Really bad optics
I am frequently struck by the things people in power do that show how irrelevant they regard the question of "How does it look?"
The Covid-19 virus is rolling over India like a juggernaut. They are [b]reporting[/b] a million new cases every three days. (Back in February it was about 33,000 in three days.) The crematoriums cannot begin to keep pace with the death rate; they are burning bodies in public parks. Epidemiologists estimate the actual number of cases is from 5 to 30 times the reports.
A man was arrested for seeking oxygen on social media for his father, accused of spreading false information and panic. There are no beds in many hospitals, no ambulances to take patients there and no critical supplies if they manage to get in.
The cricket association is holding spectator-less matches in big stadiums in six Indian states. The show must go on,
The kicker is the powerful board of the Cricket League has ambulances at the venues on stand-by to treat injured players while ordinary folks call emergency lines that no one answers, and helplessly watch their loved ones die.
The Covid-19 virus is rolling over India like a juggernaut. They are [b]reporting[/b] a million new cases every three days. (Back in February it was about 33,000 in three days.) The crematoriums cannot begin to keep pace with the death rate; they are burning bodies in public parks. Epidemiologists estimate the actual number of cases is from 5 to 30 times the reports.
A man was arrested for seeking oxygen on social media for his father, accused of spreading false information and panic. There are no beds in many hospitals, no ambulances to take patients there and no critical supplies if they manage to get in.
The cricket association is holding spectator-less matches in big stadiums in six Indian states. The show must go on,
The kicker is the powerful board of the Cricket League has ambulances at the venues on stand-by to treat injured players while ordinary folks call emergency lines that no one answers, and helplessly watch their loved ones die.
