Tiffs over this or that is the minimalist description for the disgusting Covid Nationalism seen over the past period
@Jack. For sovereignty read national capitalist interests.
Regarding India, Modi’s Hindu-first sectarian nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) apart from being responsible for the murder of thousands of Muslims, they are responsible for the unfolding catastrophic situation in India. He declared in March that India had defeated another wave and laudid as the 'Covid killer' in the supportive lacky press.
I too was shocked at the mass religious Hindu celebration with thousands bathing in the industrial and human waste polluted Ganges and countless millions gathering en masse elswhere. During this election period started this March, campaigning had begun in full swing, with no safety protocols and social distancing and refused to cancel these mass gatherings.
The vast areas of flaming funeral pyres witnessed recently was utterly medieval and I was shocked that Industrial O2 usually used for welding and the like is being used, as there is no Medical O2 available. Because there are no beds in badly equipped hospitals, people are using Industrial oxygen at home desperately trying to keep love ones alive.
In mid-March, the Cricket Board allowed more than 130,000 fans, mostly unmasked, to watch two international cricket games between India and England at the Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat.
It was only in March that India stopped exporting massive amounts of vaccine to the West.
I remember my very good amigo EGB holding up India as an example of Capitalism bringing so called Third World countries untold improvements against my batty ideas of International Socialist planning. Whilst there are 140 $Billionaires in a population of 1.2 Billions,two-thirds of people in India live in poverty: 68.8% of the Indian population lives on less than $2 a day. Over 30% even have less than $1.25 per day. The lack of basic amenities, healthcare, housing and infrastructure would shock us all.
Conditions like these exacerbate this horrendous situation.
Along with many other politicians worldwide, populist politicians in India, Brazil and another in the US, have untold unnecessary deaths on their bloody hands.
BIG G