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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/1jx241   
   /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?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> most read   
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   >>>> 2The right way to study AI   
   >>>> 3Bengali Hindus know how to worship. They don’t need lessons   
   >>>> 4The Congress challenge: Talk to the BJP voter   
   >>>> 5Instagram is making us buy our belongingness   
   >>>> 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 !   
   >   
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   > 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 <><   
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