India's Covid Crisis: Narendra Modi Seems to Have No Plan

[d00od00o]

With potentially hundreds of millions of rural Indians getting sick, I wonder if crop output will fail. Is there a famine coming to India?

 

[Andhadhun]

 

[FuturePAF]

The mortality rate of 1.68% is likely for the cities and those hospitalized. Those dying at home are not counted. Rural India is not equipped to deal with this, so the mortality rate will be much higher. 40 million will die in silence, and nobody will care. That's India.

You are probably closer to the truth then anyone would want to admit. The collapse of the public health system of any country should be something the UN plans on preventing. Even the largest or most economically robust nations can be overwhelmed, and there should be a plan to put aside ego, so that lives can be saved, as was done with the Ebola crisis in west Africa a few years ago.

I hope your right and this is the end of the second wave in India. Frankly, with underreporting potentially being multiples of the official data, we may never know if this pandemic is “contained”. With the risk of starvation outweighing contracting COVID, the governments especially in the rural areas will see it prudent to open up as soon as official numbers suggest an end to the second wave. Average Indians should exercise caution as much as possible and be trained in decontamination techniques as well as maintaining the COVID SOPs (masks, hand washing, social distancing) at the end of a trip outside the home. It’s tedious work, but could be a way the average Indian could maintain a job and protect themselves and others around themselves.

 

[paritosh]

You are probably closer to the truth then anyone would want to admit. The collapse of the public health system of any country should be something the UN plans on preventing. Even the largest or most economically robust nations can be overwhelmed, and there should be a plan to put aside ego, so that lives can be saved, as was done with the Ebola crisis in west Africa a few years ago.

First of, that’s a really nice objective post.
I think the UN is still a token org, more focused on providing guidance across the healthcare value chain - from research to delivery. They are massively underfunded and stigmatised to drive anything. Hope the pandemic’s aftermath does to the UN health what World War II did to the League of Nations.

 

[Andhadhun]

I hope your right and this is the end of the second wave in India. Frankly, with underreporting potentially being multiples of the official data, we may never know if this pandemic is “contained”. With the risk of starvation outweighing contracting COVID, the governments especially in the rural areas will see it prudent to open up as soon as official numbers suggest an end to the second wave. Average Indians should exercise caution as much as possible and be trained in decontamination techniques as well as maintaining the COVID SOPs (masks, hand washing, social distancing) at the end of a trip outside the home. It’s tedious work, but could be a way the average Indian could maintain a job and protect themselves and others around themselves.

LOL. Starvation ?

Wheat Procurement by Centre from States at MSP records substantial growth of nearly 30%

Wheat Procurement by the Centre from the States of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, and Jammu & Kashmir at Minimum Support Price (MSP) has recorded a substantial growth of nearly 30 per cent over corresponding period of last year.

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution has informed that in the current Rabi Marketing Season of 2021-22 over 366 lakh metric tonnes of Wheat has been procured at MSP from these States benefitting nearly 37 lakh 15 thousand farmers so far.

The Ministry added that over Rs. 72,406 crore have been transferred to the farmers for these procurements.

Food & Public Distribution Ministry said that Paddy procurement in the ongoing Kharif Marketing Season of 2020-21 is continuing smoothly in the procuring States with purchase of over 742 Lakh Metric Tonnes of paddy.

It added that about over 1 crore 11 Lakh farmers have already benefitted from these procurement Operations with MSP value of over Rs. 1,40,165 Crore.

 

[FuturePAF]

LOL. Starvation ?

Wheat Procurement by Centre from States at MSP records substantial growth of nearly 30%

Wheat Procurement by the Centre from the States of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, and Jammu & Kashmir at Minimum Support Price (MSP) has recorded a substantial growth of nearly 30 per cent over corresponding period of last year.

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution has informed that in the current Rabi Marketing Season of 2021-22 over 366 lakh metric tonnes of Wheat has been procured at MSP from these States benefitting nearly 37 lakh 15 thousand farmers so far.

The Ministry added that over Rs. 72,406 crore have been transferred to the farmers for these procurements.

Food & Public Distribution Ministry said that Paddy procurement in the ongoing Kharif Marketing Season of 2020-21 is continuing smoothly in the procuring States with purchase of over 742 Lakh Metric Tonnes of paddy.

It added that about over 1 crore 11 Lakh farmers have already benefitted from these procurement Operations with MSP value of over Rs. 1,40,165 Crore.

unless the government is gonna give away food to everyone everyday, daily wage earners are going to have to work to earn the money to buy food.

 

[shanlung]

I love Modi!

Modi for Eternal President and Forever Prime Minister in Perpetuity For India

Build a 1,000 Meters high stature of Modi that all Indians can go and worship at the foot of the statue and to show admiration and gratitude at the wisdom and great leadership of Modi.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

What does not kill you makes you stronger.


“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”

― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds