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I do know people from India. But these are the numbers like it or not. You seem to be cherry picking only the numbers that convalidate your vision. I can't tel

I do know people from India. But these are the numbers like it or not. You seem to be cherry picking only the numbers that convalidate your vision. I can't tell how much of it is undercounting in India, how much is overcounting in the USA, and how much of it is that the friends and family networks in India count hundreds of people as opposed to the westerner ones.

adriancr 5y ago
Numbers are usually fudged, especially in corrupt countries. It's also easy to have good numbers if you issue negative results without doing the actual tests and if you count the deaths as that of something else. Hints of the false tests are: - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/20/49-passengers-on-india-hong-kong-flight-test-positive-for-covid https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/20/49-passengers-on-in... - all of the ones that were positive had negative PCR tests... done in india Similar things were happening in Communist Romania, hence my skepticism of India's number (back then - record "harvests", everybody well fed and happy, etc, meanwhile everyone was starving as crops were sold off on external markets) Either way, best of luck, this discussion was fun for a while.
- codeflow2202 5y ago
  When did we decide that sharing aljazeera and citing what your friends told you > official data? I mean, I agree that official data can be forged and should be taken with a grain of salt but come on. You can do better than this. Also it has been proven that there is a strong inverse correlation between vitamin D levels and covid severity. If we assume that you are right and many more people died in India, how can you prove that it's because the vaccine that in Europe the mortality is so much lower? https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgab439/6303537 https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/cl... + https://revista-fi.com.br/upload_arquivos/201606/2016060068176001464973585.pdf https://revista-fi.com.br/upload_arquivos/201606/20160600681... + https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2405457721001911 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24054...

adriancr 5y ago

Numbers are usually fudged, especially in corrupt countries. It's also easy to have good numbers if you issue negative results without doing the actual tests and if you count the deaths as that of something else. Hints of the false tests are: - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/20/49-passengers-on-india-hong-kong-flight-test-positive-for-covid https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/20/49-passengers-on-in... - all of the ones that were positive had negative PCR tests... done in india Similar things were happening in Communist Romania, hence my skepticism of India's number (back then - record "harvests", everybody well fed and happy, etc, meanwhile everyone was starving as crops were sold off on external markets) Either way, best of luck, this discussion was fun for a while.

codeflow2202 5y ago
When did we decide that sharing aljazeera and citing what your friends told you > official data? I mean, I agree that official data can be forged and should be taken with a grain of salt but come on. You can do better than this. Also it has been proven that there is a strong inverse correlation between vitamin D levels and covid severity. If we assume that you are right and many more people died in India, how can you prove that it's because the vaccine that in Europe the mortality is so much lower? https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgab439/6303537 https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/cl... + https://revista-fi.com.br/upload_arquivos/201606/2016060068176001464973585.pdf https://revista-fi.com.br/upload_arquivos/201606/20160600681... + https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2405457721001911 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24054...