Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Leisurely Routine in the Plague Period (II)

Finally, let's turn our attention to India, China's close neighbor, the great nation bathed in the waters of the Ganges and the most populous democracy in the world!

As the birthplace of this global "super flu", the epidemic in India is naturally not optimistic, and it can even be said to be extremely serious. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

-- Located in the South Asian subcontinent, this country has a hot and humid climate, an extremely dense population, poor sanitary conditions, and a poor sense of epidemic prevention among the people.

Theoretically, India has a very advanced universal free healthcare system, but in practice, due to the lack of funding and frenzied greed, the vast majority of public hospitals in India are in name only. Public hospitals in big cities are known for being dirty and messy, and the technical level of doctors is also poor. There was also a scandal in a public hospital in the capital Delhi, where a good mother was killed by a quack doctor. Public hospitals in the countryside are simply a dilapidated house, and doctors and nurses are nowhere to be seen for many years.

Although the medical standard of private hospitals is a little more decent, with the meager income of ordinary Indians, it may be difficult to bear the expenses of private hospitals. Even in normal times, there are many poor Indians who drag a minor illness into a major illness and a major illness into a terminal illness...... The situation is even more tragic when the T-virus outbreak is now, with the slums of big cities like Mumbai and Kolkata piled up with corpses too late to be buried, while the countryside has become a hellish scene full of corpses, and the death toll across the country is soaring at a rate of tens of thousands every day.

In the face of such an apocalyptic scenario, if it were in East Asia, Europe and the United States, the government would have declared a state of emergency, and the local government would have fully mobilized, and various medical teams would have gone to the countryside to provide treatment. But in the amazing India, the government's response is ...... Basically nothing was done!

There is no way, on this continent soaked in "democracy and freedom", Indian politicians have always been keen to give full play to the "mouth cannon" characteristics of their national character, and often quarrel over trivial matters. For example, if the government wants to build a subway in the city center, it needs to acquire land and move some residents out. In China, it is generally the first to negotiate and coax away the vast majority of the good people who are easy to dismiss, leaving those "nail households" who refuse to leave, there are chengguan in the white road, and there are street hooligans in the black, in addition to the public opinion offensive and mass pressure, it is really impossible to simply use a bulldozer to push the matter.

But in India it doesn't work, politicians gather together to vote for meetings, and if there are people who don't want to move, usually even if everyone is obedient, there is probably an opposition that secretly instigates trouble, stuffs money and creates a few nails, and then the thing is not easy. Many "conscientious politicians" will certainly use this topic to make a big noise, and those who support it will definitely have something to oppose, and then it will evolve into a struggle between several political groups, and the original project will be gradually forgotten by everyone. As a result, politicians kept arguing on stage, and the local people continued to do what they had to do. After several years, everyone woke up and saw that the original scheduled project had not been done at all, and several years had been wasted.

Then, those Indian politicians began to argue with each other about who was responsible for the "delay in getting down to business", triggering a protracted ball game that could not be completed in a few years. It will take until the next thing comes out to temporarily end this boring loop.

Therefore, for most of the half century since India's independence, only a few thousand kilometers of railways have been built...... It's a world away from China.

Of course, it is not without the time when the Indians are engaged in infrastructure construction and resoluteness, when those big conglomerates need land, they directly dispatch bulldozers and "dynamic social groups" to carry out sweeping operations in full gear, and do not pay a dime for land requisition, so they talk about hitting them with knives, guns and sticks, and at the same time bulldozing the houses of those Diao people, crushing the Diao people who can't avoid them, and then looting the survivors who survived, and then mercifully allowing them to leave alive.

In short, India is such a democratic country full of "conscientious literati politicians" and "dynamic social groups", and most things are useless to rely on the government and can only be solved by force of civil society. Official things are always so procrastinating, and ordinary people have no concept of time, believing that everything in the real world is illusory, and the afterlife depicted in religion is real - as early as thousands of years ago, Indians were accustomed to living such a life, and as a result, Hinduism with very local characteristics, as well as Buddhism with the same invincible mouth, anyway, the clouds and mountains danced around the mountains, living a good life in words, forgetting the pain in reality. Most of the poor people are hungry every day, but they are still living happily and comfortably, starving to death...... Callously referred to by international critics as "a bunch of two-legged humanoids".

