India's current 'COVID crisis' in context -- Society's Child -- Sott.net

The mainstream media's reporting on the 'COVID crisis' in India has clearly been governed by a global approach to messaging that appears to aim at ramping up fear of 'new variants' and coerce compliance to vaccination during a period of increasing resistance, both in India and abroad. However, as somebody who lived in India for 8 years in total until December 2019, and as the fundraiser for a food bank in Bihar that has been alleviating the hunger caused by lockdowns [1], I have daily contact with people in India as well as some context for the figures being presented amidst the ongoing alarm.

Firstly, the media are presenting cases and deaths in whole numbers that sound horrendous until you convert them to percentages of India's huge population of 1.4 billion people. The current daily death rate in India of 2,600 is equivalent to 126 deaths per day in the UK, way below our peak rate and closer to what we are experiencing now. See the graph produced by JHU below to understand the context [2].

Secondly, even as the alleged COVID deaths reach their peak more people die of diarrhoea every day in India and have done for years, mostly due to a lack of clean water and sanitation creating a terrain ripe for the flourishing of communicable disease [3].

Thirdly, Delhi, the focus of the media's messaging, and the source of many of the media's horrifying scenes of suffering, has the most toxic air in the world which often leads to the city having to close down due to the widespread effects on respiratory health [4, 5, 6]. This even led to Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul having to flee the city in November 2020 until the air quality improved [7].

Fourth, high stake assembly elections are going on in some of India's biggest states at present [8]. Delhi's toxic air has been a political football for years that neither dominant party addresses directly, preferring to call on individuals' collective efforts to tackle the problem. Therefore, blaming the soaring respiratory problems that require oxygen on a COVID surge skilfully diverts attention from the ongoing political neglect of this urgent public health issue.

Fifth, respiratory diseases including COPD, TB, and respiratory tract infections like bronchitis leading to pneumonia are always among the top ten killers in India [3]. These conditions are severely aggravated by air pollution and often require oxygen which can be in short supply during air pollution crises. Delhi even saw its first oxygen bar open in 2019, where wealthier residents can pay for a 15-minute blast of oxygen during toxic periods [9].

Finally, the Indian government's focus on vaccine procurement risks diverting resources from tackling urgent public health issues including access to clean water, sanitation, clean air, and treatments for other communicable diseases. An article in the British Medical Journal reported on disrupted access to TB vaccinations due to lockdowns [10], with TB known to cause around 1.4 million deaths in the country annually.

According to my contacts on the ground, people in Delhi are suffering from untreated respiratory and lung conditions that are now becoming serious. I've also had breathing problems there when perfectly healthy and started to mask up to keep the particulate matter out of my lungs. I used to suffer from serious chest infections twice yearly during the big changes in weather in India, usually November/December and April/May. When I reluctantly masked up that stopped. My contacts have reported that the usual seasonal bronchial infections have not been properly treated by doctors afraid of getting COVID, and due to people's avoidance of government hospitals out of fear of getting COVID. Undoubtedly, these fears will have been fuelled by the media's alarmist coverage of the situation. Consequently, the lack of early intervention means many respiratory conditions have developed life-threatening complications. Also, people from surrounding rural areas often travel to Delhi for treatment as it has the best healthcare facilities and people can go there for a few rupees by train. This puts pressure on Dehli's healthcare system during respiratory virus seasons.

Until now, my contacts report that vaccine take-up among the working classes and other minority groups has been low due to widespread mistrust of government-funded vaccination camps. In the context of successive governments' neglect of other longstanding public health problems that disproportionately affect India's working class, the rolling news coverage of COVID and lockdowns are perceived as attempts to coerce vaccination compliance. Also, many perceive COVID as a disease more likely to affect the wealthy living in gated urban environments with air conditioning; therefore, a reluctance to comply endures. Vaccination is now being promoted over cheap early treatments that were previously widely available, and while vaccine take-up has increased, so have deaths concordantly as displayed in the graphic from John Hopkins University below [11]. While correlation does not equal causation, most people I have spoken to do not believe this is merely a coincidence. Given the widespread availability of the data online, and anecdotal reports of adverse reactions and deaths, suspicions of the vaccination campaign remain.

