India's Covid 19 situation

[bsswan]

12 hours ago, Wt_know said:

he is the super spreader … literally 

This guy needs prosecuted for stupidity.

Okay, technically that's sadly not illegal, but certainly something like public endangerment.

[bsswan]

10 hours ago, Tianmo said:

something has been bothering me this past 2 days on the situation over in India.

400,000 a day of infection is seriously no joke, and how many of these would die? 

how is the dead manage? 

will any delays,  mismanagement, shortage of whatever create another problem?

dead bodies laying around not manage fast enough is a big bleeding ground for more ugly stuffs to happen....

The ~4,000 deaths about right for the declared ~200,000 cases per day when these people got infected a couple of weeks ago. Worldwide mortality is roughly 2% but this has to be balanced between countries with good therapeutics and those without, those with space in hospitals and those without. Some countries have a very low mortality (SG) whilst a lot don't. On the face if it, with India, maybe start your mortality estimates around 5%......others here likely have a different feeling on higher/lower.

The next problem? In the cities it's more likely.........shortage of wood.

So far, they've been doing a relatively good job but unfortunately more recently bodies are arriving faster than they can be cremated. So far they have been placed in body bags and sprayed with disinfectant but this only last so long.

[Voodooman]

On 5/2/2021 at 5:14 AM, Lethalstrike said:

He forget India is entrenched with their caste system, which automatically means 80% of the so called born talents there won't even be realized to their potential. 

And you have the central government being unable to do things, as the local government had their own Indian chiefs and ideas. Not forgetting India itself consists of so much mother tongues / dialects being spoken. 

How to overtake China in 250 years, don't say 25 years?

You are spot on. The biggest problem facing India is a weak central government after the fall of the Congress Party.   Modi has consolidated power and India has done well in the last few years actually.  

Most of the educated and professionals working here are supporters, at least those whom I talked to.  

It looks like Covid will set India back by years and if Modi loses power, India might go back to being a basket case again. 

[Maxus-MIFA9]

1 minute ago, Voodooman said:

You are spot on. The biggest problem facing India is a weak central government after the fall of the Congress Party.   Modi has consolidated power and India has done well in the last few years actually.  

Most of the educated and professionals working here are supporters, at least those whom I talked to.  

It looks like Covid will set India back by years and if Modi loses power, India might go back to being a basket case again. 

No worries ....

There is one who predicted that India will overtake China in the next 25 years ...  

[Victor68]

1 hour ago, bsswan said:

Unfortunately large spikes are being seen in Bhutan, Pakistan and Nepal where the borders out of India are........um, porous.

It spreads, and now that it's in Singapore, Malaysia, UK (just as they are about to restart flying the world) and all over, we need local vaccination rates and speeds to tick up. We also need Malaysia to stop using SinoVac and use something more effective otherwise we'll have another, more local issue, to wrap our hands around.

When government fails to take quick decisive actions but worry of trade and bilateral relationship, their people will suffer. We have registered daily numbers of imported cases yet our border remains open to repeated imports. Very slow to act.

[Wt_know]

2 minutes ago, Victor68 said:

When government fails to take quick decisive actions but worry of trade and bilateral relationship, their people will suffer. We have registered daily numbers of imported cases yet our border remains open to repeated imports. Very slow to act.

yeah ... the only country that i always hear ban here ban there ... 1 case is too many is NZ and OZ 

perhaps their economy is super tok kong or their leader is "covid" first ... economy second ...

Edited May 3, 2021 by Wt_know

[Victor68]

12 minutes ago, Wt_know said:

yeah ... the only country that i always hear ban here ban there ... 1 case is too many is NZ and OZ 

perhaps their economy is super tok kong or their leader is "covid" first ... economy second ...

When a plane load of passengers are tested positive on arrival,  straightaway that country test cannot be accepted liable.

[Beregond]

15 minutes ago, Victor68 said:

When government fails to take quick decisive actions but worry of trade and bilateral relationship, their people will suffer. We have registered daily numbers of imported cases yet our border remains open to repeated imports. Very slow to act.

the new indian variant is already spreading, only crucial traveling should be allow.

its crazy to even attempt to open up now

[Fcw75]

How to show pity for them? This scene is after West Bengal results. 

