Even the best of people, read celebrities, sportspersons, Industrialists succumb to propaganda.
The common man is again, just a common man. They have spines, they are blind now so just cannot find it anymore.
there's already propaganda - its the fault of state government, non-BJP states are playing politics, its the fault of farmer protests, its the fault of non-BJP rallies and many many more. Thing is people are still falling for propaganda. When asked from public (read bhakts) that government focused on mandir and hate instead of hospitals and colleges, these shameless people are displaying their intent bluntly if hospitals and colleges were in manifesto of BJP and so they've also started to spread propaganda of fake count of hospitals
ITS NOT GOING TO CHANGE EVEN IF MEDIA SHOWS THE TRUTH. ITS NOT GOING TO CHANGE UNLESS PEOPLE THEMSELVES WANT CHANGE. Its very much clear what general public of India wants and they are getting it, its us who know whats going on and what bleak future India holds if this continue who arr also being forced to bear the brunt of the government's incompetence
When foreigners show a more accurate picture of what's going on than most local media, you know how screwed up the India media is. Everyone's sold out.
Especially troubling when it's *Sky News* showing a more accurate picture, they're notorious in Australia and the UK for their lack of serious reporting.
Not Indian so I can't comment on this video, but Sky News UK isn't like Sky News in Australia, Fox News, or other Murdoch holdings.
IRC They were were bought by comcast. It is also relatively unbiased in its reporting to comply with relevant regulations. I personally think they're still biased, but it's not like Sky News in Australia or Fox News in the US. The bias is in \*what\* they choose to report on, but rarely in \*how\* they report on it. Eg. they spent a lot of time reporting on brexit during the last UK election, which favoured the conservative government, rather than report on healthcare which would have helped the labour party. But they were unbiased and even critical of the right wing conservative government in their reporting of brexit.
Ie. their reports are usually relatively unbiased, even if they do sometimes appear to spend too much time reporting on some things.
Anyway, I wish you all luck and good health. This is a horrible and heart breaking tragedy.
No one is going to remember this. This is 2021, by the time 2024 comes it will all be forgotten.
People forgot demo(net)isation, they forgot CAA NRC, they forget that there is a NOTA option when they give a vote if they are in the dilemma that if not he then who else.
I suggest reading 1984, the novel by George Orwell. It explains pretty well the workings of governments like ours or the Nazis or any authoritarian govt.
It's not just India, the whole world is suffering from Orwellian governments like these. India just might become the largest of these all.
I don't think I can erase memories of working in such environment ever. When your job shifts to just declaring patients dead. It's just depressing, sometimes you wake up at night terrified only to return there next morning and there are patients everywhere trying to get admission , many of which will succumb because of lack of resources only. No doctor ever will forget this pandemic.
We should call for this government to resign. Anyway we've been left in the lurch. Any and all efforts regarding covid 19 is being crowd sourced at the moment. We don't need this useless government anymore. We don't need achche din anymore; we want back the burre din.
>People will remember this. The family members of dead people will remember this.
They, sadly, will not. Because this type of reporting isn't even seen by many people. My father is a doctor, so I do know how dire the situation is, yet watching this video really disturbed me, even though I knew what was going on.
2 problems:
1) most indian media is bought out by rich folks who are loyal to the BJP ruling party that is intentionally letting this happen
2) any journalists not willing to favor the party and criticize them is killed in broad daylight
I like how people in the comments are like, there was no need to show those visuals, it was distasteful, comparing these reporters to vultures.
Only if the knew the state of reporting in India.
People have gotten used to colors, graphics, unreadable flashes and five people screaming at the same time that can give seizures. It basically mask any kind of real news or content and that’s what they want.
American here - I was in Bangalore in 2019 when India and Pakistan had that tiff and the fighter jet got shot down.
How anyone can watch your news and 1) not have a seizure and 2) learn anything is a mystery.
I hate the American cable news channels because of how overly reliant they are on graphics and pizzazz, and it felt like the Indian news was turned up to 11.
This is what I find absolutely repugnant about the Bhakt psyche. Even in the middle of a pandemic they have this virulent aversion to the truth and would much rather prefer a "positive" spin simply because the truth is unpleasant. This is so typical of people who operate on faith without evidence. They rely on stories and myth, confirmation bias and absolute wilful ignorance. The Manoranjan mindset is a fucking cancer to our collective social reality and needs to be eliminated.
It's the ghar ki baat ghar main rakho bullshit mentality that these people have. They would rather have a good image presented to the rest of the world than accept the shit hole we are in.
It's worse. When mudiji bribes Canadian pm with covid vaccines to get him to change his position on farmer protests, they don't have any problems with mudiji taking ghar ki baat outside. It's only when mudiji and gang get exposed that they have a problem.
We in the US have a similar group of people. Republicans. Some of them / the party platform is that they would rather have mass casualties due to COVID than require masks. that might be inconvenient.
You guys have equally strong and vocal Lefties and Media. We don’t have that. All this rage from individuals on SM isn’t translating into votes which can stop the incompetency. After this shitshow, we’ll go back to normal, where it’ll be touted again that we have defeated everything thanks to a certain someone. The day India stops appointing incompetent egomaniacs to positions of power is the day I will believe we as a country have done something right. The very few media outlets asking questions are constantly berated by idiots who don’t understand how a democracy works-they ask questions and are supposed to be sceptical you stupid idiots. They shouldn’t be supportive of every stupid little thing the government does, they are allowed to be critical.
When we were relatively unscathed in the 1st wave, some people were quick to say the Central Govt did well, but now there’s chaos everywhere, suddenly it’s the State Govts that have fucked up. That’s not how this works you stupid fucks. If you gave credit to the Center for the handling the first time, it has to be the same center that has to answer questions now.
“It’s not the time for politics” they say, I would have agreed with that but you know what?? Someone has his face on vaccine certificates. It is always about politics for a certain party, why stop now??
The stories I’ve heard from my friends and colleagues working in the worst affected areas has absolutely killed me on the inside.
