India is changing/has changed. We used to take a lot of insults earlier but no more. Here's an example!
Terence James O'Neill's (The man who coined the acronym 'BRICS' - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa economic group) bigoted claim, "thank god this didn't start in India", about the corona virus. Here's this detailed response to a very racist and biased comment.
1. Firstly, despite sharing a border of 3,488 km with China, India has only reported 88 cases and 1
death - compare that with over 600 cases and 8 deaths in the UK.
2. India is the only country in the world to evacuate its citizens 6 times (and counting) and
evacuated the most number of foreign nationals.
3. The IAF evacuated a total of 723 Indians, 37 foreign nationals from Wuhan. India evacuated 119
Indians and 5 foreign nationals from Japan. IAF also evacuated 58 Indian pilgrims from Iran on
10 Mar. Total : 900 Indians and 48 foreign nationals.
4. India is leading the fight against COVID-19 in the South Asian region, offering diplomatic,
humanitarian and medical assistance to its neighbours.
5. A total of 56 Virus Research Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDLs) have been set up in India to test
its citizens as well as foreign citizens in a record time, with a plan to build 56 more VRDLs in the
next month. This insane level of efficiency hasn't caught the eye of the media.
6. India, currently, has one of the world's most efficient and reliable testing systems, reducing the
time taken to get test results back from 12 - 14 hours to 4 hours. US health officials have admitted
that their system is failing and testing has been very sluggish.
7. As a result, from Iran, Afghanistan up to Timor Leste, countries in Asia have been requesting
India to help set up testing facilities in their countries.
8. India has sent 6 top scientists to set up a make-shift lab and testing facility in Iran to test 6,000
of its citizens because Iranian officials refused to test Indians due to their high load. India has sent
3 more airplanes this week to airlift its citizens.
9. India has provided 15 tons of medical assitance comprising masks, gloves and other emergency
medical equipment to China.
10.India has sent Maldives a 14 member medical team comprising pulmonologists, anaesthetists,
physicians and lab technicians and also a large composite of COVID-19 medical relief to assist
Maldivian health authorities.
11. India has screened 1,057,506 people from 30 airports and 77 seaports.
12. India has suspended all visas to India as well as visa-free travel facility for OCI cardholders. It
has closed its border with Myanmar. The Indian nationals coming from COVID-19 hit nations
after 15 Feb will be quarantined for 14 days. This is in contrast with the UK with far more cases
but no quick action whatsoever.
13. India has the world's biggest state-sponsored health assurance scheme, covering over 500 million
beneficiaries (approximately 8 times the size of the UK).
14. Indian drug prices are among the cheapest in the world. Medbelle ranks India as one of the five
countries with the lowest median prices for drugs around the world due to an elaborate price
control mechanism for drugs and the government's Jan Aushadi project to provide cheap
affordable medicines to the poor.
15. China had silenced the doctor who identified COVID-19 and he died 6 weeks later. China let this
brew. On the other hand, when Nipah virus was found in India in 2018, 3 doctors identified it
and the authorities immediately reported it to WHO. 2,000 quarantined and 17 died in total.
India would have never allowed it to become a pandemic.
The Indian civilization, being one of the most advanced in the world, has been way ahead of its time with gifting the world the Namaste - which is now propagated by every world leader. Ancient India idealised vegetarianism and expounded Ayurveda and as a result, did not come in contact with any serious threat from plagues/diseases in its millenniums of existence. India NEVER created any
pandemic in the history of its existence.
You are highly misinformed, Mr. Jim O'Neill!
Jai Hind!
Tailpiece.
Had got up at our usual time, gone through the chores and was ready in time. The new maid had reported her inability to come for work, today, because she'd to attend some court formality. So, it was Lekha, all the way. Drove to the Geeyem Motors to hand over the Chevy for repairs. Phew!
Terence James O'Neill's (The man who coined the acronym 'BRICS' - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa economic group) bigoted claim, "thank god this didn't start in India", about the corona virus. Here's this detailed response to a very racist and biased comment.
1. Firstly, despite sharing a border of 3,488 km with China, India has only reported 88 cases and 1
death - compare that with over 600 cases and 8 deaths in the UK.
2. India is the only country in the world to evacuate its citizens 6 times (and counting) and
evacuated the most number of foreign nationals.
3. The IAF evacuated a total of 723 Indians, 37 foreign nationals from Wuhan. India evacuated 119
Indians and 5 foreign nationals from Japan. IAF also evacuated 58 Indian pilgrims from Iran on
10 Mar. Total : 900 Indians and 48 foreign nationals.
4. India is leading the fight against COVID-19 in the South Asian region, offering diplomatic,
humanitarian and medical assistance to its neighbours.
5. A total of 56 Virus Research Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDLs) have been set up in India to test
its citizens as well as foreign citizens in a record time, with a plan to build 56 more VRDLs in the
next month. This insane level of efficiency hasn't caught the eye of the media.
6. India, currently, has one of the world's most efficient and reliable testing systems, reducing the
time taken to get test results back from 12 - 14 hours to 4 hours. US health officials have admitted
that their system is failing and testing has been very sluggish.
7. As a result, from Iran, Afghanistan up to Timor Leste, countries in Asia have been requesting
India to help set up testing facilities in their countries.
8. India has sent 6 top scientists to set up a make-shift lab and testing facility in Iran to test 6,000
of its citizens because Iranian officials refused to test Indians due to their high load. India has sent
3 more airplanes this week to airlift its citizens.
9. India has provided 15 tons of medical assitance comprising masks, gloves and other emergency
medical equipment to China.
10.India has sent Maldives a 14 member medical team comprising pulmonologists, anaesthetists,
physicians and lab technicians and also a large composite of COVID-19 medical relief to assist
Maldivian health authorities.
11. India has screened 1,057,506 people from 30 airports and 77 seaports.
12. India has suspended all visas to India as well as visa-free travel facility for OCI cardholders. It
has closed its border with Myanmar. The Indian nationals coming from COVID-19 hit nations
after 15 Feb will be quarantined for 14 days. This is in contrast with the UK with far more cases
but no quick action whatsoever.
13. India has the world's biggest state-sponsored health assurance scheme, covering over 500 million
beneficiaries (approximately 8 times the size of the UK).
14. Indian drug prices are among the cheapest in the world. Medbelle ranks India as one of the five
countries with the lowest median prices for drugs around the world due to an elaborate price
control mechanism for drugs and the government's Jan Aushadi project to provide cheap
affordable medicines to the poor.
15. China had silenced the doctor who identified COVID-19 and he died 6 weeks later. China let this
brew. On the other hand, when Nipah virus was found in India in 2018, 3 doctors identified it
and the authorities immediately reported it to WHO. 2,000 quarantined and 17 died in total.
India would have never allowed it to become a pandemic.
The Indian civilization, being one of the most advanced in the world, has been way ahead of its time with gifting the world the Namaste - which is now propagated by every world leader. Ancient India idealised vegetarianism and expounded Ayurveda and as a result, did not come in contact with any serious threat from plagues/diseases in its millenniums of existence. India NEVER created any
pandemic in the history of its existence.
You are highly misinformed, Mr. Jim O'Neill!
Jai Hind!
Tailpiece.
Had got up at our usual time, gone through the chores and was ready in time. The new maid had reported her inability to come for work, today, because she'd to attend some court formality. So, it was Lekha, all the way. Drove to the Geeyem Motors to hand over the Chevy for repairs. Phew!
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