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COVID 19: Now the ‘Doubt Virus’ must be exterminated!

Common people mostly have fickle minds; they are always guided by what they want to believe, often to their benefit. When you are worried, scared, and clueless about the future, you are more vulnerable to doubt and conspiracy theories. For the past six months, people around the world have been deeply concerned about the COVID 19 pandemic, not so much the deadly effects of the virus as the restrictions and lockdowns derailing normal life that it has brought in its wake. They desperately need to get back to the sweet normal times and live happily ever after and therefore fully accept and believe when some motivated souls offer that ‘COVID 19 is a hoax, it is nothing more than an ‘annual flu’. This is how the ‘virus of doubt’ is created and social networks, as always, help it to spread, sometimes much faster than the killer virus. Perhaps the basic impulses for skepticism stem from the fact that more than 80% of positive coronavirus cases are mild in nature and easily recoverable, only the elderly with comorbidity are the most vulnerable, and that, on average, the rate of Mortality is low from 1 to 4. % except for some countries. However, the facts also show that the dead also include the young and anyone can become infected with this highly contagious virus.

The conspiracy theories originated in the United States, as always, where extraordinarily ‘democratic’ sections of citizens opposed the lockdown and restrictions from the start, symbolizing them with President Trump’s ‘agenda’. Various conspiracy theories linking even the tragic murder of George Floyd began circulating in the US which we will not go into a description of here just to prevent vulnerable minds from traversing and instilling doubt. We’d just like to mention here that this writer got a social media breakthrough by linking to an article by an ‘enlightened soul’ who went to great lengths to ‘prove’ that the pandemic is a ‘political hoax’. As we mentioned above, this influenced many vulnerable people, and none other than a medical surgeon from the Indian state of Assam who even filed an FIR claiming that only one ‘flu year’ has been labeled a pandemic and wanted action against the governments concerned. This, naturally, created a chain of reactions on state news channels prompting hapless common people to be asked about their ‘doubts’ about COVID 19 infections instead of destroying the dilemma.

Now this ‘annual flu’ theory collapses on the basic premise itself: if that is so, then this phenomenon must be occurring every year, and why then should this year be so different! Governments need not have launched an emergency drive to create more and more healthcare facilities, including ICU beds, just to deal with an annual flu event. Then come the experiences of various affected countries and governments in the face of this ‘annual flu’, some of which we narrate below as arguments to break this type of false and motivated visions:

1. Take the example of the Chinese experiment. Ignoring many conspiracy theories about China itself, we’re just asking here why China would need outright authoritarian measures to combat the virus (well, even the annual flu is caused by a virus) in terms of continued lockdown and rigorous enforcement. After managing to keep the number of infected below 100,000, the country still fears a second outbreak and risks its economic downturn again to prevent its spread. His aggression against India can also be explained as part of his apparent desperation. An annual flu cannot explain this.

2. Why would countries like the UK, Italy, Spain, France, the US and Brazil suffer so much from an annual flu that has killed over half a million so far and is still on the prowl? Why would Italy be reduced to a helpless state with corpses of Corona patients read everywhere or why would a German finance minister commit suicide over Corona concerns? How can you account for a mortality rate of more than 14% (observed in some countries) for an annual influenza virus?

3. Why do doctors and experts from the World Health Organization keep telling ‘lies’ that the new coronavirus is very dangerous, that it will probably last for more than two years and that the worst is yet to come despite the campaigns or What actions are being made or taken against you? At first we seemed to have accepted that this pandemic is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. Now why have second thoughts and doubts?

4. Why would countries around the world continue to take huge risks of an economic collapse with unprecedented unemployment and pave the way for a recession possibly even worse than the Great Depression? In particular, why a very promising developing country and upcoming world power like India should risk everything it has achieved in development so far.

5. Why is there such a mad race around the world to speed up the production of a single annual flu vaccine? At least such intensive medical research cannot mask a hidden agenda, whatever it may be.

In recent days, new cases in India have increased to almost 25,000 per day with the only consolation that daily recoveries are constantly increasing and the death rate, thankfully, remains low; the concern is a rising positivity rate indicating community transmission. At this crucial time, we should not pay attention to conspiracy theories and fake news. Such theories have obvious goals: to generate publicity for unknown individuals or groups, or to make a killing in terms of profit. For example, if a link to an article with sensational and scary headlines is circulating on social media and motivated media outlets, think about the kind of clicks that are generated that translate directly into money.

Therefore, we must not fall prey to such propaganda at all costs. It is encouraging to see that various social media platforms have taken steps to neutralize the conspiracy threads. Regarding India, we must say here that the government should find time to brief the media frequently as it has been doing before to describe the facts and doubts instead of cowering behind the rising numbers. Similarly, the most respected bodies such as the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) should desist from publishing dates for vaccine production. The ICMR’s announcement that a vaccine could be possible by August 15, 2020 has raised already raised doubts, with even sensible people and the media asking why the ICMR should be in such a hurry. The mantra right now should be to fight the killer virus with the combined might of the world and defeat it while avoiding its potential second wave.

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