India should lockdown but chose not to

[laksaboy]

India is a vibrant free society. Biggest democracy in the world. Results of election within a day thanks to indian genius. US tajes months to finalise. China forget it. Got no balls to be a free and democratic society. Biggest whorehouse on the planet.

Chinese prostitutes are enjoyed all over the world... I bet some of them are plying their trade in India too.

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

WITH SO MUCH AID$$$$$$$$$$$$ COMING IT, IT MAKES NO SENSE TO LOCKDOWN

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

India is a vibrant free society. Biggest democracy in the world. Results of election within a day thanks to indian genius. US tajes months to finalise. China forget it. Got no balls to be a free and democratic society. Biggest whorehouse on the planet.
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THIS MAN SHIT POOtra WHOSE MOTHER WAS INDIAN-FUCKED SO MANY TIME RANTING AGAIN

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

A million dead is one million less coming over. Nothing bad

1.1 billions to go.............

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Why is India not announcing a nationwide lockdown amid its deadly COVID second wave?
By Zena Chamas
Posted 17hhours ago, updated 10hhours ago

Despite recording catastrophic numbers, India is not under a national lockdown. (
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India has been hit with a devastating second wave of coronavirus, leading to more than 21 million infections and hundreds of thousands more deaths since the outbreak began.
The crisis has engulfed states like Uttar Pradesh and the capital Delhi, wreaking havoc on the country's frail healthcare system.
So, what has the government been doing to tame the virus?
Despite recording catastrophic numbers, India is not under a national lockdown.
Experts have weighed in on why that is and how they think the government is handling the situation.
So, why isn't a nationwide lockdown in place?
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it clear that the country would not go into a full lockdown, despite nationwide calls.
He instead reportedly called on states to consider a lockdown "as the last option" during a televised address last month.
Despite this, the Supreme Court of India has advised the central government to impose a lockdown, according to local media in India.

India's main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has recently warned that unless the deadly second COVID-19 wave sweeping the country was brought under control, it would decimate India.
In a letter, Mr Gandhi implored Mr Modi to prepare for another national lockdown, and accelerate a vaccination program.

"A crime has been committed against India," he wrote on Twitter.

The US's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, also called on the country to go into a full lockdown.
But despite this, only some states that have seen spikes in numbers have implemented local lockdowns, and in some cases only partial lockdowns.

"There is a challenge to having a nationwide lockdown in the country from what we learned last year," said Itika Sharma Punit, co-editor of Quartz India.
She said last year's COVID lockdown in March took an economic toll on the country, giving the Indian government renewed reasons not to repeat the move.
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The 2020 nationwide lockdown had been called "the strictest lockdown that any country had put anywhere in the world," she said.
"Everything was shut, production was shut, sales were shut. The country's economy went into a technical recession last year."
India's migrant labourers from rural parts of the country also bore the brunt of last year's lockdown.
"Factories were closed, construction sites were closed. A lot of people suddenly didn't have money to feed their children."
She said that was also a contributing factor to why India had not implemented another full lockdown.
Why are only some states in lockdown?
President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Srinath Reddy, said whether Mr Modi made the right decision not to implement a nationwide lockdown was up for debate.
He added, "some states may be feeling that they can handle things without the full lockdown."
"This is something that could vary across the country because different states entered the second wave in different [ways]," he said.

Many states with overwhelming infection rates have taken action and implemented full lockdowns, including rural regions, where the virus has most recently spread.
The whole state of Kerala, on India's tropical Malabar Coast, has most recently gone into a full lockdown to slow infections.
Professor Reddy said the government had failed to give the country's public health system the priority it needed, largely due to a "false belief" that the second wave would not be this severe.

India is one of the world's biggest producers of vaccines, but doses are already running low.(
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Mr Modi has been widely criticised for not acting sooner to suppress the second wave, after religious festivals and political rallies drew tens of thousands of people in recent weeks and became super-spreader events.
The surge in infections also coincided with a dramatic drop in vaccinations because of supply and delivery problems, despite India being a major vaccine producer.
"There should be a coordinated countrywide containment strategy with some statewide variations," Professor Reddy said.
What if a nationwide lockdown was implemented now?
According to political analyst and researcher Manisha Priyam, a national lockdown would only work if India could guarantee proper medical support to patients.
She said the situation was so tragic in India that at this point a national lockdown would be pointless, but rather the solution would be to have many state-level lockdowns to target hotspot areas.
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"The national government needs to be in a support role, first and foremost, providing oxygen to states [and] looking at oxygen management," she said.

