Why is Coronavirus more dangerous for diabetics? There's a lot of information out right now about the coronavirus. It's safe to say almost everyone in the world is worried about either contracting or spreading the virus. It can be terrifying for an average healthy person. But what about those who are high-risk? And the people who get into trouble, namely who need to be hospitalized, some of whom need intensive care, are very heavily weighted towards elderly people and those with underlying conditions like chronic heart disease, chronic lung disease, kidney disease and diabetes. But why is diabetes on that list when coronavirus is described as a respiratory illness?

The WHO and the CDC putting out a blanket statement that people have diabetes are at a higher risk. That is very scary to people. And I don't know that it fully paints the real picture of what's happening here. Actor Tom Hanks, who has Type2 diabetes, was diagnosed with the virus, bringing even more attention and concern for those living with diabetes as a Type 1 diabetic. I've been sheltering in place, but I'm still anxious as to why I'm at higher risk than everyone else. So we wanted to explore why is coronavirus more dangerous for diabetics?

Diabetes is a complicated disease. There are different types and many ways to treat it. In 2019, 463 million adults were living with the disease globally. When someone has diabetes, their body's ability to produce insulin is impaired or completely stops. Type 1 diabetics make no insulin at all and need to inject it. Type 1 makes up 10 percent of those who are living with diabetes globally. The more common type is type 2. This could mean the body doesn't use insulin properly or make enough. It has many forms of treatment that could include medication, diet, exercise, and many need to start insulin injections. Either form come with high blood sugar can make people more susceptible to other illnesses. And this is a big concern with people with diabetes is that people with higher blood sugar levels could be more susceptible to coronavirus.

Managing diabetes isn't as simple as taking insulin. A lot of other factors come into play. That's probably one of the few topics that make the coronavirus different in people with diabetes. Assuming the immune system is the same. Is that we have to deal with the blood sugars. Many things influence how blood sugar rises and falls. Some are obvious, like the amount of carbs digested and correctly dosing insulin to the amount of carbs eaten. But there's also exercise, stress. Just sitting out in the sun too long can have dramatic effects.

Keeping blood sugars in range reduces the high-risk of contracting coronavirus, but the chance of getting sick is still as likely as the average person. We spoke to a type1 diabetic who was recently diagnosed with the coronavirus. He started feeling symptoms like slight symptoms Sunday night. He had been at his girlfriend's Sunday and Monday. That's when they saw the 103 fever. And she took him to the doctors where they gave him an antibiotic and antiviral. The next night, his fever had gone up to 103. And by the Wednesday morning at 5 or 6 am, he was 93 and sweating. So they decided to call 9-1-1. They took him to a hospital. But because the type 1, I think that's why they admitted him to the ICU and tested. Patrick is a 30-year-oldtype 1 diabetic with well-controlled blood sugars. We spoke to him five days after testing positive for the coronavirus. Luckily, he is now recovered but because of his diabetes, he was put in the intensive care unit for two nights. Yesterday was the first day he woke up without a headache and everything. And he pretty much feels the same today. He hasn't had a fever. He has been monitoring his temperature. His cough is small. He feels good.

The American Diabetes Association states people with diabetes are not more likely to get covid-19 than the general population. The problem person with diabetes face is primarily a problem of worse outcomes, not greater chance of contracting the virus. One of the things, particularly very high blood sugar levels suppress your immune system and make people more susceptible to infection. And we see this obviously, for example, with wound healing, with diabetes that has gone on for a long time or has high levels of blood sugar. So this is a concern when you have a novel infection like corona, people with diabetes are obviously concerned. Illness is a very common reason for elevated blood sugars. If you're sick with the flu or the coronavirus, the lack of appetite, sleep and just the stress of sickness make it harder to manage your diabetes.

If you have chronically elevated blood sugar levels, let's say over 200. Not just one time. You know, I'm talking about months and months and months. Then your immune system just doesn't work that well. The antibodies that usually attack foreign bodies just don't work as well. And so those folks are more susceptible, but the actual immune system is exactly the same. Type 2 diabetes, there's this kind of chronic pro-inflammatory situation that underlies the type2 diabetes and this kind of chronic low grade pro-inflammatory state, the patients for type 2 diabetes have ultimately a response to an infection may be somewhat delayed and modified. And that modification is unfavourable, typically with an inadequate immune response to say agents like the covid-19 virus.

