I don't believe we still have to say this, but our govt keeps pushing its propaganda that India "did well to control the pandemic" which is far from the truth 👇🏼
To reiterate, India logged the highest excess deaths during the covid pandemic compared to any other country, and if you account for our population we still rank higher than many other countries that had a hard time and are way above the global average..
They had a year to do Disaster planning
They had a year to bid for and purchase vaccines
They had a year to put in a contingency plan
They had a year to build oxygen plants
So, pls don't give us excuses about India's huge population. It stinks of maleficence
Turmeric is not an immune booster
Vaccines are the only proven immune boosters ur body needs
Your immune system only needs u to lead a healthy lifestyle - includes proper sleep, exercise and a healthy diet
Anyone who claims otherwise is a fraud and deserves to be made fun of!
We need to use medical oxygen rationally & stop its wastage. Patients should be given the required amount of oxygen only. There're reports of oxygen wastage & about patients being given oxygen even if they don't need it. We've urged state govts to keep an eye on it: Piyush Goyal
That's because we know how to separate religion from politics like most egalitarian and developed societies that have evolved beyond the barbaric middle ages..
Karnataka Govt decides to withdraw
#Hijab
ban. " You can wear Hijab and go. Have instructed for the order to be withdrawan," says Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah. The matter is pending before the Supreme Court. Govt will withdraw the education dept order passed on Feb 5, 2022
Requesting everyone not to share the image of that protestor who came to steal the limelight wearing free palestine T shirt. He wanted eyeballs. Stop giving it by sharing the image.
What caused my change of heart is the realisation that the Hon'ble PM
@narendramodi
is a selfless man who is taking radical decisions to transform India. He has braved intense criticism but remained steadfast to his vision of inclusive development that leaves no one behind.
Remember there is no Modi magic.
It is just Media magic, i.e. completely scripted, staged managed with props, camera, costumes and pliant costars.
And a soulless IT cell that pushes propaganda day and night.
Whatever happens today, I must say the INDIA bloc campaign this election was top notch, filled with humour and heart. They set the agenda, laid the ground work for how to fight coming elections. Hope it all pays off sooner rather than later..
Why do we need to correctly count all covid deaths?
To spread doom and gloom for the sake of it? No.
Coz it's an important tool for epidemiologists? Not only that.
To deal with a problem we must first understand how bad it is..
And because it's vital for our collective memory.
Saw a patient with blood glucose of 838 mg/dl today! That's 46.5 mmol/l! An Ayurveda practioner who was self medicating with herbals in addition to diet control.. 🤦🏻♂️
I am not at all surprised by this govt rolling out
#Covaxin
even before phase 3 trials (hence efficacy unknown). This is the same govt that told us to take
#Hcqs
as prophylaxis, and promoted
@moayush
immunity boosting scams. No thank you, will ask to see the science.
Worst Railway minister
Worst Finance minister
Worst Home minister
Worst Foreign minister
And yet they kept their respective ministries.
I'm no longer surprised by producers who keep throwing money at Akshay Kumar just for him to keep delivering BO bombs
Not looking forward to another 5 years of nautanki, bigotry, runaway inflation, photo ops in place of governance, nightmare train journeys, tax terrorism, draconian surveillance, endless kyc, pseudoscience promotion, sluggish economy, crony capitalism, godi media
This is a litmus test for
@TwitterSafety
@twitter
. If this account is not suspended by tomorrow, then it's clear that they follow double standards and are no better than Facebook when it comes to violent hate speech..
Back in school we used to annoy our classmates by reflecting light onto their eyes using our watch dials as mirrors. Teacher used to scold us. Turns out we were actually budding astrophysicists..
