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Surely, the mis-informers of PPP Covid non-policy must be intellectually incontinent for how else can one rationalise their required mandatory concept repetition in pursuance of learning facilitation.
For the concept in question vis-a-vis, ‘The epidemiological science underpinning Covid’, is so elementary that retention is possible even in a state of somnolence.
And to think this assimilation impediment would have bypassed my attention had it not been for Dr. Mahadeo, one of the quartet de facto Minister of Health, pertinacious persistence that APNU+AFC mismanaged Covid. Certainly, such flaccid disputation must be seen for what it is; a ludicrous attempt to lay blame for their catastrophic Covid deaths, at the feet of APNU+AFC. And this jocular assertion that APNU+AFC inadequately tested, leaving the pieces for them to pickup, surely must be one for Def Comedy Jam, top 5 most hilariously pants wetting wisecracks. For frustratingly, this matter was expounded ad nauseam with Dr. Anthony, the leader of the quibbling quartet, after he made the very evidence barren polemic for which remedial cognitive realignment was prescribed as a matter of national urgency. And no sooner had Dr. Anthony been reprogrammed, Dr. Carpen robotically repeated the very claim for which the experimental cognitive reprocessing therapy was approved as an emergency panacea. But most hilarious is PPP misplaced belief that their barked postulations, unsupported by scientific evidence, will be lapped up by the populace like milk presented to hungry puppies. Certainly, this is unlikely to happen for what they are presenting is far from intellectually appetising.
APNU+AFC Covid management
Unquestionably, the period APNU+AFC managed the Covid pandemic was never in dispute. Also never in dispute are the registered Covid deaths and cases. But notwithstanding the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, PPP continues to make unsubstantiated claims that APNU+AFC inadequately tested.
But before these claims are deconstructed, housekeeping of medical terminologies are mandated. Firstly, as per layman’s vernacular, the natural history of Covid is one of an incubation period of 14 days with the vast majority recovering in two weeks. Approximately 2% may endure complications mandating ITU cardiorespiratory and renal support. Further, adequate testing is a state where numbers tested far exceed new infection numbers. That is, the number of newly infected are outnumbered by mass testing and subsequent isolation. The consequence is, a decline in new case since the infective sources are isolated before large numbers are infected. As a result, with less community infections, infections of the vulnerable decrease leading to a decline in ITU admissions and ultimately in decline in Covid deaths.
Furthermore, if APNU+AFC had inadequately tested then there would have been exponential increases in community cases since the infective sources would not have been isolated. And among those community cases would have been the vulnerable, whose poor physiology reserve inevitably mandating ITU support where many ultimately dying.
Surely, APNU+AFC statistics of 21 deaths and 474 cases, over five months speaks only to the first scenario of adequate testing. Also, with a clinical course of two weeks, the claim that Covid infected Guyanese paraded the streets for five months without developing exponential numbers of ITU dependent complications or deaths, is ridiculously preposterous. Certainly, if this medical marvel holds true then we must be a special Covid immuno-combative breed that warrant medical exploration by WHO.
As it is, in the absence of a cure, Covid prevention remains paramount. APNU+AFC certainly recognised this in developing stringent policies on quarantining and isolation, so much so that Sanjeev Datadin, a PPP MP took APNU+AFC Government to court over the quarantining of his American client. Further, APNU+AFC cognisant that lockdowns save lives, instituted same expeditiously. Face-mask, social distancing and social gathering couldn’t have been enforced since enactment mandated an act of Parliament which was in dissolution. As a result, only public reminders were legally possible.
PPP failed to manage Covid
Unambiguously, PPP priority was their business associates as articulated by Jagdeo employing the nebulous term ‘economy.’ And zealously they set out to fulfil their end of the elections quid pro quo with the instant relaxation of the lockdown;
1. Airports and ports were all reopened with no scientific underpinnings.
2. Countries with high numbers of cases and deaths hadn’t flight restrictions.
3. Flights from Brazil and ports were belatedly cancelled.
4. Non-essential services were reopened without scientific underpinnings.
5. Curfew time for the maskless was decreased providing more in-street virus transfer time.
5. Isolating and quarantining persons were not monitored.
6. Failure to enact laws to enforce face-mask, social gathering and distancing compliance.
7. Failure to budget for Covid vaccines procurement.
Certainly, PPP instant relaxation of the lockdown wasn’t consistent with evidence based international best practises of phased relaxation with inter-phase evaluations. Surely, this rushed relaxation is a reflection of their relegation of Covid to the unimportant, even as the populace faced the deadly sequelae, illuminated in this table.
Deaths
Total Covid cases
APNU+AFC
21
474
PPP
180
7,707
Now despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, PPP inexplicably continues to claim that increase testing underpins their higher number of cases. Surely, more testing may lead to more cases being identified but having said that, this is much more than increase cases. For there are also exponential increases in ITU admissions and deaths. Certainly, in such a circumstance, a holistic examination the phenomenon, which PPP failed to do, will lead to a different conclusion vis a vis, PPP are inadequately testing compounded by their disregard to Public Health Practices. For inadequate testing will result in exponential increases in community infections, leading to exponential increases in vulnerable infections which ultimately led to exponential increases in ITU admissions with exponential increases in deaths. Without a doubt, this is what we are presently witnessing yet PPP would wish to gaslight us.
Verdict
1. APNU+AFC not only adequately tested but also instituted strict nationwide Public Health Practices, evident in their limited cases and deaths
2. PPP are inadequately testing as they disregard Public Health Practices, evident in their astronomical numbers of cases and deaths.
3. PPP mismanagement of Covid is nothing short of a national catastrophe which warrants an independent inquiry.
For this I’m abundantly confident, PPP will relentlessly manufacture excuses transcending Moses’ on Mount Sinai, but the stubborn fact is that the deaths and cases are occurring under their watch, attributable to their cash over Covid policy. And their inexplicable rejection of APNU+AFC Covid management roadmap along with the custom built Covid hospital, was not only unpatriotic but likely contributed to our present Covid crisis. Now burdened with a Covid quagmire of their making, they groundlessly accuse APNU+AFC of inadequately testing, implying that APNU+AFC is blameworthy for the present crisis. But APNU+AFC can defend their record which they surely did, but what chance the populace, without APNU+AFC political machinery do, when they are repugnantly accused of being ‘lax with their behaviour’ engendering the exponential increases in cases and deaths?
And what we are suffocating in, is the culmination of PPP money grabbing and unpatriotic policies that birth this Covid crisis, for which many have died and will continue to die. For this torrent of blames and excuses must be instantly aborted for neither can save lives or ease pains. For solutions we demand! Clearly this is beyond PPP.
