Lockdown is easy for elites, not for ordinary people
The Great Quarantine has created incredible misery all across the world by the authorities severely restricting movement. This has severely crippled the world economy with many business shuttering permanently and supply chains disrupted. But not to worry Narendra Modi and David Geffen are on the case.
Whats that you say? You urgently need to buy groceries and your mother needs diabetic treatment but you fear a random beating and arrest by the police? Deshi drohi, only Rothschild gora wannabe adherents go to hospital! All you need is yoga for your health and nutrition. Let us leave aside that Modi apart from 56 inch chest also has a 36 inch waist in his 3D animation though in real life the proportions are more generous.
Meanwhile entertainment moghul (he puts the ghoul in moghul) invites you to feast on his spacious yacht even as you run out of flour.
Meanwhile Bill Gates(net worth $100 billion) recommends at least 10 more weeks of shutdown while Harvard University (endowments of $80 billion) recommends intermittent lockdown for over 2 years.
Even leaving aside the quarantine is huge ,hysterical over reaction based on false or even fraudulent WHO numbers, people can ignore and forgive such tone deaf nonsense if their basic needs are met. However the situation for too many is dire.And this shameless and callous display is rubbing salt on their wayThe French revolution was brutal and excessive but if people dont rise up in some way or another against their authorities then they deserve to be treated as sheep.
You are right. WHO has been severely compromised. The moron heading it right now sounds no different from a Chinese propagandist. Taiwan warned WHO in December about the coronavirus but they said it does not transmit from human to human just a few weeks later in January.
ReplyDeleteWHO lied so much that the coronavirus problem got out of hand. It was easily manageable. We countered SARS but not SARS-2 that is COVID19.
All manner of experts, billionaires and other geniuses are planning to throw millions out of work permanently. East and Southeast Asia handled the issue without any nautanki.
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ReplyDeleteAs always ur posts strike at the roots bluntly :) btw could not participate in the discussions whole month in april though i kept reading ur blog.
right now it has become a pandemic vs economy war,and i am starting to feel that probably its better to embrace a moderate pandemic for india rather than a full blown economic collapse. I might sound harsh keeping in mind that many more will likely lose lives or lose their dear ones if intra state and other forms of physical transport + communication start off alongside small businesses,but then india as a nation is simply not prepared to go through this kind of a lockdown scenario. Also the real lockdown could have been far simpler if the govt had stopped international flights in last week of feb,incoming of any type of outsider should have been blocked head on way back since that time. It might have been harsh for NRIs,OCIs(including jamaat preachers from malaysia ) etc for a few months but would have saved our nation from this kind of a deadlock right now.
Just to give the due credit where it belongs,its largely because of the same lockdown model that india could indeed manage a catastrophe by now,considering that we are generally an outgoing social kind of nation :) also a few areas like kerala,goa and meghalaya have shown that a planned lockdown can control the spread without a severe strain on economy. Most other state govts including centre,goofed up on the planning itself,courtesy the general nonchalance and incompetence of our politica and bureaucratic circles.
the most overlooked or ignored group of population in this lockdown seems to be the already ailing patients of various complicated diseases like cancer,dialysis ,chemotherapy,diabetis etc, no one seems highly bothered of their plight,wonder how this group is managing,and not to forget heart patients :(
I am very anti lockdown. Not just because it is based on flawed models. The guy behind the model Neil Fergusson predicted something like 20 million deaths from bird flu in the early 2000s- number of people dead-a few hundred. Similarly Anthony Fauci currently leading the task force for corona virus predicted millions of deaths from AIDS 30 years ago but it didnt come to pass either.
DeleteIndeed the data in U.S shows that isolation actually spreads the disease. And the states that stayed open had fewer cases than those who are closed.
Just practice some social distancing and sanitising. As you said planned lockdown is ideal. For most poor people, the deaths due to lockdown will be worse than the virus. Because they cant afford to stop working for this long.
At the end of all these worldwide hysteria , there will more people who die of starvation ,suicide due to depression of isolation and deprioritising other ailments than those who die of this hyped up virus which kills mostly those who are older and with pre existing conditions. This much Im sure of.