who under normal circumstances produces so much vaccine for the world, are a matter of emergency use policy.

There are 1.3B people in India. There is no way a vaccine is going to arrive in time or be injectable at a scale that matters. If that was a solution, I'd be all for it, but it is not.

Post by outside1234 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 11:54 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #351

outside1234 wrote: post #346

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There are 1.3B people in India. There is no way a vaccine is going to arrive in time or be injectable at a scale that matters. If that was a solution, I'd be all for it, but it is not.

Making sure that at least the health care people are taken care of would be a good start.

Post by vram22 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 11:58 PM UTC

vram22 wrote: post #338

zhdc1 wrote: post #307

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Also keep in mind that most East/South East Asian countries had been preparing for a COVID-like event since SARS in 2003. Sixteen years of preparation, and everything that goes into it, paid off.

The prep of setting up a pandemic task force that the previous US admin did was axed by Bumf.

Post by baybal2 » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 12:04 AM UTC

yalogin wrote: post #52

This is what I feared the first time would be, but somehow the virus spared India. The first time around majority of the population was careful, masked up and stayed indoors. The death was super low. That caused people to get over confident, people believed that covid is not harmful in the country and they fully ignored it. Now there is an Indian variant of the virus which apparently and the infection rates and death…

Post by esperent » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 12:05 AM UTC

simplerman wrote: post #191

esperent wrote: post #36

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I live in a less developed part of the world - Vietnam - and the government and people have been incredibly successful in controlling the virus here. Aside from two short lockdowns of a couple of weeks, my life has barely been affected (except for the lack of tourists and the fact I can't travel outside the country). Local tourism and business seems to be booming. Meanwhile I hear all the stories from back home in Eu…

> The only frustrating thing is how clearly it's been highlighted that the rich and powerful countries get all the vaccines and we'll only get them here once everyone in the west has been vaccinated three times over. Shouldn't countries that developed vaccines should take care of their citizens first?