The Madman's Lockdown #MadmansLockdown

I have been silent too long, I can be silent no more, in the face of the horrendous suffering of millions

By Lucio Mascarenhas, May 26, 2020.

The SARS-Cov2 or 2020 Corona-virus Pandemic had first come into India in Jan 2020. Indian merchants and students have been regularly travelling between India and Communist China, including to WuHan City, where the Pandemic allegedly originated. Between Jan 2020 and late March 2020, the Indian Federal Government of Narendra "Blundermore" Modi was busy with its usual criminal shenanigans and took no action against the Pandemic. Blundermore woke up suddenly in late March 2020 after Chief Ministers of most provinces had begun implementing partial lock-downs. It is in Blundermore's nature that he cannot bear to be upstaged, even if it is only in his imagination, in his delusions, and that he has to show his alleged superiority by outdoing others who may pose a challenge to him. The spectacle of Chief Ministers of the Provinces ("States," the legal technical term is "Pradesh" or Province) "upstaging" him provoked Blundermore to a precipitate, extreme lockdown, at 4 hours notice.

When the Lock-down was proclaimed, I had denounced it as being Extremely Stupid, Counter-productive, an action that will not save, but which will directly result in the death of millions of Indians, as I will presently explain why I fear and believe that that will ensue. Since then, the Lock-down has been extended to its 4th iteration, as of today, while Millions of the most poor having faced a callous and outright abusive police, state, and authorities, voted with their feet by walking hundreds and thousands of kilometres home, mocking Blundermore in the Greatest Exodus that humanity has yet seen. No amount of state repression and the usual Chicanery by Blundermore and his Thugs has been able to end this #GreatExodus. This Great Exodus, however, was not something I had foreseen, and is not the subject of this write-up.

When the initial partial lock-downs were imposed by the majority of Chief Ministers of the Provinces, I had stated that the most urgent need is not a blind lock-down and curfew, but mass mobilization by the state and provinces to meet the lacunae in the health care system, the need to collect, train, organise, and field volunteers on an urgent basis to make up the enormous gaps in the Indian health care system, to ensure the least possible toll of death from the coronavirus.

After I had made those arguments, I saw a news article, one of the rare truthful news in the media dominated by the baleful, malevolent influence of Blundermore, that he and his government were advised by scientists and experts that the best course to follow was to organise to close the gaps in the health care system, a suggestion that was ignored. (See Smoke, Mirrors and Modi: A Grand Illusion of Governance, by Samar Halarnkar

«A virus may not provide advance notice before striking. In this case, India did get early warning but did not do enough. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was being sparse with the truth on April 14, when he said India started checking passengers for the virus before its first known case on January 21. By that day, as Factchecker.in reported, only three airports had begun screening passengers (four more started on that day), and then only travellers from Hong Kong and China, although 20 countries had reported infections.

«Despite warnings from its top medical research body that a lockdown alone would, at best, reduce peak infections on a given day by 40%, Modi’s government ignored for a month – as journalists Nitin Sethi and Kumar Sambhav Srivastava reported (here and here) for www.article-14.com – advice from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to urgently launch other interventions.

«These included door-to-door supplies of food and other essentials to the poor; district-wise infection monitoring; "fast reporting" to identify and quarantine infective clusters; mass quarantines for those in densely populated areas; and a rapid increase in hospital beds and intensive-care unit.

«"This discussion has gone on for too long and no action has been taken," Naveet Wig, member of the Prime Minister's Covid-19 Task Force and the head of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) Department of Medicine said in leaked proceedings of an internal meeting on March 29. "No. No. We will have to tell the truth."»

See also: https://scroll.in/article/962223/six-reasons-why-the-modi-government-is-singularly-responsible-for-indias-worst-ever-migrant-crisis.

Blundermore's own government had drawn attention of the Provinces that 1.3 million people potentially exposed to the Coronavirus had travelled abroad and returned and need to be screened for the virus. Against that need, the Indian state and provinces had struggled to test people for the virus, not reaching even 10,000 by end of April. There was an urgent need to vastly ramp up testing and to identify and isolate infected persons. Instead, due to the Madman's Lockdown, the scale of testing not only could not be ramped up but actually slowed down, ground down. The Indian State lost track of this 1.3 million people who had traveled and returned from overseas. The nature of the SARS Coronavirus 2019 is that many infected persons are what is called "Asymptomatic," in that they only carry the germs but do not suffer themselves any illness, any ill effects, do not fall sick. These people cannot be known by being looked at, as being ill, and they can interact with others and spread the germs. They are also called "Super Spreaders." How many of the 1.3 million are Asymptomatic and Super Spreaders? No one knows. The 1.3 million are now no longer relevant, as the germs have already in the meantime spread far and wide in the Indian population. The Madman's Lockdown only gives a false sense of security, putting a blanket over the threat of the Pandemic spreading and wiping out millions in India, it has by no means stopped the actual spread of the virus.

