Bloomberg blames India for extending
The way is the whole world is concerned about bumping into omicron but not the western media instead of looking ahead they're digging up the past not because it's interesting but because it suits their agenda this less of an article and more of a smear piece just look at the headline this is what it says how errors and inaction sent a deadly covet variant around the world you read that headline you know what's coming below it's basically a hit job on India's pandemic response remember we're talking about a traumatic period some of us lost loved ones some of us lost our jobs doesn't seem to care about any of that they're angry and frustrated why because thanks to the article says rhetoric aside what is their argument how exactly did india send a deadly variant around the world as bloomberg puts it through inaction apparently bloomberg says the indian government was slow and ineffective they delayed genome sequencing they ignored scientistsand they let what the article says delta was not the only variant or was it we had alpha beta gamma and now omicron were these variants flagged immediately well we have some data let's find out the alpha variant emerged in September 2020. it reported December 2020 the beta variant emerged in 2020 when was it reported December 2020 almost six months later gamma was slightly better emerged in November in Brazil reported in January 2021 it was not Drazil that reported it gamma variant was flagged by Japan's national institute of infectious diseases where does India figure on this list the Delta variant emerged in October 2020 back then it was called the b1617 and when did India flag this the first genome sequence was submitted to the international community in the month of February this year by the month of march Indian states were locking down again remember all of this was happening after vaccination began every other variant came before the vaccine alpha beta gamma all of them the focus was on tracing and treatment delta came after the vaccine so been done quicker could India have done more genome sequencing in hindsight sure it could have but as we just showed you every country took around two to three months in flagging variants so did India there were only two key differences one India's massive population more people equals more infections and more infections equals more mutations that's difference number one difference number two is the nature of variant is a matter of concer delta turned out to be much more transmissible and deadly plus we just started vaccinations so what exactly is blaming India for having a large population or for reporting a deadly variant telling the world about it let's keep the logistics aside for a moment let's focus on the literature the language of this article it's vindictive and snobbish 'm going to read out some parts of it and m quoting the actions India did and did not take as delta emerged ultimately saddled its people and the world with a ruthlessly violent incarnation of the coronavirus there's more it gets more interesting delta appended even the most successful pandemic strategies snaking into countries like china with stringent zero covet curbs in place and effectively closed borders china had a successful pandemic strategy sure it did if hiding a virus in fudging numbers counts guess china was successful this article basically blames India for extending the pandemic your lockdowns are India's fault omicron is India's fault as said vindictive and snobbish India has exported millions of vaccines all over the world despite having 1.3 billion people at home India continued to export medical supplies and what did it get in return the west hoarded vaccine ingredients right when India needed them m not saying India's pandemic response was perfect the numbers will give you the right picture but to blame India for extending the pandemic is not right every country tried so did India and if is adamant on finding someone to blame how about looking at china something tells me their editors will not like this pitch is now available in your country download the app now and get all the news on the move English (auto-generated) Queue
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