Re the statement that India had "10,000 cases in 75 days", we all know that that's a gross underestimate because, a) India has one of the lowest testing rates in the world such that given our population, our published data are even less credible than those of some subSaharan countries or secretive China, b) our testing protocols applied to arrivals at airports, ports, later at some state borders, or to hospital entries, and c) government admits that India is yet to develop/import on the mass scale needed, a sufficient quantity of testing kits, and indeed, of all other epidemic related equipment like PPEs, masks, ventilators, hand sanitizers, etc.
As you know this government has been allergic to the collection and disclosure of data of any kind, be they on employment, banking, PHC functioning and use in rural areas, health and malnutrition status of LIGs, of children, or whatever. So there is no mechanism to collect data on morbidity and mortality for over 80 per cent of the population who live in rural areas or urban slums. Thus the Covid+ve figure of 10,000 can't be taken seriously and certainly not congratulate ourselves about.
In this situation, containment, with lockdowns enforced by a barbaric police force or paramilitaries including lathi wielding RSS men rather than active health status monitoring or curative health care remains the focus of this government. Tell me, how many people under lockdown actually have access to even a district hospital even in the most advanced districts of rural India? We can only hope that the stars, sunlight, UVCs, home remedies for immunity and faith in our multiple gods and godmen/women will carry that underserved 70 per cent of the population through this crisis.
(Smt.) Joya Roy
Research Editor
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, 08:07 m.g.r. rajan, <mgr_rajan@hotmail.com> wrote:
Post: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net"Mr. Natarajan, Which TV news channel would you prefer to believe? Bootlicking has not stopped, only the boots have changed!Yesterday CNN News 18 (you know who owns it) displayed a graph showing the number of days in which different countries had 10,000 Covid-19 positive cases. We had them in 75 days.Iran, Italy, Spain, US etc had much higher infection rates. South Korea had 10,000 in 71 days, China in 76 days.Care to comment?
From: indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net <indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net> on behalf of Natarajan <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 7:54 AM
To: ravi.iim.2002@gmail.com <ravi.iim.2002@gmail.com>; Indiaresists <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net>
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Narendra Modi kuch to sharam karo !God save India from its maligning commentators. The British quit India 73 years ago but left behind bootlicking slaves who are unable to erase their masters from their minds. People of India responded so enthusiastically to the ace motivator Modi, that, impressed by it, people of other countries publicly followed suit much to the discomfiture of slaves. Their frustration has now turned into to hatred. Even if the incident referred were true, it demonstrates the lighting response. BBC is notorious for its inaccuracy in covering India thanks to its slaves filing malicious stories to please their masters and earn a few crumbs. For them, first their master, then anyone else. Look at the quoted headline scripted from India. Enough of this nonsense.
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 2:50, ravi kapoor<indiaresists@lists.riseup.net> wrote:Post: "indiaresists@lists.riseup.net"Doctors all over India are now getting increasingly concerned with the desperate shortage of reliable COVID testing kits.
Patients with acute symptoms of fever and pulmonary distress are not being tested in Government hospitals across the country as Modi's government desperately tries to keep the numbers under control by April 20th 2020 for the economy to be opened by hook or by crook.
Once again it is an Emergency like situation all across India where the only news which can be trusted is from the foreign pressIs India underreporting the coronavirus outbreak? - BBC News
We continue to stand by the @LockDownIndia Covid data projections. Our model is an extremely conservative model which could not anticipate that the Government would run out of COVID19 testing kits from 11th April onwards. Conservatively, based on international experience, there would be at least 5 cases unidentifed cases for each COVID19 conformation. As such it can be projected there would be at least 75,000 infected persons in India
The national capital Delhi ran out of accurate PCR testing kits 2 days ago (13th April 2020) when there was a huge surge of 366 confirmed cases (official data) that day.The situation was so desperate that the Director Public Health NCDC in Delhi personally flew down to Mumbai/Maharashtra so he could borrow about 120 kits which he brought back. Today (15.April.2020) only 37 tests could be conducted in Delhi and 15 cases were identified by PCR when at least 1,200 patients were waiting to be tested on PCR after rapid testing.
God help India and save us from pot banging and candle lighting lying politicians who have put us in this mess,.
Ravi
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