India's epidemic, still raging.The latest figures put the number of confirmed infections at more than 20 million.
But common sense suggests that the real figure for India is much more than that, and may be multiplied by at least five, according to some experts.
So much so that the recent G7 foreign ministers' meeting in London also invited India, but two members of the Indian delegation were diagnosed and the entire Indian delegation was withdrawn from the meeting, including the Indian foreign minister, and all members were in self-quarantine...
I always feel that Chinese people should sympathize. After all, we are all human beings. India's misfortune is also human misfortune.We can congratulate ourselves, we can congratulate ourselves that we got through this crisis.
For the world, and for many Chinese, at least three.
The first surprise is that it is India, not China, that has fallen into such a tragedy.
Frankly, what happened in India, a lot of people initially expected it to happen in China.Wuhan was a terrible city at first, but it was never expected that China would turn the corner and a year later India would turn into a living hell.
The second did not expect that this year's epidemic in India would be so severe.
I should say that I had a hunch about the outbreak in India. After all, the basic national conditions were there. But I was never prepared for the severity of the epidemic, especially since it has been a year since the outbreak of the global epidemic.
The third is that the epidemic has exposed so many problems and hidden dangers in India.
The problem of hygiene practices, material reserves, vaccine supply, government decision-making, system correction......Too many places to let people sigh, usually very bright, but the tide hit, everything into the original shape.In the past two years, last year the US was infected with chicken feathers, and this year India is living in hell. What is the matter?
That's a warning, at least at seven.
One caveat: the risk of the virus mutating should not be underestimated.
This one doesn't need to be said, but the virus is also evolving at an accelerated pace, in the UK, in South Africa, in India, all sorts of mutations, increasing its spread in India.
The current virus is an evolving virus, and we have to be vigilant.
Warning 2, the public should not be careless about epidemic prevention.
I read a very tearful news about an Indian mother dying without oxygen and her daughter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation regardless of her safety.Great love for thumb up but much more laments for the suffering of Indians.
Think about our anti-epidemic in Wuhan, all the medical staff, are full body protective clothing, which is the only way to have the blood mask photos;But in India, many people don't even own protective clothing, or even face masks, and many who wear them don't wear them correctly.
Who is to blame?
There is an old saying in English: the devil is in the details.
Really, the devil, sometimes it's in those details.
The third caveat is that medical stockpiling should not be all talk and no action.
Agree (1) Disagree (0) Recommend (0) India is finding out that there is not enough of anything, not enough masks, not enough protective clothing, not enough beds, not enough cremation places, not enough wood for cremation...
Crucially, there is not enough oxygen to save lives.
So much so that an angry justice in New Delhi called on Modi to urgently find a solution to the shortage of health resources: "You beg!To borrow!To steal!To import!"
The epidemic was terrible, but the worst was the medical run.According to the practice of many countries, as long as there are enough beds, enough medical supplies and enough ventilators, many people can be saved even if they get sick.
But India is short of everything.
More than a year after the outbreak of the global epidemic, we have not been able to prepare for a rainy day, and we have not had enough material reserves. In the end, we are bound to stumble!
Warning number four: the army must not move too slowly.
Remember a year ago, the Chinese New Year's eve, Wuhan emergency, so that countless Chinese people moved the scene, is our People's Liberation Army soldiers, put down the dinner, quickly gathered, to Wuhan.
Without the support from all parts of the country and the dedication of the PLA, the Battle of Wuhan could not have been won so quickly.
In the face of major disasters, the military is the most quickly mobilizing force and the most able to turn the tide.Therefore, in China, whether it is fighting disasters, fires or epidemics, the people's army is often the first to rush to the front after a major disaster.
But India fighting the epidemic, where are the troops?
5. Vaccination must be speeded up and speeded up.
What is the most powerful weapon against the epidemic?
Vaccines, of course.
India actually has a very good base. It is considered to be the world's largest producer of vaccines.Before the outbreak, it also sent a lot of vaccines to neighboring countries, so much so that the BBC even mentioned India's vaccine diplomacy, so much so that the Indian media praised Prime Minister Modi as a "vaccine master"...
But the vaccination rate is too low to help, to build a real line of defense.
A good hand makes a bad hand.
In any country, it is a race against time, and vaccination has to be speeded up and speeded up.
Caution 6: the government should not be without a sense of danger.
Thunder means, is the heart of the bodhisattva.
To some extent, India did well last year.Modi suddenly ordered a nationwide lockdown, believing it was the only way to save India, which caused nationwide chaos but somewhat halted the rapid spread of the disease.
But the most afraid is that a long time, no sense of distress, the result is warm water boiled frog.
India thinks it has succeeded.In the BBC's words:
At the end of 2020, central bank officials announced that India had turned the epidemic curve.Things seem to be going well...The euphoria that the virus has been defeated has escalated since the end of last year.Politicians, policymakers and parts of the media believe that India really is out of the woods.
As a result, Indians danced, horses ran, people crowded at Kumbh Mela, local elections were held as usual, and many people stopped wearing face masks, as if the epidemic had really disappeared in India.
Which know, next is a disaster, all the so-called success in vain...Modi Modi.
One of the most tragic lapses of the year.
Warning number seven: institutions cannot be incapable of defusing crises.
Could India have avoided this crisis if the government had not been negligent, if health awareness had been high, and if vaccines had been plentiful?
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in the real world.
The epidemic may not be as devastating, but it should be unavoidable.
Because it requires bold decisions, and it requires strong execution.From the discovery of the patient, to the immediate traceability, and then the immediate isolation, including the supply of various materials during the city blockade, such as the rapid construction of the Vulcan Mountain Thor Mountain Hospital and the Fangfang Hospital, this requires a strong grassroots organization and executive force, as well as the dispatch and support of the whole country's chess game.
No country can claim to be better at this than China.
So much so that Dr. Fauci of the United States suggested that India should learn from China's experience.Here's what he actually said:
I think you need -- you may remember, what the Chinese do when there's a crisis, in fact, they build these emergency rooms in a matter of days to weeks, as hospitals to take care of people.It was an achievement that took everyone by surprise.
Finally, exclaim.
I came across a New York Times article from a year ago, and I tweeted this:
Viruses can be found in everyone. Why do some people get sick while others are safe and sound?This is because different people have different antiviral immunity.The seeds of crisis can be found in every country. Why do some countries manage to resolve the crisis without a scare, while some countries cause major public events and even social and political crises?This is because different countries and different institutions have different capacities to defuse and respond to crises.
But the article was posted on Feb. 11, 2020, at the most urgent time in Wuhan.The New York Times' argument at the time pointed to what everyone knows.But when I read it a year later, it's a completely different story.
I took a screenshot and posted it on social media. Just a moment ago, more than ten thousand posts were forwarded and a single post was read nearly ten million times. Many friends commented that the New York Times' comment was quite objective, "a boomerang hit the forehead".Some media also followed up.
It's been a tough year for the Chinese!