[a9entroy]

Anyone who is living in India knows that cases are severely underreported in India. Government is publishing statistics saying city a has x covid deaths in a day. But crematoriums are seeing 10-20x body bags.

You don't even have to believe me. Just look up covid deaths for your city and then go to the city's largest crematorium and count the number of bodies in covid body bags.

(I know you just posted a tl;dr of the article and this is not necessarily your opinion.)

[jeswin]

> But crematoriums are seeing 10-20x body bags.

What's the source for this data?

Cases are underreported, but deaths to a lesser extent. While the situation is bad, it isn't helpful to throw random numbers around.

[takoid]

> Anyone who is living in India knows that cases are severely underreported in India. Government is publishing statistics saying city a has x covid deaths in a day. But crematoriums are seeing 10-20x body bags.

What would be the incentive for India's government to do this?

[sorokod]

Government on all levels wanting to appear more competent then they actually are?

[takoid]

That was my first thought as well but wouldn't that same logic apply to other countries as well? If not, why is this intentional suppression of COVID cases happening in India and not other countries like the United States and United Kingdom? At what point does the comparison of COVID cases between countries become meaningless as a result of countries manipulating the data they report?

[sorokod]

I suspect this is to do with the probability of getting away with data manipulation and the consequences of getting caught.

[fakedang]

Elections in key states

[safanycom]

State Assembly elections?