The coronavirus could also affect the $24 billion insulin market. Before the pandemic sent shockwaves through the economy, millions of diabetics were facing a crisis, the price and the availability of insulin. The number one concern I hear in the diabetes community, it's actually even beyond an infection is access to insulin. A person with diabetes, type 1 can essentially go just a day or two without insulin at the most. And diabetes was a fatal disease before insulin. The good news is the manufacturers are stating publicly that the supply chain is safe right now. Another part of that is people are insecure about their employment right now and in the United States. If you're under, under or unemployed, you may lose insurance coverage and insulin is too expensive. That's another story that was in the news quite a bit before this happened. But it's still a problem. Because of the high price of insulin in the United States some diabetics have turned to Canada to get it at a lower cost. But now that the border is closed, it creates yet another hurdle for people to find cheaper options.

The two biggest manufacturers of insulin, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, both stated that they have policies in place for long term supplies of insulin and plans for those who can't afford it. I mean, we absolutely need to keep our business running for our patients. If we were to quit manufacturing product and eat into all the stock that we have and wake up one day with no product in a time of need like this is out there, it would just be horrible. So we feel a very, very important responsibility to do that. Dexcom manufactures continuous glucose monitors that allow users to see their blood sugar 24/7. The company said it had close to 650,000 patients using its CGM at the end of 2019. I don't think there's ever been a more important time for somebody to keep themselves within a very narrow band of glucose control, and the only way to do that is with the sensors. People need this product. So we've kept our manufacturing operations open. At the moment, everything seems to be running smoothly, but the uncertainty about how long this will go on is making lots of diabetics concerned for their future.

They're concerned about having diabetes and with the coronavirus situation, being quarantined in home or at least trying to stay away from every body, as you know. Do you have enough medication? You've got to have insulin. You got to have the pills if you have type 2 diabetes. Pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS remain open and have waived their delivery fees. There are also smaller businesses stepping up to help get medicine to those in need. Here's what 90 days of supplies looks like for me. This will keep me alive for the next three months. Some diabetics live day-to-day and week-to-week on supplies. So it's incredibly important that manufacturers and pharmacies stay open during this time. The biggest takeaway for any diabetic is to do your best to avoid getting sick.

The American Diabetes Association says diabetics are not more likely to get the virus, but will struggle in recovery if they do. If you look at people who die that we've had reports the medical literature from covid-19 virus at this time. Diabetes did independently standout in one study. It was suggestive. Another study, it was patients who were older with diabetes who also had coronary heart disease. We are really trying to reassure people with diabetes in a time of incredible fear. You can imagine this is a pandemic like we've never seen before. People with diabetes live with a chronic disease that puts them at risk for complications that can be serious. And what we're trying to do is get information out there. It starts with the fundamentals. Stay as healthy as possible. Isolate. Maintain Distance. Wash your hands for 20 Seconds when you come to home.

Did Novel Coronavirus accidentally escape from a Wuhan lab?

Did Novel Coronavirus accidentally escape from a Wuhan lab? This was a question in lots of people’s mind. You are well aware about Wuhan seafood market. On January 1st, it was shut down. Many of the early clusters of confirmed cases had been in the market, so officials feared that COVID-19 was linked to trade and wild animals. It sold everything, from snakes to birds to foxes and rabbits. But the viruses most similar to the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 are from bats that live in caves a thousand miles away, but just because they're similar doesn't mean they're the same.

Origin of SARS-COV-2

I just am baffled about this story. As of late April, experts don't have all the information. we need to say where the virus started. If the Chinese know evidence, of course they're not telling us or anybody else. With the absence of crucial evidence comes many theories. One is that it came from nature, which scientists say seems most likely. Another theory is that it was a bioweapon, which scientists say there's zero evidence for. I guess without putting too fine of a point on it, it would fall in the real move conspiracy theory.

