The one country that escaped the mayhem is Russia. Because of sanctions, Russians could no longer access Microsoft cloud services and business intelligence tools.
So they built their own!
India must build similar technical redundancy, too.
The next pandemic could be a cyber one. And, it may not necessarily be induced because of an outage!
How do you incubate a mind virus? How do you cause a culture to self-destruct?
In 1984, this KGB defector exposed the secret 4-stage plan used by Soviet intelligence to wage psychological war on American society.
Stage 1: Demoralization. (15-20 years)