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I am paranoid about the testing. Indian government doesn't seem to be handling this as well as the media or official report says. There is no mention of tourist
by thrwaway69 7y ago
I am paranoid about the testing. Indian government doesn't seem to be handling this as well as the media or official report says. There is no mention of tourists from china/itlay present in my town a few days ago and taken away by the authorities after someone complaint.
Total number of tests are too low when you factor in the population size. The airport measures were initially blanket statements and people were coming home without any tests that should have been done at the airport. The healthcare system is already jammed and there is an unusual amount of unidentified deaths (pneumonia deaths increased locally).
Testing facilities are lacking. Even though, there should be 53 facilities across country. Most of the tests are sent to a few only especially pune which makes me wonder if that's also just a useless number.
People are bathing in cow dung, drinking cow urine, selling herbal tea, politicians and health officers even repeating the same. Holi was supposed to be banned but here, locally THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN but in newspaper, it wasall over that it did. Weddings, large gatherings are still happening. No one is taking any precautions. Convincing my family to do anything gets me yelling because they won't listen.
And given the history of Indian government tackling such issues, I feel even more worried. Most statistics for deaths are severely underreported and for this, they will underreport the underreported. There is also swine and bird flu to deal with.
I am surprised there is no internet ban to curb the "panic".
0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/09/hindu-nationalists-magical-remedies-coronavirus-bjp-india/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/09/hindu-nationalists-magi...
1] https://youtu.be/_QzKbMF7Kz0 https://youtu.be/_QzKbMF7Kz0
2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022378/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022378/