When we consider the current media coverage of India's alleged COVID crisis in the context of the multiple factors presented above, clearly people's concerns are not unfounded, and all is not what it seems.

References

1. Just Giving (2020) 'We're Raising £3000 to Continue the Food Bank in Bodhgaya' https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/foodbankbodhgaya

2. John Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center (2021) https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html for current data.

3. Times of India (2021) 'These Diseases Kill Many More Than the Coronavirus' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/these-diseases-kill-many-more-than-coronavirus/articleshow/74670863.cms

4. DW.com (2020) 'India: Smog Causes Health Emergency During Merkel Visit' https://www.dw.com/en/india-smog-causes-health-emergency-during-merkel-visit/a-51083303

5. Al Jazeera (2020) 'India's Capital New Delhi Suffers Most Toxic Air in a Year' https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/5/indias-capital-new-delhi-suffers-most-toxic-air-in-a-year

6. Thomas, V and Tiwari, C. (2020) 'Delhi the World's Most Polluted Capital Fights Back' Brookings https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/11/25/delhi-the-worlds-most-air-polluted-capital-fights-back/

7. The Hindu (2020) 'Air Pollution: Sonia Gandhi Shifts to Goa on Medical Advice' https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/air-pollution-sonia-gandhi-shifts-to-goa-on-medical-advice/article33140498.ece

8. Indian Express (2021) 'Assembly Elections 2021 Live Updates' https://indianexpress.com/article/india/assembly-elections-2021-live-updates-west-bengal-kerala-tamil-nadu-puducherry-assam-7250933/

9. BBC News (2019) 'Delhi Pollution- The Bar Selling Oxygen to Choking City.' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-india-50502972

10. Pai, M. et al. (2020) 'India's Syndemic of Tuberculosis and COVID-19' BMJ Editorial https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/11/e003979

11. John Hopkins University CSSE Covid-19 Data (2021) https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Reader Comments

codis · 2021-04-29T11:49:41Z

The large and "uncontrolled" rising of Indian population numbers surely makes it one of the primary targets for the Corona injection progam. As the Gate's foundation involvment in unvoluntary sterilisation in India some while ago shows.

Put the crowbar first were it has most effect ...

bj0311 · 2021-04-29T11:59:57Z

Please stop putting things in context, it distorts the propaganda message from Big Brother.

Demore · 2021-04-29T12:06:43Z

Interesting to see that the number of cases pre million rose from 12 pre vaccine to 159 since the jabbing campaign started. It is happening all over and all the media are silent about that tidbit. I guess the MSM is concerned about starting a panic...

codis · 2021-04-29T12:16:12Z

Demore

...the number of cases pre million rose from 12 pre vaccine to 159 since the jabbing campaign started.

This is just a coincidence, you know ?

Demore · 2021-04-29T12:32:39Z

codis Yeah it is just a fluke happening all over at once...

If the vaccinated people who became seriously sick after the jab and their vaccinated friends don't start to ask questions then nothing will do it.

codis · 2021-04-29T12:43:41Z

If the vaccinated people who became seriously sick after the jab and their vaccinated friends don't start to ask questions then nothing will do it.

You will be surprised. And not in a positive way, I think.

Yesterday, my otherwise smart and "educated" project manager slipped a few sentences during a meeting, stating he is on call from his doctor, who promised to get a Covid shot out-of-sequence for him.

I refrained from disturbing his thrill of anticipation ...

weeman666 · 2021-04-29T18:32:28Z

codis ''I refrained from disturbing his thrill of anticipation ...''

weeman666 · 2021-04-29T18:35:36Z

India's current 'COVID crisis' in context = TOTAL BOLLOCKS as there is no sars-cov19(which is not to say there are no colds)

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-04-29T18:49:01Z

As I understand the trends there are two critical issues:

1) Any C-1984 spikes are probably related to the vaccinated. (Which relates to the vaccines's makers expressly stating that they will not prevent you from getting the disease nor prevent you from giving it to others. ) (Which of course should have led the idiot proles to a WTF? moment.)

and,

2) That people are affirmatively getting sick FROM vaccinated people! (AA stated - and I'm tempted to agree with him - something like: based upon these stories that are coming in fast and hard, and how he's asked his friends to not get vaxxed, he requests them to stay physically away from him or such.)