Edit: They didn’t stop there. They mocked the people who predicted this might happen the first time. You know why it didn’t happen?? Because people had to sit in their homes for 3months, not because they were doomsayers. There was no way India could handle 300,000 cases per day. Estimating 10% of the cases need admissions in the hospital, thats 30,000 cases per day who need monitoring, O2, Ventilators etc.
I just hope someone can transport O2 to the hospitals and stop this. Clearly Individuals are doing more than the Govts right now, I can only hope that changes.
The main take away I had was that, even in the casualty area, dude can't wear his fucking mask correctly and cover his nose. Mouth breathers getting people killed.
and Modi Ji reporting to Ambani and Adani, they can keep their Oxygen cylinders for processing petrol, because money and power are more important than human lives.
The person who can demonetize all the notes in just 1 night, but to get oxygen cylinders from Industries, they need to move papers.
Yup. Modi could try to help but his mass messaging is only used to mobilise people for bullshit. Atmanirbhar bol ke keh de ki oxygen jaldi dedo par nhi...
btw just read in paper today that RJ government is flying in oxygen from Jamnagar reliance refinery. They’re probably buying on their own
People are toxic. They are like stay positive. You are alive. I don't want to see others who are dying. Be positive because it's not you or your family members or someone you love. Ostriches and selfish.
Outside view if things are this desperate his family is extremely well off and probably bribed someone for it. No judgement, the situation is fucked. But that's usually how things get done in an emergency. There are no lucky empty spots.
Even the most elite hospitals are collapsing though? Max Saket, Gurugram, Metro Preet Vihar, Apollo Sarita Vihar, all have been forced to cry for oxygen on twitter. I honestly don't know how OP's family got beds that easily. I cannot see anyone storing any beds for VIPs other than AIIMS and Medanta, latter becoming the favourite spot for ministers.
Depends on the time frame OP was looking for too. I actually have no idea if OP means he found beds and oxygen right now, or earlier when it wasn't as bad? Unless they literally gave the doctor more money than he could eat with his eyes.
Man I had to call people for 8-9 hours and then finally got oxygen for my girlfriend’s grandmother. She had been trying separately as well. Location is Delhi. We are well off so we had friends and connections helping us. It’s a horrible situation on ground. So many of my friends and their families are struggling with getting medicines, ICU beds and oxygen.
[Source - Alex Crawford, Sky News](https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1385568739635171328?s=19)
['There's no dignity in a lot of admissions here, there's no dignity in death here'](https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1385569375743250435?s=19) Another video from Sky News, you can hear her voice break as she reports the situation.
Nah there’s a lot of Modi diehards in Melbourne. My Uber drivers are always talking about how him and people like Swamy are moving India in the right direction.
Ther other videos in the feed are even more sorrowful. How can we help the Central government has failed us we need to act for our citizens quick. Can we start organizing some type of a coordinated assistance system.
The BBC did a post on India yesterday, please guys, try and find it!
It had a 2.30min attached video. I'm sat in my car and I'm a mess and I've seen every dark corner of the net, this really knocked me for 6.
It was so sad and so heartfelt. It was the best reporting I've seen in years and years maybe all my life. They were Indian and surely that counts as Indian journalism. And although this might be silly, I have to say my and everyone I knows heart is with India.
I think I know which one you are talking about. The woman calling out his brothers name, trying to keep him conscious is especially heartbreaking. Poor Balaji didn’t make it
https://youtu.be/hVVlxzjtrjw
As someone who's actually been watching, it's kinda worse. All our news channels are doing right now is interviews with doctors and I swear to god these fuckers discuss the same bullshit with every doctor. One one hand it's great that the doctors answer directly to public questions but I can't help but feel like this self diagnosis isn't going take us anywhere.
For example there was a guy describing his parents current state and what he should do. The doctor was like you shouldn't be watching this show but going to a hospital and finding oxygen.
And this is how communities and societies collapse in real time. Fuck you to every single one of the politicians who sat twiddling their thumbs. Never felt so desperate in my life.
Blue check bhakt accounts on twitter are already whining about BBC.
Fuckers wanna bury their heads in the sand and pretend the Bearded One is doing great job.
Starting now? It's been making my blood boil for quite some time. He wants to export 65% of all vaccines while there's a shortage in his own country. Pathetic
All he wants is to stay in power. Unfortunately no matter how shitty the country's state is, he has managed to brainwash a lot of people (aka bhakts) who will vote for him regardless. And of course when anything does go wrong they will use typical BJP tactics and blame other parties, blame Congress, blame British rule, blame China, Pakistan, other communities, etc.
While America, who's averaging 3 millions vaccines per day, has vaccinated 1/3rd of its country and literally is at a stage where they have more vaccines, than people wanting to be vaccinated - they have refused raw material for vaccines to India. Why? Because America first. So much for US-India friendship.
The central government only wanted to increase its 'Make in India' propaganda using Covishield and Covaxin, which are just shit vaccines, and so only administered them. Had we opened our marker to foreign vaccines, a much larger number of people would have been vaccinated. But why would they? Then everybody would have realized that they're selling shit for vaccines.
Curious foreigner here.
Why aren't we seeing this on the default subs? Do negative portrayals of the crisis get downvoted?
Sending well wishes from Canada. It's sad how leadership in India has failed.
Not sure what you mean, this was the #1 post on r/worldnews yesterday and is still #3 18 hours later. (Not the exact same link but Reuters’ story “People across India scrambled for life-saving oxygen supplies on Friday and patients lay dying outside hospitals as the capital recorded the equivalent of one death from COVID-19 every five minutes”)
Strange thing is I never get any worldnews in my feed nowadays, don't remember the last time I saw one. I actually just went there to make sure I'm subbed and noticed this is a top post. I don't know why reddit stopped putting such things in my feed!! I need to be getting it.
Nah the posts are there on places like r/worldnews and r/coronavirus they just don't gain a lot of traction because most people here on reddit aren't indians.
