Thank you for explaining how "medical apartheid" began and it's basic mehanism in India. The US is enngulfed in a horrible battle and I fear we cannot avoid a similar course. I am no expert in geopolitics but China is also densely populated, with many poor citizens. Despite the pandemic originating there (or may because it did?) they have done well in containment. In fact, east Asian countries seem to have fared much better than "westernized" ones. Does not the degree to which India is also westernized, with it's longterm relationship to Brits under the yolk of colonialism, play a large role? It seems rich people doing nothing is what Westerners all aspire to--the whole point of being rich is so you can build a rocketship and fly off to Mars.