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by vikiomega9 1890 days ago
Good point but not quite. TN for example and most southern states are doing fairly well.
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Yes i'm from Tirupur, TN. I'm only asking to assume not blindly believe. I'm looking at the various reports from Financial Times and BBC. The hotspots are not uniform but the data fudging is happening at a large scale in the country.
Not disagreeing on data fudging. Just asking for some cooler heads when thinking about the situation.
I dont think you're understanding the urgency or the scale of the catastrophe. People are dying the streets waiting for hospital beds. The doctors are breaking down because of their helplessness. What exactly do you mean by cooler heads? Isn't the apathy shocking?
we wouldn't really know because none of the states are reporting accurately.
Yes this is undeniably true. No matter the extent of infections, all states are under reporting. But some are going extreme. When the furnaces have melted because of continuous body burning and the state reports 20 deaths in the entire state for the day then we know its a massive cover up
yes I agree with the data fudging, however I'm just asking for some restraint in extrapolation. One anecdote of furnace melting does not mean we're in hell. I'm saying this not out of some misplaced sense of patriotism, but that these are incredibly hard times and its easy to spiral into more fear mongering and FUD.

However I'm not defending anybody in this mess. From the US and EU blocking patent waivers to India's government being chronically under capacity, to having people fly to Maldives for late last year. This is a cluster fuck of how stupid humans are at the end of the day.

Please donate whatever you can, we'll get out of this mess.

> One anecdote of furnace melting does not mean we're in hell.

-- This was one anecdote by me here. In reality its all over the news.

-- There are literally thousands and thousands of SOS tweets asking for hospital beds, O2 cylinders and Meds all over the country. Its even live right now.[1] Are you not on social media?

What do you mean "easy to spiral into more fear mongering and FUD" ?? This is literally explaining whats happening and asking for some accountability is somehow bad?. If this is isn't talked about today then when is it going to be fixed?

There are hospitals sending people back because they don't have oxygen supply!

I have lost 2 of my friends and I'm insanely angry at the appalling conditions that I see. Please don't go around asking people to not talk about problems cause it may induce fear!!

[1]https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23OxygenCrisis&src=tren...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23CovidSOS&src=trend_cl...

I've lost two grandparents. I know how dire it is and I'm sitting here in the US of A not able to do anything about it.
Key difference being that you're in the US of A, while he's right on the ground in India.
Edit: succumbed to the perils of unnecessary abbreviations
This discussion is about India, so "TN" is Tamil Nadu.