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speak easy

(9,101 posts)
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 06:10 AM Apr 2021

Religion adds fuel to Covid disaster in India.

India's new coronavirus infections hit record as Hindu devotees immerse in Ganges



HARIDWAR/AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) -India's new coronavirus infections hit a record on Wednesday, as crowds of pilgrims gathered for a religious festival despite oxygen shortages and strict curbs in other areas.

The country reported 184,372 cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, taking total infections to 13.9 million. Deaths rose by 1,027, to a toll of 172,085.

Still, hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus gathered to bathe in the Ganges river on Wednesday, the third key day of the weeks-long Kumbh Mela - or pitcher festival.

Sanjay Gunjyal, the inspector general of police at the festival, said around 650,000 people had bathed on Wednesday morning.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/indias-new-coronavirus-infections-hit-record-as-hindu-devotees-immerse-in-ganges/ar-BB1fCYdr



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Religion adds fuel to Covid disaster in India. (Original Post) speak easy Apr 2021 OP
Bathing in the Ganges... Yikes Amishman Apr 2021 #1
Sort of like America's beaches during spring break. KY_EnviroGuy Apr 2021 #2
Or the FL, GA, TX churches during the Lockdown speak easy Apr 2021 #3
Mohdi is a right-wing Hindu nationalist Azathoth Apr 2021 #4

Amishman

(5,541 posts)
1. Bathing in the Ganges... Yikes
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 07:31 AM
Apr 2021

3 billion liters of raw sewage go into it every day

Covid is probably only slightly more dangerous than the river itself

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
2. Sort of like America's beaches during spring break.
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 08:42 AM
Apr 2021

Abandon all caution, spend all your money, risk getting drowned or arrested, get crazy drunk or stoned and maybe get a stranger pregnant......

but, but mom an dad said stay home......

And summer vacations haven't even started. So let's not be hypocritical........

speak easy

(9,101 posts)
3. Or the FL, GA, TX churches during the Lockdown
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 08:50 AM
Apr 2021

'The blood of Jesus protects me'; The holy mother Ganges will protect me.

Azathoth

(4,603 posts)
4. Mohdi is a right-wing Hindu nationalist
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 09:17 AM
Apr 2021

So this stuff probably has tacit support from the very top.

US, UK, Brazil, India... covid has certainly helped the right-wing nationalists earn their infamous place in history.

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