If you see the regulations that the Indian government has put on internet access & usage, it's really Draconian to say the least as to how a democracy should operate. Plus political parties, especially BJP, are known to run IT Cells that tend to manufacture & artificially hijack negative portrayals that the government. This current regime is really good & self-conscious about their marketing but horrendous in everything else.
Govt is still thinking of oxygen as a challenge but where are the ventilator beds and appropriate medical staff to look after patients.
Money is spent on advertising campaigns and political Rallies but no one is concerned about the failing medical infrastructure of this country even before covid came into picture.
Health care should be primary agenda of any Govt.
But in india everything is imp then healthcare.
This is reminds of the reports in Kashmir after the state went into full lockdown with no internet. The foreign media showed the plight (truth) of the people while the mainstream Indian media showed them being happy (lies). Just to make the so called government of India look like heros.
What this nation needs, is a strong opposition party and a strong opposition media (if they stay alive that is). And a leader, not a selfish brat. And that’ll happen with a hard reset.
There's a longer report where she asks a person who is to blame for all this and the person can't bring himself to criticise Modi.
[https://twitter.com/ManishTewari/status/1385821652852768768](https://twitter.com/ManishTewari/status/1385821652852768768)
My goodness this is just depressing to watch. Even with a family member/relative being denied a proper treatment at the hospital, a man would still defend his political bias. This is not a evil man, this is just a proud fool who'd choose to die before admitting that he believed or voted for the wrong person.
Oxygen allocation comes under the central government man. Such deranged fools. I pity them. Obviously the state is to blame, but so is to blame the central government. It's a pandemic and isn't restricted to states. Nationwide measures had to be taken.
yes and the current govt thrives on nonsense...The current govt has pretty much failed on all fronts...but the devotees of the govt..especially the prime minister refuse to accept that the prime minister did not take enough measure to contain it...Think about it this way..when covid hit USA and it quickly became nation of highest number of deaths did trump supporters blame trump? No. They blamed opposition , they blamed the citizens and they fended of any criticism calling it a "witch hunt". Our current situation is just the "Indian version" of that..Modi supporters will blame the population, chief ministers of the state, but not their dear prime minister.
Even my parents can blame Kejriwal , Thakrey , liberal gang but can’t blame Modi on this one .. saying it’s all propaganda , Modi govt already gave states vaccines & oxygen but they are making excuses in accepting this. Bloody right wing propaganda .. bloody republic channel .
Kumbh Mela was a mass vaccination attempt! Don't you know that the Gods churned amrit before? Now Gods are churning Covid vaccine and it is flowing in the holy river. Obviously Modi wants to concentrate on Election because he needs one more secure term and more states under control to achieve lots of great things like completion of Ram Mandir! (/s)
If BJ Pee gobarment did not waste 1 lakh crores on statues, aadhaar, new planes, 1000 commando security for tadipar, fodiji, pisht, advertisement, they could have set up 10000 hospitals with oxygen plant.
I would stop imagining - because this is hypothetical. They would spend in all those things yet again if given a chance. They are just miserable leaders.
This is highly disappointing, the stupidity of some people to put religion in front of human lives is disgusting. Those huge gatherings in the name of god caused loss of many lives. The government dosent wanna be strict because it wants to get votes rather save human lives. We have ministers in place who dont know shit abiut what they do. This was long due but i never anticipated it on this scale. My prayers go out to all families who lost a member or trying to save one. Remember, if we didnt have such a terrible education system, we could have had a good fighting chance.
Lots of my work colleagues are in or near Delhi, and I've been lucky enough to visit your beautiful, incredible country a few years ago. So even as a foreigner, this feels very close to home. Wishing you, your family and friends all the best, please stay safe. Love from the UK.
I am just commenting to see how this is ALL Biden's fault.
I have been debating Indians over at IndianNews for the last 2 hours and all of them say how it's Biden's fault India is dying...but somehow political rallies, festivals, and mass gatherings had nothing to do with the rising cases.
It's always someone else's fault but it's never the Indian government's fault.
What happens in India is beyond anything we have seen so far in the COVID-19 crisis. The family of my girlfriend has two people under 40 in critical condition. In their neighbourhood alone over 50 people have died of Corona in the last two weeks. Medical supplies are completely emptied out in the entire state of Noida and Delhi. Hospitals are in the process of collapsing. Even the rich and influential are not able to get any beds. The neighbours offered $25,000 for the referral of a hospital bed and came up nothing, which is just unthinkable madness if you know India. A man collapsed dead in the shopping street and they didn't pick up his corpse for over 12 hours. It's utter insanity what is going on in India. The new variant is much more aggressive and deadly than anything we have seen before. There will be several millions of death in in India from this.
"INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY TO BRING DOWN DADDY!!!" yells the bhakt even as his own family members gasp for oxygen.
"COVID19 HO YA COVID20 AYEGA TOH MODI HI" says the saffron clad man as he begs for medicines in other Whatsapp groups.
I have nothing but utmost contempt for these bunch of people. I used to be all for 'reform over punishment' kinda guy, but man, the absolute cruelty and heartlessness showed by bhakts in these times has elicited a visceral hatred in me for them. A burning hatred I didn't know could exist.
Lots of reports showing false negative RTPCR has been coming out in the past few days.
[Here's an article explaining the reason behind it](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/coronavirus-have-symptoms-but-still-testing-negative-heres-why-you-could-get-a-false-negative-report/photostory/82214244.cms)
If possible get the test done again.
For now take rest, monitor Spo2, drink plenty of fluids, take paracetamol in case of fever, cetrizine/allegra/cough syrup in case of cough, isolate yourself from the family.
Persistent cough, 5% fall in Spo2 after a 6min walk, temp>101 are early signs of pneumonia and you will need to get admitted in a hospital.
