That chart is way off the mark. Just Google 'India covid stats' and you'll get an in-line, up to date chart that shows the insane curve towards the end that reflects the current crisis. I mean, they're burning bodies in fields of pyres and can't do it fast enough. It's a political crisis that could unseat the government in the next elections. To call things 'business as usual' or something to that effect seems insane.
Everything you're saying sounds like the sort of thing people who haven't been personally affected say. A chunk of my family works in hospitals, so there is nothing on this Earth that can convince us that Covid isn't the worst bloody thing. The deaths, the overworking, the seriousness of symptoms endured by health workers, the loss of colleagues etc. is very real and a bunch of naysaying, Alex Jones-type anti-vaxxers who won't tolerate a bit of social distancing and mask wearing to help out with things is such a massive insult to those who suffer the consequences of those actions.
I'm not especially interested in or up to date with studies about the effectiveness of various anti-Covid measures, but I'd assume it would be trivially easy to prove a strong positive correlation. You need look no further than New Zealand or Australia to see that adhering to brief lockdowns can stop Covid in its tracks. For months already there, life has been back to normal for the most part.
What we need is common sense, even more than vaccines. Life isn't one big conspiracy. Bill Gates isn't trying to take over. The WHO is doing its best with a dire lack of resources, financial backing and political pressure. Regarding masks specifically, I've been sent YouTube videos that I never bothered to watch showing the difference in how you spread particles with a mask on vs. off. No doubt they can be easily found. And it's a simple fact that there are no cases, in the UK at least, of any individuals who were vaccinated whilst not having Covid and later contracted Covid and experienced serious symptoms. There is no comparing it with flu at any level. Flu has never overrun hospitals in PE, or caused so much loss of life.
Lockdowns work, wearing a mask helps, not touching people's hands helps, vaccines save incalculable lives and a genuinely terrifying number of people in SA have died or nearly died from Covid. Just chill out with all the conspiracy talk man. Things are hard enough as they are. We don't need some anti-lockdown rally to kickstart a new wave.
Try reading the heading of the graph... what you are comparing is not the same... this graph is cumulative COVID deaths per million i.e. a mortality ratio which is what's actually relevant (it also btw how previous pandemics are rated)
-- hence this is the only rational and non alarmist porn comparison between countries, other pandemics and even seasonal flu.
The graphs you are referencing are just part of the alarmist porn... i.e. it's easy to present data to make it look more severe than it really is.
For example... compare this one to previous ratio graph.
"OMG
look at the upward trajectory... it's a looming crisis."
When in reality the ratio per million is still substantially lower than e.g. Europe and UK. Ratios are important because they allow a rational comparison between countries, and also can be used to predict total mortality and to gauge if the problem is becoming worse or not.
Whereas many of the trajectory graphs are nothing than alarmist porn -- because they statistically add no value, but they sure do create a lot of panic.
Studies published mid last year by CDC disprove the validity of masks and hand sanitisers -- the results from 14 trials done globally.
Also the CDC and FDA has not approved the COVID vaccine --- what? think on that for a moment...
...and then ask why would emergency use authorisation and legal indemnity be required for the drug companies for a vaccine that is so safe?
Polio, Chicken Pox, Small Pox... vaccines are safe -- why? because they've undergone extensive randomised placebo style trials -- hence they are approved by the CDC and FDA, and they did not require emergency use authorisations, nor were drug companies provided with legal indemnity.
You just assume that everyone who refuses to take the COVID vaccine is an anti-vaxxers -- when the reality is you're naive... nope we oppose a rushed and unapproved vaccine that even drug companies required legal indemnity to release.
Why? ... because unlike the rest of the morons we're not willing to be anyone's guinea pig -- and we're most certainly not willing to take any treatment where the drug companies cannot be sued.
As for the rest of your waffle... alarmism porn is like polarising lenses -- those that want to see panic, see panic... where as the rest of sane society wonder how all the supposedly COVID swamped hospital staff the world over found the time to e.g. choreograph multiple dance routines for tiktok.
Reality is that hospitals every year see an influx of patients during the flu season... COVID is at most two to three times as bad as seasonal flu... assuming we can trust the classification of cases globally -- bear in mind there was no global standardisation for this, and even worse some countries decided it would be a good idea to financially incentivise over reporting -- funny how almost everything is classified as COVID when its a revenue stream for hospitals that were prohibited from exercising their normal bread and butter revenue streams.
Also if you believe it's so easy to create a vaccine for a virus (in 6 months)... then pray tell where is the vaccine for HIV?
HIV by any measure is a far worse global pandemic than COVID?
