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No one in Bangladesh believes Bangladesh's low death number. I live here. Freedom of the press is non-existent (al-most all press/media is owned by government p
by pavs 6y ago
No one in Bangladesh believes Bangladesh's low death number. I live here. Freedom of the press is non-existent (al-most all press/media is owned by government party). There are actual laws that say that you can't say anything against the government online (many have been prosecuted for this).
There is literally only 1 party - all other parties are destroyed, their members arrested or banned, jailed on real or fake cases.
Bangladesh's health care has been horrible even before the pandemic. Air pollution is extremely high. We don't have the infrastructure to handle so many patients - private hospitals are having a hard time handling patients. Public hospitals are even worse. Central oxygen is almost non-existent, lack of proper PPE, masks or proper testing. They only recently started ramping up tests - but the numbers are still very low.
Even with all the hiding and misinformation by the government, the official number is still climbing at an alarming rate.
- ImaCake 6y agoI fear that we in the west will simply not even know that this catastrophy is occuring all over the third world. Maybe in a few years we will find out just how terrible this pandemic was.
- ithkuil 6y agoI genuinely wonder if there is any data that backs the hypothesis what countries where the current health and healthcare conditions are already very poor are showing low numbers of symptomatic covid-19 cases because most people who are susceptible to disease have already succumbed to other diseases over the years.
- mritchie712 6y agoAlso, testing. Testing is hard to get in the US. We are obviously fucking up in many ways ATM, but if you can't get testing here when you want it, imagine getting it in a poor country with inadequate healthcare.
- Jommi 6y agoIn my anecdotal experience I haven't seen it hard. Lots of counties in California are offering free testing for anyone. Not to mention commercial testing has been open for anyone for months now.
- perl4ever 6y agoI'm not sure what you are comparing it to. The US has had more testing per capita than New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, or Canada. Compared to countries like India and Bangladesh, the US has had well over an order of magnitude more testing. I'm looking at the main chart, second to last column, at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/