Idiots of Indian Media, Covid Alarm and Christmas
I'm sharing Outbreak.info's bar chart of Covid variants currently Prevailing in India, as Government of India shared with WHO.
Two things become quite evident from this,
1. Genomic Surveillance of Covid is Quite Lackluster in India.
In fact, in last 60 days the most India could sequence and submit in one day was less than 24.
There were days when India didn't submit any data at all, in some days 2 or 3 sequences only.
Yet Idiots of Indian Media continue to parrot Government's Claim that India is doing all that it can. Actually TV journalists are doing all that they can, reading aloud whatever script Government feeds them.
2. Mutants XBB Or Cross Between Omicron and Alpha / Delta are the most prevalent strains and not BF.7
Although RNA viruses dont cross like double strain organisms, but some strains did come out among Covid19 genotypes which have marker mutations prevalent in Omicron and other lineages like Delta and Alpha family, these are known as XBB Strains.
BF.7 has come and gone in India months ago.
Just because Western "Anti-china" propaganda says "BF.7 is killing and spreading like hell In China", they started this hue and cry in Media. Fact is China does not share its Genome sequencing data with WHO, just occasionally drops a few on NCBI databases (which I checked).
Scamsters of WHO now say, Chinese people have low immunity and parrots of Western and Indian Media shart Repeating that. How convenient it is for WHO to give approval to Made in China vaccine and now completely forgetting them. Here is link to WHO approval, from WHO website https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-sinopharm-covid-19-vaccine-what-you-need-to-know
Besides after enjoying fruits of every Hindu festival and Election festivals, Indian Media loves to disrupt the Christmas celebration of tiniest minority.
What Indian Media doesn't Know:
Don't worry I won't list out everything, if only because of lack of time and space on the blog as it is larger than the largest Encyclopedia ever conceived.
Firstly, When Indian Media were lobbying for all restrictions to be lifted on Air travel and cheering when RTPCR testing were stopped.. Japan and South Korea reported hundreds of Thousands of new Covid cases daily. Nobody talked about any restrictions then, surely many strains passed into India from there as well as Australia and New Zealand.
And Indian Doctors are only to happy to resume their profitable private practice, so they didn't even ask for new RTPCR tests forget for others, not only when they contracted Viral fever. They were more concerned about one Zika case. Dengue diagnosis was the medical norm in India for last 3-4 months. But no one submitted any Dengue Genome Sequences in any of International Databases.
Secondly, Did any Indian Journalists check why Great (lol) Britain stopped it's massive Genome Surveillance of Covid19? Just after stupid Boris Johnson resigned? Do they even know, Nurses and Ambulance service workers are on strike there?
Thirdly, Did any Indian Journalist even notice that Italy, Germany are doing the same stupidity as UK is doing? Even Spain and Switzerland are following Sweden model of "Let it be" in 2022, I haven't seen a single story of warning travellers in last summer. Do they know, according to CDC, Fever and respiratory patients are filing up in 46 states and territories .. that's according to Fluview, which also shows very few RTPCR positive cases of Influenza.. the rest are some other virus, infectious and airborne. Not Omicron, Not H1N1 flu, Not RSV .. And they are causing Pneumonia just like Covid.
Fourthly, India needs a comprehensive "Outbreak Prevention Policy", not fits and starts of knee-jerk reaction. Has any International Airport Terminal added a comfortable "quarantine zone" for incoming travellers? What would they do if an Ebola patient lands up in Airport?
Fifth and Finally: With SpiceJet back in business, Government Of India's favourite crony "SpiceHealth" has no interest in searching for updated RTPCR kits . As virus mutates, the primers in the kits must get updated .. well every virologist knows that, but do any Indian Journalists?
Why do they mislead Indian public, every day in every sphere?
Science and not Politics should lead the effort in fighting Infectious Outbreaks.
NB:
ReplyDeleteI'm not against wearing Masks in Winter, but you have to wear them properly.
Bearded People like Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, especially .. must know entire beard and facial hairs must be covered by the mask. Beard can collect Covid spreading aerosols and folks do touch their own beard, so after taking off the mask in private, virus can still infect their lungs.
I saw Modi's picture in Parliament today, his mask wearing is Epic Failure. That's the sort of mask wearing that people do to prevent Police fining them.