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Never thought I'd see the words "Uttar Pradesh" on the fediverse.... For the unknown- Uttar Pradesh is the Ohio of India. A lot of weird and bizzare shit happen there.
Incorrect. Uttar Pradesh is the Florida of India. If you hear of some fucked-up shit happening in India there's a 50/50 chance it's in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Man is Florida Man's Indian cousin.
Bihar has to be Ohio then
I remember reading some COVID-related news from there, though that wasn't on the fediverse because I wasn't on the fediverse yet at the time.
That news was likely the mass cremations of people who died of COVID. Uttar Pradesh had one of the highest mortality rates in the country in the wake of the pandemic. A lot of them were low-income folk who died on the way to (or right outside) public hospitals that refused to accept them due to overcrowding, lack of equipment and supplemental oxygen, and gross mismanagement
This is classic third-worldliness porn.
The economic strata that is the majority of the population, is also the majority in hospitalization? Is there a useful point there?
Oxymoron right there.
And, if this was the scene in a Western nation, you would have used the correct word: "full", instead of the motivated "overcrowding".
How much more crass can you be at this? People close to me watched people die in queues outside hospitals, as they too waited with their F&F. Hospitals weren't "overcrowded", hospitals and staff were overwhelmed.
I'd like to know how you'd have done better. You can't conjure up oxygen or great management in the disaster that it was.
You realize that OP lives in India, right? They should be allowed to use whatever words they think describes their situation, without "Westerners" telling them they're wrong.
Where do you think I live! I wrote about lived experience, maybe you didn't notice that OP just made a blanket statement that neither matched my experience nor is itself experience.
No, we say "overcrowded". We say, "abandoned by authorities to die of COVID". We have shitty governments, too.
This sounds like armchair moaning. How would you have set up infrastructure ahead of time to have handled that situation?
Oh...oh no... Containment has been breached, Ohio is spreading.
I'm from Mumbai and you can't pay me enough to visit Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, or Jharkhand.
Nope. Been a long time since I visited that part of the city.
I'm not the person you asked, but my guess is for the entertainment, but also because it's something fucked up that has real-world implications. To me, it's like watching a slow train wreck. It's just as horrible but endlessly fascinating and a tiny bit cray cray.
I also want to point out that US politics tends to dominate in foreign news outlets, so it probably gathers a bigger audience than one would expect from inside the States. Trump may say the US has no exports, but it's clear their biggest export is infotainment.
Do I? 🤔
I mainly post 'leopard ate my face' kind of things.
Other than that I don't think I've posted much about US politics. In fact, I've added Trump and Musk to filtered keywords because I'm sick of hearing about them.
You're not kidding. I realized this when I heard about a 22-year-old woman who was killed by being pushed into a boiling vat because she resisted her assailants.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/dalit-teen-resists-molestation-pushed-into-boiling-cane-juice/articleshow/106428507.cms
Has Ohio got that bad a rep?
Sounds more like the Florida of India.
I like that it's Ohio, but not quite Florida.
But isn't Taj Mahal located there?