India tops 200,000 COVID deaths as virus surge breaks health system

nypost ^ | 04/28/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch

[ChicagoConservative27]

India marked a grim milestone Wednesday with 200,000 people lost to COVID-19 — as a relentless surge of new cases overwhelms hospitals, sends families searching for oxygen supplies, and has seen parking lots in the capital, New Delhi, converted into crematoriums.

The health ministry reported a single-day record of 3,293 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the world’s second-most populous country’s total fatalities to 201,187.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Fauci is happy.

[spacejunkie2001]

200,000? their population is like 40 billion...LOL

[proust]

Fauci needs to lecture them on social distancing.

[youngidiot]

Yea. See the John Hopkins study on number of deaths year over year. We ain’t got a couple hundred thousand extra deaths, or any extra deaths at all, like you’d expect to see after this DEADLY COVID virus swept the nation.

[Hojczyk]

Deaths per million

India 145

United States 1766

[Jay W]

How many people die in India every day?

- Quora
https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-die-in-India-every-day

Jun 29, 2015 · Based on this, 8.4 million people die every year in India which comes to 22,500 per day approximately.

This data is from 2015. Ignore the mainstream fear porn.

[cweese]

".... and has seen parking lots in the capital, New Delhi, converted into crematoriums"

I wonder if the folks aboard the ISS can see these flaming parking lots yet?

[Jan_Sobieski]

Just think...India had COVID—19 beat until vaccinations started

[AnotherUnixGeek]

India tops 200,000 COVID deaths

This is still being reported in the news as the official figure. I've heard a lot of noise about deaths being under-reported, but I still haven't seen any solid, backed numbers for actual deaths in India. 200k is 1/3 of the deaths we've had in the US - and India has over 4 times the population of the US. Unless I see better proof, I'm going to keep believing that this is more COVID hysteria by the media.

[SpaceBar]

It didn’t break their health system, it broke their death system.

[Socon-Econ]

Has anyone trustworthy investigated how real this is — and whether India’s health ministry is any more believable than our CDC? It wasn’t that long ago when the fearmongers were making the same allegations about the USA.

[DarthVader]

Translation: CCP attacks India with another China Virus bio attack for standing up against them. Retaliation is due for this!

[spetznaz]

....or maybe they had it beat until they started having 1) massive political rallies and 2) the world’s largest religious festival ....

We can all have our theories.

[spetznaz]

There’s a FReeper who’s in India right now. See his post below:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3954398/posts?page=37#37

[CodeToad]

Even if true, they have 1.6 billion people.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Previously they had no religious festivals, political rallies, or densely populated areas? Speaking of interesting theories...

[Rummyfan]

What is happening?! Is this some new variant unleashed on India by the Chinese?!

[proust]

HCQ does wonders.

[Hojczyk]

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/the-drugs-india-is-fighting-covid-with-6449377/

The drugs they used..

[bboop]

Beyond Bill Gates’s wildest dreams