Bharat Rakshak

Raja

Even if the above chart is accurate (I have no idea, it is from twitter), all it says is that some states have a lot of unused vaccines. Another hypothesis could be that these states are terrible at delivering the vaccines to the people.

Raja

This center/state distribution of vaccines has been a huge fiasco. Vaccination rate has dropped by a million/ day. This is a huge drop and I hope we don’t end up paying for this. There is still vaccine hesitancy among old people but younger folks who want to take it are not finding slots. Check out...

Raja

People just seem surprisingly poorly informed. In my aunt's high rise society in Ahmedabad, almost everyone but my aunt's family got infected this time around with several deaths. The entire time they kept blaming the frigging elevator as the culprit. Even though they have spent so many resources at...

Raja

Only 600k vaccinations on Sunday (according to mohw)? Is that true?

Raja

I wonder what is their schedule. Hopefully, they can speed up their trials while we have an abundance of covid cases making it easier to find volunteers. Do we know what are the storage requirements with this vaccination? If mRNA vaccines are the future, we will have to make investments in cold stor...

Raja

To Raja: Maybe Dr.Ratnadip ji or Primus ji can address your question with authority, as they are leading the battle against Covid from frontlines. I am sure you would question the truthfulness or validity of peer review process of this article, as the article may not be supporting your view. I am n...

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Also have a look at the image showingthe effect of ivermectin protocol on containing Covid spread, not being shared by mass media. err, how does he prove causation here? Lockdowns have become quite common during this time and also the general awareness (fear) of the new wave. There are so many conf...

Raja

There are many people who would happily pay the money. Even before you had to pay when you go to the private hospitals as opposed to govt. run centers.

Raja

Can someone please explain to me the logic behind opening up the vaccination to everyone instead of prioritizing by risk factor (age and serious comorbidities)? I know that half the supply is still prioritized but why not all of it? I am looking for an explanation that is logical and scientific, no...

Raja

Can someone please explain to me the logic behind opening up the vaccination to everyone instead of prioritizing by risk factor (age and serious comorbidities)? I know that half the supply is still prioritized but why not all of it? I am looking for an explanation that is logical and scientific, not...

Raja

Why do you think that your view is an outlier on this forum? Quite frankly, it is the prevailing sentiment.

Raja

I know that. Why else would I ask for increasing vaccine production on a war footing? Vaccine production IS going at a war footing. GoI has pumped more than Rs. 4000 crore into this and is allowing imports. As Suraj has been reporting, this is a supply and demand issue. Production capabilities are ...

Raja

I know that. Why else would I ask for increasing vaccine production on a war footing?

Raja

One of my uncle who is relatively young (61) and healthy is in critical condition now. He already had two doses of vaccinations. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be helping in his case. In the meantime, 2 new deaths in my parents street in the past 24 hours. We don't know if they were vaccinated. ...

Raja

This is what will happen if BJP fails and pappu days are back. This is why BJP cannot fail. COVID needs to be vanquished not just for saving lives but also saving us from going back to the corrupt garabi hatao days.

Raja

Without SII, we would be in a far worse position. They should be applauded.

Raja

Sad but true.

Raja

There are two ways the perception will be shaped after this election (if the trends hold and BJP stays below 100) 1) BJP made a huge gain compared to last time. or, 2) TMC emerged victorious against the entire BJP machinery. 2a) BJP risked the nation by dropping the ball on COVID situation for WB el...

Raja

Looking at 7 day rolling average of vaccination doses, it again becomes very clear that there is a massive vaccination shortage on hand. Clearly the health minister was lying out of his teeth and playing politics when accusing the states of lying about shortage.

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AshishA wrote:Slot booking for 18+ is now open.

In light of the obvious vaccine shortage, another bad decision. Price for which we will pay in wave #3.

Raja

So what's your solution? Indians are only like this and throw hands in the air. And to be clear, I disagree with your assessment. I think it's the tired old spiel that people always say to leave things to karma and not take any action. People can be convinced with awareness campaigns. Not by allowin...

