I just finished reading an article about how desperate the people in India are to get some medical help with the wave of Covid that is raging all over that country. There is a shortage of medical supplies, particularly oxygen, and even a shortage of beds. Many of the deaths have taken place right outside of the hospitals, as they didn't have room for any more patients. Desperately sick people and their families are running around from hospital to hospital, trying to find a bed and some medical treatment for their loved one. The article told about several people who heartbreakingly died of Covid, gasping for breath, when they could have been saved if there had only been enough oxygen. Most of those patients were young, or youngish, people; it showed one man in his 40's, posing with his three little children. He was a big, strapping-looking fellow. He died because his family could not find any oxygen for him, after paying a fortune for an oxygen tank to use at home.
They do have the vaccine, but are slow and disorganized about getting it distributed to people. And for the very sick people described in this article, the vaccine would have been too late anyway.
Maybe if people in this country heard more stories about the hardships in other parts of the world, there would be less nonsense being invented and spread around, to try to scare people away from the vaccine that we are fortunate enough to be able to get. Most of us don't realize how lucky we are!
