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.
It looks really bad until you realize that it is still not yet at the US's peak death rate despite a population that is many times larger.
However it can probably get really really bad in a while, so hopefully it doesn't. Hopefully the warmer weather and the vaccinations of healthcare personnel and some old people will make sure it doesn't get as bad as it can get.
I mean India also just is not recording a lot of deaths as covid. Like crematoriums in many cities are saying they've cremeted more bodies than their recorded death toll, and officially the government is not including "suspected" cases as covid deaths. Real numbers based on excess deaths are lagging by a couple months.
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