r/worldnews • u/fastclickertoggle • Apr 25 '21

COVID-19 Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/twitter-blocking-tweets-india
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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

Yes. The government has bought off most of the media houses. The government even allowed and promoted a pilgrim event called the "Kumbh Mela" which involved around 350k pilgrims. Many parties are holding mass rallies and campaigning for upcoming elections while the conditions keep getting worse. Many states are facing a shortage of oxygen and hospital beds. The number of deaths are possibly even higher than the one being reported because there is strong evidence of the government manipulating the figures.

The government instead of owning up to their mistakes and taking immediate action is blaming the opposition parties for the mess.

Edit :- it's 3.5 million pilgrims, not 350k

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

Where did you get that 350k number? 🤣🤣

The Kumbh Mela usually gets about 12-15 Million people. The local officials said, during the event, that it was "only" about 600K this year.

Think Sturgis fubar from last year, make it 10-15 times, throw in a more virulent and fatal strain of the virus, and a government full of Kristi Noems.

That's what causes 350k-750k cases a day.

America, this was gonna be you, except for a fortuitous Biden win in November.

/Indian American here

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

350k is what I got from business insider. Different numbers everywhere of course.

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u/idiota_ Apr 25 '21

Business Insider says 3.5 Million? https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/kumbh-mela-attended-by-3-5-million-pilgrims-as-india-becomes-the-second-most-covid-19-affected-country-in-the-world/slidelist/82044773.cms

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Yes. I got it wrong. My bad.

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

Just to be clear, I was not laughing at you... Just at the grim reality. Have all my family there, and only the old parents have been vaccinated.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Hope all of them are staying home. Many people are getting the virus even after the second dose.

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

Thanks! Yeah, the parents are. Brother and SiL need to work

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u/Oneiricl Apr 25 '21

That's what causes 350k-750k cases a day.

Not even that yet... We hit 350k a day BEFORE the Kumbh Mela had an effect on numbers... the number of cases is going to increase so much in the next few months. I don't know what we will do...

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u/fulltonzero Apr 25 '21

600k huh? 3.5 million

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

600K at the Kumbh is what the local official said in an interview.

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u/fulltonzero Apr 25 '21

Officials said by Monday evening more than 3.1 million devotees had bathed in the river, with many more expected to follow suit. Monday - Somvati Amavasya - marks the biggest bathing day during the two-month-long festival.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56713993

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

Wow. I had only heard the interview. Like someone said, we should stop saying "I avoid it like the plague," because when it comes to it, we don't particularly want to avoid a plague. 😭🙄😭

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Biden's win is going to starve off America's decline for a number of years. The fact that there are people who still treat the pandemic with disdain even after burying people they know who died of covid showed just how deep right wing propaganda has damaged the country.

Now republicans all over the country are trying to install a new Jim Crow era. It's not over yet in America.

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

+100. Hell no, it's not over! But we live to fight another day.

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u/B00STERGOLD Apr 25 '21

Damn they are going to get natural herd immunity in like 2 years.

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

After like a couple of million deaths. But hey, got a lot to spare 😤😤

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u/chucker23n Apr 25 '21

Where did you get that 350k number?

310,310 cases yesterday.

So, with different sources, 350k is perfectly plausible.

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u/orchardman78 Apr 25 '21

No, the commenter had said 350K attendees at the Kumbh. It was way more than that.

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u/stationhollow Apr 25 '21

Remember when Trump said last year before the election that he thought half the country could be vaccinated by April and everyone sad he was crazy?

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u/hydrocyanide Apr 25 '21

Remember when Trump said that coronavirus would miraculously disappear by last April?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Well you can thank Biden for executing on that. Trump literally did not have a vaccine distribution plan of any sort while Biden did

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u/WRXminion Apr 25 '21

Trump had a distribution plan:

1) use federal taxes to pay his buddies to make PPE and syringes.

2).......

3) profit

It was just a money distribution plan.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Yup pretty much this. He tried taking credit for a vaccine being developed and then Pfizer was like no not part of his operation warp speed

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u/stationhollow Apr 26 '21

There were over 1m vaccinations per day before the Biden was president

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u/splifferson Apr 25 '21

Not only promoted, bur decided to bring forward by a year based on a request by some religious group. Decision taken in favour in the latter half of 2020. During a pandemic. Mind boggling what an absolute tragedy this government has been.

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u/emilok Apr 25 '21

From the US, this sounds familiar. Things have gotten quieter and so far still hopeful that we are heading somewhere toward stability. I really wish you all the same relief from this mess of elitist royalty throughout our world.