Wuhan Lab- Remarkable Coincidence or Conspiracy?

We're going to focus on one theory that both US intelligence and lawmakers are examining, that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab. At least two labs in Wuhan research bat coronaviruses, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan branch of the Chinese Centres for Disease Control & Prevention. They have become the focal point of suspicion, not only because of the work that they do but because of their location. Both are close to the market. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is about eight miles away, and the Wuhan branch of the Chinese Centres for Disease Control & Prevention is just 300 yards. Safety concerns at both labs have come up in recent years.

For instance, in this article, we see one of the scientists from the Wuhan Centres for Disease Controls & Prevention doing research on coronaviruses in bats while not wearing protective gear, but regardless, if researchers are in the field or in the lab, most bat coronaviruses scientists have identified aren't dangerous to humans. They're not considered major potential pathogens because they just don't grow very well in other species besides bats. That's why most labs who study bat coronaviruses do not require the highest level of safety protocols. The safety situation at the other lab is a bit different. The Wuhan Institute of Virology houses multiple labs, including one that has the highest level of biological safety protocols, biosafety level four. It is designed to contain some of the world's most dangerous viruses. BL-4 is the ones you will see in articles with people in a suit and an air hose attached behind them, and they're completely enclosed and protected. When China first brought the lab online, it was with the explicit goal of studying coronaviruses. China wanted to set up its own laboratory after the SARS outbreak to study SARS-relevant pathogens so that they could do that on their own territory without having to rely on the international system.

Shi Zhengli, she's one of the world's experts on bat coronaviruses and is based at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The work we do with the Wuhan Institute of Virology is to look for viruses in bats that we think could be the next pandemic. That work and the higher safety protocols have led to suspicion that Shi was working with more dangerous bat coronaviruses, ones that could infect humans. Recent reports have come out that there were concerns being raised by US scientists and diplomats about the level of safety, training, and general protocols there and concern that this was the kind of thing that could lead to leakage.

Two years ago, American officials voiced a variety of concerns about these labs, including the ominous warning that there was a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators. -Without fail, every single BSL-4 lab in the US gets some type of safety violation, some type of, you know, thing that they could do better, and that's the purpose of doing those inspections, is to make sure that biosafety is as tight and secure as it can possibly be. But even in the most safe labs, things go wrong.

That same 2018 State Department cable that described the possible safety issues also warned about the dangerous nature of Shi's research. They wrote, "Researches also showed various SARS-like coronaviruses can interact with ACE2, the human receptor identified for SARS-coronavirus. This find strongly suggests that SARS-like coronaviruses from bats can be transmitted to humans to cause SARS-like diseases." Shi's team reported this in a 2017 paper, but that paper doesn't show these coronavirus samples were effective at infecting humans. And the virus used in that research was not the virus that causes COVID-19. It's the underlying experiment that has raised flags.

Researchers at one point had a live virus that could infect a human cell. Just weeks into the outbreak, researchers from Shi's lab found the virus had a 96% similarity with a bat coronavirus they had previously researched. So they both come from, you know, this same distant relative, same, like, great-great-great virus-grandfather. And though these two viruses have diverged, that 4% change, it's the part that makes all of the difference to us. The part of the virus that binds to the receptor on human cells for the SARS-CoV-2, it's very different than the bat coronavirus, the part that allows the animal virus to infect humans. Otherwise, it's interesting, but it's not going to cause any outbreaks in people. That means this virus and other currently known bat coronaviruses could've picked up the features from just the right intermediary animal, allowing it to be able to jump to humans. And really, what we won’t be able to find out unless we can identify whether there is an intermediate species.

We have to actually see the ancestor of SARS-Co-V-2 to know exactly what type of adaptations it underwent in order to be able to infect humans, the smoking pangolin or the smoking whatever else. Of course, the potential of great-great-great virus-grandfather isn't the only bat coronavirus in Shi's lab. Even Shi was initially concerned that her lab could've caused the outbreak. But since then, she says she's ruled out the possibility. Shi, her team, and the Chinese government have adamantly denied that it could've come from this lab. There's no way this virus came from us. China's been incredibly open and I believe it's because it's a scientific collaboration. And in China, they're really proud of their science. They do good work, especially in virology. The evidence that a lab accident led to the release of the virus that causes COVID-19 is circumstantial, but speculation has heightened because of the actions of Chinese officials.

