THE SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19 SAGA: WAG THE DOG EPISODES
| Main Author: | Tung, H.Y. Lim |
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| Format: | Article |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3972782 |
Daftar Isi:
- In political parlance, "Wag the Dog" means to purposely distract the attention of the people from something far more important that would embarrass a politician because of his/her snafus to a situation invented by the politician to make him/her look good. In the SARS-COV-2 Saga, there has been many "Wag the Dog" episodes that have been completely ignored and under-reported by the so call "top tier" scientific journals, including Science and Nature, and others (In fact, these outfits have collaborated and acted as mouth-piece for the underprepared, incompetent, ignorant, corrupt and stupid Governments and their equally incompetent, ignorant, corrupt and stupid appointed Government Officials. In one "Wag the Dog" episode of the SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19 saga, the protagonists have politicized our country's response to SARS-COV-2 infections and virulence to distract the average people's attention from the following facts: In the United States (i) more than 4 million people have been infected by SARS-COV-2, (ii) over 140 thousand people have died as a result of SARS-COV-2 infection (Just think about it: In the United States, one out of every 100 persons has been infected with SARS-COV-2, one out of 30 persons infected with SARS-COV-2 will die, and one per ten persons hospitalized because of SARS-COV-2 infections will die, (iv) IP 10000, Number of Persons Infected with SARS-COV-2 per 10000 population and DP 10000, Number of Deaths Per 10000 individuals infected with SARS-COV-2 are among the highest in the world, comparable to the basket cases of France and United Kingdom in Europe, and (v) a tremendous tsunami of infections and deaths are just around the corner in the coming fall and winter that could almost double the total number of deaths due to SARS-COV-2 infections to over 300 thousand or more. The United States currently occupy the top position in the world with respect to the total number of individuals infected with SARS-COV-2 (still counting) and total number of deaths due to SARS-COV-2 infections (not a position to be proud of). The perpetrators of "Wag the Dog", including the incompetent Governments (at the city, state and federal level) and Government appointed officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Center for Disease Control and Disease Prevention (CDC), Federal Drug Administration (FDA), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), World Health Organization (WHO) have been very good at distracting the general public's attention from their incompetence, ignorance, stupidity, corruption and snafus and focusing their attention on mundane and irrelevant facts, questions, false promises and false hopes, including (i) the Hydroxychloroquine fiasco (iii) the advertisement of equally ineffective Remdevisir, (iii) the great fanfare announcement of the effectiveness of Dexamethasone when it is not a cure and could kill people, (iv) the promise that an effective vaccine will be available in Fall when all real scientific experts know that an effective vaccine against SARS-COV-2 is years and not months away, (v) the slapping of ineffective and smoke-screen sanctions against members of the Chinese Communist Party, (vi) the blaming of China instead of the unpreparedness, incompetence, corruption, stupidity, racism and xenophobia of our Governmental and Scientific Leaderships, and (vii) the search for the origin of SARS-COV-2 in China. Unfortunately, our once highly respected scientific journal, Science and its so-called scientific writers/correspondents have shamelessly participated in the "Wag the Dog" episode.