You watch this video above and you cannot help asking yourself this question: If America fires Dr Fauci and holds him accountable and puts him on trial on the charge of causing a pandemic homicide in the world then out will most probably tumble many inconvenient facts and hitherto hidden skeletons from the cupboards of both the USA and China along with those in The Wuhan Institute of Virology, all then becoming the clinching evidential smoking gun.
In that case , merely reducing Dr Fauci’s salary to $ 0 is not going to make any difference . He will be taken down of course but then he won’t want to go down alone, will he? … He will want to take down all of America and China down with him too…
If he will be made to lose his compensation as an individual, shouldn’t both America and China also be made to suffer the same pain as nation-states ? The obvious question the whole world will then ask is: Why shouldn’t America and China be made to pay compensation to the families of the 4 million people who have died due to the virus in the last 18 months ?
Let’s look at a hypothetical scenario where the culpability or constructive responsibility for both American and Chinese Governments in causing the Wuhan virus gets established by a world judicial forum like the International Court of Justice in the Hague in a case brought against them both by a world body like, say, the UNGA ( United Nations General Assembly) . Let’s assume that the verdict of the Court is that both China and USA are guilty and hence they jointly and severally are liable to pay financial compensation to the family of every victim who died from the Wuhan virus in the amount of, say, $250k each.
How much does the liability of China and America towards such an award of global compensation amount to ?
4 million deaths multiplied by $250K … equals $1 trillion … which is really peanuts if you think of the combined GDP of the two countries which (in PPP terms) today is c. US $ 48 trillion (China $26 t and USA $22 t) . The total compensation liability for them would really be no more than 2% max. of their combined GDPs .
Just imagine — the United Nations collecting $ 1 trillion from America and China and then coordinating and overseeing the direct transfer of the amount to the bank accounts of the survivors/dependents of the 4 million persons who died during the pandemic!
Wouldn’t that be a good thing, a blessing and a wholly deserved manna from heaven for the whole world ? I wonder to myself ….
And won’t the millions of people and poor families in the world who survived the pandemic also see justice being actually done?
And with the small consolation they receive from America and China by way of compensation for the bereavement they suffered, will they not be enabled to make a fresh start and livelihood which otherwise they might not be able to do in a devastated post-Covid world ?
I’m also imagining how much of such a pandemic compensation claimed and received from the UN might ease a bit of pain for the Govt. of India too and for the families of the 400,000 dead. I concede USD one hundred million so received will not mean much to the GoI ….But then I ask myself silently, to the individual surviving families receiving such amount of compensation being the equivalent of ₹. 7.5 billion, not mean the world of a difference between sheer hopelessness in life and at least some glimmer of hope in it in a post-Covid world?
Latest Breaking News from New Delhi: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/cant-give-rs-4-lakh-compensation-to-covid-victims-compensation-applies-to-natural-disasters-centre-tells-supreme-court-2467971?amp=1&akamai-rum=off
Families of Covid victims cannot be paid compensation as it applies to natural disasters only, the government of India told the Supreme Court, adding that states cannot afford to pay Rs 4 lakh to every victim. In a 183-page affidavit filed late last night, the centre also added that if they pay compensation for Covid, then denying it for other diseases would be “unfair”.
The centre added that the deadly disease has caused more than 3.85 lakh deaths – which is likely to increase – and states, reeling under severe financial strain, cannot pay everyone. The government’s response comes after the Supreme Court asked it to inform its policy on Covid compensation and death certificates after a plea asked for Rs 4 lakh for victims.
Sudarshan Madabushi