"Please save lives, national government of India, please save lives. They are your own."

Professor Reddy said even if a national lockdown was implemented now, the country would need to re-optimise its services by bringing in systems so that "we would not allow the transmission to wake up again, even after the lockdown".
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A mass cremation of victims who died from COVID-19 is seen from the air at a crematorium ground in New Delhi.
India has reported 1.5 million new infections in this past week alone. Hospitals have run out of beds and medical oxygen has stretched the country's healthcare system to its limits.
Morgues and crematoriums cannot handle the number of dead and makeshift funeral pyres burn in parks and car parks.
Since the start of the pandemic, it has reported 21.5 million cases and 234,083 deaths. It currently has 3.6 million active cases, according to Reuters.
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But medical experts believe the real extent of COVID-19 is much higher than official tallies.
Mr Modi has called on Indian states to keep up vaccination rates in order to tame infection rates.
Professor Reddy believes heavier restrictions need to be put in place, although he acknowledges many do not take restrictions seriously without enforcement.

"We ought to take strong measures all across India, even if there are variations on how we do that."

"It's simple. Don't allow crowds of people to meet in any public places, even offices and other work must be restricted to absolutely essential work.
"But if there is a lockdown, I think there's a greater chance of [people following the rules] because of the threat of monitoring. But what happens after the lockdown?" he said.
Posted 17hhours ago, updated 10hhours ago

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

Politicians in India refuse to lock down because of fear of losing votes and Singaporeans are the ones suffering.

India's Covid-19 cases dip from peak, calls for shutdown mount

India's tally of infections now stands at 22.66 million, with 246,116 deaths.PHOTO: AFP

May 10, 2021

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (REUTERS) - Calls grew for India to impose a nationwide lockdown as new coronavirus cases and deaths held close to record highs on Monday (May 10), increasing pressure on the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The health ministry reported 366,161 new infections and 3,754 deaths, off a little from recent peaks. India's tally of infections now stands at 22.66 million, with 246,116 deaths.
As many hospitals grapple with an acute shortage of oxygen and beds while morgues and crematoriums overflow, experts have said India's actual figures could be far higher than reported.
The 1.47 million samples tested on Sunday for Covid-19 were this month's lowest yet, data from the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research showed. The figure compared with a daily average of 1.7 million for the first eight days of May.
Many states have imposed strict lockdowns over the past month while others have adopted curbs on movement and shut cinemas, restaurants, pubs and shopping malls.
But pressure is mounting on Mr Modi to announce a nationwide lockdown as he did during the first wave of infections last year.

He is battling criticism for allowing huge gatherings at a religious festival and holding large election rallies during the past two months even as cases surged.
"A failure of governance of epic and historic proportions," political science professor Vipin Narang from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, said on Twitter.
Sonia Gandhi, the chief of the main opposition Congress party, blamed the government for abdicating its responsibility by leaving vaccinations to states, Reuters partner ANI said on Twitter.
Delhi’s health minister said the city was running out of vaccines, with just three to four days of supplies remaining of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, made by the Serum Institute of India and branded Covishield, the NDTV news channel reported.

By Sunday, the world’s largest vaccine-producing nation had fully vaccinated just over 34.3 million, or only 2.5 per cent, of its population of about 1.35 billion, government data shows.
On Sunday, top White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci said he had advised Indian authorities that they needed to shut down.
"You've got to shut down," Dr Fauci said on ABC's This Week television show. "I believe several of the Indian states have already done that, but you need to break the chain of transmission. And one of the ways to do that is to shut down."
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has also called for a "complete, well-planned, pre-announced" lockdown.
New Delhi, the capital, entered a fourth week of lockdown, with tougher curbs such as the shutdown of the suburban rail network, while residents scrambled for scarce hospital beds and oxygen supplies.

