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“ Indian doctors, officials and crematorium employees suspect a drop in the number of road and rail accidents is a major factor.”

• ashtonkem 6y ago
  Of course countries with more dangerous roads should expect larger drops during shut in. I wonder if this’ll cause political agitation to create safer roads once this is all over.
  • nine_zeros 6y ago
    The phrase "Never let a crisis go to waste" applies so well here. This is the chance of the largest democracy and their people to demand better infrastructure, sanitary services from their civic bodies.
    • wobbly_bush 6y ago
      The current government's 2019 election manifesto was to spend $1.4 trillion on infrastructure by 2024. Sources - 1. https://www.businesstoday.in/markets/stocks/infra-power-stocks-rise-after-bjp-announces-manifesto/story/335180.html https://www.businesstoday.in/markets/stocks/infra-power-stoc... 2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/india-bjp-releases-manifesto-upcoming-elections-190408072851526.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/india-bjp-releases-ma...