At a time when the plague is raging, the Indian government is still doing the same, with the ruling party proposing a policy of strict quarantine and the opposition calling for the protection of the human rights of the poor, and no one cares whether they will die of illness. Then, the ruling party wanted to organize free medical treatment and distribute some cold medicines to the whole people free of charge, and the media immediately detonated a series of corruption cases: the recovery of purchases and the withholding of expired counterfeit medicines, the resale of smuggled medicines to private hospitals, and various scandals of falsifying account books...... It's a lot of uproar.

Anyway, judging from the results, so far, not a single free cold medicine provided by the Indian government has been distributed, but some good-hearted landlords and rich people have organized some charity activities and distributed some aspirin to those poor people who are too poor to wear clothes out of their own pockets.

In addition, in the absence of explicit instructions from the central government, the wealthy areas of the big cities have begun to erect barbed wire and barricades on their own initiative, and armed men from nowhere have been mobilized to patrol day and night to prevent the sick poor from sneaking in and polluting the air they breathe.

But what is amazing is that, despite the weakness of the official measures, the mood of the Indian people is still very stable, and even though thousands of people are dying every day, there is no sign of riots, but they suffer in silence - I have to admit that from the point of view of the administrators, these Indian Asaras are still very cute. Although the work is lazy (some people brilliantly commented: Indians are the laziest people in the world. Even when a dog squats down, it sweeps it down with its tail, while the Indians just sit there), and they are more braggadocio, but they have a good temper, even if they are treated as cattle and horses, they can still smile at life, and even if they are hungry, they rarely take extreme measures.

What is even more surprising is that even in this situation of lack of medical care and no one to take care of it, in absolute terms, the infection rate of Indians is not particularly high, and it is actually about the same as China. Just because medical treatment can't keep up, the mortality rate after infection is many times higher.

Wang Qiu's domestic news website reprinted a translation from The Economist magazine, which compared the epidemic prevention measures and social status of China and India, praised the optimism and disease tolerance of the Indian people, ridiculed the fuss and neuroticism of the Chinese, and used a chart showing that the average infection rate between the two countries is actually similar (the death rate is ignored). Finally, there are two contrasting photos: one is a small dilapidated Indian village, where the poor are hungry and thin, shirtless, tanned by the sun, but still smiling at the camera; The other is a big city street in China, where everyone is wearing thick masks and gloomy eyes despite the height of summer.

Under these two photos, a group of domestic netizens all exploded.

“…… Oh, my God! Can't melamine and gutter oil make us more invincible than Indians?

Reply upstairs: Melamine and gutter oil want to beat the sacred Ganges water!! You are so naïve!

Reply to the landlord: One is biological, the other is chemical, do you think which one is more toxic?

Reply upstairs: How did you forget that "Chinese famous brand xx fresh milk, 100% pure melamine, no milk?"

Reply upstairs: But you don't know that the Chinese brand is a joint venture with the New Zealand brand, and after continuing the Chinese brand, the New Zealand brand also found melamine, and it is in their dairy products and high-end products - the kind of added lactoferrin added to milk powder, and then what? New Zealand officials said: We can't tell you which company this company is. Then, the Chinese company went bankrupt, and New Zealand continued to be regarded as a "safe alternative to domestic milk powder" by many people~ Actually, you just changed the can, dear ......"

“…… Hey, in any case, according to the experience of despicable people traveling to India, the poison resistance MAX cannot withstand the water of the Ganges River of freedom and democracy......

Reply upstairs: Resistance to chemical agents is not good against bacteria and viruses, these are two completely different resistances! ”

“…… How can you say that the holy Ganges water is dirty? You have to say that the Ganges is inclusive of everything!!

