Just keeping an eye on what’s happening in India, just awful stuff.
The Australian government is sending over supplies but they’ve also halted all flights from India. About 8000 citizens still in India.
One of our school families went over for a visit and ended up being stuck for a year. They got back i think Feb or march this year? But they still have family over there. It must be horrendous watching what’s going on and worrying about loved ones.
It’s horrific. Other countries need to be doing more to help them.
It’s horrific. I have family friends who live in Thailand and they’ve all gone back to their villages, and they have stopped flights from India aswell. The whole things just 🙁
The have no hope of getting it under control.
RichardParker I wonder if you could isolate off any small cities/rural areas that have less cases and vaccinate absolutely everyone there, try for small pockets of increased herd immunity?
They ‘thought’ they had it under control, plus the vax had started. But some Holy festival saw them come out and gather in vast numbers. True human disaster.
I’m actually going to be seriously annoyed if the Uber rich cricket players moan about getting stuck there. Suck it the fuck up. Chasing massive multimillion dollar contracts in spite of the pandemic 🖕🏻
Is that why they were there? I don’t follow a cricket so assumed it was some kind of international test.
Gum-boots they were there to play in India’s national competition, so for local teams there.
Gum-boots they play for the IPL in their off season when they’re off contract. One player is there being $3MILLION dollars. India loves cricket, the Aussies go over and earn massive sums as players, coaches and commentators. They were told by Cricket Australia that they wouldn’t bail them out, so it was a calculated risk. Now they’re expecting to jump the queue and come home when the border slammed shut. Pffft to that. They also live in bubbles, so their personal risk is somewhat reduced.
Ah I see. Yep they’re on their own as far as I’m concerned.
Just heard Ponting speaking on the ABC news, perfectly happy to keep playing for the IBL. I’m guessing they’re bubbled up and they’ll probably be fine. Do they have spectators at the games? That would be a massive problem.
Chookas They are bubbled up and no crowds attend. The IPL want to keep playing as they see this as a good distraction for the country.
Bubbling would have its limits… not unlike hotel quarantine
True, still requires moving around and other people moving around for you.
I had meetings with two India based staff yesterday… one of them, their husband and child had covid (mild so far thankfully), the other their uncle had just died.
In areas where they have back yards, they are being asked to bury relatives themselves with instructions.
It is a catastrophe in India.
The failure of wealthy countries to plan and prepare for this expected pandemic is a monumental failure, they were so overwhelmed that then are helpless to provide for countries in need (irrespective of how at fault those Govs. were themselves)
WidowWyncke
That’s a brilliant article. I feel like the authors point though is that there is nothing that other countries could have done to prevent what has occurred in India. The numbers provided that show how little of its GDP is spent on healthcare compared to most other countries and the background about the increasing privatisation of health services was particularly striking.
Yeah but it’s just like the flu.
Thank you for sharing. It’s such a good article and so very awful.