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
@IIABengaluru
, an autonomous body under
@IndiaDST
, has played a crucial role in the
#SuryaTilak
Project at
#Ayodhya
. Sunlight was directed onto the forehead of Sri Ram Lalla at 12 noon on April 17, 2024, on the occasion of Sri
#RamNavami
in the
People seem to forget that the biggest scam in India after electoral bonds, ie the PM Cares Fund, was ostensibly created to fight COVID but even today no-one knows how much or where that money was actually spent. It's like a collective black hole in our memory.
Totally surprising how 10 years ago common citizens could immediately sniff out scams and understand terms like "notional loss" and "quid pro quo" but fast forward to the present and the very same folks seem to have lost this ability! Someone really needs to study this phenomenon
Wife got angry at me today for not ordering text books for next school year on time. I told her to stop arousing narrow political passions that would jeopardize whole family approach to combating illiteracy.
“If you control the media and peddle fake narratives, the reality on the ground doesn’t improve,” says PM Modi on Kerala’s universally acclaimed COVID response.
Irony dies a thousand deaths.
VIDEO | "Tax has become faceless in its assessment because we trust people, and people, in turn, trust PM Modi,” says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Mumbai on BJP-led central government completing nine years in power.
I hope Indian techies use common sense (Indian tech bros are generally sensible) and leave the clinical management of Covid to the experts, rather than putting out embarrassing statements like these..
I hope Indian doctors follow clinical evidence in India (and India has done reasonably well during Covid compared to much richer countries) rather than accept dogmatic statements like these.
Kerala has better disease surveillance and health service penetration, which leads to early identification and allows health systems to initiate adequate control measures.
As a frontline COVID warrior who worked in COVID wards dealing with the sickest of patients, I can tell u that these empty gestures were of as much use to me as a bicycle is to a frog.
Since this is being repeatedly brought up as a meme to mock what is seen as my credulous adoption of a suggestion to honour frontline workers battling Covid at its darkest hour, I underline that I am happy to have participated in this nationwide tribute to those warriors battling
BREAKING 🚨
Tejasvi Surya has been taken into custody by Bengaluru Police for inciting mobs for communal riots.
Karnataka Congress also filed a complaint against him to the State Chief Election Officer for the breach of Moral Code of Conduct.
Diaper baby in big trouble 🔥
UP will forever be associated with lawlessness in my mind. You can get me to settle down happily in any state in India, but never UP. Sorry if this rankles some people but these extra-judicial murders only add to my view.
Shame on you
@HimalayaIndia
You are exposing yourself and your unscientific double standards
Rest assured netizens will leave no stone unturned till you regret the day you ever thought taking
@theliverdr
to court was a good idea...
#BoycottHimalaya
Open challenge:
Can anyone show me even one sentence uttered by Modi from any speech or interview that can be considered as profound or memorable enough to be turned into a quote??
Yet again demonstrating my thesis that for bhakts, development means only infrastructure and not HUMAN development which only comes from providing equitable resources like health care, quality education, employment opportunities and political empowerment.
Happy birthday 🎂 to that touring uncle who promised to get us black money💰 from Switzerland, but brought back cheetahs 🐆 (that no-one asked for) from Africa instead..
Please be kind. This is part of the larger scheme to ensure steady supply of Gau-rakshaks, IT cell coolies and audience for future Vivek Agnihotri films! 😬
Let me give you a straight answer: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to shoot my friend; point blank.."
Y.R. Deshmukh- What I Believe.
From replies to my tweets I have made the foll observations abt bhakt "logic" :
1. Calling out hate speech means u hate Hindus
2. Wishing for peace means u want Hindus to suffer violence
3. Promoting secularism means u want minorities to take over the country..
Things have gotten so bad in today's India that if I were to ever encounter a man wearing a saffron shawl & shouting "Jai Shri Ram" I would immediately worry for my safety and the safety of those around me.
Militant Hindutva is destroying this country.
No, not the middle ages, this happened 2 years ago during the peak of Covid.
Yes, that is Goumutra in the pic. Man in pic and man who tweeted it both belong to the same political party.
