International India Facing Healthcare and Economic Disaster from Second Wave of COVID

BForrester said:
That's just what they're reporting. India's data collection methods, especially in the poor rural areas, is terrible. You could multiply that number by 3 and, by all evidence, it would still be underreporting
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You could say the same thing for their standard reported deaths. It is a non factor.
 
HockeyBjj said:
This is why I thought India had avoided covid for so long, their immune systems must be super saiyan from just surviving with all the unsanitary conditions and cultural norms for so long and generations
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India didn’t hold out long. It was just kept quite. They could need some deaths in India. They’ve got a population crisis over there. 2-300 million deaths should do womders for the country.
 
Black Fungus

"The Indian public has a new problem to contend with, as reports circulate of deaths from mucormycosis, popularly known as “black fungus,” in patients recently treated for covid-19. The fungal infection of the sinuses is difficult to treat and often fatal.

Eye surgeons, who often have to remove an eye to contain mucormycosis, reported a dramatic rise in cases. Surat, a city of 6 million in Gujarat, reported 40 cases and eight lost eyes in 15 days. The health minister of Maharashtra, Rajesh Tope, said on 11 May that “there could be over 2000 mucormycosis patients in the state as of now.”

Most cases occur in diabetic patients with poorly controlled blood sugar, about two weeks after recovering from covid-19. Some doctors blame overuse of steroids to treat covid-19, while others suggest the virus itself is the immunosuppressive factor helping the fungus to spread." [bmj]
 
Lemon is bout to get a price boost in India.

Misinformation surges amid India’s COVID-19 calamity
By DAVID KLEPPER and NEHA MEHROTRA​
NEW DELHI (AP) — The man in the WhatsApp video says he has seen it work himself: A few drops of lemon juice in the nose will cure COVID-19.

“If you practice what I am about to say with faith, you will be free of corona in five seconds,” says the man, dressed in traditional religious clothing. “This one lemon will protect you from the virus like a vaccine.”

False cures. Terrifying stories of vaccine side effects. Baseless claims that Muslims spread the virus. Fueled by anguish, desperation and distrust of the government, rumors and hoaxes are spreading by word of mouth and on social media in India, compounding the country’s humanitarian crisis.

“Widespread panic has led to a plethora of misinformation,” said Rahul Namboori, co-founder of Fact Crescendo, an independent fact-checking organization in India.

While treatments such as lemon juice may sound innocuous, such claims can have deadly consequences if they lead people to skip vaccinations or ignore other guidelines.

In January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that India had “saved humanity from a big disaster by containing corona effectively.” Life began to resume, and so did attendance at cricket matches, religious pilgrimages and political rallies for Modi’s Hindu nationalist party.

Four months later, cases and deaths have exploded, the country’s vaccine rollout has faltered and public anger and mistrust have grown.

“All of the propaganda, misinformation and conspiracy theories that I’ve seen in the past few weeks has been very, very political,” said Sumitra Badrinathan, a University of Pennsylvania political scientist who studies misinformation in India. “Some people are using it to criticize the government, while others are using it to support it.”

Distrust of Western vaccines and health care is also driving misinformation about sham treatments as well as claims about traditional remedies.

Satyanarayan Prasad saw the video about lemon juice and believed it. The 51-year-old resident of the state of Uttar Pradesh distrusts modern medicine and has a theory as to why his country’s health experts are urging vaccines.

“If the government approves lemon drops as a remedy, the ... rupees that they have spent on vaccines will be wasted,” Prasad said.

Vijay Sankeshwar, a prominent businessman and former politician, repeated the claim about lemon juice, saying two drops in the nostrils will increase oxygen levels in the body.

While Vitamin C is essential to human health and immunity, there is no evidence that consuming lemons will fight off the coronavirus.

The claim is spreading through the Indian diaspora, too.

“They have this thing that if you drink lemon water every day that you’re not going to be affected by the virus,” said Emma Sachdev, a Clinton, New Jersey, resident whose extended family lives in India.

Sachdev said several relatives have been infected, yet continue to flout social distancing rules, thinking a visit to the temple will keep them safe.

India has also experienced the same types of misinformation about vaccines and vaccine side effects seen around the world.

Last month, the popular Tamil actor Vivek died two days after receiving his COVID-19 vaccination. The hospital where he died said Vivek had advanced heart disease, but his death has been seized on by vaccine opponents as evidence that the government is hiding side effects.

