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16 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The easiest fix is for Poonawala's to write a check themselves instead doing this public bhikarigiri.
Awww, some people are wondering why not use the #PMCares funds. So cute and naive. Elections are expensive, yaars. As Arun Bhaiyya said to Seema Didi in Mr. India, voh paise toh hum kha gaye 🤷🏽‍♂️
Having a net worth of $13bn and passing around a begging bowl for $400mn in a public health emergency means so much shameless avarice that like mehmood sang, neither wife nor child but the whole thing is that the rupee is the biggest.
मेलेल्याच्या टाळूवरचे लोणी खाणारे as we would say in Pune

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸 Profile picture
17 Apr
Hearing about a new covid positive case in my India circles every few hours now. My US desi circles, still almost completely covid free a year and two surges later. Both groups almost identical, socioeconomically. The infection rates are wildly different!
The US has a fifth of India's population, but officially, way more cases and deaths than India. And yet, among the couple of hundred people in my US desi circles, literally just one positive case, that too a healthcare worker.
In india, I think it's like 20% of my circles.
Simple statistics and arithmetic suggest that
A. Community transmission in India is off the charts, like seriously horrifically off the charts. Like hardly anyone is taking masks and SDing seriously.
B. India is undercounting cases and deaths by a mind bogglingly high factor.
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16 Apr
Today's positivity postcard. Another of my special random #NYC strangers being kindred spirits experiences. Was sitting on in my building complex oval reading when I spot her stalking birds.
"Are you Anne Lazarus?" I ask her.
"Yes I am!" she says.

The legend herself! :) Image
Anne, active in the Linnean Society, is a bit of a legend in #NYC birding circles. Especially in the #StuyTown area about which she is like a walking bird encyclopedia and sighting database. I asked if I could tag along. She said of course!

linnaeannewyork.org
For the next half hour, we walked around the oval, saw a couple of field sparrows, a couple of thrushes, many juncos. Such a cool lady! Luckily I always have binoculars with me. Then she saw this other lady staring upwards and said let's see what she is seeing!
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16 Apr
I used to think the Trump gang's Sturgis super spreader would be remembered as the biggest voluntary collection of dangerous morons out to kill themselves but then sanghis got into the game.
I still can't believe that states like Idaho and South Dakota lost people in the thousands or even hundreds to this virus. You'd have to drive half an hour to get within 6 feet of a human being. They have signs like "Next gas station 85 miles". Trumpism killed them.
Look at covid numbers in comparable Australian states that are vast stretches of emptiness. I doubt if Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia had even a dozen deaths each. Most US states could have cut their losses like that if anyone except Trump had won the presidency.
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16 Apr
Just saw a bhakt rant against U-Penn for "openly saying BLM activism is good citizenship" which apparently makes it racist against Indians and so desis should boycott Penn. Thinking he has a kid who really wants to go to Penn and he wants to winnow the field. 🤣🤣
Short story idea. A bunch of dudes creating fake #sanghimaga outrage against universities they want to send their kids to. For example they try to get bigoted US desis to boycott Rutgers AND Penn. Which really winnows the field among NJ desis if they actually do. 🤣🤣
At times like these when college admissions are more competitive than ever before, this recent attempt of #sanghimaga types to call for boycotts of top universities is beyond hilarious. Literally THE most empty boycott threat in history.

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15 Apr
So apparently in some places in M.P. and U.P. and Gujarat, if you can't pay a few thousand rupees to keep the body on ice until the electric or gas ones open up, you have to let your deceased be cremated on a wooden pyre next to dozens others. Only the elite can afford it.
I again want to remind you that despite what we see in movies and at celebrity hindu funerals, wooden pyres were uncommon in most Indian cities in the last few decades pre covid. Electric/gas are cheaper and more convenient. These mass cremations are exposing the scale of horror.
Unlike North America with its huge plentiful trees, mostly dry India is kinda low on firewood. It is expensive and hard to source in most places. Burning a body takes something like two trees worth of wood. This is quite literally the last resort. Open wooden pyre cremations!
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15 Apr
I walk out in my nabe in #NYC and 95% people are still wearing masks properly even though the infection numbers here have been below 2% for months and half the popn vaccinated.
Or maybe, the infection numbers remain so low BECAUSE 95% people are still wearing masks properly?
Even as the city looks almost 75% back to normal in terms of its crowds and economic activity, conscientious mask wearing is still universal. There's always one or two recalcitrants, often wearing Trump hats or t-shirts. But overwhelmingly, #NYC is sticking to mask and SD.
BTW this has been a sad and annoying thing in the city since Biden won. Random folks in trump hats or t-shirts trying to bait people by walking around maskless and saying passive aggressive things loudly, as if looking for a fight. Never seen anyone engage with them luckily.
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