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HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1jx241o/five_years_after_covid_it_is_important_to_ask/
Five years after Covid, it is important to ask difficult questions about >>>> how we handled the crisis
Truth has been the biggest casualty of the past five years, powered by >>>> the distortion or denial of facts and accompanied by the decline of
trust in institutions
The pandemic exposed the brittle and polarised character of our own
society, and of countries around the world, amplifying its worst
features when faced with an existential threat (Archive)
The pandemic exposed the brittle and polarised character of our own
society, and of countries around the world, amplifying its worst
features when faced with an existential threat (Archive)
Vikram Patel
Apr 10, 2025 11:47 IST
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Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the day when New Delhi
announced the most stringent lockdown in the world, giving just four
hours to over a billion people to prepare to be trapped in their homes >>>> for at least three weeks. I will never forget that evening. It was my
first encounter with police brutality as I was lathi-charged along with >>>> dozens of fellow villagers as we scampered to buy groceries in the
middle of the night, a brutal reward for having been patriotic citizens >>>> who obeyed our leaders’ exhortations to not hoard food. And I bore
witness, in the weeks that followed, to the tragedy of millions of the >>>> urban poor, who were left without work or shelter and had to trudge on >>>> foot for days to reach their homes in distant villages. How can we ever >>>> forget those images or the harrowing devastation which swept the country >>>> the following year?
Five years later, what are the lessons we can draw from the local,
national and global response to the pandemic? The pandemic exposed the >>>> brittle and polarised character of our own society, and of countries
around the world, amplifying its worst features when faced with an
existential threat. The results, in hindsight, were predictable. Those >>>> who wielded historic power in society, from the wealthy to politicians, >>> >from medical practitioners to scientists, from global institutions to
the media, all acted in ways which fell well short of what our
communities were entitled to expect. We were offered ideology instead of >>>> science. We endured hubris instead of humility. At a time when enormous >>>> uncertainties prevailed, inequities were accelerated as solidarity with >>>> the weakest, already much eroded after half a century of neo-liberal
economic policies, faded altogether.
In the end, perhaps the biggest casualty of all was truth itself.
Although truth is often viewed as the objective interpretation of facts, >>>> the tension between them is as old as humanity. Still, there is no
denying that this tension has been greatly catalysed by the confluence >>>> of the smartphone and social media. While the expression of truth
requires thoughtful reflection, analysis and confirmation of facts,
social media posts need nothing more than an impulsive,
emotionally-charged reaction that could be issued in an instant and
spread without any filter. The pandemic offered fertile ground to
accelerate this growing rupture between truth and facts.
Thanks to the billions of dollars spent on investigating the origins of >>>> the pandemic, its impact on populations and the effectiveness of various >>>> strategies to control it, there are not only countless facts but
equally, divergent versions of the truth to interpret these facts. This >>>> leads to even more questions that remain unanswered. Consider just a few >>>> of them. Could less restrictive measures like masking and staying at
home when you had the infection have been just as effective as a total >>>> lockdown? Did we need to spray all items, even human beings, with
disinfectant? Did we need to shut schools for as long as we did, leading >>>> to the largest loss of learning in children and decline in mental health >>>> in young people ever recorded? Did vaccination stop the spread of the
infection and, if not, why was it compulsory? How much money did Big
Pharma and the medical profession make along the way, peddling medicines >>>> that turned out to be useless?
And perhaps the biggest questions of all: What was the origin of the
virus and how many people actually died? How is it that some of the most >>>> celebrated scientists in the world jumped to conclude that the virus
emerged from the wild just months into the pandemic, while, five years >>>> later, every investigation has concluded that we don’t know its origin? >>>> If anything, it now appears that the consensus is shifting to an
accidental lab leak, which, if it was ever confirmed (a remote
possibility given the assiduous clean-up of the potential crime scene in >>>> Wuhan), would surely prove to be the deadliest cover-up in history.
How many people died in India? Given that the estimates of the
government and those of independent scientists vary up to eightfold, and >>>> there is no reliable mortality data for the deadliest year of the
pandemic, will we ever know the truth?
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Truth is increasingly fluid, and the line between truth and lies is
becoming ever more amorphous, with ideology and emotions seeming to
carry more weight than facts. While it may not be surprising that policy >>>> making is only occasionally guided by facts, science, which claims to
put facts at the heart of its mission, often betrays its ideological
moorings too. For example, I recall being warned, during the early days >>>> of the pandemic, by colleagues in the academy to quieten my advocacy
against school closures and lockdowns to minimise the risk of appearing >>>> to side with the anti-science brigade. The influence of ideology on how >>>> a fact is interpreted or different facts presented to address the same >>>> question, has now become the norm for a whole range of actors — the
government, civil society, pharma, healthcare providers, scientists and >>>> the media.
Truth, then, has been the biggest casualty of the past five years,
powered by the distortion or denial of facts and accompanied by the
decline of trust in the institutions that people rely on to tell the
truth. In its place, propaganda, rumour, myths and misinformation have >>>> taken hold of the collective imagination. While the pandemic today seems >>>> like a passé topic that most prefer not to think about, it is important >>>> not to forget that people were dying by the hundreds of thousands just a >>>> few years ago. Moreover, the pandemic’s enduring legacy, the inexorable >>>> decline of truth and trust, continues to dominate our lives, grievously >>>> wounding our humanity and, arguably, the very idea of democracy.
(The writer is Paul Farmer Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical >>>> School)
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
USENET source:
https://narkive.com/39CHStLZ.14
Positive control on USENET: https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ
Suggested further reading: https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
eat food
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