servodude wrote:Itsallaguess wrote:
isn't there a general social and economic 'pattern' to these multi-wave impacts that means India was always going to experience the type of larger 'secondary-wave' that almost every other major country has also experienced, as seen from the above link?
Given the above, instead of us asking 'Why is this happening in India?', I'd almost be more interested in someone trying to convince me why it shouldn't be, given the above 'multi-wave' global comparisons....
Agreed! Though I'd say "very likely" rather than "always"
The general pattern could be described as "complacency when there aren't sufficient guards/policies in place" ? - that would match with just about everywhere on the list
If the whole world printed t-shirts in February of last year, which simply said -
'Individual countries will only take this seriously when we each start to run out of hospital beds and oxygen'
then we wouldn't have gone too far wrong....
There's an interesting thread elsewhere asking 'What can we do better next time?', and I suspect the single largest benefit would be in not having to cross that line next time, and collectively taking it much more seriously without having to start denying people access to hospital beds or those crucial oxygen supplies....
By definition, it's too late by then....
Cheers,
Itsallaguess