Bodies Washup Ganges River

[fender62]

i cannot believe what i just read, wading through corpses while they bathe in the ganges river
and you wonder how mutant strains start let alone who knows what other diseases, and to think
boris could have shut down arrivals from india...i think it will come back to haunt him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9595033/Covid-bodies-swell-Ganges-exposing-massive-discrepancy-real-death-toll-official-count.html

[JimF]

They've run out of wood for traditional Hindu funeral cremations, apparently. It's just horrible.

[fender62]

yea but wading thorough corpses to bathe in and around them...

[Mamyalynne]

It's a desperate situation for those poor people.

[JimF]

It really is! I speak to people from India every working day. We have no idea of their desperate situation.

[fender62]

over populated and have a space and nuclear program..

[JimF]

^^
You demonstrate a phenomenal ignorance of the desperate plight of the people..

[Mozz71]

I think you misunderstood Fender. I think he meant that the Indian leaders are focusing their finances on their nuclear and space programmes, rather than using it to tackle these problems.

[LadyCG]

//over populated and have a space and nuclear program//

How very true. I'm really not sure how you were demonstrating ignorance of anyone's plight there.

Methinks there are far to many high horses galloping around AB these days.

[fender62]

/desperate situation/ so go for a bathe in a river full of corpses, lack of common sense or religious nutjobs.

[david small]

A surreal nightmare come true. Oh, the humanity.

[Sunk]

Strains of Covid are not caused by bad hygiene. One of the first variants was the UK strain (or Kent variant), and had absolutely nothing to do with how clean people in the south east are.

[emmie]

it can't help though bathing in the Ganges where bodies are washed up. it must be a filthy river.

[Bazile]

How can you blame the people for the government having a space/ nuclear programme .

Do you think if you ask the ordinary man/ woman if they want these programmes , they would say yes - spend money on them instead of improving our standard of living?

[emmie]

spend money on improving the lives of the people first and foremost.

[davebro]

//They've run out of wood for traditional Hindu funeral cremations,//

Of course I suppose it's "religion" again where everyone( or their ashes) gets dumped in the river but surely a better solution would be mass graves that could be excavated with machinery. Is burial not the done thing in Hinduism?

[emmie]

you have to be cremated i thought ^^

[naomi24]

What a nightmare! Horrendous. The Ganges is appallingly polluted and that’s without the dead bodies. I wouldn’t paddle in it let alone bathe!

[New Judge]

//...boris could have shut down arrivals from india..//

No he could not. Most of the people arriving from India are returning British subjects who have a right to land here.

[emmie]

which some fail to comprehend. ^^

[davebro]

but he could have imposed quarantine restrictions?