"This is not the time to be lenient," Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday.
"This phase is so tough, this wave is so dangerous, so many people are dying... The priority at this hour is to save lives," he said in a televised address.
Late on Sunday, the northern state of Uttarakhand said it would impose curfew from Tuesday until May 18, just days after mass religious gatherings held in the state became virus super spreading events.
Shops selling fruits, vegetables and dairy items will stay open for some hours in the morning, while malls, gyms, theatres, bars and liquor shops are among the enterprises that will be shut, the government said.
Measures announced by India’s central bank last week for relief to lenders and borrowers during the new devastating wave of infections will only delay the stress for financial institutions, Fitch Ratings said.
Fitch said disruptions could persist longer and spread further than its baseline case scenario, especially in case of more regional lockdowns or one nationwide, adding that a drop in April-May activity would delay recovery.
Organisers of the popular and lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament conceded the remaining games will have to be played overseas after they suspended the contest over the virus this month.
Global support, in the form of oxygen cylinders and concentrators, ventilators and other medical gear, has poured in.
On Monday, US company Eli Lilly and Co said it signed licensing deals with Indian drugmakers, such as Cipla Ltd, Lupin and Sun Pharma to make and sell its arthritis drug baricitinib for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.
India’s drug regulator has approved the drug for restricted emergency use in combination with remdesivir for hospitalised adult sufferers in need of supplemental oxygen.

 

[syed putra]

Indians will show the world on how to beat the chinese, not just the virus.

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

India should lock down for 6 to 8 weeks.

Most of India should remain locked down for 6-8 weeks to fight Covid-19: Health agency chief

People queueing outside a railway station to return home during the first day of a government-imposed lockdown in Secunderabad, India, on May 12, 2021.PHOTO: AFP

May 12, 2021

NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - The head of the main Indian health agency responding to the coronavirus has said districts reporting a high number of infections should remain locked down for another six to eight weeks to control the spread of the rampaging disease.
Dr Balram Bhargava, head of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said in an interview that lockdown restrictions should remain in place in all districts where the rate of infection is above 10 per cent of those tested.
Currently, three-quarters of India's 718 districts have what is known as a test-positivity rate above 10 per cent, including major cities such as New Delhi, Mumbai and the tech hub of Bengaluru.
Dr Bhargava's comments are the first time a senior government official has outlined how long lockdowns, which already encompass large parts of the country, need to continue to rein in the crisis in India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has shied away from imposing a nationwide lockdown because of the economic impact and has left it to state governments.
Several states have introduced varying levels of curbs on economic activity and public movement to stop the spread of the virus, which are mostly being reviewed and extended on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

"The high positivity districts should remain (shut). If they come to 5 per cent from 10 per cent (positivity rate) we can open them, but that has to happen. That won't happen in six-eight weeks, clearly," Dr Bhargava said in an interview at the New Delhi headquarters of the ICMR, the country's top medical research body.
Referring to the capital, one of India's hardest-hit cities where the positivity rate reached around 35 per cent but has now fallen to about 17 per cent, Dr Bhargava said: "If Delhi is opened tomorrow, it will be a disaster."
India is in deep crisis in the current wave of Covid-19 infections with around 350,000 cases and 4,000 deaths being reported daily. Hospitals and morgues are overflowing, medical staff is exhausted and oxygen and drugs are running short.
Many experts say the actual case tallies and deaths could be five to 10 times higher.

Mr Modi and other top political leaders have faced a public backlash for addressing mass election rallies where no major Covid-19 safety protocols were followed. The federal government also didn't intervene to stop a religious festival in a northern state in March that was attended by millions of devout Hindus.
'Slight delay'
Dr Bhargava did not criticise the Modi government but conceded there had been a delay in responding to the crisis.
"I think the only discontent we have was there was a slight delay accepting the 10 per cent (recommendation), but that did happen," he said.
He said an April 15 meeting of the National Task Force on Covid-19 had made the recommendation to the government to lock down areas with a 10 per cent positivity rate or higher.

Yet, in a televised speech on April 20, Mr Modi dissuaded states and said a lockdown should be used as "last resort" and the focus should remain on "micro-containment zones".
On April 26 - more than 10 days after the task force meeting - India's home (interior) ministry wrote to states, asking them to implement strict measures for "large containment areas" in hard-hit districts, but only for 14 days.
India's home and health ministries, as well as Mr Modi's office, did not respond to requests for comment.
Reuters reported earlier this month the head of the National Centre for Disease Control had privately told an online gathering that strict lockdown measures were required in early April.
Two senior ICMR officials told Reuters the organisation was frustrated about political leaders addressing large rallies and allowing religious gatherings, saying the actions publicly flouted required safety measures. Mr Modi himself addressed several of the political meetings, maskless.
"Our messaging has been completely incorrect, not in sync with the situation," said one of the officials, referring to the government. "We have miserably failed."
Dr Bhargava denied there was any discontent within the ICMR and added the agency was on the same page with policymakers. Without commenting directly on political leaders, he said mass gatherings during Covid-19 should not be acceptable in India or anywhere else.
"It's common sense," he said.