Real time tragedy unfolding.

RC

Tsidkenu · 2021-05-01T01:24:21Z

Everything that Jon Rappoport has been saying for years. [Link]

Last week, I published Dr. Andrew Kaufman’s devastating critique of the claim that SARS-CoV-2 has been discovered.

Dr. Kaufman offered a blow-by-blow analysis [Link] of a typical description of “virus-isolation.” He showed that no such isolation has occurred.

In other words, "here it is," "we found a new virus" --- false. Unsupportable. Fraudulent.

Equally fraudulent, the claim that the “genetic structure of the virus” has been sequenced----because, if you don’t have a purified isolated specimen of the virus, you have no way (other than fabrication) to claim you understand its structure.

What are the implications?

The COVID PCR and antibody tests are designed to detect a virus that isn’t there.

The COVID case and death numbers---stemming from the virus---are meaningless.

The lockdowns, masks, distancing, the closure of businesses, the economic destruction---all based on stopping the virus---are unnecessary, meaningless, vastly criminal.

People who have been dying have been dying for various other reasons---but their deaths have been relabeled and repackaged as “caused by the virus.”

The vaccine is supposed to protect against…what? The virus that isn’t there.

People who say this monstrous mountain of fraud is too large to be a fraud---well, that’s not an authentic argument. It’s just an expression of preference for established authority; and a preference for a sense of stability created by a lie.

For the past year, I’ve been making the case that no one has proved SARS-CoV-2 exists. Mainstream researchers, in their published studies, have been SAYING they are proving it, but SAYING and PROVING are two very different approaches.

What makes Dr. Kaufman’s analysis so disruptive and accurate is: he took a detailed and typical passage from one of these studies, and he presented a step-by-step refutation of every significant laboratory procedure. He showed that every move the researchers made did NOT lead toward a legitimate conclusion that SARS-CoV-2 exists.

Indeed, Dr. Kaufman’s approach exposes the entire industry of virology. It torpedoes this pseudoscience.

The time-honored process for isolating (discovering) other viruses (e.g., HIV) comes under the same harsh spotlight: researchers say they’ve discovered a virus, but they haven’t come within miles of proving it.

Instead, all they have is the assertion that they are the authorities.

This is the same bald assertion the social-media industry uses to censor information that reveals SARS-CoV-2 has never been discovered.

I would summarize Dr. Kaufman’s analysis with this analogy: You have a large swamp next to a landfill on the edge of a city. The swamp contains a host of toxic chemicals, waste, and genetic material from a number of unknown sources. You observe small fish and insects in the swamp are dying. You decide, based on no evidence, that a virus must be in the swamp, and IT is killing the fish and insects. And THEN you claim that, THEREFORE, you have ISOLATED the virus and demonstrated that it is deadly. AND it is a new virus that no one has ever found before. AND you know the precise genetic structure of this virus.

In other words, you’ve shown the OPPOSITE of isolation. The soup in the swamp never delivers up any evidence of a virus. But you SAY it does.

And this is the basis for declaring a worldwide pandemic.

And no one is supposed to disagree.

And this is science.

And because you’re connected to every government in the world, and every major news source, and to the CDC and the WHO, and to untold numbers of law-enforcement entities, you try to shove this “science” down the throats of 7.8 billion people.

THIS is the gateway to the New Normal and the Great Reset. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the Brave New World will also shove its precepts and structure down the same throats.

And therefore, resistance on many levels---including opening up the economy every-which-way-possible---is necessary. And falls to us to make it happen.

parzival · 2021-05-05T02:22:40Z

The Luciferian agenda continues apace....

Enjoy a long cold winter German cucks. Get ready to live with a whole lot less. You will own nothing and be happy. Insect buffets coming soon.

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