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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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>>>> struggle against appropriation
>>>> 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 <><
>
eat food

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