Author | Ninety-nine
The recent fourth round of national serum surveys in India reported:
67.6% of the country's population over the age of 6 tested positive.
In other words: nearly 70% of people in India have already been infected with the new crown virus.
The minimum proportion of herd immunity given by experts before was 70%.
Netizens joked:
"India is really going to achieve herd immunity."
"Is this breeding clams?"
Ridicule is ridicule.
India, which seems to be "in a good situation",
But the people at the bottom are still in the depths of the water,
And the "bred clams" they have no choice.
In India, the pandemic is just a disaster for the poor, low-caste people.
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A previous video of an Indian man kneeling to the police attracted attention,
The man's mother was infected with the new crown and was surviving on oxygen.
He begged the police not to take his oxygen cylinders.
He said: My mother will die.
The police vehemently denied the incident,
They responded that it was just an empty bottle.
But this statement was quickly opposed by the man's family.
They adamantly claimed that the police had taken the oxygen cylinders they were going to use for the patients.
In the Times of India, the reporter said without mercy:
The police confiscated the oxygen cylinders,
Because it is thought to be used on VIP patients.
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It is no exaggeration to say that
Even in the midst of an epidemic,
The VIPs of this country still show the magic of banknotes,
There are couples who get married in order not to miss the auspicious time,
In the period of resource shortage, I still got protective clothing,
Other guests attending the wedding were also given a set.
And in Pune, India,
A local tycoon named Shankar,
When poor people can't afford masks,
He was thinking about how to make masks unique.
In the end, he loved gold and built a 60-gram gold mask at his own expense of 300,000 rupees.
Of course, the more wealthy people have the same choice: flee india.
When the epidemic in India was severe, the price of air tickets increased several times,
But the supply still exceeds demand,
Charter flights to Dubai depart 12 times a day and are always full.
The top rich prefer private jets.
One airline described the attitude of Indian magnates towards private jets:
It's crazy.
Stimulated by this huge business opportunity,
They bought more planes from abroad to help wealthy businessmen flee India.
These moves quickly alarmed other countries.
Countries have introduced policies to restrict India.
The UK announced that india would be on the travel red list
The Times of London later reported that
With only 44 minutes left before the policy comes into effect,
Eight planes carrying India's super-rich landed at London Airport in the United Kingdom.
According to the report, the nearly 9-hour flight will cost more than 100,000 pounds, equivalent to 900,000 yuan
And on the sunny sands of the Maldives,
The Bollywood stars who escaped here also sunbatheed.
At the height of the epidemic in India,
They posted their beautiful swimsuit photos on social platforms.
Shraddha Kapoor
Alia Bhatt
Disha Pattani
Twitter had a picture that was very hot at the time,
The man dressed in white was lying on his side on a high platform,
Leisurely look at the people below.
This happens to be the satire of netizens on these "people on top" who sit back and watch the suffering of their compatriots.
But no matter what kind of accusations or public opinion,
The comfortable and beautiful life of these people will not be disturbed by this.
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And compared to those so-called VIPs,
The poor people of the lower castes look at it and make people feel sad.
In the face of the escape of the rich,
Their eyes longed,
These rich people can let go of the oxygen and other medical resources they have hoarded.
There is a shortage of hospital beds, and it is not uncommon for Indian patients to share a bed with two people
In rural areas, patients with COVID-19 receive infusions from undocumented doctors in open spaces
But in reality the virus comes sooner than the generosity of the rich.
India, where oxygen is in short supply,
Many poor people die on their way to find oxygen,
A wife in a helpless situation,
Use your mouth to deliver oxygen to your infected husband.
Two brothers take their dead mother to the crematorium,
The only protective gear they have on them,
It is a mask that has been used countless times.
Many Indians who can't wait for an ambulance make this choice, but it also increases the chances of the virus spreading
And because of the epidemic, too many people have died,
Not enough wood for cremation,
Many of the remains were thrown into the Ganges.
The source of the first military intelligence
A certain section of the Ganges was even photographed by foreign media,
More than 2,000 bodies floated on the river.
At the same time, the shortage of vaccines has also attracted profiteers.
There was even a terrible thing happening in Mumbai and Kolkata, India.
One company vaccinated at least 2,500 residents with fake vaccines.
And these are not unique in India.
Unlike the rich who fled to other countries,
India's poor, low-caste people are faced with a difficult situation.
We were once puzzled by the blind worship of cattle that the people of this country showed before the epidemic.
Drink cow urine, smear cow dung, paste cow dung cake...
On the ground was a cow dung cake that was being made
These "famous scenes" have become the most classic "Indian jokes" at present.
But now, in addition to being ridiculous,
And we will sadly find that
In the face of the pandemic, when these poor people try to pick up something to protect themselves,
In addition to cow urine and cow dung,
They also really have nothing.
The core of the "Indian joke",
It is the miserable real life of the poor.
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So what exactly is causing this situation in India.
The main reason is the caste system.
India's strict caste system divides people into three, six, nine, etc.
Low-ranking "untouchables" are destined to do low-level work.
This aspect exacerbates the gap between the rich and the poor,
An aerial photograph of Mumbai, poor area on the left, rich area on the right
On the one hand, it is also doomed to the unequal treatment of the poor.
Therefore, during the epidemic in India, there have been cases where the remains of the cremation have been taken from the cremation pyre.
It was a group of high-caste men who started it.
Their reasons are:
Lower caste dead cannot be cremated on public lands.
Finally the husband of the deceased took the body to a place four kilometers away for cremation.
In India, where the epidemic is raging,
The lower castes can neither be properly "buried",
It is also impossible to "give birth" well.
In a slum,
Residents interviewed said:
The people here have been forgotten by the government.
No one came to disinfect,
No one comes to clean regularly,
No one is pushing ahead with vaccinations.
So the residents here don't understand what a virus is.
I also don't know how to avoid infection.
And they are more concerned about how to fill their stomachs than the virus.
The industry shutdown caused by the pandemic has deprived them of a source of livelihood.
In the face of the interview, someone said desperately:
We may survive the pandemic,
But you may die of starvation, of lack of medicines, of lack of drinking water.
Under the aggravation of the gap between the rich and the poor by the racial system,
The rich people of India have a variety of hedonistic tricks,
Poor people also have all kinds of ways of dying.
This contrast is in the midst of the pandemic,
More and more striking and ironic.
It is worth mentioning that
At a time when medical resources are facing a shortage almost all the time,
At this moment, the Modi government is still advancing a great project -
Construction of the Parliament Building and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence,
It is estimated to cost US$1.8 billion (equivalent to 11.6 billion yuan).
Engineering renderings
This move caused the anger of the people,
They angrily asked:
"When everyone around us is dying, why are we in a hurry to build a house?"
"Now that the crematorium is full and there is not enough space in the cemetery, the government is busy building castles in the air."
"Shouldn't we build hospitals?"
The government's response was:
This will be where Indians are proud.
Some netizens compared Modi to the emperor Nero, who was still concentrating on fiddling with musical instruments when Rome burned
This kind of large-scale construction that ignores the lives of the people,
Compared with the fleeing Indian rich,
Indian stars who post swimming photos on social platforms,
But there is more to it.
It's not hard to understand,
Why in India, the epidemic has become a disaster for the poor,
Why in India, people of the same nationality live to two extremes in the epidemic.
Poor and rich areas separated by a wall
Someone is partying,
Someone is dying,
Tragic comedy staged together,
The end result is that India is moving towards herd immunity with an infection rate of nearly 70 percent.
As a neighbor, I hope that day does not come,
I hope that global epidemic prevention will end up with a good ending.