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ZannoL
04/21/21 7:46:09 PM
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https://www.vox.com/2021/4/21/22383860/india-coronavirus-second-wave-covid-19-vaccine

India is facing a deepening Covid-19 crisis a year after it went into one of the worlds strictest lockdowns.

But this time around, authorities are reluctant to reimpose a nationwide stay-at-home order. Add to that a flailing vaccination campaign and the spread of new virus variants, and Indias immediate future looks grim.

For nearly a week, the country has recorded more than 200,000 coronavirus cases daily one of the highest rates anywhere in the world, though likely still an undercount. A shortage of beds and oxygen is straining health care systems, particularly in cities such as Mumbai and Delhi.

People are using social media in an attempt to crowdsource care and to share reports of people going from hospital to hospital in search of treatment. Daily deaths have also increased, surpassing more than 1,700 on Tuesday, and crematoriums cant keep up with the number of bodies.

A tangle of factors is likely fueling the surge, which makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly whats going on. Many of us are still scratching our heads about this. Theres no concrete evidence, Manoj Mohanan, associate professor of public policy, economics, and global health at Duke University, told me. What we do know is a few pieces of the puzzle.

The puzzle pieces include a decline in cases early in the year and the promise of the vaccination campaign, both of which may have given the public and even officials a false sense of security. On top of that, theres been a general fatigue with Covid-19 restrictions, which felt particularly burdensome when cases were on the downswing.

People started getting lax about things such as mask-wearing and social distancing. Many started to resume something like normal life, attending weddings and other celebrations.

There was a sense of relaxation in both public policymakers as well as the general public, and there was a noticeable decline in Covid-appropriate behavior, Chandrakant Lahariya, a public policy and health systems expert in Delhi, told me.

Mass gatherings have furthered the perception that India has defeated the virus and likely intensified some of the spread. Millions of pilgrims crowded alongside the Ganges River as part of Kumbh Mela, a major Hindu festival in India and one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.

Its really bad over there. There are a lot of different factors for why COVID is spreading like wildfire there.

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R1masher
04/21/21 7:47:24 PM
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Is that where people just shit in the street?

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Dark_SilverX
04/21/21 7:48:17 PM
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R1masher posted...
Is that where people just shit in the street?
it a luxury

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refmon
04/21/21 7:49:01 PM
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R1masher posted...
Is that where people just shit in the street?


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Crescente
04/21/21 7:52:40 PM
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R1masher posted...
Is that where people just shit in the street?
They also bathe in the rivers with shit >.>
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kingdrake2
04/21/21 7:59:38 PM
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R1masher posted...
Is that where people just shit in the street?


they're dying in the street now :(.
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s0nicfan
04/21/21 8:00:12 PM
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I think it's going to be a long time before we have an accurate picture of the number of people who have truly died from covid. I feel like half the world isn't even reporting on it and some of the biggest countries in the world are heavily incentivized to lie about it.

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ZannoL
04/21/21 8:02:53 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
I feel like half the world isn't even reporting on it and some of the biggest countries in the world are heavily incentivized to lie about it.
True.
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kinetika_
04/21/21 8:05:55 PM
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India has that toxic river, and you can see nasty foam floating on top of the water, too.

Found it lol:

https://youtu.be/_7HRyMrQp9E

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Lordgold666
04/21/21 8:12:32 PM
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Maybe ill finally get a break from all the spam calls

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Rob Cesternino
04/21/21 8:13:49 PM
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R1masher posted...
Is that where people just shit in the street?

It's also the rape capitol of the world

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Kami_no_Kami
04/21/21 8:15:09 PM
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You can do it crematoriums! We believe in you!
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MabusIncarnate
04/21/21 8:15:40 PM
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Can they go to Cricket games at full capacity though? That's the important part. People need to live their lives.

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UnfairRepresent
04/21/21 8:17:07 PM
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India is huge and homes over a billion people. IT has incredible wealth and incredible poverty.

I remember when the leaders there said it was a goal to ensure every citizen there had access to toilet facilities and people in the west laughed at them

And it bugged me because that's a really serious thing. It's not funny.

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_Sazando_
04/21/21 8:21:23 PM
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Maybe I'm just a "sensitive" bitch or something but something about the replies in this topic rubs me the wrong way. Let's make fun of India when they're going through the worst stretch of covid-19 that the world has seen yet >_>

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NeonOctopus
04/21/21 8:22:52 PM
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India's caste system is insane. You literally have people living in villages or just shitting in the street and living in shanty towns and then you have people in mansions with a bazillion cars. There's barely any middleground from what I heard >_>

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Dark_SilverX
04/21/21 8:28:05 PM
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kinetika_ posted...
India has that toxic river, and you can see nasty foam floating on top of the water, too.

