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However the cases explosion is not related to this event.

Bringing this point up sacrifices a chance to save india from future pain just to win political talking points to protect the culpable.

Cases lag events by 14 days. The spike was this year, the protests started last year. The cases didn’t even begin in those states that sent the most protesters. The current strain developed in Maharashtra.

The Govt and all Indians I spoke to throughout the year were complete unaware of how they had dodged a bullet.

Instead of being grateful and figuring out how to prevent it from ever happening again, our govt went ahead and said “we are invincible.”.

This is a behavior we cannot ever afford again.

If we didn’t know why we had such a mild first wave, we should have done everything to understand why and to take preventive measures.

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Did Maharashtra had a Khumb Mela? Or an election rally? There is a reason they are being called super spreader, not super incubator. I think all of these replies are somehow missing my point. I am not saying that this one incident is responsible for our current state, it is the government. However, I don't think somehow excluding a mass gathering like the farmer's protest from the list of superspreader's is doing any good, it will just convince some people that the gathering for their cause is somehow invincible, as you right said the attitude has been for a majority of Indians.

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By that criteria the migration last year when the abrupt lockdown was called would count as a super spreader event.

However the crucial need is for an event to actually spread the virus. Or more precisely, spread the variant that is currently adapted to india.

[tiuPapa]

It did though? The migration worker did result in a momentary spike in their states when they finally reached their homes, especially after those special trains. Just the variant wasn't as deadly. I am not sure what your point is.