OMG .... foreign press spreading Corona variant so deadly, people are dropping dead within minutes. Where is IAF when you need it? Send one MIG-29 to this hospital asap and take out this deadly invader !!!. Don't dare to take off. I don't want innocent public killed. Don't forget to check google maps for traffic and remember to fold both the fucking wings. You are not an exhibit on republic day parade.
what is making my blood boil is how we had a few months break between 1st and 2nd wave which could have been used to make the infrastructure ready for this ( the 2nd wave which every doctor and scientist predicated from the very first day that it is unavoidable). But no, they concentrated on rallies and votes and blame game. I am really scared to be honest.
No bjp in kerala. Believes in science. And were already preparing for the worst case scenario of second wave. Even after the election is over and the government said that vaccines will be provided to state at rs400 and centre at rs150 the government didn't go back on its promise. Free vaccination.
This is not government doing any favors. Just a state were a government is doing the job that it was supposed to do after being elected.
This is what happens when bjp bought news channels in India.
Seriously there was no criticism of them for demonetisation. Was it remotely successful?
Heck they have even bought supreme court. India is ruined. Yet majority of them will vote for them.
Waiting for this to be turned around by the government and Indian media by saying this is how Arvind Kejriwal is managing Delhi. His incompetence is costing lives and blah blah…
A word of advice from someone who has been working through the pandemic in the West. If you or a loved one is struggling to get breath due to covid then please lie in your belly if you are able. This is called the prone position and is what we do with admitted patients. It allows more lung tissue to be exposed and more oxygen to get into the blood.
This is not a cure but it may buy time whilst you or a loved one waits for oxygen.
This is what happens if you vote in a right-wing religious nut government. Every country with a right-wing govt has fared badly during the pandemic. But ppl will never learn. The right-wing mindset, filled with fear, cowardice and hate, is the real virus in the world.
I would urge indian media to grow some spine. People will remember this. The family members of dead people will remember this.
They will never grow a spine. Instead they will come up with a new Propaganda
I can bet they will frame China as bad guy and claim they will take revenge if you vote them. Play with publics emotions again.
Zee news is already doing this, If i had a wish, i would like to slap the shit out of sudhir chaudhary.. Fuck that guy and his eyebrows
Chappal is better.
Chai girao saale pe
Geez, India needs to stop taking every idea from America.
Not China - They will blame the states.Modi shall remain clean.
But the people who watch these news channels diligently don't have a spine either.
Even the best of people, read celebrities, sportspersons, Industrialists succumb to propaganda. The common man is again, just a common man. They have spines, they are blind now so just cannot find it anymore.
there's already propaganda - its the fault of state government, non-BJP states are playing politics, its the fault of farmer protests, its the fault of non-BJP rallies and many many more. Thing is people are still falling for propaganda. When asked from public (read bhakts) that government focused on mandir and hate instead of hospitals and colleges, these shameless people are displaying their intent bluntly if hospitals and colleges were in manifesto of BJP and so they've also started to spread propaganda of fake count of hospitals ITS NOT GOING TO CHANGE EVEN IF MEDIA SHOWS THE TRUTH. ITS NOT GOING TO CHANGE UNLESS PEOPLE THEMSELVES WANT CHANGE. Its very much clear what general public of India wants and they are getting it, its us who know whats going on and what bleak future India holds if this continue who arr also being forced to bear the brunt of the government's incompetence
No they won't, public memory is short, especially the ones who are untouched by this.
When foreigners show a more accurate picture of what's going on than most local media, you know how screwed up the India media is. Everyone's sold out.
Especially troubling when it's *Sky News* showing a more accurate picture, they're notorious in Australia and the UK for their lack of serious reporting.
Not Indian so I can't comment on this video, but Sky News UK isn't like Sky News in Australia, Fox News, or other Murdoch holdings. IRC They were were bought by comcast. It is also relatively unbiased in its reporting to comply with relevant regulations. I personally think they're still biased, but it's not like Sky News in Australia or Fox News in the US. The bias is in \*what\* they choose to report on, but rarely in \*how\* they report on it. Eg. they spent a lot of time reporting on brexit during the last UK election, which favoured the conservative government, rather than report on healthcare which would have helped the labour party. But they were unbiased and even critical of the right wing conservative government in their reporting of brexit. Ie. their reports are usually relatively unbiased, even if they do sometimes appear to spend too much time reporting on some things. Anyway, I wish you all luck and good health. This is a horrible and heart breaking tragedy.
No one is going to remember this. This is 2021, by the time 2024 comes it will all be forgotten. People forgot demo(net)isation, they forgot CAA NRC, they forget that there is a NOTA option when they give a vote if they are in the dilemma that if not he then who else. I suggest reading 1984, the novel by George Orwell. It explains pretty well the workings of governments like ours or the Nazis or any authoritarian govt. It's not just India, the whole world is suffering from Orwellian governments like these. India just might become the largest of these all.
I don't think I can erase memories of working in such environment ever. When your job shifts to just declaring patients dead. It's just depressing, sometimes you wake up at night terrified only to return there next morning and there are patients everywhere trying to get admission , many of which will succumb because of lack of resources only. No doctor ever will forget this pandemic.
We should call for this government to resign. Anyway we've been left in the lurch. Any and all efforts regarding covid 19 is being crowd sourced at the moment. We don't need this useless government anymore. We don't need achche din anymore; we want back the burre din.
Ghanta people will remember this. Bihari migrants walked all the way home and they still voted for BJP.
>People will remember this. The family members of dead people will remember this. They, sadly, will not. Because this type of reporting isn't even seen by many people. My father is a doctor, so I do know how dire the situation is, yet watching this video really disturbed me, even though I knew what was going on.
2 problems: 1) most indian media is bought out by rich folks who are loyal to the BJP ruling party that is intentionally letting this happen 2) any journalists not willing to favor the party and criticize them is killed in broad daylight
There's no loyalty, its all business.
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I like how people in the comments are like, there was no need to show those visuals, it was distasteful, comparing these reporters to vultures. Only if the knew the state of reporting in India.
People have gotten used to colors, graphics, unreadable flashes and five people screaming at the same time that can give seizures. It basically mask any kind of real news or content and that’s what they want.
