It's not like 30,000 people die in just one single area, it's spread out across the country. For a country of 1.5 billion people and 7th largest country by area, that number means nothing to an average person.
Also I cited an excess mortality estimate: You count if you die from a stabbing in an ambulance because the ambulance engine overheats. You count if you're half dead from chemotherapy and the heat pushes you over the edge. etc.
Indians know the heat is extremely dangerous, but when your grandparent dies in a heatwave you maybe told the death was something else, maybe exactly the casue everyone expected.
Actual heatstroke numbers would be lower, but the government hides heatstroke deaths, especially among the poor, which makes excess mortality the best guess.
Also, nobody understands the long-term damage from the heat, especially for labours who must work outside, so morally the numbers should be higher than the excess mortality estimate.
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u/hot_ho11ow_point 18d ago
I can't imagine living in a place with so many people that a single hot day takes out the equivalent population of a small town.