[kushalpandya]

Yeah right, Maharashtra had massive gathering for Kumbh Mela at Bandra-Worli Sea Link, and Delhi had election rally for Assembly elections and newly appointed CM Arvind Kejriwal had merely days to manage mess left by LG.

[mandis]

Kolkata has a 54% positivity rate now, and nobody is able to get tested due to lack of testing infra. Just because it wasnt reported, doesnt mean it didnt affect.

[kushalpandya]

Sure now, but Maharashtra has been overflowing since early March when other states where there were no gatherings, didn't have cases. Point is, not single govt alone has failed. Pretty much everyone failed, including citizens like us who forgot precautions in January and February when cases dropped considerably.

I still see public ignoring safety norms like nothing has happened.

As for people running for hospitals, a primary reason (as per a doctor who treated my dad for Covid) is that people are ignoring symptoms for days (over a week at times) after which virus does enough damage that only option they're left with is getting oxygen assistance.

[mandis]

I agree with the first part, but the one with the biggest power center must also take the biggest responsibility. When the literal head of the nation gleefully boasts about the size of the election rally crowd during a killer pandemic wave, yeah, its on him.

>As for people running for hospitals, a primary reason (as per a doctor who treated my dad for Covid) is that people are ignoring symptoms for days (over a week at times) after which virus does enough damage that only option they're left with is getting oxygen assistance.

Hospitals will give the same protocol as people are following at home. In fact add the empathetic environment of home with proper food (compared to the sheer lack of care in any hospital right now), and people are recovering faster at home. Yes, there are many cases though where people had serious damage and they neglected to go early. Just saying this issue is complicated and I can understand why someone would hesitate to go to a hospital with 99F fever and slight bodyache.

[sinyug]

> but Maharashtra has been overflowing since early March when other states where there were no gatherings, didn't have cases.

And none these vultures in the media will talk about it because it does not fit their agenda.

I noticed a slow but steady rise in cases in Maharashtra since mid-February. A few reports suggested something was brewing in the Nagpur/Vidharbha region. No one paid any attention to it because of the war between the State and Center on the police corruption/extortion issue.

Soon, cases started appearing in Kerala and Punjab. Only THEN did other states start reporting cases in massive numbers. Did religious events and election rallies have an impact? Of course. But that came weeks later.

[sateesh]

The inaction of the government has much more impact. The government got complacent once the first wave receded, and didn't give heed to any expert opinions. There were reports that the Covid expert committee meeting itself didn't happen in past few months . In addition there was no concerted focus on vaccination, either to increase its capacity to cover majority of the population, or steps to dispel vaccine scepticism. In last few months except for the caller tune message one gets in mobile when you call someone, I didn't see any efforts to publicise the vaccination drive. These publicity efforts have stepped up now, and given the rampage now most of the people are willing to take vaccines but alas there is a shortage.