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India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - pdq - 04-24-2021
It’s bad, and getting worse fast:
India took swift action when the pandemic first took hold last year, imposing one of the most aggressive lockdowns in the world.
...which worked, but caused economic hardship. So India, led by hardline religious conservative Modi, decided to follow much in the path of Modi’s buddy and fellow nationalist populist, Trump:
“Previously there was this immediate, bold response [in] which the whole country was locked down...
Whereas in this case, the response has appeared to be complacent at best and catastrophic at worst."
Hardline Hindu nationalist politics also played a part...
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was boasting about the size of a crowd at a political rally in West Bengal for his party, the BJP.
Masks? Distancing? Where have we seen this before?
The results are distressingly familiar:
...but in a country with limited medical resources, potentially even more disastrous. New cases now exceeding 300,000 per day, hospitals choked, and deaths soaring.
A tragedy...and after the US and Brazil, another indelible example of the result of meeting the forces of nature with the simplistic disdain of jingoistic anti-science populism.
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - SteveG - 04-24-2021
Associated Press EXPLAINER: Why India is shattering global infection records
https://apnews.com/article/why-is-india-shattering-global-coronavirus-infection-records-96859351f6881bae8ca89347ef0e9140
Topics covered:
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
WHY IS INDIA’S HEALTH SYSTEM COLLAPSING?
WHAT COMES NEXT?
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - hal - 04-24-2021
And all of this news is coming from the cities. We have no idea how rural india is doing...
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - Filliam H. Muffman - 04-24-2021
It's very sad. It has been non-stop cremations for almost a week in some cities. One hospital had their liquid oxygen tank spring a leak, and lost 24 Covid patients because of low oxygen flow.
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - Speedy - 04-24-2021
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
It's very sad. It has been non-stop cremations for almost a week in some cities.
Some of the crematoriums are melting down.
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - sekker - 04-24-2021
And they now have variants that are spreading faster and are more lethal.
The variants they had last summer were less lethal than the standard in the West.
We are likely seeing a true collapse.
And we haven’t seen whether these new variants will break-through our current vaccines.
Wear a mask even if vaccinated, people. We are not through this yet. And countries like India and Brazil are making next gen viruses.
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - RgrF - 04-24-2021
And countries like India and Brazil are making next gen viruses.
And there are over a hundred countries that have no vaccines and no idea what's happening within their borders. These variants could be the result of a schlock scriptwriters imagination!
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - pdq - 04-24-2021
India’s coronavirus infections rose by 346,786 overnight...
This is, of course, almost certainly an underestimate...
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - sekker - 04-24-2021
pdq wrote:
India’s coronavirus infections rose by 346,786 overnight...
This is, of course, almost certainly an underestimate...
Absolutely. They are overwhelmed.
Re: India unfortunately appears to have only delayed, not dodged, Covid disaster - sekker - 04-24-2021
RgrF wrote:
And countries like India and Brazil are making next gen viruses.
And there are over a hundred countries that have no vaccines and no idea what's happening within their borders. These variants could be the result of a schlock scriptwriters imagination!
Yes, but nothing like India and Brazil. The UK had this density, but their variant scared them into a lockdown and a rapid vaccination policy.