When you see the news reporting these stories, my initial thoughts are ‘here we go again’. You can see another restriction/lockdown coming and it’s as if this new indian variant is the latest way to justify it. There are other countries in the world such as the US and even UAE that have considerable amount of Indians in their overall population, yet they don’t have any cases being reported, but we do. As i’ve said before I find this bizzare. Is this the future? Where we keep opening and closing the economy till all business and livelihoods are brought to their knees?
The situation in India isn’t great and I think the western nations should be doing a lot more to help not just for economic reasons but more humanitarian. One of the reasons for not putting parts of India in lockdown is that the poorer workers would be negatively impacted. This is where I think, other nations can provide financial support. I know we’re in a mess but if nations just chipped in a little, it could help. It’s worth nations looking into this. Also the issue with vaccine licences and the ramblings going in is disgraceful.