In the past week, there have been reports from several cities where the number of Covid deaths are measured in single digits - yet crematoriums are so full that people have started cremating their dead ones on sidewalks.
This is what they originally warned us about.
It’s surreal in its darkest sense. It’s killing out there. People are dying on hospital floors lying and running out of air in their lungs because let alone oxygen cylinders there are not even empty simple beds of stretchers.
Daily deaths are easily in high 5 digits. At least!
High walls have been put around the place where pyres are burnt (so that they can easily fudge the numbers). There's no accountability. There has not been any since last 3-4 years now. Most of the media any is Govt mouthpiece. Every machinery/pillar of the state has been subverted and subjugated - press, election commission, judiciary. Indian bureaucracy was anyway always as bad as it gets.
A week ago one of the cities (Bhopal) released death count as 4. A local newspaper flew a drone above one COVID funeral ground and in its main page printed the photo of the burning pyres (those are COVID specific funerals). In that one drone shot at least 20+ pyres were burning. They put the number as 112 (or more) [0]
Govt released death count = 4
Min. number of deaths (as many the news paper was able to track) = 112
And this was just one city (tier 2 at that) and 7 days ago!
[0] (image of burning pyres - please decide if you want to click the link) https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/04/16/burning-pyres-telling...
1. Crematoriums usually have enough capacity to deal with average death rates. Anything above that and it starts to look horrific.
2. What is the definition of "covid protocol" for cremation? Does it mean the patient had covid? I don't see this clearly stated any where.
3. There might be a delay between the two numbers with crematorium numbers being more current. This also contributes to the "10x".
The numbers are bad enough even without unscientific exaggerations.
I am open-minded about this FT article's claims being accurate, but there
Sixteen years of preparation, and everything that goes into it, paid off.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
so this suggests that its not conspiracy talk as all forms of governing systems around the world experienced the exact same issues
all forms of governing systems had bad data, intentionally hidden data, and inadequate forms of transparency depending on whether the person trusted that institution or whether that person was skeptical of that institution
There have been plenty of analysis of various countries mortality rates compared to normal years. In general, the trend seems to be that poorer countries have probably missed a lot of COVID deaths due to lack of testing infrastructure and heavily rural populations.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
For example: if a crematorium has historically dealt with 20 cremations a week and is now doing 100 a week, you can estimate that 80 people are dying from COVID per week. The estimate is likely to be pretty inaccurate, but it's the best source of information that there is.
When there's a COVID spike, most of the excess deaths are people dying of COVID (some might be people dying due to fear of COVID, or hospitals collapsing- arguably still "COVID fatalities" even if they don't test positive).
But let's be clear, inaccurate has different meanings - in this context if the official figure is 20 and it turns out that only 40 have died then that's 100% out on the official side and 50% out on the estimated side. In this context the high figure may have far more utility as well - by producing a more appropriate response from the authorities and society.
E.g. its unlikely deaths increased 100%+ across all of india due to existing death-causes.