Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

LawLeadsToPeace

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Better late than never.

Note the UK is seeing overall COVID cases decline.
But the Indian variants are now seeing exponential growth, despite a *lockdown* and half the population having had a vaccination dose.

So I expect the US is seeing exponential growth of the Indian variants as well, but they aren't doing much genome sequencing to track this.
Aside from that, in the US, the so-called quarantine is enforced by the returnees themselves, and that definitely didn't work out last year. Based on last year's outcome in NY and the current relaxation of mask mandates and "lockdowns", I believe the Indian variant will spread like wildfire in the coming weeks.
 
I am thinking that at least the following should be done before "abandoning" by a responsible government.

Embassy sends out orders to all citizens in India to evacuate, with a deadline. Embassy provides pickup transportation if necessary. All will be send back to Australia. All evacuee will be quarantined on arrival.

That was what China did during the Libya crisis.

Only the ones who refused to obey the order should be banned to return.
Yes but they obviously dont want these people to return. Who knows if a fuck up happens and they infect people after they return from India.

Plus by saying evacuate now or we are closed, a lot of Australians will rush to return, thus increasing the chances of the virus spreading in Australia

Can you imagine the political cost if Australia is forced to shutdown because the virus came back from India because the Gov let them in?
The governing party could lose the next election because of their percieved incompetence.

TLDR: Gov will throw these few people under the bus in order to avoid mistakes and make sure they get elected safely.

Do not forget that a many of Australian stuck in India are actually Indian-Australian. Does Australia really want to go through the trouble?
 

hashtagpls

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The problem with offering Indians aid, vaccines, medical equipment etc as a gesture of mercy and humanity is that the gesture is wasted.
You are effectively casting your pearls to swine.
The Indians aren't going to appreciate it, and in fact as we have seen in twitter et al comments, that they are going to spit on the gesture as it hurts their pride and ego. They can accept their inferiority and need for help from the white man but from Chinese? Makes an Indian feel even more inferior.
Worse case, is that will shamelessly take the medical equipment and sell it on the black market for profit for themselves.

Finally, i believe the indians who shamelessly wanted to hurt and invade China ie the indian diaspora living comfortably in the west, need to be humbled and nothing would humble them more than to see india's stature revert back to the third world shithole from whence it came, to see their own standing in the west be reduced to that of refugee.
I call it Karma.

EDIT:
Look at this clusterfuck

Yet despite the evident failure in leadership, logistics and planning, the indian will blame China and persist in making war on China.
fuck em.
 

NiuBiDaRen

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India's weakening is apparent to all; now, all of india's neighbours look to China for trade and economic links.
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for instance have reached out to China for aid, vaccines and economic links.
Wait I thought India is the superpower of South Asia?
 

NiuBiDaRen

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Blaming China after the 4th wave doesn't make sense. You had over one year to get it under control like China has done, but your shit governance and leadership gave up prematurely.

All Chinese should insist and be proud of China controlling the pandemic to virtually no cases. If you can't find pride in that, you will have pride in nothing. You have to fight for respect, not cower to "oh they fake it" or "no credit given because they created it" deflections.
China isn't even wearing masks now - at least many people don't bother. What a world's difference
 

NiuBiDaRen

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Come on @voyager1 get with it. Modi is the one encourage it the first place. He's the "Indian Trump" Remember he original said it was all a hoax? Then he wants his rallys! See he campaigns during the pandemic and refuses to wear mask during his walkabout. He's not going to stop this madness due to a pure Indian genes can stop this pandemic.
Here's my wildcard prediction: Modi rides the crisis and becomes ruler for life. The actual dictator without effective term limits
 
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