Now, tell me again why doctors should be apolitical & not attack pseudoscientific beliefs..
There is a key difference between 'both sides':
Only one side:
-spreads fake news
-shares fake history
-spreads fake propaganda
-shares bigoted cartoons
-openly supports violence in the name of religion
-garlands rapists
-suffers from bhakt mentality
...
Two Timelines
I follow both LW and RW commentators to get a mixed set of views on my timeline. In the last 48 hours, two separate acts of violence took place. One involving railway cop Chetan Singh in Maharashtra, and the other involving a mob in Mewat, Haryana.
One set of
Today ISRO scientists demonstrated what a graceful, perfectly executed soft landing looks like.
Also today, a self-declared Viswaguru demonstrated the exact opposite in South Africa.
Remember the
#PMCaresFund
??
Yeah! No-one knows even knows how much was collected..
Aside from some ventilators that were never used, and funds that were meant to be distributed for migrants but never reached them, what was it spent on?
Blablabla blablab bla blabbbllabab blabla..
⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ Bla bla blablabla labablabla bla blabla. ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️
Also, bla blablablabla blabla blabla bla blablabla blablab blabla, I am the greatest, sending burnol. 😀😀😀😀😀
What has Modi done to make studying medicine in India more attractive?
Oh right, he added Ayush to the curriculum and swapped out the Hippocratic oath..
There are two types of experts on social media..
1. 'Experts' who choose to regurgitate the govt's PR propaganda..
2. Real public health experts who know what they're talking about.
Choose whom you follow wisely!
If you ever find yourself in a moral dilemma and don't know which side to support, use this simple rule of thumb: just see what sanghis are supporting/complaining about and do the opposite. Will be accurate 99% of the time.
They call themselves "Nationalists"but they r anything but that
They sell the country to crony capitalists
They stifle free speech and free press
They want to destroy India's diverse culture and otherize religious minorities
They counter facts with propaganda
They jail dissidents
* They call themselves 'Liberal' but are anything but that.
* They adopt a *holier than thou* attitude
* They want their unsubstantiated claims to be taken as the Gospel.
* They hide Chinese role.
* They hunt in packs.
* They ignore facts.
* When exposed they play the victim card
Blocked by
@smitaprakash
so I can't read the entire statement, but I do have a question..
When will
@ANI
start reporting on human rights atrocities in India?
How long will u come to ignore minority voices in India?
This is a general info tweet:
If you see or hear the phrase "boost your immunity" just run in the opposite direction.
Your immunity is not a battery that you can charge, or a dial that you turn up or down.. it's a multitude of complex interconnected systems with multiple levels..
"If the people have no bread, let them eat cake"
- Marie Antoinette, 1789
"If the people have no vaccines, let them eat Chyawanprash!"
- Dr. Harsh Vardhan, HM, 2021
All sanghis have suddenly become linguistics experts in Malayalam intonation and interpretation. Thanks Mr. Shashi lets-give-bigots-some-more-ammo Tharoor!
Just leaving this here:
AYUSH 64 is an old formulation that was first tried in malaria and failed to show benefit compared to standard treatment. It was commercialised in 2014 by selling rights to Dabur and is being heavily promoted without any scientific evidence..
The
@moayush
is launching a Nationwide distribution campaign on 7 May 2021 for its polyherbal drugs, AYUSH 64 and Kabasura Kudineer, at 12 PM. Campaign to be launched by Shri
@KirenRijiju
. Watch the live-streaming of the event on MoA social media handles.
WHO declared India's likely excess deaths tally at 4.7 million, close to a third of world-wide deaths and one of the worst culprits of undercounting.. the truth ladies and gentlemen..
Short thread on what evidence means to us in medical field and why real doctors don't promote unproven and pseudoscientific Rx
Below is a classic example of a pseudoscience apologist who uses circular reasoning and appeals to ignorance to justify his stand against evidence 👇1/n