Bodies Found Floating in India’s
Ganges River as Country Copes
with Rising COVID Death Toll
People,
by
Jason Duaine Hahn
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/15/2021 8:55:39 PM
Dozens of bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in India as the country deals with a recent increase in COVID-19 cases. The shocking sight has unfolded in eastern India as more than 70 dead bodies have been pulled from the Ganges River, according to the Associated Press. India has been struggling with an influx of COVID-19 cases and deaths in recent weeks, leading to continuous mass cremations. Officials said they haven't yet determined the causes of death for many of the victims found in the Ganges River, and some speculated they may have been killed by the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/15/2021 9:04:17 PM (No. 786869)
Teeming slums full of desperately poor people makes a recipe for disaster. I doubt their medical infrastructure is up to this. A few prayers for India would be welcome.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/15/2021 9:40:00 PM (No. 786887)
I guess countries get this on a rotating schedule and we are told it's a mutated virus worse than the mutated virus before it. India has millions, if not billions of people so no matter what illness they get, more will die because there are more of them. I feel so sorry for them. We at least have been able to handle this virus with some degree of comfort. So many there don't have that option.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 5/15/2021 9:51:13 PM (No. 786892)
I thought that this was their normal disposal process.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/15/2021 10:31:45 PM (No. 786908)
Bodies are always floating down the "sacred" river. Before sunrise men with long hooked poles are out fishing for the bodies so the tourists won't be grossed out.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 5/15/2021 10:39:18 PM (No. 786911)
I’m sorry but I am hopelessly cynical of anything COVID. I blame our government for that. I think these poor people of India have more problems than just COVID.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mushroom 5/15/2021 11:14:45 PM (No. 786919)
Yeah, I'm sorry. I have seen the Ganges in the early morning and this seems to be ops normal.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Albatross 5/15/2021 11:29:23 PM (No. 786929)
I was on the Ganges at the holiest Hindu city, Varanasi, several years ago. There are a number of cremation pyres on one side of the river. It is considered beneficial in Hinduism to die and be cremated there, with the ashes being put into the river. However there were also intact dead bodies floating in the river. We were told that it was the practice to put the bodies of holy men and infants into the river without cremation. However it seems that other bodies are also put in the river, often simply because the families can't afford cremation.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 5/15/2021 11:39:41 PM (No. 786935)
The Ganges is considered a holy river to many in India. Disposing of a dead body in it's waters might not be that usual.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
philsner 5/16/2021 7:28:28 AM (No. 787067)
"We don't know if Covid killed them, but it fits the narrative".
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 5/16/2021 7:38:21 AM (No. 787072)
This is what happens when you worship cows. Poverty, disease, corruption... somehow these are not conducive to national hygiene and health. Are we ready for round 2?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/16/2021 12:24:11 PM (No. 787421)
#10, never saw them worship cows, but it is fairly weird to be standing on a street corner in Delhi, in a crowd of maybe 20-25 people, waiting for the light to change....and in the crowd, standing there waiting just like the rest of us, no larger gap than between people....is a brahma cow. When the light changed, we all cross, including the cow, nobody paying any attention at all, just like another person it seemed. And the cow wasn't scared of people, and apparently understood waiting for the lights, too, didn't push ahead at all. Just another 'person' walking down the sidewalk.
Seriously weird.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 5/17/2021 6:05:03 AM (No. 787960)
True, #11, "worship" was sort of a euphemism. My understanding is that they revere cows as possible reincarnated relatives.
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Grisly sight. They are being overwhelmed with COVID victims and getting desperate to dispose of the dead.