10 Issues For Which The Government Did Not Provide Data In Parliament

Government frequently cites data unavailability in Parliament as the main reason for not providing data.

#UnionGovt #transparency #RTI #parliament #CovidMismanagenent #CovidDeathToll #MigrantWorkers #WomensRights #FarmersProtests #activism #PressFreedom #ManualScavenging #CasteViolence #DetentionCentres #ForeignerTribunals #InterfaithMarriages #lynching #hindutva #AntiMuslimViolence #india

https://www.indiaspend.com/top-news/10-issues-for-which-the-government-did-not-provide-data-in-parliament-910104

My obligatory masked selfie...

Excluding airplane and cab rides, nearly everything has been open-air or indoor HEPA+AC, with 10-90% of gen pop masking on this trip.

The official #Thailand #coviddeathtoll is about 34k in a country of 78M. Contrast this with US officially 1.5M dead (a gross undercount) in a country of 335M.

By the numbers, (.034/78) / (1.5/335), the odds of an infection resulting in death are about 8.9% of that in the US.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it 😒 #CDCfailure

India's elections: why data and transparency matter

Health care under Modi has fared poorly.

#elections2024 #healthcare #BJP #covid19 #CovidMismanagement #CovidDeathToll #transparency #india

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00740-2/fulltext

"18 April: 275,306
Indore: As Oxygen shortage builds, BJP politicians keep a truck waiting for two hours so that they can get their photo opp."

M. Rajshekhar's notes on the first two weeks of the deadly second wave of Covid-19.

#covid19 #CovidDeathToll #CovidMismanagement #healthcare #HealthMinistry #MigrantDeaths #OxygenShortage #CovidMassCremations #BJP #HarshVardhan #india

https://mrajshekhar.in/2021/04/23/covid-19-2021/

Book review: A scathing indictment of what was done by an administration to a people unprepared for a pandemic

A review of Harsh Mander's 'Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy'. As he journals the length and breadth of India, one cannot help but give Mr Mander credit for the number and range of real-life anecdotes he has attempted to document here.

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/a-cathartic-chronicle-a-scathing-indictment-of-what-was-done-by-an-administration-to-a-people-unprepared-for-a-pandemic/3230977/

#BookReview #HarshMander #covid19 #CovidMismanagement #CovidDeathToll #CovidLockdown #MigrantLabourers #UnionGovt #BJP #india #books #nonfiction #bookstodon #health #healthcare

How ‘shramik’ trains added to the misery of the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown

An excerpt from Harsh Mander's ‘Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy’.

#BookExcerpt #HarshMander #covid19 #CovidLockdown #CovidDeathToll #MigrantLabourers #MigrantWorkers #governance #health #covid #welfare #UnionGovt #BJP #india #books #bookstodon

https://scroll.in/article/1051873/harsh-mander-how-shramik-trains-added-to-the-misery-of-the-poor-during-the-covid-19-lockdown

Karnataka govt underreported 1.2 lakh COVID deaths, says PAC report

The committee found that large quantities of tablet ivermectin were purchased even though WHO discredited it and ventilators given through PM Cares Fund were given to private hospitals.

#karnataka #covid #CovidDeathToll #BJP #KarnatakaGovt #PMCaresFund #PAC #ivermectin #WHO #amphotericin #remdesivir #healthcare #medicine #covid19 #india

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/karnataka-govt-underreported-12-lakh-covid-deaths-says-pac-report-179911