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

Fake degrees, fake covid-19 tests, fake covid-19 test results, fake death toll

Doubts surround India's official Covid-19 death toll

Experts say the official quarter-million death count is hugely underreported.PHOTO: REUTERS

May 12, 2021

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's coronavirus death toll passed 250,000 on Wednesday (May 12) but comparisons of official data with those from people on the front lines suggested the true number is several times higher.
Across the vast nation, the devastating Covid-19 wave has overwhelmed hospitals with patients and crematoriums with bodies, and many coronavirus deaths are not being properly recorded as such.
Experts say the official quarter-million death count is hugely under-reported.
"Even three to four times would be an underestimate," Mr Anant Bhan, an independent health policy and bioethics researcher, told AFP.
Harrowing images from overwhelmed crematoriums, graveyards and even makeshift funeral pyres have highlighted the scale of the crisis.
Bodies of suspected Covid-19 victims have also been seen floating down the holy Ganges river.

The discrepancies appear particularly stark in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.
In Rajkot, in the west of the state, the official death toll between April 1-23 was 154, yet the city's own health officials put it at 723.
And in Bharuch, the official count for the same period was just 23 but there were 600 funerals.
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani insisted that the state was following guidelines from the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Those say only deaths directly caused by Covid-19 can be recorded as such, but not fatalities triggered by co-morbidities - when a patient had heart problems and dies of cardiac arrest, for instance.
Even before the pandemic, just 22 per cent of the nearly 10 million annual deaths in India were medically certified, and experts say the spike in funerals points to the same happening with Covid-19 fatalities.
The surge has pushed the Aishbagh Burial Ground in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh state, to the brink.
Mr Hafiz Abdul Mateen from the graveyard told AFP it handled four to five burials a day before the pandemic.
"Today, 45 bodies of Covid victims have been buried here," he said.
"We've increased the number of gravediggers but that's also not enough as these men are getting tired and falling sick."
The official figures for deaths in some other states, including Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, also do not align with the number of funerals.
Media reports have also suggested that the official numbers for the capital New Delhi also fall well short of the reality.

"Our estimate is 50 per cent of Covid-19 deaths are not registered by the government," Mr Jitender Singh Shanty, in charge of one of Delhi's 26 crematoriums, told AFP.
Health economist and researcher Rijo M. John described the situation as a "battle for data, data sharing and transparency".
But a spokesman for India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party denied allegations of undercounting or political motivations behind the mismatch in fatality numbers.
"It is not possible for anyone to hide the numbers in this age and time," Mr R.P. Singh told AFP.
Despite the assurances, some are not convinced.
"There is massive under-reporting of deaths and cases," said college student Sonalika Sahay, 22.
"The government is saying the positivity rate is coming down and the situation is improving. How can it be possible when corpses are being dumped in rivers in dozens?"

 

[mudhatter]

India is a vibrant free society. Biggest democracy in the world. Results of election within a day thanks to indian genius. US tajes months to finalise. China forget it. Got no balls to be a free and democratic society. Biggest whorehouse on the planet.

i thought CECA takes the cake ?

 

[mudhatter]

Indians will show the world on how to beat the chinese, not just the virus.

true ceca icon has arrived

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

PM Modi faces criticism for handling of India's Covid-19 pandemic​

Nirmala Ganapathy
India Bureau Chief

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been criticised for being out of sync with ground realities.PHOTO: AFP

May 15, 2021

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been regularly attending government meetings with state leaders and his own bureaucrats, according to official government releases, even as the second wave of Covid-19 infections hit the country in the most devastating manner.
Many, including his critics, have wondered why India's prime minister is not more visible in reassuring a panicked nation and addressing in detail the issues facing the country, and the plans to fix them.
During the first wave last year, Mr Modi was significantly visible, decisively locking down the country for 21 days while calling on the citizenry to observe a people's curfew and leading them in a show of appreciation of healthcare workers.
But in the second wave, he has been criticised for being out of sync with ground realities.
In an address to the nation on April 20, Mr Modi urged states to avoid lockdowns even as they struggled to control record-high daily cases which overwhelmed the healthcare infrastructure.
He addressed large election rallies in West Bengal, where social distancing measures were ignored and masks removed, and allowed the Kumbh Mela - a religious Hindu gathering - to take place in April, ignoring warnings that a more transmissible Covid-19 variant was spreading in the country.