First, before the Chinese government had even alerted the World Health Organization to the growing epidemic, scientists were told to destroy early samples of the virus, according to the Times. After the Chinese government reported the virus to the WHO, officials quickly pointed to the seafood market as the source of the virus and shut it down. -The Chinese government acknowledged it began in Wuhan and put out this story of the wet market. It was a kind of unusual, specific pinning on the part of the Chinese government, like not their general way of operating. But many of the first-known COVID-19 cases were not traceable to the Huanan Seafood Market. The initial patient did not have any link to the market. 

The Chinese government reported that they had found samples of the coronavirus in the western end of the market that is known to house wildlife, but to confirm that, scientists would need specimens from the animals in the market. As of today, as to my knowledge, and I look for this every single day for many days, China has not divulged any information about what animals they tested from the market when the closed it, and, of course, what the results of any of those tests were. The only way to find an answer to this mystery is with a sample that matches both the virus and matches the first patients, which scientists haven't been able to find. Even if there was a perfect match to the virus in one of these labs, without early patient samples, there's no way to be sure.

Conclusion

The balance of scientific evidence strongly suggests the conclusion that the new coronavirus emerged from nature, be it in the Wuhan market or somewhere else. Too many perfect coincidences would've had to take place for it to have escaped from a lab, but the Chinese government has not been willing or able to provide information that would clarify lingering questions about any possible role played by the Wuhan labs. Seems like such a remarkable coincidence that you have an outbreak of a coronavirus in theory from a bat in the same city where there is this high-level BSL-4 laboratory where not only are there foreign concerns about its safety, but there are, like, Chinese articles about the safety protocols not being sufficient. And obviously, there's no smoking gun. It's all circumstantial, but it's pretty remarkable. And it's the kind of thing where it raises questions. That is why intelligence agencies are still exploring the possibility, no matter how remote it may be, and even then, it's unclear when or if we will ever know the origin story of this new virus that is causing so much death and economic turmoil around the globe.

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Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is not a game changer in COVID-19. I'm going to give you an update on hydroxychloroquine and why there's some new evidence coming to light that is suggesting that hydroxychloroquine may not have been the game changer many were hoping for so we all know just a few weeks ago the FDA approved an emergency authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients now hydroxychloroquine was recommended by President Trump and health experts having not only strong reservations about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19 but also the potential cardiac side effects associated with it unlike the FDA the European regulators refused to clear a hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19 infections.

Without more data chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine effectiveness against COVID-19 infections is unsubstantiated and was derived heavily from the research of controversial French researcher Didier Raoult now in his study he concluded that hydroxychloroquine along with azithromycin was effective in treating COVID-19 infections however there were significant problems with his study first the study was not randomized which means researcher bias would affect the results. second the study started with 26 patients but only the data from 20 patients were given of the six patients who had not included in the final data three were admitted to the ICU. one died and two patients left the hospital so by not including these six patients for the results also skewed Dr. Raoult also published a second observational study looking at 80 patients but again any study with few patients and no controls cannot determine if a drug works or not so people have been asking why do we need a clinical trial in research in the middle of a pandemic.

No Thalidomide Tragedy again?

We need treatment options now. I mean why not just get the drug and see what happens we've been using hydroxychloroquine for decades to treat lupus and malaria so what's the worst that can happen here. well history is taught us whenever we make clinical decisions and treatment options without evidence and research disastrous effects occur in the 1950s a German pharmaceutical company introduced a drug called thalidomide to treat pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting the company had no reliable evidence to back up its claims that the drug was safe many babies born to women who took thalidomide developed severe malformations and many died because of these conditions the term flipper baby was a term given to babies whose mothers had taken thalidomide during pregnancy despite being introduced in Europe the drug was never introduced into the United States market because of the diligence of an FDA Revere named Dr. Frances Kelsey Congress went on to pass a drug act in 1962 that revamped and toughened the U.S. drug approval process the strict FDA guidelines we have today are guided by the thalidomide tragedy and also in the back of the mind of physicians scientists and researchers.

