kumbh

In terms of number of cases the worst affected are Karnataka and Maharashtra[0] which had neither Kumbh Mela nor election rallies.

The current right-wing power uses religious symbolism for politics, and thus also permitted the largest Hindu religious gathering - the kumbh mela.

It seems more like elections and kumbh are standard phrases of opposition party.

Do you really buy into the excuse that somehow election rallies and kumbh did not increase the severity of the problem at hand?

The Kumbh happened after the variant of the Chinese virus was discovered.

These two events - the huge political rallies and the Hindu religious gathering at the kumbh mela became super-spreader events as millions attended those.

It's even worse than that: the Kumbh Mela was organized one year earlier than it would normally be, and Modi/BJP are partly responsible for that.

But he thought his getting elected was more important so he organized election rallies and let the kumbh mela happen with 12 million people gathering.

The government of India can no more change the date of the Kumbh Mela than, say, the government of Italy change the date of Easter.

Even without covid, Kumbh mela is famous for disease outbreaks.

Worse, unlike the Saudis who are only allowing vaccinated muslims to attend the religious Haj, there was no similar condition for the kumbh mela in India.

[6] We dont have capacity to test the number of people who were attending the Kumbh mela daily.

Kumbh Mela in fact started when the "second wave" was already well entrenched.

We are currently producing a piece of music titled "Fat lie kebab -- it's a big fat lie" to commemorate the Kumbh Mela that is in progress, here at Allahabad.

Kumbh Mela is attended by far more than just people who live near where it occurs.

I asked Claude 3.7 Sonnet to generate an SVG illustration of Maha Kumbh.

Of course, mass gatherings in such a period are stupid and will only lead to a huge amount of cases and deaths, but India had already crossed 100,000 cases a day well before the Kumbh, driven by 70,000 cases a day in the state of Maharashtra, where there were no political rallies and the state has nothing to do with the Kumbh.