The Four White Lies That Led To COVID-Infinity

COVID forever, COVID all the time

indi.ca
5 min readJul 16, 2022
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My daughter has COVID and it’s so sad. We think she’s OK, but why? We’ve fought this thing for years now and it’s impossible. The grandparents got it, the kids got it, we just lost.

What’s so infuriating is that it didn’t have to be this way. Even poor countries like Sri Lanka managed to suppress the first wave, but we can’t stop dozens of them. My fury is that rich, western countries pushed us into this situation, through four white lies. They’re the reason people are still dying, and why we will be cursed with this sickness forever.

1. COVID Zero is impossible and should be mocked

Even today, western media still mocks China’s Zero-Covid policy using the old white proverb ‘at what cost’. They look down their nose and month-long lockdowns to clear the virus, while just living with millions dead and tens of millions disabled forever. And their economies are doing worse than China’s by a longshot. I’d say it’s a farce if it didn’t have such tragic costs for us all.

The fact is that the world needed to unite to stop this virus, and it was possible. The West just chose to make COVID-19 more cannon fodder in their propaganda war against China, effectively unleashing biological…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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