Ordinary people for the most part have fickle minds; they are always guided by what they want to believe, often for their benefit. When they are worried, scared, and disoriented about the future, they are more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and doubt.
Over the past six months, the COVID 19 pandemic has greatly disrupted people around the world, not so much because of the deadly effects of the virus but because of the restrictions and blockages that derail the normal life it has brought in its wake.
They desperately need to go back to the sweet normal times and live happily ever after, and therefore they leap to fully accept and believe when some motivated souls offer that 'COVID 19 is a hoax, it is nothing but an' annual flu '. Thus, the 'virus of doubt' is created and social media always helps it spread, sometimes much faster than the killer virus.
Perhaps the basic drives for skepticism stem from the fact that over 80% of Coronavirus-positive cases are mild in nature and easily recovered, only the elderly with comorbidity are more vulnerable and that, on average, the death rate it is low from 1 to 4% except for some countries. However, the facts also show that the dead also include young people and that anyone can be infected with this contagious virus.
Conspiracy theories originated in the United States, as always, where extraordinarily 'democratic' sections of citizens opposed the blockade and restrictions from the start, symbolizing this with President Trump's 'agenda'. Various conspiracy theories linking even the tragic murder of George Floyd began to roam around in the US of which we will not make a description here just to prevent vulnerable minds from passing by and instilling doubt.
We just want to mention here that this writer pushed social media forward by giving a link to an article by some 'enlightened soul' who went to great lengths to 'prove' that the pandemic is a 'political hoax'. As we mentioned earlier, many vulnerable people were influenced by this, and no less than a surgeon from the Indian state of Assam who even filed an FIR claiming that only an 'annual influenza' has been labeled a pandemic and he wanted action against the interested governments.
This naturally created a chain of reactions in the state that drives news channels by asking hapless ordinary people about their 'doubts' about COVID 19 infections rather than destroying the dilemma.
Now, this "annual flu" theory breaks down into the basic premise itself: if so, then this phenomenon must be happening every year, and why this year should be so different! Governments need not have launched an emergency campaign to create more and more healthcare facilities, including ICU beds, just to deal with an annual flu event.
Then come the experiences of several affected countries and governments that address this 'annual influenza', some of which we narrate below as arguments to break this type of false and motivated points of view:
1. Let's take the example of the Chinese experiment. Ignoring many conspiracy theories about China, we just ask why China would need outright authoritarian measures to fight the virus (well, even annual influenza is caused by a virus) in terms of continuous blocking and rigorous enforcement. After succeeding in keeping infected numbers 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 despair. An annual flu cannot explain this.
2. Why would countries like the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France, the United States and Brazil suffer so much from an annual flu that it has killed more than half a million so far and is still in its deadly marauders? Why would Italy be reduced to a state of helplessness with corpses of Corona patients scattered everywhere or why a German finance minister would commit suicide because of Corona's concerns? How should you account for a mortality rate of more than 14% (seen in some countries) for an annual influenza virus?
3. Why would doctors and experts from the World Health Organization keep telling 'lies' that the new Coronavirus is very dangerous and that it would probably stay for more than two years and that the worst is yet to come despite the campaigns or actions to be taken or taken against it? At first we seemed to have accepted that this pandemic is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced. Now, why have doubts 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 developing country and a more promising next world power like India should risk whatever it has achieved in development so far.
5. Why is there such a rush around the world to speed up production of an annual flu vaccine? At least such intensive medical research cannot mask a hidden agenda, whatever it is.
In recent days, new cases in India have increased to almost 25,000 per day, with the only consolation that daily recoveries are steadily increasing and the death rate remains, fortunately, low; The concern is an increasing positivity rate indicating community transmission. At this crucial juncture, we should not pay attention to conspiracy theories and false news.
Such theories have obvious objectives: to generate publicity for unknown people or groups or to make a killing in terms of profits. For example, if a link to an article with terrifying and terrifying headlines circulates on social media and motivated media, they think about the type of clicks that are generated and that translate directly into money.
Therefore, we should not be victims of such propaganda at any cost. It is encouraging to see that various social media platforms have taken steps to neutralize the threads of the conspiracy.
Regarding India, we need to say here that the government should find time to report to the media frequently, as it has been doing before to describe events and calm doubts rather than duck behind the rising numbers.
Similarly, more respected bodies such as the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) should desist from publishing dates for vaccine production.
The ICMR's announcement that a vaccine could be possible before August 15, 2020 has raised doubts already raised even with sensible people, and the media is wondering why the ICMR should be in such a hurry.
The mantra at this hour should be to fight the killer virus with the combined power of the world and defeat it avoiding its possible second wave.
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