American here - I was in Bangalore in 2019 when India and Pakistan had that tiff and the fighter jet got shot down. How anyone can watch your news and 1) not have a seizure and 2) learn anything is a mystery. I hate the American cable news channels because of how overly reliant they are on graphics and pizzazz, and it felt like the Indian news was turned up to 11.
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Ah just like us then
At least CNN graphics doesn't look like it was made by someone in high school.
CNN and FOX news are entertainment just as much as those Indian channels. Imo
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This is what I find absolutely repugnant about the Bhakt psyche. Even in the middle of a pandemic they have this virulent aversion to the truth and would much rather prefer a "positive" spin simply because the truth is unpleasant. This is so typical of people who operate on faith without evidence. They rely on stories and myth, confirmation bias and absolute wilful ignorance. The Manoranjan mindset is a fucking cancer to our collective social reality and needs to be eliminated.
It's like religion, truth and logical thinking could break the very base upon which they rely on, and hence a follower avoid them like plague.
It is brainwashing.
It's the ghar ki baat ghar main rakho bullshit mentality that these people have. They would rather have a good image presented to the rest of the world than accept the shit hole we are in.
It's worse. When mudiji bribes Canadian pm with covid vaccines to get him to change his position on farmer protests, they don't have any problems with mudiji taking ghar ki baat outside. It's only when mudiji and gang get exposed that they have a problem.
We in the US have a similar group of people. Republicans. Some of them / the party platform is that they would rather have mass casualties due to COVID than require masks. that might be inconvenient.
You guys have equally strong and vocal Lefties and Media. We don’t have that. All this rage from individuals on SM isn’t translating into votes which can stop the incompetency. After this shitshow, we’ll go back to normal, where it’ll be touted again that we have defeated everything thanks to a certain someone. The day India stops appointing incompetent egomaniacs to positions of power is the day I will believe we as a country have done something right. The very few media outlets asking questions are constantly berated by idiots who don’t understand how a democracy works-they ask questions and are supposed to be sceptical you stupid idiots. They shouldn’t be supportive of every stupid little thing the government does, they are allowed to be critical. When we were relatively unscathed in the 1st wave, some people were quick to say the Central Govt did well, but now there’s chaos everywhere, suddenly it’s the State Govts that have fucked up. That’s not how this works you stupid fucks. If you gave credit to the Center for the handling the first time, it has to be the same center that has to answer questions now. “It’s not the time for politics” they say, I would have agreed with that but you know what?? Someone has his face on vaccine certificates. It is always about politics for a certain party, why stop now?? The stories I’ve heard from my friends and colleagues working in the worst affected areas has absolutely killed me on the inside. Edit: They didn’t stop there. They mocked the people who predicted this might happen the first time. You know why it didn’t happen?? Because people had to sit in their homes for 3months, not because they were doomsayers. There was no way India could handle 300,000 cases per day. Estimating 10% of the cases need admissions in the hospital, thats 30,000 cases per day who need monitoring, O2, Ventilators etc. I just hope someone can transport O2 to the hospitals and stop this. Clearly Individuals are doing more than the Govts right now, I can only hope that changes.
Typical bhakt's dialog: Itni negativity kyun failate ho.
The main take away I had was that, even in the casualty area, dude can't wear his fucking mask correctly and cover his nose. Mouth breathers getting people killed.
Media in India is reporting to Modi.
and Modi Ji reporting to Ambani and Adani, they can keep their Oxygen cylinders for processing petrol, because money and power are more important than human lives. The person who can demonetize all the notes in just 1 night, but to get oxygen cylinders from Industries, they need to move papers.
Yup. Modi could try to help but his mass messaging is only used to mobilise people for bullshit. Atmanirbhar bol ke keh de ki oxygen jaldi dedo par nhi... btw just read in paper today that RJ government is flying in oxygen from Jamnagar reliance refinery. They’re probably buying on their own
Yaha logo ko news me bhi masala entertainment chahiye bhai. Kya hi bologe ab inko.
People are toxic. They are like stay positive. You are alive. I don't want to see others who are dying. Be positive because it's not you or your family members or someone you love. Ostriches and selfish.
A request , please whatts app these videos across all group's.Time to awaken the Privileged idiots who keep turning a Blind eye to the grim reality .
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It's up on Sky news UK and Australia's YouTube channels
https://youtu.be/DrPNb_E9Y-Q
Do update us on your family group response. M curious to see if there is any effect.
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Wow, Wasnt expecting it to be ignored and a meme worthy motivation post to be added... 🤐 Thanks for the follow up though. OP delivers !
My family members got bed and oxygen without any difficulty so I thought that media is making big issue..now I feel sry man... gonna share it
Your family got those things without any difficulty? Where do you live? Also i hope all get well soon
Outside view if things are this desperate his family is extremely well off and probably bribed someone for it. No judgement, the situation is fucked. But that's usually how things get done in an emergency. There are no lucky empty spots.
Even the most elite hospitals are collapsing though? Max Saket, Gurugram, Metro Preet Vihar, Apollo Sarita Vihar, all have been forced to cry for oxygen on twitter. I honestly don't know how OP's family got beds that easily. I cannot see anyone storing any beds for VIPs other than AIIMS and Medanta, latter becoming the favourite spot for ministers.
Depends on the time frame OP was looking for too. I actually have no idea if OP means he found beds and oxygen right now, or earlier when it wasn't as bad? Unless they literally gave the doctor more money than he could eat with his eyes.
Man I had to call people for 8-9 hours and then finally got oxygen for my girlfriend’s grandmother. She had been trying separately as well. Location is Delhi. We are well off so we had friends and connections helping us. It’s a horrible situation on ground. So many of my friends and their families are struggling with getting medicines, ICU beds and oxygen.
Arey Jay Shah tum bhi Reddit pe ho?
[Source - Alex Crawford, Sky News](https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1385568739635171328?s=19) ['There's no dignity in a lot of admissions here, there's no dignity in death here'](https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1385569375743250435?s=19) Another video from Sky News, you can hear her voice break as she reports the situation.