So in this article I'm gonna go over some new research and evidence that suggests that hydroxychloroquine may not be the game changer many were hoping and touting it to be in fact the cardiac toxicity associated with hydroxychloroquine that was downplayed by many might be more real than we initially thought now. there are a lot of social media theories and anecdotal reports from other physicians and so-called experts and they might be right in their assessments and their treatments but remember until randomized controlled double blinded studies are done anecdotes are not facts no matter how badly we want to believe in them.

China Study on HCQ

So make sure that you subscribe to this domain so you get those updated COVID-19 articles that I post and that you join in our discussion and the community we have created so in a small study recently reported from China hydroxychloroquine was found COVID-19 patients get rid of the virus in fact hydroxychloroquine was not only found to be ineffective it was also more likely to cause side effects in the study 75 patients were assigned hydroxychloroquine with standard of care treatment and another 75 patients only received standard of care treatment the hydroxychloroquine group received a loading dose of 1200 milligrams daily for three days followed by a maintenance dose of 800 milligrams daily for the next two to three weeks even with a high dose of hydroxychloroquine the researchers concluded their study by saying they found no difference in the rate of viral load reduction or symptom alleviation between the group treated with hydroxychloroquine and the one that had not been and if it is true that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective then is it worth risking the cardiac toxicity more specifically ventricular arrhythmias with a QT prolongation from hydroxychloroquine.

See many people have been saying that we've been using hydroxychloroquine for decades to treat malaria lupus and inflammatory arthritis and the cardiac risks are low and the same should apply for COVID-19 infections but the doses we use to treat those diseases are much lower than the protocols clinicians and hospitals are using to treat COVID-19 infections the recommended dose to treat acute malaria with hydroxychloroquine is 800 milligrams then 400 milligrams at 6, 24 and 48 hours and with chloroquine the dose is 600 milligrams then 300 milligrams at 6, 24 and 48 hours the prophylaxis dose of hydroxychloroquine is 400 milligrams and 4 chloroquine is 300 milligrams once per week for two weeks before exposure and continued for four weeks after departure from an endemic area for lupus the maximum recommended dose of hydroxychloroquine is 400 milligrams once a day and for rheumatoid arthritis it is 600 milligrams once per day but we don't have a recommended daily dose for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine and protocols and when to start treatment for COVID-19 infections in Korea a task force is recommending 400 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine every day but in China they're giving up to 1600 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine every day.

QT Prolongation due to HCQ in various studies

At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York their COVID-19 protocol is 400 milligrams PO twice a day for two doses then 12 hours later starting 400 milligrams PO once a day times four doses for a total of five days of therapy other hospitals in the US are treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine 400 milligrams twice a day for the first day and then 200 milligrams twice a day for four days so the lack of reliable studies and lack of standard protocols has created confusion in even more questions so our higher dose is more effective but cause more side effects than lower doses and now the side effects more theoretical and rare than what we see in real life so some answers could be found in a recent study from NYU School of Medicine where researchers suggested the QT prolongation with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin may not be as low as some have suggested so the study looked at 84 adult patients with COVID-19 who were treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination and they found that in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithryomycin QT prolonged significantly in 11 percent of patients.

QT prolonged greater than 500 milliseconds a known marker for risk of malignant arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death what was interesting was they said our data suggests that baseline QT prolongation is not a reliable predictor of severe QT prolongation in these patients and suggested that QT should be followed repeatedly in patients with COVID-19 infection treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin particularly in patients with renal failure a common complication in patients with COVID-19 and in another study from Brazil researchers observed QTc prolongation greater than 500 milliseconds was seen in seventeen point nine percent of patients which is not too dissimilar from what has been reported in patients with COVID-19 using hydroxychloroquine at 11 percent myopathy has also been associated with chloroquine use in our study one patient developed rhabdomyolysis which is attributed to chloroquine and the drug was withdrawn in to patients myocarditis was suspected based on the CK-MB elevation since the first day of hospitalization suggesting myocarditis related to COVID-19 itself in such cases drugs prolonging QTc could lead to severe arrhythmias and in terms of dosages the Chinese study.

