Pandemic of Fear and Misinformation Created Majorly by Media

After going through this harrowing waves of Covid 19, It is absolutely clear that it caused by a real Corona virus and no one must not believe in any conspiracy theories that the virus itself is fake. However, we need to understand that this is also a pandemic of virus and also a pandemic of fear and misinformation which is being spread through TV and social media.
Swab tests have a lot of false positives and false negatives. There are many people who have 100% of the symptoms of Covid-19 but tested negative and vice versa. RT PCR test kits are not upgraded to detect the latest mutations of virus.
What about testing for antibodies. Even if you are affected by Covid 19, if you already have anti-bodies, then you will fight it off.. Where is the data on number of people who have anti bodies as many people are asymptomatic.
We have 4 or 5 pandemics in last decade itself. What makes this pandemic different is the nature of the virus is different and advanced. It makes this pandemic even more different and difficult because of spread of negative news and sometimes misinformation all across the globe 24/7.
People in current era due to more accessibility to news and info due to internet, have become very fearful. Any bit of negative report or news is making people highly sensitive and cynical about the surroundings.
This virus is more dangerous and has a potential to spread more as a person who is asymptomatic could spread it to many other people unknowingly. A person can show no symptoms of infection yet spread it others.
Vast majority of people has no symptoms or mild signs. They no need to see a doctor at all. But minor number of people have difficult to recover and they could have sever implications. And may be 5 % of the people may need ICU and ventilator. But effectiveness of ventilator is highly questionable.
In RT PCR test, they swab the mucous from your internal lining of nostrils. They will test that mucous for the virus. One having virus on the mucous does not mean much. So here the infected person should also be experiencing the symptoms and suffering due to infection and also the virus has to be detected inside the person.
This pandemic is created by misinformation, fear and actually to a large extent by people who mean good and doing things for people’s safety.
People are feeling and believing that they are sentenced to death if they are infected by Covid. This itself will create weakness and emotional trauma causing some deaths out of panic.
When you publish these statistics in media on a daily basis, it creates a panic among people. People tend to run to hospitals even for a normal respiratory allergy or infection. Other extreme is people may not go to hospital for any other disease due to fear of getting infected.
When we are induced with this kind of misinformation or fear it is very hard to be practical or think sane in the times of distress. If my kid is having some cough and cold, now it is hard to wait and observe.
Now due to isolation and lockdown we have stopped the development of community immunity. We have stopped healthy young people in going ahead with their lives and keep the economy running. We stopped social interactive development of our kids. We have taxed the health system to an extent where specialized doctors are no longer addressing the needs of their specialized areas. It is a man made disaster and depression.
Social isolation creates more health issue and mental distress and the actual disease itself.
Selective isolation could have a better approach. Like restricting old people and kids to not to move out.
In these times of crisis and mass hysteria, faith plays a huge role. We have some hundreds and thousands of deaths due to read accidents daily . Why do we still drive or rely on public transport. Somebody could fall asleep, drunken, texting, distracted while driving and go hit someone on the driveway. We did not put some moratorium on road transport. We go by faith and a positive belief and get along with our life. We rely and put our lives in the hands of bus drivers, captains of ships and trains and aircrafts and travel everyday and mishaps did happen in the past. This does not mean we stop commuting all these mean of transport.

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