"The death toll due to the mid-sea mishap at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) barge 'Papaa-305' (P305) in Bombay High touched 37 on May 20, while the search for around 38 missing people is still on," moneycontrol.com. ONGC is owned by the Indian government. "According to a source from ONGC, the cyclone changed its path," and "unprecedented wind speed due to unexpected low pressure led to the tragedy, despite ONGC taking all the safety measures" but "The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has rejected claims that the cyclone changed its path." ONGC officials must have been asleep because on, "Thursday May 13: It appears increasingly likely that India's western and southwestern coasts will encounter the first cyclone of the year 2021 this weekend, as a low-pressure system is set to form in the Arabian Sea in the next 24 hours," Times of India (TOI). Seems very clear warning. Quick of the mark, "Mumbai police on Friday registered a FIR (first information report) - which includes charges of 'causing death by negligence' - against the captain of the barge which was carrying 265 people when it sank 35 nautical miles off the city's coast Monday, as cyclone Tauktae battered India's west coast," NDTV. "Barges are large, flat-bottomed floating structures with cramped built up accommodation, and when they have no self propulsion, they are deemed to be 'dumb'. P-305 belonged to this category and with 261 people on board, it would have been very vulnerable to the cyclone," wrote C Uday Bhaskar. Obviously, without an engine, the captain could not have maneuvered it to safety. "In a bid to escape accountability, companies have blamed the Captain or the barge master of P-305, Rakesh Ballav," "who is among the 26 who are still missing," The Sunday Guardian. "Big companies are involved" and "They are trying to pin the blame on one individual so that their mistakes don't come out in the open," a technician working for ONGC at Bombay High said. "The loss of precious lives could have been avoided" had there been no "institutional lapses, from the most glaring (unserviceable life rafts on P-305 is criminal negligence) to the most obvious -- why was a dumb barge, with 261 people on board, allowed to remain at sea even though the cyclone warning was received a week before sinking?" wrote Bhaskar. "India has an anomalous maritime sector management pattern, wherein domain competence is ignored and generalist civil servants are preferred for the top job." Indian lives depend on useless pen pushers. "With Covid-induced mucormycosis spreading faster across all states, experts have asked the government to determine the role of industrial oxygen in the infection," The Tribune. The Wire has "collated the details of 178 deaths in which the hospital authorities or local administrations have confirmed oxygen shortage as the proximate cause, and another 70 deaths in which the patients' families have alleged that the lack of oxygen was to blame but the authorities have not confirmed the allegation." An expert Ramakant Panda said that, unlike industrial oxygen, medical oxygen "undergoes a range of processes such as compression, filtration and purification. Even its cylinders undergo disinfection and cleanliness processes". Government 'experts' have blamed the fungus infection to "Covid, diabetes and irrational steroid use that suppress immunity". The number of diabetics in India is estimated at 40 million, or 4 crore. Steroids and immunosuppressants are prescribed in many conditions from asthma to transplants to cancer. Why was there never an epidemic of mucormycosis until now? And, why are we not seeing an epidemic of candidiasis when yeasts are normally present on the skin, in the mouth and in the vagina? In view of deaths and destruction the government must be totally focused on our well-being, right? What is most exercising the Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Modi is a 'toolkit' by the Congress Party which apparently "aims to tarnish the mage of the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi" Tweets by BJP politicians were tagged as 'manipulated' by Twitter which immediately elicited a severe response from the government. 'It is not the pandemic that is of big concern to the Narendra Modi government. Publicity, press and projection are," The Print. Drowning and choking are due to lack of oxygen gas. Publicity is plentiful gas.
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