Posts

Showing posts from August, 2021

TROLLING HAS NO LIMITS, INSANITY TOO!

Image
At least 1.2L died in Telangana in 2020, RTI reply finds. That’s double the average from 2016-19. Someone had diabetes and they died from COVID hospitalization, it has been recorded as Diabetes death, COVID is not even secondary reason. That the person could have been alive today if not for COVID has been "politically" overlooked. Not just in Telangana but in many other states too. One year back, there was an epidemiologist Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, who got trolled when he said India could see 30-70 cr cases and 20-25 L deaths. Today our own sero-surveys are suggesting 60 cr+ infections. The unofficial numbers from multiple estimates are suggesting 20L+ deaths. Ideally we should be thanking people like Dr. Ramanan for helping us in our decision making, but all we could do was troll. In fact some of his colleagues had warned India of the second wave in Mar, we conveniently ignored and paid the price for it. We promptly trolled them again when they estimated 10L deat...