I talked about earlier showed no impact of hydroxychloroquine with a dose of 400 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine daily for five days on increasing virus negative conversion rate and alleviation of clinical symptoms in 30 patients with COVID-19 so the preliminary findings from the Brazilian study suggested that higher doses of chloroquine which researchers defined as greater than 1200 milligrams per day was associated with a higher risk for QT prolongation now eleven patients died in both dosage groups and researchers actually had to stop the study after six days citing cardiac rhythm problems in a high dosage group so some of these studies might be suggest that at low doses chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine is ineffective but that at higher doses you have a higher risk for QT prolongation and cardiac toxicity and could these side-effects be potentially potentiated by combining azithromycin a drug known to also cause QT prolongation and do we risk people dying of cardiac toxicity before realizing that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective so hospitals in Sweden have decided this was not a risk worth taking the Swedish guidance stated that considering the very low evidence of any significant effect on COVID-19 and since serious side-effects cannot be ruled out the use of chloroquine outside of clinical trials is not recommended.

In fact, the infectious disease Society of America is also no advising hydroxychloroquine and hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin combination only for COVID-19 clinical trials for now so we can speculate and discuss all day long about different treatment options and medications but this is why more research and studies need to be done so that we can make more conclusive decisions.

I'm not saying hydroxychloroquine is ineffective. I'm merely stating that there's nothing conclusive yet from the evidence to say that it is now there many physicians and hospitals who are using hydroxychloroquine and azithryomycin as part of their COVID-19 protocols despite having mixed evidence about its effectiveness and in my opinion this was driven mainly to quell the fear and uncertainty of the general public but the encouraging thing is there are now over 100 clinical trials being conducted to study hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 and many of the medications have also shown promise including tocilizumab and remdesivir so my point is hydroxychloroquine and any other medication should still be investigated in the context of a clinical trial.

I know we're in the middle of a pandemic and people at spirit for a treatment option so that they can get on with their lives but treatment should be based on sound medical and scientific evidence and data this what do we have to lose attitude risks us having another thalidomide tragedy so if you have any questions or comments about what I went over in this article send me a message down below in the comment section.

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Do you know Dark Facts about Indian TV Media? We are seeing news to get updated regarding all sectors and to know what’s going on worldwide but not for hate and violence everytime But now a days our Indian media are trying to be like that so let’s discuss about reality and facts of Indian TV Media.

Zee News- Taal Thok Ke

Four prominent news channels of our country - Zee News, Aaj Tak, India Tv and News India You might have noticed that they are always at the top in TRP. They broadcast a prime time debate every evening in which they raise an issue and debate on it. I would  like to show you an analysis on their debates. The debates on Zee News are called "Taal thok ke" Out of the last 50 debates on Zee News, they attacked Pakistan in 12 of them, They criticised the opposition in 19 of them, praised Modi in 13, raised the Ram Mandir issue in 4,  (They)raised the PMC bank issue in 1 and talked about Bihar floods in another 1 So, if you look at the analysis, you will notice that out of 50 debates, They have talked about matters of importance in only two of them- They have raised issues that are actual ones and the ones that affect the public ( only in two of them).

India TV-Kurukshetra

Going ahead, India Tv News debates are called "kurukshetra" Out of the last 53 debates, they have attacked Pakistan in the last 30 of them, attacked opposition in 11, praised Modi in 11 and talked about the Chandrayaan mission in 1 So out of 53, matters of importance were raised in only 1.

News 18

The debates on News 18 are conducted by Amish Devgan You would see the same story in these debates too Attacks on Pakistan in 18, attacks on opposition in 25, praising Modi in 7, and Ram mandir in 5 Amish Devgan has raised an issue of importance in not even one of these debates.

Aaj Tak

The debates in Aaj Tak are conducted by Rohit Sardana- the story remains the same there too But his strike rate is slightly better Out of the last 44 debates, he has raised an issue of importance in 4 of them In general, the same story prevails in all these top news channels They are more interested in Pakistan as compared to what's happening in India. This analysis was done in the past 50 days So think about the issues that arose in the past 50 days that were of actual importance.