Found it lol:

https://youtu.be/_7HRyMrQp9E
at least they look happy and enjoyin it.

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kingdrake2
04/21/21 9:02:05 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
IT has incredible wealth and incredible poverty.


incredible amount of death too :(.
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H0LD_Austin_Era
04/21/21 9:04:05 PM
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Has Bollywood stopped filming???

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Dark_SilverX
04/21/21 9:05:39 PM
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H0LD_Austin_Era posted...
Has Bollywood stopped filming???

:(
They locked up Harvey Singh, the Indian film producer.

:(

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nfearurspecimn
04/21/21 9:06:16 PM
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Lordgold666 posted...
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jfc lol
@Lordgold666 close call

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Omnislasher
04/21/21 9:09:19 PM
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B.1.617

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Jabodie
04/21/21 9:09:28 PM
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Weird how this was made into a "shit on India" thread

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ZannoL
04/21/21 9:10:27 PM
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_Sazando_ posted...
Maybe I'm just a "sensitive" bitch or something but something about the replies in this topic rubs me the wrong way. Let's make fun of India when they're going through the worst stretch of covid-19 that the world has seen yet >_>
I have to agree.

Like what the hell you guys? People are suffering.
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Bio1590
04/21/21 9:10:27 PM
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nfearurspecimn
04/21/21 9:11:20 PM
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_Sazando_ posted...
Maybe I'm just a "sensitive" bitch or something but something about the replies in this topic rubs me the wrong way. Let's make fun of India when they're going through the worst stretch of covid-19 that the world has seen yet >_>
yessir, I afree

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BilalPowell
04/21/21 9:14:16 PM
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Was bound to happen they have over a billion people

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Metallic Slug13
04/21/21 9:15:44 PM
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India is basically a meme on this board, people only post about it when it's something negative.

The whole world is in chaos and some people are still determined to punch down, apparently.

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R1masher
04/22/21 7:12:30 AM
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Cant believe the moderation team deleted my post

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Rob Cesternino
04/23/21 12:58:19 AM
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Metallic Slug13 posted...
India is basically a meme on this board, people only post about it when it's something negative.

The whole world is in chaos and some people are still determined to punch down, apparently.

India is genociding their Muslims and Sikhs right now, dude. Look up the farmers protests and Kashmir, it's truly awful and India deserves the criticism it receives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCUIZVMVZQ

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Omnislasher
04/23/21 1:14:45 AM
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Rob Cesternino posted...
India is genociding their Muslims and Sikhs right now, dude. Look up the farmers protests and Kashmir, it's truly awful and India deserves the criticism it receives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCUIZVMVZQ

but how does the grotesqueness of the BJP justify insensitivity toward the massive human suffering of the population writ large?

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Metallic Slug13
04/23/21 1:19:41 AM
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Omnislasher posted...
but how does the grotesqueness of the BJP justify insensitivity toward the massive human suffering of the population writ large?

It doesn't.

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Kolibri X
04/23/21 1:52:39 AM
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1,700 daily.
In a country of 1.4 billion.

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Bio1590
04/23/21 9:35:45 AM
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Rob Cesternino posted...
it's truly awful and India deserves the criticism it receives.

"Isn't that the country where they shit in the streets?" in a topic like this isn't criticism.

It's even worse when you basically ignore that this exact same problem was happening in the US at the beginning and hospitals were keeping covid victims in freezer trucks in their parking lots.
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thronedfire2
04/23/21 9:42:26 AM
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Bio1590 posted...
"Isn't that the country where they shit in the streets?" in a topic like this isn't criticism.

It's even worse when you basically ignore that this exact same problem was happening in the US at the beginning and hospitals were keeping covid victims in freezer trucks in their parking lots.

and everyone except Trump supporters made fun of the US back then too

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justaguy3492
04/23/21 9:48:48 AM
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No one is really criticizing the citizens of India, but rather the way the country/government operates.

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Rob Cesternino
04/24/21 5:15:47 AM
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Bio1590 posted...
"Isn't that the country where they shit in the streets?" in a topic like this isn't criticism.

It's even worse when you basically ignore that this exact same problem was happening in the US at the beginning and hospitals were keeping covid victims in freezer trucks in their parking lots.

He was asking if India is the country where open defecation is a known widespread practice in India, and yes it is. It's massive source of disease, which undoubtedly is a driving factor in their skyrocketing covid cases.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/open-defecation-india_b_7898834

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Turtlebread
04/24/21 5:22:13 AM
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Kolibri X posted...
1,700 daily.
In a country of 1.4 billion.


so I guess its not a big deal

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kyujo
04/24/21 5:59:17 AM
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Turtlebread posted...
so I guess its not a big deal
A big cause for concern seems to be the recent rate of increase which looks pretty bad. Similar in Brazil, though theirs seems to be improving at least

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