Talk:Vaccine Maitri

Propaganda?
The editors of this page would be well-advised to read this twitter thread by Sam Jawed. In particular:

In the light of this, the lead sentence claiming a grand "humanitarian gesture" is a tad bit overblown. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 00:08, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The truth comes out slowly and quietly now. "It is important to look at these in detail, BJP says. It is apparently a "myth" that India exported vaccines while neglecting its own citizens. Well, Serum Institute was making 60 million doses a month, and the government was buying only 10 million a month in January and February. In any case, BJP gives us exactly the same figure. Only 16% of the exports were grants. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

The export crunch
What is ironic in the midst of all the VaccineMaitri brouhaha is that the current ban on exports is blocking even orders which had bee placed and already paid for.

So India, which never bothered to order doses in time, is now monopolising all the production while other countries are getting starved.

Nepal is reeling under the same pandemic that India is going through, but India won't send it vaccines. Even 65 year olds who had received their first does in February don't have a second dose now to round off their immunisation. This is hardly any kind of maitri. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 00:36, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Well put. Also see this report. TrangaBellam (talk) 20:14, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I saw that. When there was credit to be claimed, it was all the "Government of India" that was doing it. Now that things have gone south, it is Poonawala that has to take the blame.
 * But India Cable points out more serious problems:
 * If God forbid, the Indian virus was to go to one of those countries that were denied vaccines by the export crunch, India is going to become the villain of the world. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:26, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * If God forbid, the Indian virus was to go to one of those countries that were denied vaccines by the export crunch, India is going to become the villain of the world. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:26, 19 May 2021 (UTC)