Either you can go read or remain blathering in complete ignorance. We see that you prefer the latter.
The COVID Response Losers: Countries With Failed Leadership
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Either you can go read or remain blathering in complete ignorance. We see that you prefer the latter.
Says the blathering idiot?
India’s COVID surge likely driven by ‘far more lethal’ variant: doctor
https://nypost.com/2021/04/27/india-covid-surge-likely-due-to-far-more-lethal-variant-doctor/
https://nypost.com/2021/04/27/india-covid-surge-likely-due-to-far-more-lethal-variant-doctor/
Yes... all of those outdoor SuperSpreader events promoted by Modi created the COVID crisis in India.
Super-spreader factor: India's deadly COVID-19 surge follows crowded events
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coron...vid-19-surge-follows-crowded-events-1.5405335
NEW DELHI -- India's death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 200,000 as a virus surge sweeps the country, rooted in so-called super-spreader events that were allowed to happen in the months after India thought it had the pandemic under control.
Now India is enduring its darkest chapter yet, with mass funeral pyres, burials and a collapse of the health system compounded by shortages of oxygen, ventilators, and hospital beds.
Fuelling the catastrophe were a series of crowded events, like mass rallies by politicians such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, religious holidays and pilgrimages on the River Ganges, where people relaxed their vigilance and didn't wear masks or keep their social distance.
The health ministry on Wednesday reported 3,293 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing India's total fatalities to 201,187. The deaths and the confirmed cases of 17.9 million are thought to be undercounts.
Now the surge is sending its health system toward collapse. Hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs. Patients are suffocating because hospitals are using up their oxygen supplies. Fires at overwhelmed crematoriums are lighting up night skies.
Super-spreader factor: India's deadly COVID-19 surge follows crowded events
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coron...vid-19-surge-follows-crowded-events-1.5405335
NEW DELHI -- India's death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 200,000 as a virus surge sweeps the country, rooted in so-called super-spreader events that were allowed to happen in the months after India thought it had the pandemic under control.
Now India is enduring its darkest chapter yet, with mass funeral pyres, burials and a collapse of the health system compounded by shortages of oxygen, ventilators, and hospital beds.
Fuelling the catastrophe were a series of crowded events, like mass rallies by politicians such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, religious holidays and pilgrimages on the River Ganges, where people relaxed their vigilance and didn't wear masks or keep their social distance.
The health ministry on Wednesday reported 3,293 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing India's total fatalities to 201,187. The deaths and the confirmed cases of 17.9 million are thought to be undercounts.
Now the surge is sending its health system toward collapse. Hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs. Patients are suffocating because hospitals are using up their oxygen supplies. Fires at overwhelmed crematoriums are lighting up night skies.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi could have prevented India's devastating Covid-19 crisis, critics say. He didn't
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/india/covid-second-wave-narendra-modi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
On April 17, ahead of a state election, a maskless Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to a sea of cheering supporters: "I've never ever seen such huge crowds at a rally."
His country was on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.That day, India recorded more than 261,000 new coronavirus cases -- more than many countries have seenduring the entire pandemic.
And it was only going to get worse. Each day since April 22, the country has reported more than 300,000 new cases -- at times, up to half of the daily cases reported globally. The capital New Delhi is now running out of wood for cremations. Hospitals are full and lacking oxygen. Only 2%of the population has been fully vaccinated. Foreign leaders are now rushing to India's aid.
While Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman Narendra Taneja told CNN this week that responsibility for India's second wave belonged "first and foremost" to the government, he maintained the crisis could not have been foreseen -- despite countless countries being battered by second waves as new variants emerged globally.
Others in Modi's orbit have argued state governments are to blame for not imposing regional lockdowns and mismanaging their health care systems. Last weekend, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said oxygen shortages at hospitals were a problem not of supply but distribution, which he claimed was the responsibility of state governments.
But many in Indiabelieve responsibility lies with Modi and his Hindu nationalist government, which not only didn't prepare for a second wave but also encouraged mass gatherings at Hindu festivals and political rallies, including in a closely contested battleground state.
"The government has failed us all," Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the general secretary of opposition party Indian National Congress, said in a statement this week. "Even those of us who oppose and fight them could not have foreseen a complete abdication of leadership and governance at a time as devastating as this."
(Much mvore at above url)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/india/covid-second-wave-narendra-modi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
On April 17, ahead of a state election, a maskless Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to a sea of cheering supporters: "I've never ever seen such huge crowds at a rally."
His country was on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.That day, India recorded more than 261,000 new coronavirus cases -- more than many countries have seenduring the entire pandemic.
And it was only going to get worse. Each day since April 22, the country has reported more than 300,000 new cases -- at times, up to half of the daily cases reported globally. The capital New Delhi is now running out of wood for cremations. Hospitals are full and lacking oxygen. Only 2%of the population has been fully vaccinated. Foreign leaders are now rushing to India's aid.
While Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman Narendra Taneja told CNN this week that responsibility for India's second wave belonged "first and foremost" to the government, he maintained the crisis could not have been foreseen -- despite countless countries being battered by second waves as new variants emerged globally.
Others in Modi's orbit have argued state governments are to blame for not imposing regional lockdowns and mismanaging their health care systems. Last weekend, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said oxygen shortages at hospitals were a problem not of supply but distribution, which he claimed was the responsibility of state governments.
But many in Indiabelieve responsibility lies with Modi and his Hindu nationalist government, which not only didn't prepare for a second wave but also encouraged mass gatherings at Hindu festivals and political rallies, including in a closely contested battleground state.
"The government has failed us all," Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the general secretary of opposition party Indian National Congress, said in a statement this week. "Even those of us who oppose and fight them could not have foreseen a complete abdication of leadership and governance at a time as devastating as this."
(Much mvore at above url)
Speaking of failed leadership. Biden administration guilty of Covid super spreading, aiding and abetting human trafficking, and a host of other crimes against humanity going on at the border.
Over 90 people found in possible human smuggling case, some with COVID-19 symptoms:
Over 90 people found in possible human smuggling case, some with COVID-19 symptoms: Police (yahoo.com)
Over 90 people found in possible human smuggling case, some with COVID-19 symptoms:
Over 90 people found in possible human smuggling case, some with COVID-19 symptoms: Police (yahoo.com)
The COVID-19 death toll in India could be up to 10 times higher than the official 200,000 figure, experts say
https://www.businessinsider.com/india-covid-19-death-toll-could-be-10-times-higher-2021-5
https://www.businessinsider.com/india-covid-19-death-toll-could-be-10-times-higher-2021-5
I have to think if Trump had won the election that the current Covid counts in the US would be much higher. Biden has performed well.
The US lead the world in covid cases and deaths under Trump,it does not under Biden.
What Trump did was to setup the vaccine infrastructure. He set it up in a way to have the States execute the program
This process removed the responsibility from the executive office.
This decision protected Biden from failure