Popular Post Cherise Posted April 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 28, 2021 (edited) As we all know, India is currently overrun by coronavirus, with an official count of more than 350k new cases a day and 3.3k deaths a day, although there's strong suspicions that there's massive undercounts and hiding of death by various Indian governments. I'd personally go with a 20k deaths per day figure, from various crematorium undercounts. What we're getting right now are stories like this: https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-india-journalist-live-tweeted-oxygen-levels-before-died-2021-4 You can also check Reddit to see what the situation looks like on the ground. https://www.reddit.com/r/India There's currently a major hospital bed and oxygen shortage in India right now, and while it's being addressed through some levels of aid, as well as trade, it's not enough given India's massive population and the rising caseload (376k / day, or over a 21% positivity rate). Some estimates expect India to peak around 500k, and that's only detected, announced cases. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/4/26/oxygen-demand-outstrips-supply-in-indias-covid-hotspots To address this problem. I'm plugging a few Indian charities that are aiming to alleviate the oxygen shortage, mostly by buying oxygen concentrators, which can treat moderately afflicted patients at home, reducing deaths and also reducing the load on hospitals. My preference, to begin with, is Zomato's Feeding India "Help Save My India" campaign. If you're familiar with charitable overheads, Zomato is promising to subsidize fully the administrative expense, so every dollar / Euro / Yen you chip in goes to buying oxygen concentrators and shipping them. Moreover, Zomato is invested in by the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek as Zomato's the Indian equivalent of Grubhub / Doordash, so Zomato should be relatively uncorrupt. Unfortunately, the primary drawback of Zomato's Feeding India is that they're not registered overseas so contributions are not tax deductible. https://www.feedingindia.org/donate/help-save-my-india?review_id=oxygen GiveIndia, on the other hand, is a charity platform that IS tax deductible, but I've done way less vetting of particular charities they're advertised. https://covid.giveindia.org/ Act Grants is sponsored by more or less the entire Indian start-up community, but they have a diffused focus. Like Zomato, to the best of my knowledge, they don't seem to be tax deductible. https://actgrants.in/healthcare-covid-19-and-beyond/ ==== I've personally chipped in $100, and I've gotten others, including people who should by all rights hate India, to chip in $300. If you go with Zomato, based on their sourcing, $300 should buy one oxygen concentrator, which should be able to save at least one life through its use span. But every little bit helps. Besides that, as a sidenote, PMFunds, the official Indian government charity, is scandal-ridden and is commonly believed to be the Indian PM's slush fund. Note that one of the reasons COVID-19 rates are apocalyptic in India is as a result of the present PM conducting political rallies without masks. === In any case, I'm putting this up. You can do what you want with it, I've tried to help in other ways, but I don't expect much success. If you can spare the money, please help India breathe. Edit: someone said clickbaiting with gore porn in the title (even though the tragic stories are basically gore porn) achieves the opposite effect, so I took that out of the title. But the story is basically gore porn, isn't it? Thousands, likely tens of thousands are dying each day, and many of the deaths are preventable. Edited April 29, 2021 by Cherise 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanJazza Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 This was heartbreaking but necessary to read, glad there's people like you who are helping out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherise Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 Just now, TitanJazza said: This was heartbreaking but necessary to read, glad there's people like you who are helping out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanJazza Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, Cherise said: That's awesome 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherise Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 8 minutes ago, TitanJazza said: That's awesome 🙂 Post your donations if you can make them? Even $5 helps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherise Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 If you want, here's CNN's list of charities. Most of these should be US-based, so should have standard US-type NGO corruption, but that's better than standard Indian NGO corruption. Likewise, more importantly, most of the contributions should be tax-deductible. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/world/iyw-combat-india-coronavirus-crisis/index.