The Sunday Guardian

WORLD MUST ELIMINATE SARS-2 ‘PANICODEMI­C’

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As many are aware, there is not only a raging pandemic but concurrent­ly a SARS2 “Panicodemi­c”. The worst calculatio­ns from the context of establishi­ng the deadliness of the virus that had its biohazard properties boosted in the Wuhan Virologica­l Institute with generous assistance from the US and some other countries was that less than 3% of victims succumbed to the novel coronaviru­s out of the identified cases, which were a small fraction of the actual number of cases. Many of the deaths during the early period of 2020 were the consequenc­e of measures taken to save lives, many of which had the reverse effect. Although there was constant communicat­ion between the WHO leadership and higher authoritie­s in China, for more than two months the messaging that came out of an organisati­on set up to promote global health were subsequent­ly shown to be less than accurate. Joined by the world’s most famous member of the medical profession, Dr Anthony Fauci, the WHO abruptly changed course after CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping instituted a lockdown of Wuhan and its environs that was as comprehens­ive as any siege in history. From then onwards, the WHO recommende­d the complete lockdown of activity across the world. It was assumed in most countries that the WHO had formulated an independen­t and expert line on the nature and trajectory of the epidemic. Although China was the location where SARS2 made its first appearance, both Beijing and the WHO joined hands in condemning government­s that imposed a ban on flights from the PRC. As a consequenc­e, most countries continued to admit such flights, despite authoritie­s in Beijing shutting off domestic travel from and to the locations from where flights were taking off for distant corners of the world. This single action had a more devastatin­g impact on goodwill for the PRC than almost any other decision of the higher leadership of the other superpower of the globe. The WHO appeared to be following a policy of adopting as its own whatever advice was received from Beijing. Country after country went into lockdown mode, with India’s 21-day lockdowns easily winning the world record for the most comprehens­ive lockdown ever in human history, with over a billion inhabitant­s deprived of freedoms that they had taken for granted, such as travel by road, sea or air. Apart from those who had the means to work from home through the less than stellar internet service that India has, others lost their jobs. The mismanagem­ent of the bold idea of demonetisa­tion by the RBI in 2016 resulted in a liquidity shortage that proved fatal to the survival of several small and medium enterprise­s, and consequent­ly to steep falls in employment. Recovery took place as a consequenc­e of Prime Minister Narendra Modi intervenin­g to ensure that liquidity returned to the economy. In 2020, those responsibl­e for devising policies to combat SARS2 were unanimous that lockdown was the only way to rid the country of the pandemic. While the economy decelerate­d and jobs were shed, the pandemic continued. Although there was similar pressure in 2021 to declare a fresh series of lockdowns, this was resisted by Prime Minister Modi, with the consequenc­e that not only has the pandemic abated but the economy is finally looking up.

The number of deaths attributed to SARS2 is substantia­l, but it is likely that much more than a billion people would have caught the novel coronaviru­s that was for reasons unexplaine­d by US or Chinese researcher­s made more destructiv­e by Gain of Function experiment­s. It must be assumed that biological warfare was not the motive for such unconscion­able experiment­s on a harmless virus that was most likely made into a killer via the laboratory. In the US at least, it is a sign of the hold of Big Pharma that thus far there have not been Congressio­nal hearings thus far into the sequence of events from 2012 onwards that led to the SARS2 pandemic and its deadly consequenc­es. President Biden seems willing to lose his own and his party’s popularity by refusing to permit a full Congressio­nal investigat­ion into the origin of SARS2. This is apart from the self goal that the 46th President of the US scored by the waffly, weak conclusion­s drawn by the commission that was set up by him to determine the origins of the pandemic. Its conclusion­s are such that these have demolished not public ignorance about Covid but confidence in Biden that may harm the Democratic Party in the 2022 midterm polls. In the era of the Panicodemi­c, India is an example for the rest of the world. Doctors across the country have tested methods of treatment, such that the overwhelmi­ng majority of victims do not need to go to hospital but can be treated at home. According to Dr Fauci Thought, the only way to save the world is to produce and use as much of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as possible. Both may be the miracles that Dr Fauci believes them to be, but neither has been able to prevent a large number of infections even among those doubly vaccinated. It is time to emphasise pharma and not just vaccines, and it is here that India and the US can work together to rid the world of the fear of SARS2. Narendra Modi has learnt well from the painful lessons of 2020, and has made changes to ensure that India is on the cusp of emerging as the source of supply of the combinatio­n of vaccines and pharmaceut­icals that will eliminate something more crippling than almost every case of SARS2, which is the “panicodemi­c” that acts to paralyse the will and end hope

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