Conspiracy Theories On Spread Of Coronavirus

Lab in Wuhan

A majority of Indian people blame China for the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19). They see China's sinister design to spread the virus, ostensibly to reinforce its might. And they are not only people even Americans and other European countries also blame China for the spread of killer coronavirus.

U.S. president Donald Trump is on the forefront and has been, aggressively, firing salvos on China's biological war against world number one economy. Trump and many Americans believe that China has, somehow or the other, succeeded in weakening the U.S. economy. The world number economy was never hurt so severely even by 9/11 (September, 2011) terrorist attacks on World Trade Center.

The attacks resulted in 2,977 fatalities, over 25,000 injuries, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage to the U.S. economy. Not only this, dust-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the years following the attacks killed many people.

Almost a decade later, U.S economy has been rattled by the coronavirus lockdown. Goldman Sachs has forecast that U.S's economy will shrink by annually, minus 34 per cent in the second quarter and unemployment could soar 15 per cent. In the third quarter, there could be some recovery if contagion is controlled. On the other hand, a Nikkei survey of 29 economists has predicted that China's economy may contract by 3.7 per cent in January-March quarter and will slow to 3.3 per cent growth for all of 2020. This is much less than the contraction in U.S economy.

Advanced economies like the U.S. see even worse impact of periodical disturbances than in China. That is because face-to-face service industries — the kind of businesses that go into a tailspin when fearful people withdraw from one another — tend to dominate economies in high-income countries more than they do in relatively low-income like China and India. So, a broad outbreak of the disease in them could be even worse for their economies than in China. That is because face-to-face service industries — the kind of businesses that go into a tailspin when fearful people withdraw from one another — tend to dominate economies in high-income countries more than they do in China.

That's why president Trump is angry at China and leaves no occasion to attack China. Trump has accused China of deliberately causing the coronavirus outbreak that has killed over 41,000 Americans . Trump has threatened of dire consequences if the country is found to be “knowingly responsible.”

Now, the existence of a lab in Wuhan has fueled conspiracy theories that the germ spread from the facility. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that US officials are doing a "full investigation" into how the virus "got out into the world". A high-security biosafety laboratory in Wuhan has now become the cradle of the pandemic.

However, Chinese scientists say the virus has jumped from an animal to humans in a market that sold wildlife in Wuhan. China is now quoting the WHO in its support . The World Health Organization has claimed that there is no evidence that the coronavirus originated in a lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the epidemic first emerged in late 2019.

U.S. has even accused the WHO chief,Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian microbiologist and internationally recognized malaria researcher, of siding with China. Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017, Tedros is the first first African in the role and was helped by China to reach the coveted post.

There are some key questions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV):

*The institute is home to the China Center for Virus Culture Collection, the largest virus bank in Asia which preserves more than 1,500 strains, according to its website.

*The complex contains Asia's first maximum security lab equipped to handle Class 4 pathogens (P4) -- dangerous viruses that pose a high risk of person-to-person transmission, such as Ebola.

*The institute also has a P3 laboratory that has been in operation since 2012.

* A poster outside the complex read, "Strong Prevention and Control, Don't Panic, Listen to Official Announcements, Believe in Science, Don't Spread Rumors", according to news agency AFP.

Various conspiracy theories about the alleged origin of the coronavirus in the lab have flourished online. Only a fair and independent investigation can unveil the truth.

(Chander Sharma)

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The Dean End To Coronavirus

The eerie silence has now become unbearable as skies look sad, streets are deserted , roads and railway lines stare at you . Almost everything including time is at standstill the world over. We have been forced to stay at home. Its "Co-Rona" everywhere including on news channel.

Why? Because just a tiniest microscopical virus has made the "all powerful" human subservient to it. Poor mankind.Till the other day was roaring with its nuclear power threatening to destroy each-other. As I wrote earlier, all our nuclear might, advanced science and technology as of now can't stop coronavirus from killing people mercilessly. More than 60,000 of us all over the world have been swallowed by this tiniest virus.

And we the superpower are just helpless. Even can't use our nuclear and chemical weapons to even scare out this tiniest virus.

And what remedy we have to fight this deadly virus? Just wash your hand repeatedly for more than 20 seconds and lock yourself in a room like a coward. No medicine or vaccine has been found as yet. Vaccine to reach market wlll take at least a year and till that time we are at the mercy of God.

Remember coronaviruses were first discovered in the 1930s when an acute respiratory infection of domesticated chickens was shown to be caused by infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). In the 1940s, two more animal coronaviruses, mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) and transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), were isolated. And Human coronaviruses were discovered as early as in the 1960s.The earliest ones studied were from human patients with the common cold, which were later named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus Other human coronaviruses have since been identified, including SARS-CoV in 2003, HCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS-CoV in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. Most of these have involved serious respiratory tract infections.

Despite all this we have not taken this tiniest seriously until it first attacked in November. The first case of deadly coronavirus was reported on 7 November 2019 in China but health authorities found it a case of "pneumonia. It was only on 8th January that scientists in China announced the discovery of a new coronavirus. So for about two months, world didn't know about outbreak of deadly coronavirus. By that time, it had spread the world over including India.

On the same day South Korea also reported the first possible case of virus coming from China. A 36-year-old Chinese woman was put under isolated treatment amid concerns that she had brought back a form of viral pneumonia that had sickened dozens in mainland China and Hong Kong in the previous weeks.

And since then the deadly virus has gripped the entire world firmly and even mightiest of all America is helpless in fighting the virus. All its nuclear, technological and financial might are of no help to save its people from coronavi rus.

And here is a good news that Dhauladhar mountain ranges, a part of the Himalayan range in Himachal Pradesh can now be seen from Jalandhar, a city in Punjab.It was possible as the lockdown has cleaned the air. God has warned us. Need to take warning seriously Good Luck.

