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Modi is now trying to crack down on social media because of the criticism that he has mismanaged the Covid Crisis.
Once again:Put a religious fantatic in office (or someone who built his career pandering to religious fundematlists) in charge, bad things happen, guaranteed.
 
This started years ago with the toxic mix of religious bigotry and nationalism.
Rather Trumpesque.
 
Hard to keep people from turning on him when bodies are being burnt in car parks.
 
And, surprise, seems as though the Russian Sputnik V vaccine which is what Modi chose to use is very unreliable;Brazil just banned it and few western coutnreis have approved it.
Guess playing up to his Authoratarian buddy Putin was more important to Modi then actually choosing a good vaccine.
I have a sick feeling it is too late. Of course we should try to help ..enlightened self interest:you know with these numbers the virus will mutate like crazy...but I don't know how the flood will be stemmed.
One fear: Modi will sabre rattle with Pakistan to divert attention. And by far the most likely scenario for a nuclear exchange is a Pakistan/India crisis going out of control.
 
Belz... said:
Russian tech unreliable? Shock!
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My thought exactly.
Remember that super Russian Fighter a few years ago that Putin said was going to make all the fighters of the Western World obsolete?
Have not heard much about that recently.
 
dudalb said:
My thought exactly.
Remember that super Russian Fighter a few years ago that Putin said was going to make all the fighters of the Western World obsolete?
Have not heard much about that recently.
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Or the fancy robot that turned out to be a guy in a suit...
 
Or the mechs, the intercontinental hypersonic cruise missiles, stealth plasma shields, the intercontinental torpedoes, the geophysical disrupter, the invisibility cloak, the technomagic EMP ray, the 'zombie gun', the red mercury grenade, the torsion field generator......
 
dudalb said:
And, surprise, seems as though the Russian Sputnik V vaccine which is what Modi chose to use is very unreliable;Brazil just banned it and few western coutnreis have approved it.....
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Actually India has two vaccines in play. The most common are the Covishield (based on the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine) and manufactured under license by the Serum Institute of India and the Covaxin (developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research and manufactured by Bharat Biotech under license). The Sputnik V has not been rolled out yet.
 
The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in India and the "capital" of what is essentially the cow-belt (the Indian version of the deep south bible belt) is a former temple priest and one of the poster kids of the BJP. No oxygen, no beds in hospitals, no ventilators...but his answer is to arrest anyone who asks for help over social media finding beds pr oxygen for their loved ones.
The central government has literally annexed the state of Delhi from the elected state legislature, with now the Governor's office literally being declared the government of Delhi.
 
gypsyjackson said:
Wait, zombie gun?
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Yes, a "psychotronic mind control" device. Back in 2012, when he was really scared at the lack of actual Russian military capability, Putin and his cohorts (like Serdyukov) were spouting off about various imaginary weapons, and mentioned the supposed results of all the Russian/Soviet research into psychotronics (the real results being nothing but a few fiascos like "Kirlian auras").
The stories were fed, via the usual suspects, into the more credible and gullible elements of the press (e.g. the Fail) in order to bolster fear of Russian super-weapons and conceal the paper bear.

Forbes article.
 
Thanks - I wondered if it was something more interesting than that, but it seems like the gun would have (not really) turned you into a tabloid ‘mindless zombie’ rather than the ‘trying to eat brains zombie’. Or even a gun which fired zombies.

Back to India, and the Modi/BJP approach to Covid was detailed here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ent-s-promotion-traditional-medicine-covid-19

Sadly we can see how effective the $300m a year ‘alternative’ medicine ministry has been in dealing with the situation.
 
dudalb said:
My thought exactly.
Remember that super Russian Fighter a few years ago that Putin said was going to make all the fighters of the Western World obsolete?
Have not heard much about that recently.
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India are supposedly getting a load of them.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
India are supposedly getting a load of them.
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Pakistan will be delighted.

I'm not familiar enough with Indian politics, but have Modi and the BJP used the consequences of their mismanagement of the Coronavirus pandemic to further demonise non-Hindus and the lower castes ?
 
gypsyjackson said:
Thanks - I wondered if it was something more interesting than that, but it seems like the gun would have (not really) turned you into a tabloid ‘mindless zombie’ rather than the ‘trying to eat brains zombie’. Or even a gun which fired zombies.

Back to India, and the Modi/BJP approach to Covid was detailed here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ent-s-promotion-traditional-medicine-covid-19

Sadly we can see how effective the $300m a year ‘alternative’ medicine ministry has been in dealing with the situation.
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Given the basic facts of India, A huge population packed together (China has much better population dispersion) and,(I hope this is taken in the right way) realy terrible public sanitation (often on a mideval level) I think any Indian Government would have had huge problems coping with this. With an inept corrupt government led by a relgious fanatic,catastrophe was always in the cards.
MY worry is that Modi will try to turn ot a classic tactic to distract attention from a domestic crisis, and begin sabre rattling at Pakistan. SInce both countries have nuclear arsenels, that has got to make you nervous.
 
dudalb said:
Given the basic facts of India, A huge population packed together (China has much better population dispersion) and,(I hope this is taken in the right way) realy terrible public sanitation (often on a mideval level) I think any Indian Government would have had huge problems coping with this. With an inept corrupt government led by a relgious fanatic,catastrophe was always in the cards.
MY worry is that Modi will try to turn ot a classic tactic to distract attention from a domestic crisis, and begin sabre rattling at Pakistan. SInce both countries have nuclear arsenels, that has got to make you nervous.
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They managed to drive it down quite well over the winter, which was why Modi allowed election rallies and Hindu festivals (The Kumb Mehla surely must have been a massive superspreader event) to take place.
 
KDLarsen said:
They managed to drive it down quite well over the winter, which was why Modi allowed election rallies and Hindu festivals (The Kumb Mehla surely must have been a massive superspreader event) to take place.
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No...the COVUD numbers were on the uptick even before the Kumbh Mela event. Most state governments hid or did not publish COVID data which allowed the BJP to target non-BJP states still publishing data as being incompetent. News of the actual situation in the BJP states had already begun trickling out before the Kumbh event, but the government chose to ignore it.

The government was warned that organizing the event might worsen the situation. But then, the government decided to go with superstition (the Ganga will cure everything) and instilling a false sense of confidence among the sheep. With the elections some states occurring in tandem, they did not want to publicize their incompetence in handling the pandemic.
 
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