Hunger index was released that displayed the amount of malnutrition in India Economic crisis surfaced, an unemployment report also surfaced- that stated that in Haryana, when compared to the rest of the states in India, unemployment rate is the highest. The job of the media is to give a voice to the public, to raise a voice for the public and help it reach the government (Its job is) not to raise their voice for the government and brain wash the public.

Government Control

Look at what happens to the journalists who raise their voices for the public and give a voice to them September 2019- A journalist showed how the children in a school of Uttar Pradesh were being served rotis with salt as a part of the mid day meal. That is, they were not being served proper food In response, the police booked the journalists on charges of criminal conspiracy And the UP CM, Yogi Adityanath says that there will be proceedings against the journalist. They don't intend on fixing the school, instead they are after the one who has raised the issue June 2019- A journalist was doing a story on train derailment in Uttar Pradesh Police arrested the journalist, he was urinated upon, he was kept in a lock up and he was thrashed while he was kept in the lock up just because he was exposing how train derailments happen. This is the truth of today's times in our country.

The government has consolidated a strong control over the media, especially the TV media but there is a ray of hope visible on the internet People like you and me raise their voices on the internet freely There are a lot of online publications and journalists on the internet that are able to report freely So the question that arises here is Would it be possible for the government to assume the same kind of control over the internet too? If it indeed is possible what could be the solutions for it? What could you and I do to save ourselves?

Story of China

I'd like to explain you with the help of China There is a massive internet censorship in China. In fact report of 2017 stated that China is the world's worst country in matters of internet freedom. Their censorship is named as the Great Firewall of China in which website Google, Facebook and YouTube are banned China has made clones of its own of these websites You cannot criticize the government on their website. They have blocked certain keywords If you make use of words in which the government is being criticized they would automatically get blocked from their social media channels. The police could even be sent after you Some years ago, someone had made a meme comparing the Chinese President Winnie the Pooh You might know Winnie-the-Pooh- it is a very famous animated cartoon character So what the government did in response when this meme went viral The government banned this cartoon character altogether You can imagine- they went to the extent of banning the entire cartoon character from their country. This is still comedy Talking about serious issues, the Chinese government erases its history. It changes its history to brainwash its citizens.

The Chinese Google is Baidu. If you try searching 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on Baidu, you would get nothing. If you search the same thing on Google, then you'd get the entire story of the protest. The Chinese government does not want the public to know about these protests. It wants to conceal this from its public because these protests were regarding democracy So the Chinese government does not want protests related to democracy to take place ever or that the people raise their voices for their rights. The Chinese government has put in place a team of thousands and lakhs of people whose sole task is to monitor 24/7 and find out who is speaking against them on the internet that need to be blocked and their voices need to be muzzled So basically, it works like an IT cell The Chinese government has put in place a large team like this over the internet. This censorship has a detrimental effect on China as well as the Chinese government Think about it, if the people living there are unable to access the internet of the rest of the world, they would not be able to gauge the things in the rest of the world. The scientists there would not be able to access the innovations and research taking place in the rest of the world. The businessmen residing there would not be able to see the ideas of the outside world or even take inspiration from them So innovation reduces drastically in China due to this This might be the reason behind (as you might have noticed), there are a lot of Western companies like Microsoft and Google, that have Indian CEOs But have you ever heard of a western company that has a Chinese CEO? The reason behind internet censorship, in most cases across the world, is a cowardly government You can see this happen in every country.

At one time, BBC was banned in Iran Then BBC is banned in Burundi, Rwanda, China because they all state that somewhere our country is being spoken against. The reason stated is that anti national things are being said But in reality, the reason remains that it is the government which is being spoken against and being criticized. These cowardly governments do not want criticism against themselves. Al Jazeera was banned in Pakistan The reason being the same: Al Jazeera was giving coverage to the opposition politicians The Saudi government has clearly stated that for making fun of(the government) or posting satire on social media you could be sent to jail.

