islandgun Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 (edited) Just watching a piece on the news about demos and meetings over agricultural problems in India, noticeably there wasn't one face mask being worn in and outdoors, got me wondering how they are coping with covid compared to here. Edited February 4, 2021 by islandgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsdad Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 Since when has hygiene ever been a concern in India? Some of the towns in northern India I have visited (on a work trip) were basically open sewers interspersed with mobile phone shops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTaylor91 Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 They’ve had a lot of cases but their current reported cases and deaths are less than here now. This is India though so how many cases go unreported is anybody’s guess. I read at one point they were testing 1 million people a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted February 10, 2021 Report Share Posted February 10, 2021 Maybe we've wasted billions with all this vaccination nonsense and you can simply blast it out with a good curry!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saddler Posted February 10, 2021 Report Share Posted February 10, 2021 Given the general squalor of the place & their levels of hygiene compared to more developed countries, you'd think that being hit by a lethal virus that has more strains than Frank Sinatra had farewell concerts, would leave the place looking like all the people had been Photoshopped out of the images to leave just buildings, open sewerage gutters and the odd cow. Can't be genetics as it was on the news today that folk from the Indian sub-continent, now UK residents, are two to three times more likely to die of WuFlu if they catch it. Curry? If so, the Balti-Belt in the West Midlands would be a safe haven of zero fatalities, as would large areas of London, Glasgow, etc. Our 12 months of repeatedly locking down, wearing face nappies, banging pots & pans in the street, not swapping bodily fluids with strangers on the local bus and all the rest seems to have only resulted in the UK having the worst death-rate in Europe. The fact that Indian statistics have been the opposite to what was predicted, begs one question; how come? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted February 11, 2021 Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) Could it be that like many a poor street urchin so to speak, they have had so many germs that they have more immunity from it - and that the stories of BAME being more susceptible are some kind of effort to paint them as victims in need of extra special consideration. Edited February 11, 2021 by Dave-G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted February 11, 2021 Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 On 04/02/2021 at 18:58, oscarsdad said: Since when has hygiene ever been a concern in India? Some of the towns in northern India I have visited (on a work trip) were basically open sewers interspersed with mobile phone shops. India? Surely some mistake? Are you certain it wasn't Skegness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted February 11, 2021 Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) On 04/02/2021 at 18:58, oscarsdad said: Since when has hygiene ever been a concern in India? Some of the towns in northern India I have visited (on a work trip) were basically open sewers interspersed with mobile phone shops. Thats like most of Africa that I have been to. But my experience in Africa was that when somebody died there would be no formal registration of the death and virtually nobody had any access to a doctor. Edited February 11, 2021 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 I am working with a team of analysts in India at the moment. They said that things are pretty much back to normal and offices are due to reopen again this week. like a lot of countries they are just learning to live with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12gauge82 Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 1 hour ago, AVB said: I am working with a team of analysts in India at the moment. They said that things are pretty much back to normal and offices are due to reopen again this week. like a lot of countries they are just learning to live with it. Which I assume negates our strategy, because you will always have a pool of unvacinated people that the virus can spread in and mutate, ready to come back to the UK and elsewhere and reinfect everyone whether you've been vaccinated or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordnance Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 5 hours ago, AVB said: I am working with a team of analysts in India at the moment. They said that things are pretty much back to normal and offices are due to reopen again this week. like a lot of countries they are just learning to live with it. Every country is learning to live with it there is no other choice, did India not have lockdowns etc. Quote COVID-19: India begins vaccine roll-out and aims to administer 300 million jabs by August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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