So India is apparently in the midst of a huge Wuhan virus spike. They have deaths currently at just under 1% of cases
You'll note that they are in the second wave which just about every country has gone through so this is not an unexpected phenomenon. But the slope of this second wave is very peculiar relative to the first wave. In many countries the second spike had a far more gentler slope rather than this vertical one. So what's different here?
I was most concerned because I thought that India was using Ivermectin on a mass scale. It turns out they are not, at least officially. If they were using it and this kind of spike was occurring it would mean that this virus variant was unaffected by Ivermectin which would be a big deal. We already know that HCQ is not effective past the early stages so even if they were using it, those who waited too long would not be helped much.
But what is responsible for this spike? My guess is the fecal matter in the air.
Toilets and poop aren’t often subjects of discussion, or blogs for that matter, but they are major global issues. India is the country that has the largest amount of people who don’t use toilets – and all that poop is causing some very serious problems. Something big is about to change in India – UNICEF is working to spark a new social movement for toilets, and it’s going to make a big splash
When people don’t use toilets, kids are exposed to poop in their environment, and they can pick up diseases like diarrhoea, which kills almost 400 children under five in India every day.
Another source:
More people in India practice open defecation (44%) than use toilets connected to adequate waste management systems (40%). That’s more than half a billion people defecating in the open, oftentimes in festering pits that leach into sources of water. This leads to countless forms of disease, which impacts a person’s ability to grow, do their job, or go to school.
In rural India, however, there is another dimension: behavior. Many people in villages simply prefer open defecation, and so any comprehensive attempt to end this dangerous practice has to be supplemented with an educational campaign that directly links health problems to bad sanitation. A 2014 study found that a large proportion of village households with toilets continued to openly defecate because it was “pleasurable, comfortable, or convenient.”
Why could this be a problem? Well it is known that the Wuhan virus often sheds in feces. As a matter of fact many outbreaks are discovered because the virus shows up in the sewage systems. It has already been shown that people who have had no contact whatsoever but who live in the same building as someone shedding Wuhan in their feces, ends up getting sick because the contaminated air gets into their apartments by traveling up the main line.
Now imagine living in a country where there is no "sewage system" and feces is out in the open. All that feces, some laden with the Wuhan virus freely releasing the virus in the air.
Of course this is a theory. One could legitimately ask why, if this theory is correct, did the first wave not look like this current one. Legit question. I would suggest that the actual case and death counts in the first wave are not accurate. Just as how in the "west" by the time they figured out what was going on, many millions had already been infected, I think there was a great under count in wave one. Now with more widespread awareness and testing, you're catching more infections. And yet there are many claims that these numbers are not accurate (under).