Edited May 3, 2021 by Fcw75

[Sdf4786k]

13 hours ago, Tianmo said:

something has been bothering me this past 2 days on the situation over in India.

400,000 a day of infection is seriously no joke, and how many of these would die? 

how is the dead manage? 

will any delays,  mismanagement, shortage of whatever create another problem?

dead bodies laying around not manage fast enough is a big bleeding ground for more ugly stuffs to happen....

In terms of % it’s a drop in the ocean.

If 400 000 with population of 5.5m it’s closed to 9%.
 

with 400000 and a population of one billion people, it’s 0.4 %. 

I have full confidence that the Govt will have a handle over this.

Just that at this state of heightened awareness, there maybe more anxiety than it is needed.

else sg would have followed what Australian is enforcing.. 

[Jamesc]

Indians not getting enough sun.

 

[Nolicense]

24 minutes ago, Jamesc said:

Indians not getting enough sun.

 

har? there sun so hot.. and their skin so dark to absorb lots of sun... so how to vit D deficiency??

first time i hear dark skin produce less vit D

Edited May 3, 2021 by Nolicense

[Maxus-MIFA9]

38 minutes ago, Nolicense said:

har? there sun so hot.. and their skin so dark to absorb lots of sun... so how to vit D deficiency??

first time i hear dark skin produce less vit D

That's why chinese use dark skin chicken (less fats), double bolied with herbs as health tonic ....

[Jamesc]

1 hour ago, Nolicense said:

har? there sun so hot.. and their skin so dark to absorb lots of sun... so how to vit D deficiency??

first time i hear dark skin produce less vit D

They use long sleeve and long pants and avoid the sun.

Indian woman think white skin is beautiful and dark skin is not.

Dark skin absorb sun light much slower.

Down ironic.

[Nolicense]

4 minutes ago, Jamesc said:

They use long sleeve and long pants and avoid the sun.

Indian woman think white skin is beautiful and dark skin is not.

Dark skin absorb sun light much slower.

Down ironic.

no la. they got bad medical advice.

doctor say white skin absorb sunlight faster and produce more vit D.

ergo, they must make skin white. so cover up full and avoid sun to get white skin.

[Carbon82]

A friendly reminder here: please watch your words and avoid joking about a particular race, skin colour, culture, etc.

You are treading on thin ice and situation can get out of hand easily.

Thank you for your cooperation.

[Kb27]

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/nepal-halts-all-domestic-international-flights-in-effort-to-curb-huge-covid-19-spike

Nepal halts all domestic, international flights in effort to curb huge Covid-19 spike

KATHMANDU (NYTIMES) - Public fury over Nepal's growing wave of coronavirus infections has been rising in the country, with many people blaming travellers from India and several other virus-stricken countries, as well as government ineptitude in handling the pandemic and large political rallies.

In response, Nepal announced on Sunday (May 2) that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.

As India's crisis has worsened over recent weeks, people from several Indian states thronged to Nepal via land and air routes. Some were Nepali migrant workers returning home; others aimed to travel onward to third countries.

Last week, Nepal responded by banning third-country travel via Nepal and imposing two-week lockdowns in several cities, closing schools, colleges, factories, nightclubs and theatres. Public gatherings are also banned.

But those moves did little to immediately quell infections, which are spiking in Nepal's densely populated cities, including Kathmandu, the capital, and metropolitan areas bordering India to the south-west.

The number of infections that Nepal has reported has escalated rapidly since mid-April, from a seven-day average of new daily cases of less than 100 to more than 4,500 as at Saturday, pushing total cases over the pandemic to more than 328,000, according to data from the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford.

[Windwaver]

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indias-covid-19-case-total-nears-20-million

Expert urges national stay-at-home order as India’s Covid-19 cases near 20 million

Medical experts say real numbers across the country of 1.35 billion may be five to 10 times higher than the official tally.