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Its not like people were not dying before Covid. Covid just increased the number of deaths. If you visited hindu cremation before covid you would have seen 2-3 funerals on a day(just based on my small city).

Bangalore i think now has the highest case in India. Kumbh mela or elections did not cause that spike or the spike all around India.

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Per my experience(and seconded by local newspapers), crematoriums would allow the family to pick up the ashes on the next day. Assuming 8 hours for cremation(it takes less than that), this suggests that there was at least 2x the buffer available. Probably higher than that, as I've not seen(or heard of) all pyres being occupied at the same time.

This means in places where there is shortage of pyres, deaths must be at least 3x the earlier one.

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