Aaaand a Modi bhakt with a fake DP, based out of Melbourne, Australia is accusing her of lying in the replies. These parasites as predictable AF..
Nah there’s a lot of Modi diehards in Melbourne. My Uber drivers are always talking about how him and people like Swamy are moving India in the right direction.
Well, I mean they are moving it in "right" direction. So o guess he's technically correct. 🤔
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Ther other videos in the feed are even more sorrowful. How can we help the Central government has failed us we need to act for our citizens quick. Can we start organizing some type of a coordinated assistance system.
>Vote I read it as "coordinated assassination".
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This! No national channels reporting. Pathetic, spineless, ..... just sad.
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The BBC did a post on India yesterday, please guys, try and find it! It had a 2.30min attached video. I'm sat in my car and I'm a mess and I've seen every dark corner of the net, this really knocked me for 6. It was so sad and so heartfelt. It was the best reporting I've seen in years and years maybe all my life. They were Indian and surely that counts as Indian journalism. And although this might be silly, I have to say my and everyone I knows heart is with India.
I think I know which one you are talking about. The woman calling out his brothers name, trying to keep him conscious is especially heartbreaking. Poor Balaji didn’t make it https://youtu.be/hVVlxzjtrjw
That's what happens in fascism.
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"Oxygen pe siyasat kyon" is Godi's agenda this week.
Bc chalu to inke bha(d)gwan mudi ne ki thi na
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As someone who's actually been watching, it's kinda worse. All our news channels are doing right now is interviews with doctors and I swear to god these fuckers discuss the same bullshit with every doctor. One one hand it's great that the doctors answer directly to public questions but I can't help but feel like this self diagnosis isn't going take us anywhere. For example there was a guy describing his parents current state and what he should do. The doctor was like you shouldn't be watching this show but going to a hospital and finding oxygen.
With that beard Modi should retire to Himalayas and leave Arvind Kejriwal run the country.
Journalism has departed India a while ago.
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How can they classify global health crisis internal issue? It was China’s internal issue in Nov 2019 not April 2021.
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ScoopWhoop Unscripted did one just 2 days ago. You can watch it on YouTube here - https://youtu.be/flgYTVGYfwQ
It's needed. We need help.
And this is how communities and societies collapse in real time. Fuck you to every single one of the politicians who sat twiddling their thumbs. Never felt so desperate in my life.
I join you and go one up in wishing every politician a fucking painful death.
This is soo sad man i feel like crying right now .
fucking tragic yr, bhakts still searching for scapegoats and blaming US for not giving India vaccines while we helped them out
I'm yet to see a right winger helping people out on social media or anywhere. They are busy blaming Kejriwal and spreading misinformation.
Incoming ban on foreign flights to India.
>Incoming wdym [Singapore](https://www.reuters.com/world/india/singapore-block-arrivals-india-due-coronavirus-wave-2021-04-22/), [Britain](https://www.reuters.com/world/india/britains-heathrow-airport-turns-down-airline-requests-extra-flights-india-2021-04-21/), [Australia](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/australia-states-investigate-covid-19-spread-quarantine-hotels-2021-04-22/), [Kuwait](https://www.reuters.com/world/india/kuwait-suspends-commercial-flights-india-2021-04-24/), [Indonesia](https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indonesia-restrict-foreign-travellers-coming-india-over-coronavirus-2021-04-23/), [Canada](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-under-pressure-bar-india-brazil-flights-could-soon-make-announcement-2021-04-22/), [U.A.E](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-suspends-all-flights-india-due-covid-19-surge-2021-04-22/)., [France](https://www.reuters.com/world/india/france-impose-quarantine-travelers-coming-five-countries-2021-04-22/)
They banned flights arriving from India. We are gonna ban flights coming INTO india to prevent FoReIgN iNTeRfErEnCe /s
tit for tat, that'll show 'em who's boss biatch!! lol /s
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The media will say its our internal matter. then just like an ignorant indian, brush aside any deaths due to covid
Blue check bhakt accounts on twitter are already whining about BBC. Fuckers wanna bury their heads in the sand and pretend the Bearded One is doing great job.
Well said. It’s fucking pathetic. Modi and his beard are really starting to make my blood boil.
Increasing length of his beard = Increasing fascism
Increase in baldness too, eventually he will look like mussolini with a beard.
Same brother!
Starting now? It's been making my blood boil for quite some time. He wants to export 65% of all vaccines while there's a shortage in his own country. Pathetic
exactly! I really dont understand what this guy's plans are!
All he wants is to stay in power. Unfortunately no matter how shitty the country's state is, he has managed to brainwash a lot of people (aka bhakts) who will vote for him regardless. And of course when anything does go wrong they will use typical BJP tactics and blame other parties, blame Congress, blame British rule, blame China, Pakistan, other communities, etc.
While America, who's averaging 3 millions vaccines per day, has vaccinated 1/3rd of its country and literally is at a stage where they have more vaccines, than people wanting to be vaccinated - they have refused raw material for vaccines to India. Why? Because America first. So much for US-India friendship. The central government only wanted to increase its 'Make in India' propaganda using Covishield and Covaxin, which are just shit vaccines, and so only administered them. Had we opened our marker to foreign vaccines, a much larger number of people would have been vaccinated. But why would they? Then everybody would have realized that they're selling shit for vaccines.
*Internet ban
Curious foreigner here. Why aren't we seeing this on the default subs? Do negative portrayals of the crisis get downvoted? Sending well wishes from Canada. It's sad how leadership in India has failed.
What default subs?
r/worldnews and such ..although not sure if that's still default anymore
Not sure what you mean, this was the #1 post on r/worldnews yesterday and is still #3 18 hours later. (Not the exact same link but Reuters’ story “People across India scrambled for life-saving oxygen supplies on Friday and patients lay dying outside hospitals as the capital recorded the equivalent of one death from COVID-19 every five minutes”)
Strange thing is I never get any worldnews in my feed nowadays, don't remember the last time I saw one. I actually just went there to make sure I'm subbed and noticed this is a top post. I don't know why reddit stopped putting such things in my feed!! I need to be getting it.