The weeks-long Kumbh Mela gathering was shut down two weeks early, only after Mr Modi intervened but not before more than 2,600 devotees and religious leaders tested positive. It is believed they then took the virus home with them.
Criticism has also been levelled at his Cabinet colleagues who have been absent or have struck a discordant note such as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who denied vaccine and oxygen shortages even as the government accepted oxygen aid from more than 40 countries.
For the first time, Mr Modi, who has been hugely popular over the last seven years, is facing direct criticism over his failure to navigate the country through the crisis.
The word "MISSING" in red was splashed across the cover of Outlook Magazine in its May issue, a reference to his government, while India Today magazine carried the cover "The Failed State".
Criticism has come from the opposition, medical fraternity, courts and even those seen as keen supporters such as actor Anupam Kher, who said the government had slipped up during the Covid-19 crisis.
Indian Medical Association president J.A. Jayalal in a statement accused the government of not listening to medical experts.
"While the medical fraternity is trying hard to make people understand mandatory Covid-19 norms, PM Modi did not hesitate to address big political rallies, tossing all Covid-19 norms in the air," he said.
While opinion polls are not often reliable, data analytics company Morning Consult showed that Mr Modi's popularity had fallen from 74 per cent on March 31, to 65 per cent on May 4.

Last rites being performed for a Covid-19 victim at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India, on May 14, 2021. The country has crossed 20 million cases in a devastating second wave. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

However, Mr Modi still remains more popular than 13 other leaders, including United States President Joe Biden.
India is enduring a devastating second wave that has impacted every strata of Indian society. The country has crossed 20 million cases and while models suggest the peak has passed, reports of a shortage of hospital beds, oxygen and medicine remain, as well as a deepening crisis in rural parts.
The medical journal Lancet in an article headlined "India's Covid-19 emergency" said India had "squandered its early successes in controlling Covid-19". It urged India to "restructure" the response.
"The success of that effort will depend on the government owning up to its mistakes, providing responsible leadership and transparency, and implementing a public health response that has science at its heart."
Amid all the criticism, the government and Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have blamed rivals Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party and other opposition-led states for the crisis.
A fact sheet tweeted by BJP leaders and party spokesmen on May 13 similarly blamed states for the crisis.
They denied that the Modi government had failed to see the second wave coming, tweeting that "PM Modi alerted states about a second wave coming and asked them to take quick steps before it gets too late".
It also accused other parties of spreading Covid-19 through their political activities in states that have registered the highest numbers of cases.

Several Indian states have announced the suspension of the vaccination programme to all adults due to a shortage of Covid-19 vaccines. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

And on Friday, Mr Modi, in his first public outreach in days, said in a virtual address that he too felt the pain of loss and called the coronavirus an "invisible enemy".
"The pain that the countrymen have endured, the pain that many people have gone through, I feel the same pain," he said.
Some like Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) national executive member Ram Madhav acknowledged the mistakes. The RSS is the ideological backbone of the BJP.
"While some of the criticism, like holding public rallies or organising religious festivals, can be described as legitimate, most others are hyperbolic ravings of politically motivated commentators.
"These criticisms ranged from insensitivity to deliberate inflicting of suffering on the masses. Modi did not act like Bolsonaro of Brazil or Trump of America," he wrote in The Indian Express newspaper.
The next election is three years away and public memory is known to be short but analysts say if the crisis continues, Mr Modi's political future may be at risk. Elections in Uttar Pradesh is in eight months and the BJP, which is in power there, may face a political backlash.
In West Bengal, where three phases of state legislative assembly elections took place after the second wave hit India, the Trinamool Congress defeated the BJP in what has been interpreted by some as a backlash.

"Most people realise this is a failure on the part of the government. There is a huge disenchantment.
"What has aggravated is that last year he was communicating to the people in different ways... that he is personally looking after everything for the well-being of people.
"Now he is seen as someone who has disappeared," said Mr Sanjay Kumar, director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
Still, he noted: "I don't discount the BJP's ability to turn things around very quickly in the next six months if the pandemic is under control."

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Just ride it out which is what humans have always done. The species will emerge at the other end stronger than before.

‘Ride it out’? Is that what you tell yourself when your cellmate bangs u?

 

[syed putra]

Its all out. The cure is a anti parasitic drug ivermectin.
And if you need oxygen dye to breathing difficulties, steroids.
Now open up the borders with to those from india, jb and batam.