I was reading this yesterday.
It's almost impossible to imagine the hell-hole much of India has become - an example of how the wrong mindset led a government to expose its population to carnage, by allowing, for example, mass religious gatherings in the belief that somehow India had conquered the virus - not that anyone knew how.
When you read the figures you need to remember that no-one really knows what is going on. There's no proper system for recording births and deaths at the best of times. In the pandemic, thousands upon thousands of the underclass are probably dying unreported in villages and slums. Only those whose families have some resources can even get their infected members anywhere near a hospital.
It is a disaster of biblical proportions.
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