India cannot repetitively search and sieve entire population to identify asymptomatic persons through Covid testing. So, practice social distancing and personal hygiene.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Why doesnt anybody think of the possibility of ‘false positive’ cases? Knowing how clean our govt hosp labs are, cross contamination of samples is a definite possibility. And the inherent limits of a test can lead to significant number of false positives when the number of tests are high.
Govt shd stop testing the asymptomatic irrespective of their contact history and shd simply resort to monitored self isolation of contacts.
This is high on science and yet low on logic. When we have a very high asymptomatic population, it simply means that the virus is benign and incapable of causing disease and when this is the case then why worry and maintain unnatural and impracticable social distance. Have our scientists, doctors and health reporters and journalists all been brain washed into accepting something which is not the case as per their own statements and write ups and research. What is going on?
Please note that those who are not symptomatic (i.e. asymptomatic) will carry the infection, infect others and the infection may surface in them later. This is similar to when the Chicken Pox attack becomes asymptomatic, the virus does not die but remains dormant and surfaces later in old age, or when high stress or other complications such as diabetes, psoriasis or urticaria prompt its resurfacing as “shingles”
Asymptomatic carriers are part of the bio engineering carried out on its bio weapon COVID 19 by China to make it more difficult to deal with its rapid spread and tenacity.
In short, the only possible solution to COVID 19 is for India to obtain 1.5 Billion dozes of COVID 19 vaccine, and administer it to 1.5 Billion humans resident in India in very quick time and not allow anybody to enter India without a COVID 19 vaccine certificate like a Yellow Fever certificate. Certainly not by Modi leading the Nation to clap, bang pots and pans, or light lamps to frighten away the Koran Virus or “arresting” it by imposing a Police State and sentencing everybody to either house imprisonment or long, sometimes 1000 KM marches without food, water or shelter, to die on the way
Part of the Chinese design also relies on the inability of target countries to implement such a solution to avoid debilitation as the disease spreads rapidly and entrenches itself in the population.
Asymptomatic people would represent such people who have sufficient resistance in their body against infection and would not succumb to the virus. Should that be a worrying factor? Awaiting herd immunity is dangerous. Look where it has taken the UK and US with 20K and 50K deaths. Lakhs have to be infected and survive it, thousands have to die. What is the guarantee that a person who has survived one round of infectin won’t be infected again?
The author is prescribing an idealist environment when he says : “ India, then has to dutifully ensure that the poor have housing and occupational environments where they too can achieve social distancing. “. This is an impossible pre-condition which cannot exist in reality. Where do we accommodate the lakhs of poor from Dharavi slums.? And if we had such accommodation had these slums existed in the first place ? Similar situation exists in all Metro and big cities in India. In fact, you will not find a city without a slum. When we are fighting a war, there is no point in complaining about what we cannot have. As 3rd May approaches, it is time we re-evaluate what we have achieved and it is time to re-strategies. The lockdown theory too needs re-evaluation, as our options close fast. Reopening of economy will become inevitable and mandatory , no matter what is the situation regarding flattening of the Covid-19 curve. At some point, India will have to take the plunge. Lockdown cannot be prolonged indefinitely. Reducing infection rate and achieving flattening of the curve seems to be far away. What do we do now? This is a million dollar question, that defies an easy answer. Perhaps we should focus more on controlling deaths rather than striving to reduce infections. These means identifying the vulnerables amongst the infected and treat them well.
Why doesnt anybody think of the possibility of ‘false positive’ cases? Knowing how clean our govt hosp labs are, cross contamination of samples is a definite possibility. And the inherent limits of a test can lead to significant number of false positives when the number of tests are high.
Govt shd stop testing the asymptomatic irrespective of their contact history and shd simply resort to monitored self isolation of contacts.
This is high on science and yet low on logic. When we have a very high asymptomatic population, it simply means that the virus is benign and incapable of causing disease and when this is the case then why worry and maintain unnatural and impracticable social distance. Have our scientists, doctors and health reporters and journalists all been brain washed into accepting something which is not the case as per their own statements and write ups and research. What is going on?
Please note that those who are not symptomatic (i.e. asymptomatic) will carry the infection, infect others and the infection may surface in them later. This is similar to when the Chicken Pox attack becomes asymptomatic, the virus does not die but remains dormant and surfaces later in old age, or when high stress or other complications such as diabetes, psoriasis or urticaria prompt its resurfacing as “shingles”
Asymptomatic carriers are part of the bio engineering carried out on its bio weapon COVID 19 by China to make it more difficult to deal with its rapid spread and tenacity.
In short, the only possible solution to COVID 19 is for India to obtain 1.5 Billion dozes of COVID 19 vaccine, and administer it to 1.5 Billion humans resident in India in very quick time and not allow anybody to enter India without a COVID 19 vaccine certificate like a Yellow Fever certificate. Certainly not by Modi leading the Nation to clap, bang pots and pans, or light lamps to frighten away the Koran Virus or “arresting” it by imposing a Police State and sentencing everybody to either house imprisonment or long, sometimes 1000 KM marches without food, water or shelter, to die on the way
Part of the Chinese design also relies on the inability of target countries to implement such a solution to avoid debilitation as the disease spreads rapidly and entrenches itself in the population.
Asymptomatic people would represent such people who have sufficient resistance in their body against infection and would not succumb to the virus. Should that be a worrying factor? Awaiting herd immunity is dangerous. Look where it has taken the UK and US with 20K and 50K deaths. Lakhs have to be infected and survive it, thousands have to die. What is the guarantee that a person who has survived one round of infectin won’t be infected again?
Why is asymptomatic cases are worrying ? If the Indian population is 100% infected and are asymptomatic. Would that matter ?
The author is prescribing an idealist environment when he says : “ India, then has to dutifully ensure that the poor have housing and occupational environments where they too can achieve social distancing. “. This is an impossible pre-condition which cannot exist in reality. Where do we accommodate the lakhs of poor from Dharavi slums.? And if we had such accommodation had these slums existed in the first place ? Similar situation exists in all Metro and big cities in India. In fact, you will not find a city without a slum. When we are fighting a war, there is no point in complaining about what we cannot have. As 3rd May approaches, it is time we re-evaluate what we have achieved and it is time to re-strategies. The lockdown theory too needs re-evaluation, as our options close fast. Reopening of economy will become inevitable and mandatory , no matter what is the situation regarding flattening of the Covid-19 curve. At some point, India will have to take the plunge. Lockdown cannot be prolonged indefinitely. Reducing infection rate and achieving flattening of the curve seems to be far away. What do we do now? This is a million dollar question, that defies an easy answer. Perhaps we should focus more on controlling deaths rather than striving to reduce infections. These means identifying the vulnerables amongst the infected and treat them well.