Then came India and its blistering second wave, with numbers pointing to very dark times for the nation. Within this scenario, there were accusations hurled about fudging numbers of deaths, with political parties hurling insults and allegations at each other.

We had numbers everywhere as the virus peaked, as it showed a slight decline or plateau, once again showing us that numbers hold the real story in this pandemic. Then of course, were other offshoot numbers, zooming petrol and diesel prices within outbreak, harbingers of hardship and mocking the achche din plank of the ruling dispensation.

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We now need to concentrate on the numbers of vaccinations, it is the big stats that matter today. Up the numbers, help those that want the jab and are struggling to find a slot, become proactive in your own little worlds about really making the vaccine numbers go up. On Monday, there were plenty of cheers on social media about the large numbers of people vaccinated. Let us try to break that record every day. Now, it is these numbers that really count.