India is obviously the best
Updated On: 22 August, 2020 04:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Lindsay Pereira
People who criticise our approach to COVID-19 and are tracking Indias numbers are simply jealous of how we have managed it

People may have laughed at footage of us screaming and clapping on balconies, but those smiles could have vanished instantly if that noise were to have worked. File pic
I have been horrified by how people from other countries have been tracking India's record over the past few months. They say our unplanned lockdown failed miserably, adding that our government had all the time in the world to put safety measures into place and failed. They talk about how our biggest cities don't have enough hospital beds, how we have never taken testing seriously, and how we aren't sharing data with anyone else because we don't have access to it ourselves.
This is all a lie. I am sure India has managed the COVID-19 crisis as well as the United States and Brazil have. These are huge countries managed by extremely competent leaders, some of whom have degrees in Entire Political Science that everyone knows makes them more qualified to tackle a pandemic than most scientists. It is an underrated degree.
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