Originally posted by podwerkz
And yet I am STILL getting scam phone calls from India.
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Y'all know that call center (legitimate or scam) workers in India are their middle class, right? They have access to computers and telephony equipment, are trained in how to use them, and speak fluent English. Probably they are working from home just like white collar workers here are.
I was talking about the real poor in India, those ppl don't have computers, phones, or broadband, they live in hovels, wash in basins. Most don't speak English so they don't have access to those call center jobs, they speak the local language, of which there are 22 official ones and more dialects. They work odd jobs of various kinds when they can get them, or sell stuff on street corners, whatever they can do to survive day to day. If you haven't been there and seen it its hard to even try to describe it.
What Modi has done in India is by far the most brutal coronavirus response of any country. Maybe its the only choice, but its clear that India's poor are expendable, as sadly they always have been.