Is to get everybody vaccinated, because of how globalized we are. particularly when it feels as though you can t seem to give away vaccines or boosters in certain states in the united states. there seems to be a period of surplus right after this appearance, i have my date with moderna part 3, if you will. and there s part of me that feels awful. you listen to these things, there are flare-ups in the developing world, in germany, in the uk, in regions that have been kind of anti-vaxx, decidedly. in mississippi, in arkansas, in other states, you can track this. there s element at some point of self-determination and individual responsibility. i think the united states can do more. france can do more. germany can do more, about exporting vaccines. but this ultimately comes down to choice and free will and an alarming number of people are choosing to go without the vaccine. let s talk about the boosters. if you re not getting the vaccine at this point, the requirements will push you t
Indian diplomacy will have to handle the fallout of the vaccine collapse and bio-research regulations
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words on Buddha Purnima, that in times to come the planet will remember events as either “pre-Covid or post-Covid” could not hold truer than for India’s diplomatic structure worldwide. In the past month, the focus for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Missions abroad has shifted. While the focus in 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic, was on coordinating exports of COVID-19 medicines, flights to repatriate Indians abroad (the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’) after the lockdown, and then exporting vaccines worldwide (‘Vaccine Maitri’), after the second wave, Covid Diplomacy 2.0 has a different order of tasks, both in the immediate and the long term.