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📸: Millions of people have joined a 45-day Hindu bathing festival in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj.

Devotees take holy dips at Sangam during Magh Mela festival, in Prayagraj, India, Feb. 16, 2021.

Rows and rows of colorful tents, in which the devotees stay, line the sprawling festival site. Millions of Hindus travel every year to the event, called Magh Mela, where pilgrims offer prayers and enter the holy waters where the Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers meet. Virender Kumar Shukla, a Kalpvasi devotee, is attending for the fifth time. He said he hopes by offering prayers to “find a place in heaven” and earn “a better rebirth.”

 

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噬菌体可以消灭新冠病毒 变异病毒也是彻底消灭,恒河水中大量存在!

Disgusting

Hopefully they used bathroom beforehand 🙀

Corona?

Souper spreader event.

Perfect!

Even without 'rona, this here makes me gag 🤢🤮

Such close contact

That looks sanitary 🙄

And that’s why humans are the worst animal on earth.

Unless you're FEEDING 'IT'! Are you not? The 'Cases' that I Receive! What is that woman doing IN THE MIST IN THE YELLOW?! YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA DO A 'MERCY' EXODUS TO AMERICA LIKE THE LAST FOOLS? LIE & SAY MAYFAIR MALL IS THEIRS, LIE & SAY 'defend the Police'? PAYBACK TIME!🤬💥!

Porn!🤪🤪🤪

Sooo No COVID-19 in India ?

Who said that they were tested it a lie they will spread Covic

Ewwwww

gross

This has got Germs written all over it 😷 🦠 😱

Unfortunately, in the current pandemic environment this could be disastrous.

Damn they do all that and we still have 350k more dead than they do

Guess COVID-19 isn’t a problem there?

Then the covid-19 case is rising up to the roof after this! 😝😝😝

m quê miền tây, hiện tại đang làm việc ở hcm.

Holy shitz

What could possibly happen?

I hope the water is clean, but I doubt it

break out the astrazeneca

The retards in this comment thread don't even realise the fact that all those people participating were only allowed after being tested negative. 🤦🏽‍♂️

And the social distances?

So they have supposedly taken Coronil made by Baba Ramdev and now they are all immune to any sane logic or sanity!😊

OMG ew

tim chị gái tâm sự , k ràng buộc

trầm tính ít nói, sống nội tâm

Just proving Indians dont social distance just like in Surrey b.c

Please don’t stop social distancing!

This picture is worth a thousand cases.

Yikes 😬

Talk about a covid spreader

They bath once a year !!! Disgusting

Covid is saying a huge thank you. Not a mask in sight.

You can't stop religion from all the damage it does to people.

I'm sure that water is pure...

I am sure natural selection will do the rest.

Like most countries, they won’t let you enter the country without a 2 week visit to a luxury quarantine ‘lockup’, at your expense. They don’t want you anywhere near their population. Two weeks with a hotel filled with whining U.S. tourists sounds like hell.

All I see is a sea of corona patients.

🤔Super spreader event. Now wait for the consequences. Even worst, notice most R not wearing mask.😷, its indeed sad for a country that's been through so much.God, whomever they see him/her/it as, gave them a brain 🧠 Perhaps if people use it more often they might be better off.

Thats just Florida spring break

Crazy BAT-NANCY has flown to joined a 45-day Hindu bathing festival in the northern Indian city of Pogopogo.

Why aren’t they wearing masks

I don't see any masks 🤷‍♀️. I guess covid-19 isn't a problem for them?

covid spread here we come

喝两口更长寿

Don’t complain at least they’re bathing 😂😂😉

This picture gives me the willies!

OMG...super duper spreader event. Talk about your jumbo petri dish.

That’s disgusting

Omg gross. Ass and genitals everywhere. You know they went dirty to bathe. And how many peed? They will come out dirtier. Religion is so fucked

Think of the prune hands after a 45-day bath!!

🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠

Yup and zero with masks ohhhhh that’s just for the US dummies

gross.

Oh, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh By Coronavirus.

They are actually calling it a riot so no concerns for Covid!!

Wow it's about time don't understand a culture that doesn't bath and smells! Someone explain that to the public?

Don't understand

Party Up!!! No Covid there!!!

That’s gotta smell good 😌

oooo stinky

What does that smell like?

INDIAN SUPERSPREADER EVENT

Sounds fantastic. This is basically a wave pool but no chlorine and no filtration

Looks like a super spreader event to me.

Let’s hope they all get covid for being stupid.

All the news reported COVID cases dramatically decline in India( cnn, bbc, Washington post etc... ) instead Abc news said India sees new lockdowns as coronavirus cases rise again Interesting 🤔

Covid had entered the pool

That's fucking gross. Imagine the shit floating around

Looks like a bunch of creepy dudes looking at the woman in yellow 😳

Pass. Hard pass.