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indger Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 On 4/29/2021 at 2:13 AM, Cherise said: As we all know, India is currently overrun by coronavirus, with an official count of more than 350k new cases a day and 3.3k deaths a day, although there's strong suspicions that there's massive undercounts and hiding of death by various Indian governments. I'd personally go with a 20k deaths per day figure, from various crematorium undercounts. What we're getting right now are stories like this: https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-india-journalist-live-tweeted-oxygen-levels-before-died-2021-4 You can also check Reddit to see what the situation looks like on the ground. https://www.reddit.com/r/India There's currently a major hospital bed and oxygen shortage in India right now, and while it's being addressed through some levels of aid, as well as trade, it's not enough given India's massive population and the rising caseload (376k / day, or over a 21% positivity rate). Some estimates expect India to peak around 500k, and that's only detected, announced cases. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/4/26/oxygen-demand-outstrips-supply-in-indias-covid-hotspots To address this problem. I'm plugging a few Indian charities that are aiming to alleviate the oxygen shortage, mostly by buying oxygen concentrators, which can treat moderately afflicted patients at home, reducing deaths and also reducing the load on hospitals. My preference, to begin with, is Zomato's Feeding India "Help Save My India" campaign. If you're familiar with charitable overheads, Zomato is promising to subsidize fully the administrative expense, so every dollar / Euro / Yen you chip in goes to buying oxygen concentrators and shipping them. Moreover, Zomato is invested in by the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek as Zomato's the Indian equivalent of Grubhub / Doordash, so Zomato should be relatively uncorrupt. Unfortunately, the primary drawback of Zomato's Feeding India is that they're not registered overseas so contributions are not tax deductible. https://www.feedingindia.org/donate/help-save-my-india?review_id=oxygen GiveIndia, on the other hand, is a charity platform that IS tax deductible, but I've done way less vetting of particular charities they're advertised. https://covid.giveindia.org/ Act Grants is sponsored by more or less the entire Indian start-up community, but they have a diffused focus. Like Zomato, to the best of my knowledge, they don't seem to be tax deductible. https://actgrants.in/healthcare-covid-19-and-beyond/ ==== I've personally chipped in $100, and I've gotten others, including people who should by all rights hate India, to chip in $300. If you go with Zomato, based on their sourcing, $300 should buy one oxygen concentrator, which should be able to save at least one life through its use span. But every little bit helps. Besides that, as a sidenote, PMFunds, the official Indian government charity, is scandal-ridden and is commonly believed to be the Indian PM's slush fund. Note that one of the reasons COVID-19 rates are apocalyptic in India is as a result of the present PM conducting political rallies without masks. === In any case, I'm putting this up. You can do what you want with it, I've tried to help in other ways, but I don't expect much success. If you can spare the money, please help India breathe. Edit: someone said clickbaiting with gore porn in the title (even though the tragic stories are basically gore porn) achieves the opposite effect, so I took that out of the title. But the story is basically gore porn, isn't it? Thousands, likely tens of thousands are dying each day, and many of the deaths are preventable. Good initiative.You indian?i am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherise Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 4 hours ago, Indger said: Good initiative.You indian?i am Nope. I'm more related to your newer archenemy as opposed to your classic archenemy. Hey, if you're India-based, can you do me a favor, download the Zomato app, and see if Zomato has bloody donate options on its orders? I'm pretty pissed off at Zomato; 50 crore shouldn't have been that hard to raise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indger Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 10 hours ago, Cherise said: Nope. I'm more related to your newer archenemy as opposed to your classic archenemy. Hey, if you're India-based, can you do me a favor, download the Zomato app, and see if Zomato has bloody donate options on its orders? I'm pretty pissed off at Zomato; 50 crore shouldn't have been that hard to raise. I will download it and inform you 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cherise Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 Feeding India is currently short 6.43 crore or 857k USD (at old 75:1 exchange rate) of paying for their first shipment. I'm pissed at them because it really shouldn't take that long to raise money for buying oxygen equipment; since they're claiming 15k or so oxygen concentrators, they just killed perhaps 15k people by being tardy by a week. Still, could someone dump some cash onto them, or more importantly, re-advertise to some place that's willing to chip in? https://www.feedingindia.org/donate/help-save-my-india?review_id=oxygen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumo Wojiak-Deng Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Wow…this was over a year ago and it still hurts like it happened a few hours ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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