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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by IG_Semmelweiss on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:55PM (#27012234)
A whole year ago early in the pandemic (may2020), dutch pollster / data entrepreneur Maurice De Hond was purged from google indexes, for suggesting there was a link between covid spikes and weather.

His research [1] indicated that brazil (manaus) and ecuador (guayaquil) - both hit early on by the disease- showed a very strong predictive basis for spikes in covid19 deaths/cases, and massive rainfall.

Now, its important to note that this was not referring to classic "rain". The previously mentioned cities lie on a specific latitude which has torrential rainfall, the kind that floods roads, etc. This was moonson-style rain happens near the equator (it was remarkable early on how south America and africa were mostly spared, except for the aforementioned 2 cities)

Fast forward to india.

Would an early moonson season, together with a latent pool of virus already Within the populace, be the driving factor here?

[1] https://www.maurice.nl/2020/05/21/the-blind-spot-with-huge-c...

Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by ostenning on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:07PM (#27017386)
I'm curious to know, why he was de-indexed from Google?
Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by IG_Semmelweiss on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:32PM (#27018215)
Early on in the pandemic, information about covid19 not coming from official channels seemed to disappear from search engines quickly.

That was the claim. I dont have information that would point the motives behind any such action, besides pure speculation (govt request, genuine awkward attempt to help, etc)