The global media world has gone bonkers. Last week we witnessed journalists, news channels, Social Media platforms with the likes of politicians and the anti-India mob, attack India on the emerging Covid situation.
Let me be clear, Covid is bad everywhere, regardless of which nation you talk about. It is bad for India anddevastating for all Indians who are experiencing a surge of Covid cases. Health facilities being stretched to breaking point, health professionals working around the clock to save lives and the shortage of essential supplies not helping. We experienced this in the UK, as did the rest of Europe and the USA. However, the way the data has been presented on India suggests to me that we have the anti-India brigade out in force to malign a nation and its people. The negative rhetoric 24/7 has even left some Indians falling for this fake narrative.
So let me be the person to present to you the REAL situation. I will show you with the data that is internationally approved that these people have decided to use smoke and mirrors on Covid data to undermine India. It’s either that, or they are all incredibly stupid.
Please have a look at the chart below that I have produced (you will not see this in any publication, Social Media or on international news channels):
The chart shows the relationship of biweekly Covid cases from 2019 till last week. I am displaying only four nations, India, Brazil, France and Italy, namely to compare, contrast and set the data in its true context.
Please note the numbers (horizontal axis), these represent the number of covid cases on a biweekly basis, but represented as a proportion of 1 million people in the population. The screaming headlines you have seen recently just show number of cases and no context. And if you fail to take into account the total population of a nation, then you miss the most important element of data crunching. i.e. The essential ingredient of context.
Data without context and structure are just numbers. They don’t tell you much. However, as soon as you put the data we have on various countries within the same very tight structure based on population size, suddenly it reveals the truth.
The truth is simple, look at the chart and India’s covid cases based on its population size:it is one of the lowest. There is no doubt that number of cases in India are rising, and will continue to rise for possibly another month. However, as a proportion of its total population, it will still be significantly lower than most nations.
Currently France is registering some 7500 cases per million. Belgium at about 4500 per million. Brazil are similar to Belgium at about 4500 per million. Italy at about 3500 per million. In the UK we are at about 450 per million and the USA at just under 3000 per million.And India in contrast are at about 2500 per million. Significantly lower than many western nations!
Let’s look at deaths per million: Belgium 2060, Italy 1971, UK 1869, Brazil 1808, USA 1759, France 1567and India 138. YES, you read that correctly. Whilst in Europe thousands are dying per million population, relatively speaking, in India it’s in the hundreds, therefore statistically you are safer in India than anywhere in the whole of Europe!
So next time you see data on India, just ask a few more questions. Don’t allow the anti-India hatred hoodwink you into believing their nonsense. These parasites, masquerading as journalists, will use the death and suffering of Indians to fuel their hatred for India.
