India And Covid - Foreign Aid

[Apc2604]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56881083

https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/budget-2020-spending-on-space-goes-up-by-8/article30715438.ece

I find this totally abhorrent. I am not suggesting we don't help, but surely this is complete madness.

[Apc2604]

Give up Emmie, he just can't understand.

[emmie]

nope Apc, one must at least give it a go...

[Apc2604]

Good luck Emmie ;o)

[Espresso125]

Peter Pedant
it was an ironic remark. that so many billionaires could do a lot for their own people if the government taxed them heavily, seems there so eager to still receive our money

[jourdain2]

Naomi at 15.30 expressed how I feel about foreign aid.

[gulliver1]

11.50 Have decided which Gender you are yet?

[Apc2604]

Whatever gender I am has nothing to do with you Gully, or anyone else. Give me one good reason I should put my gender on AB. And why would you be interested. You cannot as hard as like, you will never wind me up. All you do is make yourself look even more like an idiot.

[Apc2604]

You can try as hard as you like!

[naomi24]

Apc, I expect gulliver's interested because he had a sex change. He started off female ... and then changed his mind.

[teacake44]

It was pretty obvious from the start of this pandemic that India would suffer a very large death rate, due to pretty obvious reasons, it was somewhat delayed, the lull before the storm. I would say its near on impossible to treat such a large population and no doubt there's many more to die, but you can't stand by and watch people suffocate, so whatever can be done requires all hands on deck to salvage whatever can be salvaged from this disaster.

[youngmafbog]

It is not suffering a very large death rate though. It is suffering a large number of deaths simply because it has 1.4Bn people. 23 times the population of the UK.

As far as death rate is concerned they are still doing much better than we did. See my above figures all available on 'Google'.

[teacake44]

^^ Your only seeing the beginning of the disaster, the virus has now got a good hold, and those numbers can only go one way, UP.

[Khandro]

In early March this year, health minister Harsh Vardhan claimed India was in the “endgame” of the pandemic. Cricket matches, and massive religious festivals, all largely maskless, were held.

“These were all possible super-spreader events,” said Dr Jameel, of Ashoka University.
“We celebrated too early,” says Dr Jameel. “Modellers were predicting a second wave. Historically, if you look at respiratory pandemics, they come back. But nobody really expected it to be this big. We were really caught by surprise and it has completely overwhelmed the system.”

India is not alone in this: British doctors said at the weekend that most people don’t realise how close this country came to a similar collapse when our more transmissible variant, B1117, hit before Christmas.

Dr Julian Tang, respiratory sciences honorary associate professor at the University of Leicester, said the rate of the rise in the numbers of Covid-19 cases is not that different to what happened here.

D.T.

[Apc2604]

As I said before. Their published death rate is not believable. There will have been thousands of death they don't even know about.

[emmie]

you only have to watch the news coming from the capital, to see the suffering, dying people. They will undoubtedly end up with a death toll in the hundreds of thousands if not more, living as i said on top of one another, being in close proximity at the cleansing ceremonies on the Ganges, at the cricket where there were thousands unmasked, the second wave has hit them hard.
we can send them aid to help them, and so can other countries who are sending oxygen, masks, PPE, but its a drop in the ocean.

[teacake44]

It won't be just covid killing people in India, there's millions that live on the edge, a days work = a days food, when the bread winner dies, the family that's left starve.