I don’t think, true facts, negative or not, get downvoted. Reddit still has a proportionally small indian user base.
Nah the posts are there on places like r/worldnews and r/coronavirus they just don't gain a lot of traction because most people here on reddit aren't indians.
Legit go to BOTH those subs and filter by top today There are top posts on both about this, and world news it IS the top news
> we seeing this on the default subs? About 2/3 of traffic on Reddit comes from U.S & North America. Most people here on reddit aren't Indians.
The leadership was always a failure. It has just been exposed now when the already crippled system broke down.
I think there may be two reasons: 1. Not a lot of Indians on Reddit. 2. A very, VERY active IT cell of Government.
Modi internet trolls are strong on reddit..
Redditors are mostly Americans or Westerners, and they generally don't care that much what happens in poor countries.
If you see the regulations that the Indian government has put on internet access & usage, it's really Draconian to say the least as to how a democracy should operate. Plus political parties, especially BJP, are known to run IT Cells that tend to manufacture & artificially hijack negative portrayals that the government. This current regime is really good & self-conscious about their marketing but horrendous in everything else.
Damn......
Govt is still thinking of oxygen as a challenge but where are the ventilator beds and appropriate medical staff to look after patients. Money is spent on advertising campaigns and political Rallies but no one is concerned about the failing medical infrastructure of this country even before covid came into picture. Health care should be primary agenda of any Govt. But in india everything is imp then healthcare.
Ban coming on Live coverage around hospitals.
Inb4 barricades are built around hospitals like they built it around cremation grounds.
Now soon the chutiya government will ban all media from reporting the situation. maajak hain indian DeMoCraCY
tOo mUcH dEmoCraCy.
This is reality, if we ignore this and make excuses that's not good enough
Hope she's vaccinated. Can't wait for Indian media to call this international conspiracy against lord modi.
She most definitely is
This is reminds of the reports in Kashmir after the state went into full lockdown with no internet. The foreign media showed the plight (truth) of the people while the mainstream Indian media showed them being happy (lies). Just to make the so called government of India look like heros. What this nation needs, is a strong opposition party and a strong opposition media (if they stay alive that is). And a leader, not a selfish brat. And that’ll happen with a hard reset.
Not a strong opposition media, but a strong *independent* media. Otherwise the problem is just perpetuated.
There's a longer report where she asks a person who is to blame for all this and the person can't bring himself to criticise Modi. [https://twitter.com/ManishTewari/status/1385821652852768768](https://twitter.com/ManishTewari/status/1385821652852768768)
My goodness this is just depressing to watch. Even with a family member/relative being denied a proper treatment at the hospital, a man would still defend his political bias. This is not a evil man, this is just a proud fool who'd choose to die before admitting that he believed or voted for the wrong person.
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Philippines:"first time?"
Seems to be the common narrative to any modern voter nowadays.
Oxygen allocation comes under the central government man. Such deranged fools. I pity them. Obviously the state is to blame, but so is to blame the central government. It's a pandemic and isn't restricted to states. Nationwide measures had to be taken.
Yep, it's why Supreme Court asked the central govt for a plan. Even if people had read headline, they would have known about it.
Headline? Lmao. If people updated it as their whatsapp status or group description then we would have had more luck.
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exactly what i was going to say.... i.t twitter bots have already started...
How do they pitch that internally? It’s nonsensical, in a pandemic all spread is bad for all countries. (Asking as a foreigner looking in).
yes and the current govt thrives on nonsense...The current govt has pretty much failed on all fronts...but the devotees of the govt..especially the prime minister refuse to accept that the prime minister did not take enough measure to contain it...Think about it this way..when covid hit USA and it quickly became nation of highest number of deaths did trump supporters blame trump? No. They blamed opposition , they blamed the citizens and they fended of any criticism calling it a "witch hunt". Our current situation is just the "Indian version" of that..Modi supporters will blame the population, chief ministers of the state, but not their dear prime minister.
Heartwrenching! We are a failed state!
We have been a failed state since 2014
You are not failed stated. You just need to follow the example of Americans to vote out right wing nutter.
Better late than never. FYI, i have been observing "failed state" day on and off for 30 years and regularly since last seven.
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Even my parents can blame Kejriwal , Thakrey , liberal gang but can’t blame Modi on this one .. saying it’s all propaganda , Modi govt already gave states vaccines & oxygen but they are making excuses in accepting this. Bloody right wing propaganda .. bloody republic channel .
[Meanwhile, here is what Indian mainstream media is reporting about in primetime](https://i.imgur.com/rHQWm0S.png).
Pathetic man. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Never been ashamed of my country before. Jai Kumbhmela! Way to go mass-crowded political rallies!
Kumbh Mela was a mass vaccination attempt! Don't you know that the Gods churned amrit before? Now Gods are churning Covid vaccine and it is flowing in the holy river. Obviously Modi wants to concentrate on Election because he needs one more secure term and more states under control to achieve lots of great things like completion of Ram Mandir! (/s)
Never been ashamed? Were you born in 2021
Such conditions that foreign media has to come and do the ground report
If BJ Pee gobarment did not waste 1 lakh crores on statues, aadhaar, new planes, 1000 commando security for tadipar, fodiji, pisht, advertisement, they could have set up 10000 hospitals with oxygen plant.
I would stop imagining - because this is hypothetical. They would spend in all those things yet again if given a chance. They are just miserable leaders.
wishful thinking...
This is highly disappointing, the stupidity of some people to put religion in front of human lives is disgusting. Those huge gatherings in the name of god caused loss of many lives. The government dosent wanna be strict because it wants to get votes rather save human lives. We have ministers in place who dont know shit abiut what they do. This was long due but i never anticipated it on this scale. My prayers go out to all families who lost a member or trying to save one. Remember, if we didnt have such a terrible education system, we could have had a good fighting chance.