India Situations

Let us look at what the story in India is Situations in India are obviously not bad to this extent But I'd not want to wait till the day situations get this bad Some incidents like these have have in India. For example, in April 2019, A lot of people reported that their internet service providers are randomly blocking websites like Reddit, Telegram and sound clouds Without stating anything or giving a prior notification, they have suddenly blocked these sites When asked for a reason, none was stated. But some days later, (the websites) were unblocked June 2019: Our government told Whatsapp to make its messages traceable so that it could be found out who originally started the message that was being forwarded Obviously, Whatsapp refused to do so because it has end to end encryption. No body can read these messages in Whatsapp Neither the companies outside, nor Whatsapp itself But the Indian government wanted it done because it said that it wanted to reduce "fake news" Someone go tell the government, their own It cell spreads the most fake news and it (the government) is stating fake news as the reason How could the government actually have benefited having done this? It would become easier to nab journalists like the ones who are exposing the mid day meal scams If someone is writing against the government, or raising questions to it, then it would become easier for the government to nab them So how does one save oneself from all of this?

VPN for Safety

There is a simple way to keep the internet free and the websites unblocked and to protect your privacy VPN and Tor browser Upon seeing your IP address, your location is found out, websites get blocked for you and targeted ads are sent. I have talked about targeted ads in this article that you can watch if you want to know more The VPN and Tor browser do the task of concealing the IP address. It is slightly difficult to use the Tor Browser but it is completely free The website for Tor browser (is this) as you can see. You can go and download it free from this website. Your identity basically remains hidden on this browser Using VPN is easier and you'd get protection at more places. Tor browser is merely a browser- like Google Chrome or Safari So it will keep you secure if you go to a website on the browser But if you have the VPN App installed in your phone, then whatever internet related functions you use on it for example, Whatsapp or other any other app Then also, VPN would keep you protected and your IP address hidden When you use a VPN, then your internet service provider knows that you are using a VPN But nothing can be found out further after that What websites you are accessing or what messages you are sending cannot be found out But all these things could be found out by the VPN company that are running the data centre and the server So it is mandatory to choose a VPN which itself does sell your data Keep this in mind when you are using free VPNs because the free ones generally sell your data because they too, need to earn profit but there are definitely some uses of free VPN If you need to use VPN to merely access a blocked website, then ot is okay to use a free VPN As long as you are not giving any personal data there If you are not exchanging any data while using it, then it is okay Here I'd like to recommend a VPN that I have been using personally since a long time Its name is Nord VPN.

There are a lot of benefits of it. I feel its number one benefit is that it is a paid service that is based in the country Panama There it does not collect any of your data This company will not leak out your data under pressure from any government It has thousands of servers in more than 60 different countries So your location can be spoofed in 60 different countries by using this and this is one of the few VPNs that can even bypass the great Firewall of China I feel like this too is a huge achievement because most of the VPNs cannot bypass it because China itself keeps trying to block VPNs And with the sponsorship of Nord video. It has an iOS app and an android app. It can even run on any computer Use it and keep it if you like it If you don't like it then there is a 30 day money back guarantee by them. You can get your money back from them Not only will it protect your privacy and save you from hackers, but even in the future, if our government blocks any website, then you can use it to bypass that and visit the website.

Genuine TV Media

One side some paid media goes to wrong side of journalism but still we have some TV media which shows truth and reality like NDTV and News 24. They identify real issue of farmers, students and jobless persons. In today time, we need real journalism and we must see these type of channels so we can learn something new and true information and save India.

If any person is fed up to watch TV and fake journalism, I would recommend that you can see NDTV and News 24 or else left to see TV and go to internet and see real world instead of going to fake paid TV media like Aajtak, ZeeNews, ABP News and India TV.

If our government wants to change history in the future, then you can access that too through free internet and find out the real truth. I would recommend this especially for journalists, activists and whistle-blowers. I don't want that incidents like the one in Uttar Pradesh happen again in our country So if you are a journalist, activist or a  whistle blower or if you are trying to expose a scam of the government, then make use of VPNs in your phones It will provide you enhanced protection I hope you would have liked this article. Share it. We will meet you in next article.

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