- What's going on in India?
Posted by margo
on April 28, 2021, 12:26 pm
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Lots of fear-inducing images beaming worldwide off BBC and other media outlets. Bodies burning in open cremation sites dominate social media today, but don't public cremations occur there at any time - a key cultural difference to the west? Someone pointed out to me that India's population (1.4-billion?) is 20 times bigger than most average European countries (and South Africa) - and that 10-million Indians die in any given year - so that one needs to keep figures in proportion when analysing media hype? This article seems to offer some perspective: The truth about the covid crisis in India https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/04/27/the-truth-about-the-covid-crisis-in-india/ |