Even to people who do follow the MSM like its real, surely its time now to see that this is a massive psyop on the population.
What do you mean?
"MSM" is largely real, it's just skewed to the right/ Torys in the UK, so the likelihood is our government will get largely backed, or Covid played down, to a degree. If something can be bent, it will be.
It's not just India under-fudging numbers though, most of the world are seemingly under-reporting Covid deaths, and the less developed/ more corrupt you go, the less accurate they're reporting. We've got a bloody dodgy government, but thankfully a good statistics/ reporting/ tracing mechanism that makes up for this, it's extremely difficult to fudge our numbers, as we collect masses of data, in various ways, and with different departments. We still "missed" 10-20k covid deaths from the first wave mind, largely through lack of testing and knowledge, but seem to have a better grip now. Hopefully, these get added to our figures one day.
Now that most countries are seeing that a lot have had a problem, some are starting to tweak figures to something more realistic. It's like an AA meeting, takes a while for the first guy to admit there's a problem, but once one has, the next will hopefully follow. The only way you can fix the problem is by admitting you have/ had one. There's a lot more that got it wrong, than got it right, largely because most underestimated it, this is one hell of a lesson.
The thing is for every covid case that hits a hospital bed, that's one bed not being taken up by some other guy that needs it, whether that impacts them now, or later, they should still be factored into the "result" of Covid. This is one thing that is greatly being missed from the numbers, along with long-term long-covid potential impact, albeit these certainly can't be accounted for yet.
And before anyone pipes up, no, denying covid, not testing, not locking down would not make things better in any way,
They don't get better economically, as it just makes the wave peak higher and then you get forced into measures, and they're less controlled, and then it's a larger slide to come down from.
It's also a fallacy if anyone thinks waiting lists would be less, had we just ignored covid, and not locked down etc.
Adding more covid only makes this worse.
Adding more infrastructure/ nurses/ doctors/ beds to cope with massive waves, and maintain "normal" healthcare is not possible.
Peru have admitted their Covid numbers are three times higher than what they reported, basically, they had to as they had no reason to explain why their excess deaths were 3 times higher than their covid figures.