India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of Cases

Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by superasn on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:35PM (#22608435)

To add to this the UP govt is planning an "Ayodhya Ram Navami Mela"(1) where millons of people will be gathering soon. They plan to tackle this by using 100k masks, 4,000 litres of sanitiser.

(1) https://theprint.in/india/governance/despite-coronavirus-lak...

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by Osmium on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:32PM (#22609249)

> On Monday, the CMO cited the chief minister’s advice against large gatherings to say they didn’t have “infrastructure to screen and hand out masks to 5 lakh people”.

For anyone interested, I did some quick math and it seems like it'd be about two tablespoons of hand sanitizer per person (500k people / 4000 litres).

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by umanwizard on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:43PM (#22609401)

Tangent for those who are unfamiliar with the Indian number system - “lakh” means 100 thousand. “Crore” means 100 lakh (what we call “10 million” in the West).

This illustrates why naive number-formatting code that doesn’t take locale into account is wrong. The same number is written 20,000,000 in the US, 20.000.000 in most of continental Europe, and 2,00,00,000 in India.

I formerly worked on a now-defunct Indian e-commerce site, and many of my fellow developers (and me) were Westerners with little exposure to Indian culture. It was relatively common for new employees to file a “bug” pointing out that the site was formatting large numbers “wrong”, not realizing that it was correct for India.

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by compressedgas on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:45PM (#22609431)

Not 2 but 1/2. You did the division backwards and got the reciprocal. It is 0.5 tablespoons per person. What you got is 2 persons per tablespoon.

Google states that for: "(4000 litres / 500000) in tablespoons": the result is "0.541024363 US tablespoons"

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by gramakri on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:56PM (#22609567)

This of course assumes zero waste. And also availability of water

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Re:India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of ... by Osmium on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:21PM (#22611198)

Thanks!

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