That's why it is important for countries to produce raw materials and ingredients by themselves for any vaccines that they choose to mass produce.
That is a joke I am afraid. India being socialist is the same as Europe being social democracy ruled by "socialists". It worth to note that the European social democrats have their lineage from the now defunct second international which was a socialist movement. India's "socialism" has nothing to do with the socialism practiced by Vietnam.But India is socialist. Similar to Vietnam in overall development. India can also "socially mobilize". How do they conduct elections if otherwise.
One reason that the situation in India got much media coverage is perhaps to deflect the failure of the west at home which is their speciality.You say as India is dying now, but like two weeks ago there were like 500 deaths per day in Poland, so adjusting for the population it was like about 20000 in India a day.
And life was normal, no one gives a shit about this virus anymore, and Poles want to fully open the country.
I am not trying to defend Canada, but isn't the Indian government more absurd to hang on COVAX (吊死在一棵树上) than purchasing vaccines directly from China? Therefor, Indian government should take much more blame than anyone else. Actually, if China is in Canada's shoes I would expect China to do the same.The Canadian policy is absurd. It would rather steal vaccines from Indians who desperately need it than to purchase vaccines from China.
You say as India is dying now, but like two weeks ago there were like 500 deaths per day in Poland, so adjusting for the population it was like about 20000 in India a day.
And life was normal, no one gives a shit about this virus anymore, and Poles want to fully open the country.
There is one other factor that people are loathe to discuss (with one ). Yes, the U.S. has botched its response to Covid-19. At the same time, its experience shows that America as a nation can in fact tolerate casualties, too many in fact. It had long been standard Chinese doctrine that Americans are “soft” and unwilling to take on much risk. If you were a Chinese war game planner, might you now reconsider that assumption?
Not affecting your conclusion, but I don't think India is able to emulate Vietnam. Although Vietnam is less developed, but it is a communist state that the government has tremendous capability of social mobilization similar to China.
I agree, to a large extent. In the US, when there were a few hundreds deaths and a few thousands cases on a daily basis a year ago, it caused real panic and fear. At the end of last year and early this year, people took in strides when there were thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands cases a day. The Covid fatigue set in and people got numbed.
In India, corpses were burned in the open and floated in the Ganges all the time. People slept and died on streets everyday. What's new? Well, what's new is the global media have focused their attention on the plight of Indians under pandemic. It won't be over in India for quite some time to come and soon people will get used to it. If a rich country like the US could get used to it, why not a poor country like India?
It's really cruel to say so, but this pandemic has exposed a lot of things, ground reality, national character and such.
In November last year, when COVID19 was still raging wild in the US, the renowned American economist and Bloomberg columnist Tyler Cowen boasted that "." In fact: