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As always , beautifully written . It is so true that the state of affairs is like this . Each day we are hearing of so many Lavis ans so many Ritus.

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That's really sad! You have documented it quite well kalpana! Our prayers for your friends and all our fellow humans!🙏

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Well documented depicting the true picture here. Our prayers for those affected by the pandemic. Hope our country wakes up and handles subsequent epidemic in a more professional way minimising the hardships of people and their mental trauma

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Ms. Kalpana, it would have been better if you had done some research and looked at the data, rather than rely on anecdotes and propaganda.

Every death is painful, and we should do all we can to prevent it. There is a lot of scope for improvement in how India handled Covid. But as these figures show, the Indian government and people have done a much better job than most countries.

Cumulative deaths per million have been 1830 for the USA, 1873 for the UK, 1671 for France and 232 for India.

And are we criticizing India's humanitarian gesture to help poor countries around the world with vaccines, so they can protect frontline workers? After all, "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam"

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Hello Mr. Dharmarajan:

Thank you so much for reading and writing! I appreciate it very much.

First of all, in general, this post tell stories about people's personal experiences. I do, however, make sure that I'm not incorrect in any numbers, if I state any at all. I definitely do not rely on propaganda.

Yes, cumulative deaths per million may be lower but that's also because of the population. Even one death is too many in any case; given that this recent wave in India came at a time when India should have been MUCH MORE prepared (given how the US and Brazil and many other places were ravaged by it by the time it landed in Delhi and Mumbai), I'm unable to look at the issue of "cumulative deaths" as being lower in India compared to those of other nations. If that were the case, Singapore should be totally relaxed in its attitude towards Covid since its cumulative deaths are, literally, negligible. They veer around zero (31 deaths/5.7 Million population). Yet, Singapore continues to take extraordinary measures; the attitude of this country is that one death is one too many. Its leaders are exemplary in the way they've conducted themselves on the issue of Covid containment and they are role models for countries like America and India.

As for criticizing India's "humanitarian" gesture, I believe that charity begins at home.

India's leaders should have been smart about the lack of infrastructure and the lack of public education with respect to health. I know it's all easy to disparage the leadership from afar. It always seems that so many things could have been done on hindsight; still, too many people who have lost family members, too many people across India whose families are suffering tell me how things have gone wrong. I listed out all the things that went wrong before the numbers shot up; most were flagrant violations by the leaders themselves. They need not have been this bad at all with more rules in place and more compassion.

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