I've got a lot of family in India, and I'm pretty worried for them. India is a crowded place (incomprehensibly, by Western standards) where a small fraction of the people have the privilege to work remotely. Hospitals have run out of space--sad that India produces so many doctors, yet the state of public health infrastructure is severely lacking. More than two thousand deaths in the last day, and only 10% of the country is vaccinated. It's infuriating to think of Western pharma companies profiting off of selling vaccines to the 3rd world--you all know this, but India or Brazil could likely incubate the next vaccine-resistant strain if thing continue like this.

India was never really socialist, though up until the 90s it had a mixed economy. Hard to see the full on privatization of everything as anything but a disaster now: India got Adolf Hindutva (they don't even need to fix the swastikas!) and what might end up being the world's highest Covid-19 death toll over the next few years. Capitalism and imperialism kill.

To any Indian comrades, stay safe out there!

P.S. The only possible silver lining I can see is that Covid-19 brings down Bolsonaro or Modi. Hard to see it happening--Trump nearly got re-elected, and Good Things Don't Happen these days.