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I find this totally abhorrent. I am not suggesting we don't help, but surely this is complete madness.
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I find this totally abhorrent. I am not suggesting we don't help, but surely this is complete madness.
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The point being that a country buckling under the weight of a health emergency while literally swimming in its own waste has no business reaching for the stars. It's an utter obscenity and no amount of puffed up outrage from right-on advocates for advancement will change that fact. Fix the basics then you can go out and play.
20:12 Sun 25th Apr 2021
It was pretty obvious from the start of this pandemic that India would suffer a very large death rate, due to pretty obvious reasons, it was somewhat delayed, the lull before the storm. I would say its near on impossible to treat such a large population and no doubt there's many more to die, but you can't stand by and watch people suffocate, so whatever can be done requires all hands on deck to salvage whatever can be salvaged from this disaster.
In early March this year, health minister Harsh Vardhan claimed India was in the “endgame” of the pandemic. Cricket matches, and massive religious festivals, all largely maskless, were held.
“These were all possible super-spreader events,” said Dr Jameel, of Ashoka University.
“We celebrated too early,” says Dr Jameel. “Modellers were predicting a second wave. Historically, if you look at respiratory pandemics, they come back. But nobody really expected it to be this big. We were really caught by surprise and it has completely overwhelmed the system.”
India is not alone in this: British doctors said at the weekend that most people don’t realise how close this country came to a similar collapse when our more transmissible variant, B1117, hit before Christmas.
Dr Julian Tang, respiratory sciences honorary associate professor at the University of Leicester, said the rate of the rise in the numbers of Covid-19 cases is not that different to what happened here.
D.T.
“These were all possible super-spreader events,” said Dr Jameel, of Ashoka University.
“We celebrated too early,” says Dr Jameel. “Modellers were predicting a second wave. Historically, if you look at respiratory pandemics, they come back. But nobody really expected it to be this big. We were really caught by surprise and it has completely overwhelmed the system.”
India is not alone in this: British doctors said at the weekend that most people don’t realise how close this country came to a similar collapse when our more transmissible variant, B1117, hit before Christmas.
Dr Julian Tang, respiratory sciences honorary associate professor at the University of Leicester, said the rate of the rise in the numbers of Covid-19 cases is not that different to what happened here.
D.T.
you only have to watch the news coming from the capital, to see the suffering, dying people. They will undoubtedly end up with a death toll in the hundreds of thousands if not more, living as i said on top of one another, being in close proximity at the cleansing ceremonies on the Ganges, at the cricket where there were thousands unmasked, the second wave has hit them hard.
we can send them aid to help them, and so can other countries who are sending oxygen, masks, PPE, but its a drop in the ocean.
we can send them aid to help them, and so can other countries who are sending oxygen, masks, PPE, but its a drop in the ocean.
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