04-24-2021, 01:21 AM
It’s bad, and getting worse fast:
...which worked, but caused economic hardship. So India, led by hardline religious conservative Modi, decided to follow much in the path of Modi’s buddy and fellow nationalist populist, Trump:
Masks? Distancing? Where have we seen this before?
The results are distressingly familiar:
...but in a country with limited medical resources, potentially even more disastrous. New cases now exceeding 300,000 per day, hospitals choked, and deaths soaring.
A tragedy...and after the US and Brazil, another indelible example of the result of meeting the forces of nature with the simplistic disdain of jingoistic anti-science populism.
India took swift action when the pandemic first took hold last year, imposing one of the most aggressive lockdowns in the world.
...which worked, but caused economic hardship. So India, led by hardline religious conservative Modi, decided to follow much in the path of Modi’s buddy and fellow nationalist populist, Trump:
“Previously there was this immediate, bold response [in] which the whole country was locked down...
Whereas in this case, the response has appeared to be complacent at best and catastrophic at worst."
Hardline Hindu nationalist politics also played a part...
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was boasting about the size of a crowd at a political rally in West Bengal for his party, the BJP.
Masks? Distancing? Where have we seen this before?
The results are distressingly familiar:
...but in a country with limited medical resources, potentially even more disastrous. New cases now exceeding 300,000 per day, hospitals choked, and deaths soaring.
A tragedy...and after the US and Brazil, another indelible example of the result of meeting the forces of nature with the simplistic disdain of jingoistic anti-science populism.
