The argument that medical facilities will get overwhelmed is spurious.
More than 60% of cases are asymptomatic and those that are symptomatic are not severe. Of those that are severe, only a small fraction are fatal, usually involving people over 80 with co-morbidities.
Intravenous mega-dose Vitamin C, D, Zinc, and other nutraceuticals have proven to be very effective for the disease, although they are given little play in the fear-mongering media. None of these are[sic] expensive.
It is in fact because of Covid 19’s rather obvious lack of real lethality, the global elites have had to resort to apocalyptic “what if” scenarios to scare us into their prison-camp model of governance. Let’s stand up to the propaganda, for once.
We cannot equate real-world real-time economic injuries with “computer model-cum-war-game-cum-wonk-hypothetical” infection/mortality rates that are continuously revised downward by the “experts,” even while the talking heads tom-tom them relentlessly.
Furthermore, a number of physicians have stated publicly that ventilators are the wrong remedy for Covid 19, and the injuries to the lungs seen in some patients are a result of the force of the ventilators, not the infection from the virus.
Minus ventilators, it is hard to see why Covid 19 should impose a great a burden on any healthcare system.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu is rushing into mass testing of even “cold” spots using Chinese-made (!!) test-kits that give results in a few minutes, as opposed to the ones made in India, which take a few hours. However, the Indian kits rely on swabs from the throat and nose, whereas the Chinese kits take blood samples.
Is anyone not the least afraid of using test kits from China, where this virus apparently originated? Even apart from the fact that Chinese test-kits have been rejected for being faulty by several countries, is no one in India afraid of accidental contamination?
[Lila: As of April 22, the Chinese kits have in fact proved to be defective and are being returned.]
So, we are to stand a meter apart from neighbors who do not have the disease and we are to give up our jobs and social life to “stay safe”…but then we are to hand over our blood to the government, using kits made in the very country where this pandemic began.
And this country is our regional and global rival. It is a totalitarian communist state. It is on the forefront of surveillance technologies like 5G, social-credit monitoring, and DNA monitoring. It has clamped down on academic research into the origins of the virus.
Apart from the loss of privacy involved, is there no fear of biological warfare?
— Comment at Sabhlok City (Pro-free market economist Sanjeev Sabhlok’s blog) in response to the following post:
Hello Sanjeev,
I am glad to see you take on such sweeping denunciations of Indians and such servile apologetics, not for the best of Western culture or for Christian ethics – with which I could agree, but for the British empire as a whole.
Deficiency in rationality is not the problem with Indians, at least, not the ones in my neck of the woods – Tamil Nadu.
Indians – if one can generalize so sweepingly – are supremely rational in pursuit of their self-interest and that of their families.
What is lacking in us – but not all of us – is a sense of community and civic responsibility. That is, our self-interest is essentially individualistic. But that is a criticism that could be leveled even more accurately at the “pseudo” libertarian ideologues who employ Bhandari.
This extreme individualism has cultural roots in India in Brahminism, not Hinduism. Hinduism is a made-up imperial concept that Bhandari seems to have bought into.
Indeed the self (and only self) interested “rationality” of the Brahmin-Bania nexus has much in common with that of the Jews and it was the Jewish banking elites – long intermarried with the ruling classes of Europe – who were the driving force behind the British empire for which Bhandari pines.
Two. Indians did indeed fight the British, to the extent possible given so great a disparity in power.
But it is a waste of breath to refute this rant, which is the kind of thing that is lapped up in the financial circles in which Bhandari moves.
Kindly ask Mr. Bhandari to direct all his self-confessed 82 points of IQ against the banking elites, the Federal Reserve, Sabbataean Frankism, Kabbalistic irrationalism, Israeli/Mossad false flags/ psyops, and Orthodox rabbinical racism. In them he will have all he needs to understand the current state of the entire world – not merely India.
But, given his employment history, I am not holding my breath.
Comment at Print.in on R. Jagannathan, “Modi Must Not Extend Lockdown,” Print.in, April 8, 2020
Not only should the lock-down be lifted, so should social distancing orders, which are pointless, as the virus can survive elsewhere, not just in saliva or breath. India has a relatively YOUNG population and low levels of infection. Covid19 is fatal mostly to older people with co-morbidities. There is no crisis here, except the one we are manufacturing with our reckless and dangerous remedies.
If the true rate of infection, rather than just confirmed cases, were known .and if the death figures were not being manipulated and were accurate, we would probably find a mortality rate closer to the seasonal flu than to something like Ebola.
As it stands, a recent study out of Germany puts the mortality rate at 0.3 or thereabouts, which is only slightly worse than the seasonal flu. The flu, by the way, has killed many more tens of thousands of people so far, without equivalent catastrophizing.
Government never lets a good crisis to to waste. It uses it to grab more money and power from people. Which bureaucrat or politician would turn down boat-loads of central government money and the opportunity for grandstanding and political patronage?
Bah humbug to the self-styled experts too.
W.H.O is funded preponderantly [sic] [Lila: I should have written that WHO’s funding by private entities is dominated by Gates] by Bill Gates, whose philanthropy is adulterated with poisonous self-interest and whose polio vaccine campaigns in India and elsewhere have left huge numbers of children dead from a mysterious ailment resembling nothing more than polio. Mandatory shots laced with sterility drugs is the agenda of the vaccine mafia. Gates has spoken approvingly of reducing the population and is affiliated with Planned Parenthood, with its racist and eugenicist history.
Let us be wise and follow Sweden, which is allowing its citizens to develop herd immunity by carrying on with life as usual, with some precautions for the elderly and immune-compromised.
A robust economy gives robust livelihoods that allow people to get the nutrition, exercise, and sleep necessary for developing strong immune systems. Vitamins A, C, and D consumed as supplements as well as in the diet; plenty of water, sleep, social support (not isolation);,megadoses of intravenous Vitamin C, Zinc, and hydroxychloroquine (or a nutraceutical equivalent) for those who fall sick; and careful hand-washing, cleaning, and general hygiene:- these are the answers to Covid-19, not economic self-immolation.
A penniless man cannot eat except as the recipient of charity…and who will give the charity if everyone becomes penniless? Remember, government can milk the private sector only so long as that cow is alive and healthy.
Ask yourself – who would profit from the economic destruction of India and the replacement of millions of small businesses and casual workers with online firms and robots? The answer is – fintech, social media, big data, the spy agencies, all of which are controlled by the global banking elites and their allies in every country.
Indians – do not be fooled. Go back to work and turn of the mainstream media.