Continued from "What's in the name?"
Take 4: Between the waves
When the whole world is talking about the the waves, I thought, it might be useful to search through the trough. May be I get lucky to find something meaningful there in depth which otherwise could not be seen from the crest.
What is the incubation period of the coronavirus disease?
The incubation period of COVID-19, which is the time between exposure to the virus and symptom onset, is on average 5-6 days, but can be as long as 14 days. Thus, quarantine should be in place for 14 days from the last exposure to a confirmed case.
The inflection point of covid curve in India falls around 13th of march. Let's walk backwards by 14 days and arrive at 27th of Feb. Now let's think about mass gatherings combined with covid inappropriate behavior. This is just a personal observation and a different perspective to validate the popular opinion riding with our communities at social, national and global levels that we ourselves are responsible for the mess we are in.
I am neither a statistician nor a virologist. Also I am not an epidemiologist or a specialist of community health. However, looking at the trend of spread data and co-relating it with scientifically claimed incubation period, I fail to understand convincingly that, community behavior happens to be the soul reason for resurgence. While I agree that the most effective weapon against this community pandemic is covid appropriate community behavior, and there not an iota of doubt that certainly there were lapses by the communities in India. This is but true, that we let our guard down, especially after vaccination became a reality. We must hold ourselves collectively responsible for the second wave. However, the point I am trying to make here is based on the popular saying "tip of the iceberg".
Take 5: It's all our fault.
Charles Spurgeon once said "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes". In today's world of digitally powered media it is safe to say that a lie probably travel thousands of times around the world while the truth is still searching for its shoes which does not even fits and for sure bites. Interestingly a lie that is repeated a thousand times becomes truth. Yes! it is all our fault indeed and lets scramble all our resources to correct it. But , let's read some news articles from various sources at local, national and international level if it helps us avoid going out.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56826645
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-56839099
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/22/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/22/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-cases
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/4/22/india-logs-record-jump-in-virus-infections
https://thewire.in/media/covid-19-india-surge-oxygen-global-media-reports-modi
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/
The sway of news intertwined with so called expert opinions is obvious. Let us start believing that, It is all our fault and indeed it is entirely is our fault. We as a huge population have behaved carelessly and callously. Yes! we are irresponsible as a nation, but there is more to be analyzed and crosschecked against what meets the eyes. Is our irresponsible behavior towards covid is only the reason for the deadly second wave. If so is the case then, why there is no evidence and news of any second wave from the countries which has similar population density to that of India e.g. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. There is no news of second wave from any of the designated third world countries who are poor in health infrastructure and vaccine access. Probably the news is censored but I am in no position of verify that independently. But it makes me both curious and suspicious at the same time is that, these countries too have never demonstrated responsible community behavior to defend themselves against Covid. Why only in India we are seeing double and triple mutants. Why the virus did not manage to mutate as fast as it did and still doing in India. I believe the virus to have started believing in our national motto "Unity in diversity"
Take 6: The devil and the dragon
Conspiracy Theory: https://youtu.be/3bXWGxhd7ic
some more if you are interested :
https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=corona+virus+conspiracy+theory
They say that, the power of the devil is in his ability to convince others that, he do not exist. And if a dragon exist or ever existed is also not know co-incidentally. However, there are civilizations in this world today which believe in both . Interestingly they have become friends recently. The weapon they both have looks strikingly similar. To name a few are "Lies and Deceit", "Fear and Terror", "Macabre and Manipulation", "Propaganda and Panic", "Encroachment and Espionage" and the list goes on if you scan their arsenal. The power of such weapons is that devil just need to cast his spell on few influencers among his enemies. And they are good enough to launch them by executing the traditional and modern tools of propaganda as discussed in preceding post.
Source: https://youtu.be/yrg8-3L6Boc
Lets try to connect the dots and analyze the event that has shaped the world order after US elections. And to go a bit backward the intensity with which negative image management for one of the contender of US election was done to ensure he looses even by razor thin margin. Somehow this explains, why these seemingly disconnected events around the globes are so interconnected under the carpet and could provide believable clues.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/china-on-india-china-border-dispute-7283515/
https://unherd.com/2021/04/how-anarchists-captured-portland/
Take 7: Image of the Elephant and Achilles' heel.
At this point it could be pre-mature to say but I can't stop myself from saying this. I could foresee that, preparations are in full swing to make India and Indians as focal point to promote the narrative that irresponsible behavior of current regime in India, callousness of people of India and the existence of the very idea of India has put the health and survival of the whole whole world in danger. The mismanagement by current regime is for short term intention to get it removed for obvious reasons. The callousness of people of India is for mid-term intention to downgrade Indian self respect and to make Indian feel ashamed of their own identity as Indian. This is quite similar to what was systematically done by our colonial masters and their allies over the last few centuries of their rule. The idea of India will be blamed because the forces opposed to very existence of India are looking towards this as India's Achilles' heel. In recent times India has outgrown itself and made an image for itself. The country which has always carried the image of the country snake charmer and wondering fakirs is now making sincere efforts to change it for good. The campaign like Make in India, Aatm Nirbhar Bharat, Swaksh Bharat, New national education policy are few of the many reforms India has taken recently to make herself stronger. Additionally on international level there is a big push by India to become a permanent member of security council. It is quite evident that these aspiration of Indian nation has come in way of entities who essentially look towards India as competitor and not as collaborator. No wonder why, after recent change in regime with a major power in western hemisphere and events of international importance after that, points towards the same direction. All it take is to start reading between the lines and understand that there is excessive effort to build a narrative averse of India's aspiration and further to her Image.
Even though India initially gained much popularity by walking the talks of || वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम || and || सर्वे सन्तु निरामया || today India image is like a sick country battling covid. India demonstrated it's commitment towards global health by supplying vaccine to needy countries even before almost 95% percent of it's own population was not vaccinated. This was a move which was in sharp contrast with new and existing members of so called first world club which controls eighty percent of world's wealth. Neither they did something like this nor they intended to do so. The selfless and responsible behavior of India and the optics it created forced the dragon and and his allies including the new one in western hemisphere to readjust their strategies. No wonder why there is well crafted and sophisticated push in place to swing the international narrative, which was both popular and against the dragon last summer is wedged against the elephant this summer. Just a cursory glance on the below web page can probably substantiate this thought process that why India and Indian are under fire today and why there are attempts to shame this land. Carl Gustav Jung once “Shame is a soul eating emotion.” and yes we must be ashamed that we gave the forces opposed to us this opportunity to fire a salvo on us. Of course it's all our fault.
to be continued...