Pandemic is over for them?🤔💩

Bathing in the Rona?

Not much different from Florida, I can tell you that!

Hey vote for me POTUS and I'll just fuck you over like the rest of government does. UnfuckAmerica

Once again the government POTUS KamalaHarris TheDemocrats lying to the ppl of this country smh.

Wow looks like the rest of the world is enjoy life and not being slaves to the bs that the POTUS KamalaHarris TheDemocrats say to the American people. COVID19 bs lyingscum

Maybe they will quit calling and trying to sell me car warranty insurance...

Please read the article. Preferably to the end.

Of course it washes away all Covid19 sins

COVID breeding lunatics !!

ABC had been waiting for days like a predator to report something bad about India. Bingo.!!

Corona b like:

No more covid there?😁

Yellow Cab 🚖 orgy

Contaminated water with so much of 'everything' will provide immunity 🤨.

Happy epidemic party.

Covid is the least illness to spread out. Think of cholera

Yeah COVID!!!

EEwww dirt rings.

Indian COVID bathing 🛀

Covid19:

Covid-19 festival 🙄

In that the river filled with piss and shit and dead people and all sort of nasty shit bacteria 🦠 💩

Can you spell C-O-V-I-D 21

Next weeks article Millions of new corna cases occur in India

Invitation for more coronavirus cases in the country.

WTF C19 heaven

Covid likes this post.

That is so disgusting.

So much for COVID. Close the border.

Ya go ahead and count me out for this

That's the work of a typical infidels

Meanwhile India's COVID numbers have started to rise again.

I hope to hell this is a stock photo. This gives me anxiety.

I’m sure if they were wearing Maga hats the headline would say “Super spreader event in India”

Lots of Covid Fearmongers tend to forget that Indian's are so used to pollution, filth and germs, that the wuflu is just another evening dip in the river of poos n' wees.

I wonder how many people were actively urinating the moment that picture was taken.

NeverForgetJanuary6th

Ewwwwww😷😷😷

They take bath to remove their sins 😂🤦🏻😂 Water will not remove it Wake up

Petri dish.

Covid rejoices

The Florida of India

Por acá se le llama 'Tepetongo'

Randeep Guleria, director general of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said some of the 240 new variants found in India were highly infectious and even more deadly because some strains had immune 'escape mechanisms'.

There is no pandemic worse!

Covid for everybody!☹🤦‍♀️

I can’t imagine people peeing and crapping in this water. Can you? 😳

In the sea of filth.

Covid Soup. 🤢

Corona Festival

People living life, while in the West people are in lockdown and curfews.

COVID Zindabad! These guys are really stupid!

Corona meanwhile !!

is Korona a hindu god, they worship?

They are spreading COVID-19 and germs.

Or Allahabad

Covid 19 coronavirüs.?

🤢

🚨🚨We Are Never Getting Out Of This Pandemic!!!! 🦠🦠🧬💉💉Heck Vaccinate Everyone That’s There On Sight!!! 💉💉💉🚨🚨

Just like Florida!

Religion sometimes defies logic. Case in point: Evangelicals who really believe in their heart of hearts that Trump is the 'chosen one.'

DUMB!

Everyone read The Book No One Is Writing by Zacregela

Super soaper spreader

uhhh Pandemic

I can smell this picture

What kind of nonsense is this? This is going towards population control through ignorance.

India is probably the only country I would never want to visit.

I fear that the water is really warm! 🤢🤮

crazy how life is in other countries

If the covid is not growing in this region of india after this we can say that covid-19 was a bullshit.

🤢

This is what all the republicans should be doing to clean their sins!

I can almost smell it 🤮

What about covid? Why is the rest of the world on lockdown? Asking for a friend.

If Covid 19 is there, you people have gotten it ohhhh

Lake Peepeecacca

Those Hindu’s, do they know how to throw a party or what! May have to tip the pool cleaner a little heavy this month....😎🥁

I wonder how many of those people took a whizz at one point during that 'bathing' sequence....

The state is governed by De Santis, I presume.

Corona be like 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Puhlease. All these people screaming, 'COVID! But COVID!' Y'all should be more concerned about the parasites and diseases creeping around in that water...

It’s Ahmedabad

Seems bad

So they don't have covid there?

Covid soup

Covid would be the least of my concerns.

They don’t know any better. Kinda like the folks at Walmart. Don’t judge.

Those people are the antidote

what, no covid? 🙄

All those people worried about covid in this city... u need to get your immune system strong to fight with this virus... We indians have it already 😂😂😎

Sure that isn’t Florida?

In the middle of the pandemic 😷🤦🏽‍♂️

During a Pandemic?

COVID ?

we ain't getting out of this pandemic before 2022.

Do you think this is what people really need right now?

In the middle of a pandemic no less.

Covid!!!!!!!!!! The world is fucked.

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