Spoke to my uncle who works in healthcare (public sector) in Lucknow. He says any data coming out of there is misleading - the real numbers would be staggering. All healthcare workers are exhausted and demotivated. The stories he told me are horrifying - this one doctor who...
saved countless of lives through the pandemic wasn’t able to save his own father. He breathed his last in transit by the time they managed to find a bed.
A young doctor who had served Covid duty almost 22 times in the biggest govt hospital in the last one year, passed away...
due to the virus after battling for his life for days.
He says that entire healthcare sector has completely collapsed. If you get infected you won’t find a doctor, or medicines, or beds. The government has stopped private labs from testing stating that they aren’t following...
the regulations. But what seems a more believable explanation is that private labs have been stopped from testing so that the number of detected cases remains low.
There is a lot of corruption - people are extorting thousands, even lakhs - for medicines, and getting tests...
Getting beds, however, is completely out of the question. Like he says, even the most well-connected doctors can’t find beds for their own families.
It’s our worst nightmare come true in Lucknow right now. And he says he only sees it getting worse... before it can get better.
Found a report on one of the cases I’ve written about in this thread:
And finally a report on what I had written about in this thread 2 days back about private labs being stopped from testing.
Multiple media outlets - including News18, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala, OpIndia & many more - made the claim that an NGO with “Khalistani” links paid over 18 crores INR to tweet in support of the farmers.
Upon examination, it was found that all the outlets published this story on the basis of a report by The Print - an online newspaper.
These publications do not go into the details of the investigation, so the next step is to examine the original report by The Print.
The Print’s report reveals:
A case was filed by the Delhi Police against “unknown persons” in connection with a toolkit tweeted by Greta Thunberg.
They have not even used Rihanna's name in the headline - if they've broken this important story why not use it to get eyeballs?
There’s many reasons I’m not crazy about cricket anymore (I once was). But it has to be said, the amount of vilification Anushka Sharma has had to face at the hands of cricket fans was the biggest reason that helped me completely stop following the game.
Now when we’ve seen the cricket gods and heroes come out to bat against voices talking about human rights violations, we need to remember it was the footballers & other sportspersons who’ve taken a stand against wrong. And yet our country has only ever worshipped cricketers.
The only words I’ve ever muted here app are “cricket” & “IPL”. I couldn’t stand to hear about that extravagant circus in a far off fantasy land when the poor in the our country were getting poorer in the pandemic lockdown aftermath. There was no sportsmanship left in that sport.
- To early Christians (and to many Christians today), the most important holiday on the Christian calendar was Easter, which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- However, as Christianity began to take hold in the Roman world, in the early 4th century, church leaders had to contend with a popular Roman pagan holiday commemorating the “birthday of the unconquered sun” (natalis solis invicti)–the Roman name for the winter solstice.
- This festival is as called Saturnalia. Every winter, Romans honored the pagan god Saturn, god of agriculture, with a festival that began on December 17 & usually ended on or around December 25 with a winter-solstice celebration in honor of the beginning of the new solar cycle.
Today, I want to share the story of a feminist who fought for the rights of men, when men were the victims of patriarchy.
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Today, with a heavy heart, I want to tell y'all about the Notorious RBG - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) - a champion of gender equality.
Let's start with the story of a happy couple - Stephen Wiesenfeld & Paula Polatschek got married in 1970.
Paula was a public school teacher. Her salary was the main source of the couple’s income & social security contributions were regularly deducted from her salary.
Paula despite a very healthy pregnancy died in childbirth in 1972. Stephen vowed to work only part-time until his baby was in school full-time.
And in order to support himself & his infant baby he needed the money that had been deduced as Social Security from his wife's salary.