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[+] 67 points 1 year ago (18 children)
  • [–] [S] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India

    Incorrect. Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of India. If you hear of some fucked-up shit happening in India there's a 50/50 chance it's in Uttar Pradesh.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I remember reading some COVID-related news from there, though that wasn't on the fediverse because I wasn't on the fediverse yet at the time.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That news was likely the mass cremations of people who died of COVID. Uttar Pradesh had one of the highest mortality rates in the country in the wake of the pandemic. A lot of them were low-income folk who died on the way to (or right outside) public hospitals that refused to accept them due to overcrowding, lack of equipment and supplemental oxygen, and gross mismanagement

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  • [+] -19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is classic third-worldliness porn.

    lot were low-income folk

    The economic strata that is the majority of the population, is also the majority in hospitalization? Is there a useful point there?

    refused to accept them due to over-crowding

    Oxymoron right there.

    And, if this was the scene in a Western nation, you would have used the correct word: "full", instead of the motivated "overcrowding".

    How much more crass can you be at this? People close to me watched people die in queues outside hospitals, as they too waited with their F&F. Hospitals weren't "overcrowded", hospitals and staff were overwhelmed.

    I'd like to know how you'd have done better. You can't conjure up oxygen or great management in the disaster that it was.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You realize that OP lives in India, right? They should be allowed to use whatever words they think describes their situation, without "Westerners" telling them they're wrong.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    I'm not the person you asked, but my guess is for the entertainment, but also because it's something fucked up that has real-world implications. To me, it's like watching a slow train wreck. It's just as horrible but endlessly fascinating and a tiny bit cray cray.

    I also want to point out that US politics tends to dominate in foreign news outlets, so it probably gathers a bigger audience than one would expect from inside the States. Trump may say the US has no exports, but it's clear their biggest export is infotainment.

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