The narrative about COVID-19 in India
2021-10-06
Start-up stories from the international news agencies
People are dying in scores
Corpses lie scattered on the street
Morgues are overfilled
Corpses are stuffed in refrigerated containers or burned on parking lots
Undertakers are overwhelmed
Doctors are dying
Hospitals are exhausted
Added zest to the story was a new more infectious and deadly mutation, initially known as the Indian variant, later renamed to Delta.
Implicit in the story was that the Indian population was poor and uneducated and that the authorities were incompetent and corrupted and that, therefore, the Mother of all Pandemics was approaching – which would then become a vehement threat to all of us in the rest of the World.
In Real Life
The mortality in COVID-19 in India until this day has been 32.88 per 100 000
The infection rates and the mortality is now decreasing in spite of the fact that less than 20 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.
Compare the development in India to the figures in countries that are generally considered competent and less corrupt and where people are fully vaccinated to a rather high degree:
| Country | Deaths per 100 000 | Percentage fully vaccinated |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 214,26 | 56,60 |
| UK | 205,55 | 67,32 |
| Sweden | 144,55 | 64,13 |
| Israel | 86,63 | 62,53 |
| India | 32,88 | 18,21 |
All figures are from Johns Hopkins on October 5, 2021
Conclusion
It is too early to determine why the divinations of international news agencies were not fulfilled. But it is obvious that the predictions were mistaken.
Earlier links about India:
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/who-is-afraid-of-the-delta/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/herbal-medicine-in-china-and-india/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/new-horror-stories-are-created/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/the-covid-19-narrative-about-india/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/benchmarking/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/dont-be-afraid-for-the-delta/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/are-you-getting-vaccinated/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/media-slant/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/observations-regarding-covid-19-vaccines/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/who-should-profit-from-the-vaccines/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/untrue-tales/?search_highlighter=India
https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/what-can-we-trust/?search_highlighter=India https://justidag.info/en/covid-updates/is-vaccination-efficient/?search_highlighter=India