As the Indian State has failed to grapple with the virus, to identify and to isolate the infected, the virus is spreading slowly but steadily. Under pressure from the Great Exodus, Blundermore has cynically opened up the railways, but at higher than usual costs, even as he blatantly lied that he had waived 85% of the train fare - not only did he not discount the usual fare, but he actually added surcharges on it! He has also, in the face of opposition from the Provincial Governments, done away with the requirement that their permission is needed to enter those provinces / states. The provinces themselves have recorded spikes in the infection count due to incoming migrants. Transported on crowded trains with minimal and very often illusory testing to exclude those infected, these crowded trains are ideal for spreading the virus further.

The greatest test, however, is still to come. The rains, the Southwest Monsoons, are about 1-2 fortnights away. With the rains come colds, fevers, sniffles, sneezes, and more. It will be very difficult to differentiate the Coronavirus from the normal Common Cold that usually catches hold of people during the rainy season. That is the time when the Coronavirus will most ideally spread like a wildfire around the billion plus strong population of India, and will wreak havoc, killing in millions. Everything else will pale in comparison. It is possible that this Dire prognostication may never come true, but everything logically points to it. Coronavirus has not been checked and eliminated due to the Madman's Lockdown, it has merely been swept under the carpet. It will not stay under the carpet as the Monsoons get into full swing.

Another danger staring India in the face is that of the disruption to Agriculture due to the Madman's Lockdown, which can very easily cause a mass failure of crops, the failure to cultivate and to harvest, leading to famines and starvations that will make the Great Bengal Famine that the English and Winston Churchill created during World War II pale away into insignificance.

There is an Indian fable of a king and his pet monkey. The monkey was very clever and very devoted. The king came to distrust his guardians, dismissed them and instead appointed his pet monkey his guard, dressed up in a smart uniform and armed with a sword. One day, as the king slept, a fly began to bother him. The monkey shooed away the fly then began to chase it around the room. The fly settled on the sleeping king's face. The monkey drew his sword, crept stealthily and struck at the fly to be rid of it once and for all. As can be expected, it was the king that died. That monkey is Blundermore. Fools and imbeciles have entrusted the lives and fortunes of a billion plus souls into the hands of this vicious malefactor, a man consumed by hatred and malice and by a Prima Donna Complex, and it is his irrational reaction to the Pandemic that imposed the most severe lockdown in the world. One reaction we are already seeing right now is the piteous spectacle of old and young men and women, carrying, dragging, young children and very old people, sometimes carrying their pets, trudging hundreds and thousands of kilometres home, the Great Exodus, the People of India Voting against the Baleful Blundermore and his tendentious lies by their feet, a truth that his #EVMFrauds cannot convert into another Lie. However, the worst is yet to come, and that will be in soon enough, in the next few months, as the Southwest Monsoons sweep over the Indian Peninsula and converts the Pandemic into a roaring wildfire that will consume millions.

There is still time. Blundermore and his entire Kleptocracy, including the BJP, and his subverted, domesticated Supreme Court and Judiciary, his #Presstitute Media, the Police, and Subverted State, need to be swept away, just as the Communist Party was swept away and cast away into the trash cans in the former Soviet Union, and mass mobilization of volunteers, training and deployment of volunteers must be done on a war footing to save lives, stave off the Pandemic, minimise the damage, the loss of lives, the threat of hunger and famine, from the Indian Peninsula. #TakeOutTheTrash #EndBlundermore #NoMore.


Lucio Mascarenhas, May 26, 2020
"Nothing changes, nothing can and should allow to change the focus of truth — the fact that Narendra Modi was and is, from his earliest years, brainwashed by the Sangh, with spectacular success, into being a Monomaniacal Psychopath, on the level of the Caliphs, Genghis Khan, Timurlane, Cromwell, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Dong, the Kims of North Korea, Idi Amin, Bokasso, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, etc., with a Pathological hatred of humanity, a Base Low Cunning, and an Agenda to bring down destruction upon millions, if not hundreds of millions; and that only the total, ruthless uprooting, eradication, of the RSS, BJP, the Sangh Parivar, and of all its Fellow-Walkers, is urgently needed for the Safety of all Humanity."