Raja

I see what you mean and I agree that it could work. But it's risky.

Raja

. This led to recriminations and politically motivated finger-pointing, which led to states demanding to buy from supplier directly. Center shrugged and agreed, whereupon states suddenly realized they're only trading one problem with arguably another worse one. Suraj, we have all voted for BJP in m...

Raja

I am sorry but there is nothing equalizer about Covid. When it's all said and done, the poor and lower middle class will have paid the biggest price as usual. This is true in every country..

Raja

As it stands, the new vaccine policy seems to be heading towards a shaky start. I hope I am wrong as we really need to scale it up. But, there just seems to be more interest in blaming each other from the political parties.

Raja

Central govt. and state govt. should have the knowledge of what is the capacity of the health infrastructure. Accordingly they should have a plan in place on how to react with rising cases. Many people even in this thread were claiming that NUMBER OF CASES does not matter, only MORTALITY rate matter...

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Anecdotally, I don't believe the official numbers that have been reported from Ahmedabad. I am not sure how true this article is, but crappy data will only hurt us in the long run. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/covid-19-surge-discrepancy-surfaces-in-gujarat-death-figures/article34412371.ece...

Raja

Can we really expect hospitals to invest money for once in hundred years pandemic levels of infections? That's a lot of excess capacity in normal years.

Raja

That is a massive failure in understanding how society and humans work.

Why do we need any fines or rules? If everyone just did what they were supposed to do, we would be a superpower in 10 years. So simple.

Raja

Lockdowns work, but they come at a huge cost for the economy. However, we don't have a choice till vaccination coverage is much higher. But it doesn't make sense to do pan India lockdowns.

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I dont think there is such a massive increase that the Indian state couldnt manage it all. We are beginning to manage it now. The problem is that by the time our response got in gear, a huge amount of damage would already have been done. In any risk analysis, you have multiple levels of responses w...

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chanakyaa wrote:Not just Feb-March and Aug-Sep of 2021, but 2022 also to be safe.

100% agree.

Raja

Don’t make the mistake of using 20/20 hindsight approach steeped in confirmation bias. Take Feb or March in complete isolation and try to establish how well one could projects raging wave within 2 weeks ? We saw a second wave everywhere else in the world. To me there was never a doubt that there wi...

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Govt. cannot be blameless. Govt. allowed cricket matches full of people. Govt. held election rallies with thousands of people. Govt. sent out several other mixed signals. Opposition played its part by making a drama over the correct steps that were taken by the Govt. during the first wave. People mi...

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This is just a lack of foresight and utter failure at all levels, including the central government. Ambarji was posting here in this very thread that oxygen will be an issue for months now. Yet, we are in this situation.

We have made terrible mistakes. I hope we learn from them.

Raja

I am glad peple in the policy making bodies are not like you. Err I really hope they are making their decisions based on data and not random whatsapp demands. The govt. is likely expecting a boost on supply side by the end of the month and based on the data that they have collected (which is lot mo...

Raja

As you asked for scientific evidence, follow the two publications. I hope you judge the article by its content rather the name of the publication. Really? Anyone can find random articles to support their theories. Point is to inform yourself fully before you make your theories. How much body of wor...

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Point of discussion is not, whether Chinese tamed the virus with vaccine or not. Thats the Q's which has always remained unanswered; how did China contained the virus, why no second wave, why so less virus spread geographically or such low mortality rate. As per current info China's current Covid c...

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That's all fine and dandy. The reasonings for why vaccines should be prioritized by mortality risk has been well documented and presented across the world. If you believe that your approach is smarter than you should provide scientific evidence to back up your claims instead of making gross assumpti...

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This is in response to Vimal: I am not even going to go in the logic of your hypothesis. I am questioning it's very foundation. You seem to imply that China's success in controlling the new cases is due to it's policy of vaccination. However, China has been very successful controlling covid since th...

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