(Chander Sharma)

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Scientists' Warning Ignored ?

As the number of Coronavirus cases keeping on rising at alarming speed, I am reminded of a stern warning by a group of researchers working with multiple institutions in India, Europe and the United States that a catastrophic situation was becoming more and more apparent in India. The researchers looked at the situation in India and evidence from other countries and found situation alarming.

Soon after the first case of the coronavirus arrived in India in late January, government responded with restrictions on flights and screenings at its airports. At that time India had more than 80,000 arrivals every day, mostly from Europe and the Gulf States, where the virus had spread. However, most of the travelers weren't checked for virus as the case of singer Kanika Kapoor and NRIs arriving in hordes in Punjab latter proved. Punjab govt has confirmed that over 90,000 NRIs has arrived in state.

As millions of people live in proximity across the country in densely populated slums where access to health care is very poor, union government decided to impose a three-week lockdown. It was necessary to mitigate the inevitable spread of the disease.

Studies from China suggest that people with uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes are more likely to experience severe Covid-19 and die from it. About a third of India’s population is hypertensive, and over one in 10 adults are diabetic. Children in China, were less infected but India with millions of undernourished children,are more prone to infections.

India’s high rates of tuberculosis, pneumonia, smoking and poor air quality won’t help when it comes to a respiratory disease. Some were counting on the summer heat and humidity to bail India out, but there was no evidence that the rising temperature would stop the disease.

The initial estimates had suggested that 300 million to 500 million Indians were likely to be infected with the coronavirus by the end of July. Most of the cases would be without symptoms or with mild infections, but about a tenth — 30 million to 50 million — would most likely be severe.

The researchers' model has predicted that at the outbreak’s peak, even with conservative assumptions, there would be 10 million patients with severe Covid-19 disease in India, many of whom would need to be hospitalized.

India has fewer than 100,000 intensive-care unit beds and 20,000 ventilators, most of which are only in the large cities. Although the proportion of Covid-19 patients who die has averaged between 2 percent and 3 percent globally, but they were in places where the health system is better equipped. India does not have the strong health system and economic resources of Covid-19-affected high-income countries or China’s ability to control population flows in the country. So, a lockdown was the only option to control the disease.

By the time PM announced the lockdown, India had officially counted about 500 cases of coronavirus infection and estimated 10 deaths because of the contagion. After a week of lockdown there were 1,637 with 1,466 active cases, 38 deaths. The numbers are believed to be low because testing for the virus has been very limited. Estimates from the group of scientists and others suggest the actual number of infection cases in India is likely to be about 21,000 by now.

Our estimates and those from the Indian Council for Medical Research indicate that a national lockdown, if adhered to well, could reduce the number of infections at the peak of the pandemic — expected by early May — by 70 percent to 80 percent, depending on the degree of compliance with physical distancing. Our estimates suggest that about a million people would still need hospital beds and critical care. Had India not imposed the lockdown, it would have been five million to six million people.

India has four to six weeks before the coronavirus outbreak hits its peak. It is absolutely necessary to use this window of opportunity to create an enormous, affordable and easily available testing infrastructure, intensify efforts to identify the sick, trace their contacts and isolate them and prepare for the avalanche. Hygienic quarantine facilities and intensive-care beds must be set up in all state capitals.

New Delhi has to move swiftly to marshal its financial and human resources, and build temporary Covid-19 treatment facilities; procure necessary equipment, including test kits; and buy personal protective equipment, hospital beds, oxygen-flow masks and ventilators. At the same time, it has to train health workers in infection control and safe testing.

If India fails to fill these serious gaps in its capacity, the pandemic will exact a heavy toll. The disease is likely to return later in the year. Many Indians still lack immunity to the coronavirus, although the extent will be known only when surveys are conducted that are able to test the population for antibodies that indicate their exposure to the disease.

The lockdown has most likely saved millions of lives, but the bold public health actions of the government should be matched by similar efforts to ensure that the pandemic does not generate a secondary hunger and poverty crisis. Nearly half a billion Indians earn daily wages and have no meaningful savings. The state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh have already announced a daily minimum allowance and monthly rations to help families avert a hunger crisis. Others are likely to follow.

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Collective Energy: Remedy For Fighting Corona

Amid the darkness of deadly coronavirus, the power of collective light can do wonders. Realizing this power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon 1.30 billion people of India to switch off their lights and hold candles, lamps and mobile flashlights at 9 pm on Sunday, April 5, for 9 minutes in a nationwide show of solidarity amid a lockdown to fight coronavirus.

It is believed light is a wonderful healing tool and when we all join together, it creates positive energy all over and a powerful force is created. As such the collective energy with collective consciousness envelope people, communities, cities, countries, and continents. So when 1.3 billion people join together to send light its a most powerful force to kill the air-borne virus.

Even scientists agree that sending collective energy to the world, the power of their planetary gift increases exponentially. Children and youth are reservoirs of innate power As we all will join the 9-minute resolve,our self intent will become a great and powerful wave, we can see amazing results even in our daily life

No the question is Why 9? Why not 10 or 8? The belief goes with the alarms Snooze. Its for 9 minutes, not 10 or 8. Reports suggest in 1950s it was thought ten minutes was enough for drowsy people to fall back into deep sleep.It means they’d wake up cranky again, so nine minutes was the sweet spot between more time in bed . Besides, a child is reared for 9-month in mother's womb. Neuroscientists have also found that our brains have a built-in stopwatch that stops for 9 minutes.

Interestingly, China is observing a national day of mourning on Saturday for martyrs, including the “whistleblower” doctor Li Wenliang, who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

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