Reply upstairs: The Ganges River is natural and ecological, and a slight improvement is probiotics. Melamine, directly sublimating people into biochemical people! ”

"...... The Economist dares to compare India with China?! India is a democracy, and the flag of freedom flies there. The people of India are free to starve, free to beg, free to live in the slums, free to spit and urinate whenever they want. Indian women are also free to have children and have them die of hunger and malnutrition. The media in India are free to press and print, and they never lie because they are free. Even their cows are free, oh no, it's not just the cows, their monkeys, elephants, donkeys, chickens, mice are free, they are free to roam the highways and city streets day and night, they are free to everywhere. India is a great and free country! Is it comparable to a dictatorial and corrupt country?

Reply upstairs: The third brother is so rich that he is only left with freedom...... Freedom for 100 million people and 100 million livestock!

Reply Upstairs: Free? Is it okay to eat?

Reply upstairs: In the greatest democracies and free countries, you can smack and gnaw people's faces......"

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Reading these increasingly brainless tears on the webpage, Wang Qiu couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.

-- At least 90 percent of the Chinese don't know what democracy is, but they draw a formula in their minds that "election = democracy," but they don't know that even the president of the United States and the prime minister of Japan are not directly elected......

Also, in the minds of many Chinese, what you can't get is always good. As long as it is something that no one else has or is unusual, it can be sold for a good price, even if it is just a box. Therefore, even if it is "freedom" in the slums of India, there is still a group of Chinese who are extremely envious of it, and they are extremely sought after verbally, as if they can't wait to put on their wings and immediately fly over to share the "free air" with the curry-smelling Indian pariahs.

However, after this "freedom" is truly obtained, it immediately becomes nothing. For it is the freedom to die, the freedom to starve, the freedom to be massacred by the wealthy, the freedom to spend all other people's money, the freedom to live in filthy places...... Who can stand it?

But there is no way, what is in a person's head, what is the world he sees, as for the real reality? Does it matter?

To put it simply, everyone likes to fantasize about a perfect heaven in their hearts, and some petty bourgeoisie, who claim to be sober, never seem to be afraid to kill people for their own fantasies, and shout and kill violently on the Internet, as if they are about to rise up to overthrow the government and make a revolution. But in fact, in addition to the vicious swearing, these guys didn't plan to do it themselves at all, but looked forward to "people with lofty ideals" who had the same idea as him to be cannon fodder, and other "people with lofty ideals" had the same idea...... So, the end result is always nothing happens......

In the final analysis, the biggest ideological problem of the Chinese at present is still the all-round inferiority complex caused by the long-term backwardness of the country and the poverty of society -- there is a good joke: there are only two countries in the world, China and foreign countries. Therefore, China's object of comparison is the whole world, which makes Chinese really tired, not only to compare sports with blacks, but also to compare technology with whites, to compare cars with Germany, to compare software with aircraft carriers with the United States, to compare electronics with Japan to anime, to compare beauty with South Korea, to compare massage with Thailand, to compare democracy with India, to compare welfare with Northern Europe, and to compare Africa with primitive customs, with South America than forests, with New Zealand than milk, with Argentina than beef, with Brazil than football, with Mexico than gangsters, and with Russia than nuclear bombs, and England than the aristocracy, and France than the, and Italy than noodles......

In this comparison, it is natural to be discouraged everywhere, as if everything that exists in China is not worth mentioning. After a hundred years of hatred of destroying the country and destroying the species, everyone still calls themselves "numb Chinese", but everyone knows that they have long been called "Chinese imperialism" by the island country across the East China Sea!

However, this kind of self-confidence in the bones cannot be cultivated overnight. Even the majestic American Bald Eagle was already the world's largest country in terms of GDP as early as the end of the nineteenth century, but in the decades before World War II, it was not cowardly to the European powers?

Not to mention the current China, even the most capable economy is the second, as for military strength and international influence, I am afraid it is not as good as the Russian woolly bear with a skinny camel bigger than a horse...... Hey, if you want to rebuild the subconscious national self-confidence, it is really a long way to go!