Humongousbasementnerd - So Yup, Here We Are

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

COVID is slowly becoming a "third world" disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can't get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

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Please. I'm begging you. REGISTER TO VOTE AND VOTE FOE BIDEN!

No, I don't like him. No, I don't like his VP, Kamala Harris. But unfortunately, this is a 'lesser of two evils' situation.

Biden has been working with Bernie Sanders, and is in favor of multiple policies that are in the direction we want to go in. He vowed to nominate the first female black judge to the Supreme Court, and we can trust him to nominate people who actually know what the fuck they're doing. Even if you don't agree with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they're still so much better than Donald Trump and Mike Pence, and voting for a third party candidate out of spite or just not voting at all isn't helping anyone. If Trump gets re-elected, things are only going to continue in a downward spiral. People's LIVES are going to be in danger if he gets four more years in office. With Biden, we at least have a chance to stop the spiral.

I don't think this is the election any of us wanted, but it's the one we have, and we need to be willing to work with that in order to work towards a more progressive future that benefits us all.

So yeah. Vote Biden/Harris in the upcoming presidential election.

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