India. Pay attention to India. [View all]

[MineralMan]

What is happening there is a threat to all of us. Ignoring it will not help alleviate that threat.

Most of us have never been to India - one of the most crowded places on this planet. It took some time before COVID-19 really hit India, but that time is over at this point.

Here, we can get the vaccine, and many of us are doing so, but not enough of us. In the human soup that is India, new strains of the virus are evolving. Some of those may well be resistant to our vaccine immunity, and will spread in this country as well, among the unvaccinated.

This pandemic is far, far from over. It remains a real threat to everyone on the planet. We cannot ignore the outbreak in India. The reality is that the vaccines you took may well have been manufactured there. The Indians don't get the vaccines. We do.

We need to pay close attention, and do whatever we can to help in India and in other places where population densities promote the spread of this virus. If we fail to do that, it will come to bite us on the ass before long.