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A lot of the remoter and poor regions grow their own crops. What they lack is - education (understanding how to slow the spread the virus with many not even we

A lot of the remoter and poor regions grow their own crops. What they lack is - education (understanding how to slow the spread the virus with many not even wearing a mask when looking after family members who are ill) - money (to pay for any medical care needed to treat COVID victims) And in the poorer but non-remote areas you have population density and hygiene issues. I’m not saying there aren’t going to be cases where famine is an issue. But it’s certainly not the majority killer — COVID is an effective enough killer on its own if it’s not handled carefully.

baybal2 5y ago
India is much less of an agricultural economy than how it appears to people in the West. People may be living in villages, but fully reliant on city jobs for income to feed themselves. I doubt even a distant relative will lend a hand to a starving person in India. The society is extremely stratified. People just a step away on the income ladder live completely separate lives.
- laumars 5y ago
  I’m not talking about farmland. I’m talking about the basics like having a few trees that grow fruit. Yes it’s not much, but it can be the difference between life and death when you’re talking about starvation.
  - baybal2 5y ago
    Most people in villages do not own any land, not even an inch of it to plant a single tree.
    - laumars 5y ago
      I didn’t say “people”, I said “regions”. Indians generally have a large and collaborative communities, which is a concept totally alien to many westerners who don’t even talk to their neighbours. This is also part of the reason COVID is so rampant there. And yes, I’m aware I’ve now reduced the discussion down to massive generalisations about a massive country with a diverse populous and I’m sorry. Obviously there will be a great many counter examples that disproves my point. But from the perspective of my friends and family who have other friends and family in poorer regions of India (and I do mean poorer by Indian standards not poorer but ours but relatively rich by Indians) what I’ve said is fair and accurate. Im sure what you’ve said is also true by virtue of the size of the country.
- aww_dang 5y ago
  Also remittances from abroad.
  - baybal2 5y ago
    Do you realise that "poor Indian people going to work abroad" are in their prime majority not that poor by India's own standards? It takes a fortune for a village to send a man for work in the gulf.

baybal2 5y ago

India is much less of an agricultural economy than how it appears to people in the West. People may be living in villages, but fully reliant on city jobs for income to feed themselves. I doubt even a distant relative will lend a hand to a starving person in India. The society is extremely stratified. People just a step away on the income ladder live completely separate lives.

laumars 5y ago
I’m not talking about farmland. I’m talking about the basics like having a few trees that grow fruit. Yes it’s not much, but it can be the difference between life and death when you’re talking about starvation.
- baybal2 5y ago
  Most people in villages do not own any land, not even an inch of it to plant a single tree.
  - laumars 5y ago
    I didn’t say “people”, I said “regions”. Indians generally have a large and collaborative communities, which is a concept totally alien to many westerners who don’t even talk to their neighbours. This is also part of the reason COVID is so rampant there. And yes, I’m aware I’ve now reduced the discussion down to massive generalisations about a massive country with a diverse populous and I’m sorry. Obviously there will be a great many counter examples that disproves my point. But from the perspective of my friends and family who have other friends and family in poorer regions of India (and I do mean poorer by Indian standards not poorer but ours but relatively rich by Indians) what I’ve said is fair and accurate. Im sure what you’ve said is also true by virtue of the size of the country.
aww_dang 5y ago
Also remittances from abroad.
- baybal2 5y ago
  Do you realise that "poor Indian people going to work abroad" are in their prime majority not that poor by India's own standards? It takes a fortune for a village to send a man for work in the gulf.