"they held political rallies, religious festivals and sport events.. no masks, no social distancing.. millions and millions of people crowded.."Nothing like taking one's cues - blindly and sheep-like - from the media without actually conducting any independent thinking or questioning.
Because, on a
per capita basis - for which the sensationalising, click-baiting media won't adjust - India's
per capita case numbers are today not much higher than heavily-masked, socially-distanced countries of Switzerland, Peru, and Poland,and are indeed
lower (!) than Germany, and a whole lot of other countries.
Uncannily,
per capita case numbers are currently
more than 80% higher in France and Netherlandsthan they are for India. No, not a typo.. that's eighty percent more cases, per capita, in France and Netherlands, than India.But would have thunk that, huh, based on the media headlines?
View attachment 3139307(Table above represents 7-day moving averages)
So that's a snapshot of what is happening today.
For further context, it is constructive to compare - again on the logical
per capita basis - the daily peak in Indian cases with the daily peaks reached in other countries:
View attachment 3139310The implications should be self-explanatory.
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