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To: robert b furman who wrote (11258)	5/12/2021 11:31:38 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27124

I hope Texas and WI continue to do great. I fear that we have another breakout but with enough vaccinated, it should not be as bad as India that returned to normal too quickly. As COVID surges, Indians grapple with desperation, grief — and fury news.berkeley.edu These longer-running issues came to a head because the government simply did not prepare. COVID was going to come to India. And when it came, the central government imposed one of the harshest lockdowns anywhere in the world. This was in March 2020. After that lockdown, the government went into self-congratulatory mode. But India had not beaten the wave. The evidence was there from around the world about what a second wave does — and the government did not pay heed. Its own scientists were warning about the impact of a second wave. They were ignored. There was a special committee of scientists that advised that India would need to ramp up its oxygen production capacities. But after India apparently beat COVID last year, from September 2020 to January 2021 there was a decrease of 37% in oxygen-supported hospital beds. India was exporting vaccines even in April this year. There is a category in the law called criminal negligence, and the central government is certainly criminally negligent. Don't count chickens until.... I think we're now over 90% vaccinated in Los Altos. We have ultra conservatives and ultra liberals but very few dummies.