India on Monday overtook Brazil as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections, as it reported a new daily record of more than 168,000 cases.
The vast nation of 1.3 billion people has been reporting a rapid increase in new infections in recent weeks, with the surge taking the total toll to 1
3.5 million cases, above Brazil's 13.48 million.Experts have warned that huge, mostly maskless and tightly packed crowds at political rallies in poll-bound states, mass religious festivals and at other public places were fuelling the new wave of infections.
"The whole country has been complacent -- we allowed social, religious and political congregations," Rajib Dasgupta, a health professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, told AFP.
"No-one queued up (for social distancing) anymore."The country has recorded more than 873,000 cases in the last seven days -- an increase of 70 percent compared to the previous week, according to data compiled by AFP.
Comment: The point is that all these protocols are not designed to stop the infection from spreading because such a thing is almost impossible to do. The attempts to "flatten the curve" are not only unnecessary but detrimental to the vast majority of people who could be developing natural immunity to the virus with greater exposure to it.
In fact, all these protocols and lockdowns have just worsened everything; locking people up and spreading fear and hysteria will only degrade the state of one's immune system and cause deleterious effects - much more than the virus itself.
The hotel quarantine program is just a nice name for government camps - designed to teach people to be obedient to authority. Individuals who refuse to follow this tyrannical rule are fined or even forced to be locked inside them in some cases. The sad irony here is that people have to pay for their imprisonment out of their own pocket.
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