Originally Posted by
Mr A
I work with people in India on a daily basis. When things were bad there with the Delta variant the stuff I was hearing on a daily basis was heart wrenching. Most of the folks who work for the company were fine- the company went all out to look after them and their families, getting treatment for them, oxygen, vaccines, removing all work pressure and even giving loans to help people through were needed. But still one of our staff died and a huge number were infected, in one case half a team was out at the same time. Many many more lost friends and in several cases whole families died in the most awful of circumstances. Long Covid remains an issue for some, including one man who was young and a health fanatic.
We are very fortunate here that whatever mistakes we made along the way, we never got to a stage where we were overwhelmed. That makes complacency about Covid a lot easier of course. But the vast, vast majority of the population pulled together, the authorities generally were competent in their response and people did not embrace misinformation like they did elsewhere. And that's a damn good thing.