Much of the misinformation travels on WhatsApp, which has more than 400 million users in India. Unlike more open sites like Facebook or Twitter, WhatsApp — which is owned by Facebook — is an encrypted platform that allows users to exchange messages privately.

The bad information online “may have come from an unsuspecting neighbor who is not trying to cause harm,” said Badrinathan, the University of Pennsylvania researcher. “New internet users may not even realize that the information is false. The whole concept of misinformation is new to them.”

Hoaxes spread online had deadly results in 2018, when at least 20 people were killed by mobs inflamed by posts about supposed gangs of child kidnappers.

WhatsApp said in a statement that it works hard to limit misleading or dangerous content by working with public health bodies like the World Health Organization and fact-checking organizations. The platform has also added safeguards restricting the spread of chain messages and directing users to accurate online information.

The service is also making it easier for users in India and other nations to use its service to find information about vaccinations.

“False claims can discourage people from getting vaccines, seeking the doctor’s help, or taking the virus seriously,” Fact Crescendo’s Namboori said. “The stakes have never been so high.”
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https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-surges-india-covid-c52d04de1c3b2332d572736ee069a495
 
Oeshon said:
Only if you are a brainless sheep that can't do the most basic logical thinking. Sounds like you bought the propaganda big time.
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eeyy.... Go easy.

But yeah I got friends in India that I keep in contact with every month. India was worse off than the US from day 1. It's just that they were decent at hiding it. Until they just couldn't hide it anymore.
 
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/04...-for-scientific-integrity-not-sensationalism/

India is not like a Western country, it is incredibly densely populated. So many of these cases are from villages and small towns with a high population density.
These conditions are ideal for a 'flu-like virus that is spread via aerial spray.
The medical system in India does not compare with Western nations.
Hygiene standards in these villages and small towns are not as high, in general, as they are in the West.

'Even as the alleged COVID deaths reach their peak, more people die of diarrhoea every day in India and have done for years, mostly due to a lack of clean water and sanitation creating a terrain ripe for the flourishing of communicable disease.”

0.168% of the Indian population has died of, or with the virus.
27,000 people per day die in India from everything else.
0.38% of the worlds population has died of, or with the virus.


Don't forget that so many Western governments have greatly exaggerated the numbers of cases, and the numbers of deaths attributed to this virus. There have been studies into this.
Look at all the countries that have censored the news so that the majority of their populations are STILL unaware that there are 2 current, effective, cheap, treatments for this virus that actually save lives. Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.
 
Saw a thing yesterday about the idea of using flesh eating turtles to help clean up the decaying bodies in a large river in India, not related to flu's... India has sanitation issues... Issues humans discovered and have been improving on for a while now. Might be time to promote these things India...
 
“So many COVID deaths in India are going unaccounted for!!”

“So many Indian deaths pre-COVID were never accounted for!!”

Retards.
 
India confirms bodies found in Ganges River are coronavirus victims
16 May, 2021​
  • Images of corpses drifting down the Ganges river, which is considered holy in Hinduism, have shocked the country
  • ‘The administration has information that bodies of those who have succumbed to Covid-19 are being thrown into rivers,’ said a senior state official

Bodies of Covid-19 victims have been found dumped in some Indian rivers, a state government letter seen by Reuters says, in the first official acknowledgement of the alarming practice, which it said may stem from poverty and fear of the disease in remote areas.

Images of corpses drifting down the Ganges river, which is considered holy in Hinduism, have shocked the country, reeling under the world’s worst surge in Covid-19 cases.

Although media reports have linked the increase in the number of bodies found floating in the river and its tributaries in recent days to the pandemic, India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 240 million people, has until now not publicly revealed the cause of the deaths.

“The administration has information that bodies of those who have succumbed to Covid-19 or any other disease are being thrown into rivers instead of being disposed of as per proper rituals,” a senior state official, Manoj Kumar Singh, said in a letter dated May 14 to district heads that was reviewed by Reuters.

“As a result, bodies have been recovered from rivers in many places.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/sout...d-indias-ganges-river-are-coronavirus-victims
 
badascan said:
Saw a thing yesterday about the idea of using flesh eating turtles to help clean up the decaying bodies in a large river in India, not related to flu's... India has sanitation issues... Issues humans discovered and have been improving on for a while now. Might be time to promote these things India...
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