You have understood little, and are perhaps approaching it from a prejudiced Western viewpoint. All it is teaching is that one need not hesitate to fight injustice.

Perhaps a deeper reading will help. Its not for nothing that Western greats like Ralph Waldo Emerson amd Henry Thoreau were enamored by the Bhagavad Gita.

Good list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Trinity test of the Manhattan Project was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, which lead Oppenheimer to recall verses from the Bhagavad Gita, notably: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the Bhagavad Gita in the original form, citing it later as one of the most influential books to shape his philosophy of life.[9] Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion of the Trinity nuclear test, he thought of verses from the Bhagavad Gita (XI,12):

                -[10] If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one...[11][12]

Years later he would explain that another verse had also entered his head at that time:

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.[13][a]

Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau wrote "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."[18]

Hermann Graf Keyserling
Hermann Graf Keyserling, German Philosopher regarded Bhagavad-Gita as "Perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world."[19]

Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse felt that "the marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."[7]

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson said this about the Bhagavad Gita: "I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent,the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."[20]

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt pronounced the Gita as: "The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ... perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show."[21]

Bulent Ecevit
Turkish Ex prime minister Bulent Ecevit, when asked what had given him the courage to send Turkish troops to Cyprus . His answer was "He was fortified by the Bhagavad Gita which taught that if one were morally right, one need not hesitate to fight injustice".[22]

Lord Warren Hastings
Lord Warren Hastings, the first governor general of British India wrote: "I hesitate not to pronounce the Gita a performance of great originality, of sublimity of conception, reasoning and diction almost unequalled; and a single exception, amongst all the known religions of mankind."[23]

Sunita Williams
Sunita Williams, an American astronaut who holds the record for longest single space flight by a woman carried a copy of Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads with her to space, said "Those are spiritual things to reflect upon yourself,life, world around you and see things other way, I thought it was quite appropriate" while talking about her time in space.[24]

Annie Besant
"That the spiritual man need not be a recluse, that union with the divine Life may be achieved and maintained in the midst of worldly affairs, that the obstacles to that union lie not outside us but within us—such is the central lesson of the Bhagavad-Gt." - Annie Besant[25]

Rudolf Steiner
"If we want to approach such a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-gita with full understanding it is necessary for us to attune our souls to it. "- Rudolf Steiner[26]

super, adv.
: yet another super-overused superlative qualifier.

+1 including this comment

At this point, India has vaccinated more people than the US. Still low in terms of population % but significantly more than "almost nobody" ... that you pulled out of your ass.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in...
https://www.reuters.com/world/...

The problem is not protecting the deities (they need no protection, plus Hinduism is pluralistic in that, it says, different religions and names of God are, but different paths to the same goal: from the Rgveda).

It is more about defending this tolerant culture from intolerance and world dominating political ideologies associated mainly with Islam (non-believers are chastised as infidels) but also with Christianity. And also the fact that conversion by force is not uncommon.

Example from further up in the thread
Radical Muslim outfits performed an ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindu Pandits in the 1990s, chasing them out with terrorism, including threats blaring from mosque loudspeakers warning Hindus and Sikhs to to Convert to Islam, flee or die.

https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/...

The Hindu population in India (80÷) has worshipped the Divine Consciousness as a feminine principle for over 5000 years.

The Divine Mother, who has been obscured in the shadow of Western religions, is one of the distinctive features of Hinduism: including goddesses and religious traditions oriented to female deities practiced for thousands of years in continuity — unlike short lived goddess cults in many parts of the world

https://www.infinityfoundation... (Worship of the Goddess in Hinduism)
https://www.americamagazine.or... (In the Harvard Classroom: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary)

The vestiges of patriarchy in society are largely a bad hangover from the numerous (unsuccessful) Islamic occupation attempts of the past.

I also noticed that the author of the article you linked to is a Pakistani Muslim, a demographic notorious for anti Hindu and anti India violence and propaganda.

False, anti India propaganda. Indian culture based on Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world, 5000 years old, and highly inclusivist/pluralistic in nature. What the BJP, RSS and other Hindu organizations work against, is fundamentalist Islamists (and some Christians) who exploite this intrinsically tolerant culture to forcefully convert Hindus to their less tolerant religions.

How Germans Distorted Hindu Ideas Which Led to Nazism:
https://youtu.be/VJZ4LARPMJU

The exploitation of Hindus is a classic example of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... that says
that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant

More info on Hindu pluralism (not including refs since these facts are easily verifiable).
This tradition of religious inclusivism stems
from an ingrained conviction that its but one universal Divinity which is called upon by various names by different
people at different times. This proclamation was made in a popular Sanskrit hymn from the Rigveda (the oldest
extant texts among any Indo-European language) as early as c.1200 BCE. This simple yet profound assurance
from an ancient authoritative source brings about an incredible mindset, not just of tolerance but of acceptance
of diverse religions and cultures that persists in the country through this day.

The King and the Thrones
Once there was a king- his kingdom was made up of houses made from the hay, mud and reinforced by waterproof grass fronds from the riverbanks. The king, naturally, had the biggest house, his being the only one in the kingdom to have two floors; a tricky bit of engineering for an all natural structure.

Each year the king, on his birthday, would receive a new throne from his people - the first year they made him a wooden one from the finest trees in the forest. The year after, they had managed to find some tin and bronze, so made him a very happy king. Each year, the old throne would get taken upstairs to the storage as the king liked to walk amongst the collection and reminisce over years gone by.

So ten years had passed, and by now the nation of hut dwellers had become rich enough to buy gold. So this year, the king received a mighty throne. So his old one was taken away upstairs, the huge gold throne hauled in, and another year in the kingdom commenced.

This eleventh year however, was a tough year for the harvest. The sun belted down on the blacksmiths as they made swords and shields for the loyal warriors that protected the realm. They worked tirelessly for a month to make the biggest and most lavishly adorned throne anyone had ever seen.

So the king had his party, the new throne was presented. The grand entrance was only just big enough to get the throne through- but the skill and knowledge of the smiths made it possible.

The golden throne was taken upstairs to join the other nine from years gone by.

That night there was a tragic disaster- the whole royal family was killed as they slept, the whole place collapsed around them. The queen was dead, the heirs were crushed, and a new king was needed for the country. It was a sad night.

What is the moral of the story?

Those who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

The Indian Vaccine Covaxin has already proven efficacy against this variant and efforts are ongoing to bring the vaccine to the US.
https://www.biospace.com/artic...

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India has a huge vaccine manufacturing has supplied/donated covid vaccines to 70+ countries .
https://www.thehindubusinessli...

The Indian Vaccine Covaxin has already proven efficacy against this variants and efforts are ongoing to bring the vaccine to the US.
https://www.biospace.com/artic...

https://www.thehindubusinessli... [thehindubusinessline.com]

Ocugen to seek emergency-use nod for Covaxin in US market

In fact Covaxin has proven efficacy against existing variants.