Bhal Tulpule 165 days ago

Hay Jim Oneil,

You ought to be ashamed of yourself for praising china for their “fast, aggressive” response, without acknowledging that they were brutally suppressing information about this virus for nearly 2 months! And then letting infected people go around the world and kill 10000 people and destroy the world economy? Is that what you call fast, aggressive response ?.

On top of praising the Chinese, you don’t even acknowledge that if this had started in an open society like India, where this type of news would have immediately received a response from the GoI and people and the doctors would have swung into action AND they would have alerted the rest of the world ? Look how India is handling it now (Tablighi Jamaat!) Only 2567 infected people and 62 deaths in a country of 1.3 Billion people.

I think you owe an apology to all the Indian people. I know it is too much to expect from you, someone it seems, has not lost his British Empire’s superiority attitude towards India and the imperial love for china, that you will tell the whole world how India is handling the situation swiftly and with full transparency. They don’t have millions of masks and ventilators, because they are a free society and don’t need them and they know the limitations of their healthcare system and they would have nipped the problem in the bud. Maybe we in USA or your beloved UK should follow their examples.