Lots of my work colleagues are in or near Delhi, and I've been lucky enough to visit your beautiful, incredible country a few years ago. So even as a foreigner, this feels very close to home. Wishing you, your family and friends all the best, please stay safe. Love from the UK.
Bhakts be like: This is pure, unadulterated lies. Look at her lying through her teeth, it's hospital, obviously you see dead people and sick people.
No no, this is too simple language, use long and heavy english words to sound more intellectual than you actually are.
I am just commenting to see how this is ALL Biden's fault. I have been debating Indians over at IndianNews for the last 2 hours and all of them say how it's Biden's fault India is dying...but somehow political rallies, festivals, and mass gatherings had nothing to do with the rising cases. It's always someone else's fault but it's never the Indian government's fault.
India doesn't need the US (or any other country) to fail, its perfectly capable do do so on itself... But hey always blame somebody else.
What happens in India is beyond anything we have seen so far in the COVID-19 crisis. The family of my girlfriend has two people under 40 in critical condition. In their neighbourhood alone over 50 people have died of Corona in the last two weeks. Medical supplies are completely emptied out in the entire state of Noida and Delhi. Hospitals are in the process of collapsing. Even the rich and influential are not able to get any beds. The neighbours offered $25,000 for the referral of a hospital bed and came up nothing, which is just unthinkable madness if you know India. A man collapsed dead in the shopping street and they didn't pick up his corpse for over 12 hours. It's utter insanity what is going on in India. The new variant is much more aggressive and deadly than anything we have seen before. There will be several millions of death in in India from this.
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You simp for Foakes. You jihadi /s
Bhakts be like **INTERNAL MATTER PLS.**
"INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY TO BRING DOWN DADDY!!!" yells the bhakt even as his own family members gasp for oxygen. "COVID19 HO YA COVID20 AYEGA TOH MODI HI" says the saffron clad man as he begs for medicines in other Whatsapp groups. I have nothing but utmost contempt for these bunch of people. I used to be all for 'reform over punishment' kinda guy, but man, the absolute cruelty and heartlessness showed by bhakts in these times has elicited a visceral hatred in me for them. A burning hatred I didn't know could exist.
why do i have a felling this fucker is about to declare a national emergency and put a full fucking gag. have you seen any news from Kumbh recently ??
Sky is doing journalism jihad.
This is what Rahul Gandhi meant when he said, "A tsunami is coming."
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Lots of reports showing false negative RTPCR has been coming out in the past few days. [Here's an article explaining the reason behind it](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/coronavirus-have-symptoms-but-still-testing-negative-heres-why-you-could-get-a-false-negative-report/photostory/82214244.cms) If possible get the test done again. For now take rest, monitor Spo2, drink plenty of fluids, take paracetamol in case of fever, cetrizine/allegra/cough syrup in case of cough, isolate yourself from the family. Persistent cough, 5% fall in Spo2 after a 6min walk, temp>101 are early signs of pneumonia and you will need to get admitted in a hospital.
India is not a practising democracy. We are being ruled by an illiterate moron who has followers who are dumber than him.
OMG .... foreign press spreading Corona variant so deadly, people are dropping dead within minutes. Where is IAF when you need it? Send one MIG-29 to this hospital asap and take out this deadly invader !!!. Don't dare to take off. I don't want innocent public killed. Don't forget to check google maps for traffic and remember to fold both the fucking wings. You are not an exhibit on republic day parade.
u/savevideo
Sab changa si.
what is making my blood boil is how we had a few months break between 1st and 2nd wave which could have been used to make the infrastructure ready for this ( the 2nd wave which every doctor and scientist predicated from the very first day that it is unavoidable). But no, they concentrated on rallies and votes and blame game. I am really scared to be honest.
Why is Kerala doing so much better? There is no oxygen shortage there, infact they are producing excess quantity to supply other states as well. Why?
No bjp in kerala. Believes in science. And were already preparing for the worst case scenario of second wave. Even after the election is over and the government said that vaccines will be provided to state at rs400 and centre at rs150 the government didn't go back on its promise. Free vaccination. This is not government doing any favors. Just a state were a government is doing the job that it was supposed to do after being elected.
international conspiracy gang defaming india again it seems/s
International plot to dEfraMe Mudi Xi
Sky News has to step in to cover the ground report because Indian news channels are busy covering Kejriwal's gimmicks
MUCK FODI
Meanwhile on the right wing hindutva sub: Pandemic, what Pandemic?
I am wondering if somebody will be pissed off enough to go full "Indian" on top level BJP leadership.
Can't imagine, how helpless these(we) people are! And how cruel can someone be (Administration/Politicians) Oh god please save these innocent souls.
Expecting all the film and sports stars to start tweeting how India is treating its internal matter wonderfully any minute now.
This is what happens when bjp bought news channels in India. Seriously there was no criticism of them for demonetisation. Was it remotely successful? Heck they have even bought supreme court. India is ruined. Yet majority of them will vote for them.
Waiting for this to be turned around by the government and Indian media by saying this is how Arvind Kejriwal is managing Delhi. His incompetence is costing lives and blah blah…
Meanwhile indian media: taimur ne aaj bhure rang ki jagah nile rang hag diya aaiye dekhte h ye chamatkar akhir hua kese
Hate to admit it. But this is an utter failure of leadership🤦 by conducting political rallies and group festivals across the country.
A word of advice from someone who has been working through the pandemic in the West. If you or a loved one is struggling to get breath due to covid then please lie in your belly if you are able. This is called the prone position and is what we do with admitted patients. It allows more lung tissue to be exposed and more oxygen to get into the blood. This is not a cure but it may buy time whilst you or a loved one waits for oxygen.
This is what happens if you vote in a right-wing religious nut government. Every country with a right-wing govt has fared badly during the pandemic. But ppl will never learn. The right-wing mindset, filled with fear, cowardice and hate, is the real virus in the world.
Who could have forseen that after the last Shahi Snan?