Secret hideout of coronavirus, bigger ambush from ‘immune privileged sites’ looks certain

Recently the scientific and medical community has come up with a new theory possibly embroidered with own scientific imagination that all COVID 19 patients who got completely recovered may harbour the virus in latent form and may develop some medical complication post recovery and such possibility cannot be ruled out for at least 3-5 months, post recovery.

Through spinning the above ghost story or scare crow, the scientific and medical world looks like wants to impress upon the policy makers and administrators that the novel coronavirus and COVID 19 horror is not over and the real horror is only yet to begin.   Release of the new spin ball may be due to the reason that both the novel coronavirus and COVID 19 are losing charm, sheen and shine among general public and it looks like, people wants their life, employment and economy to move forward and never wants to get stuck with the virus or health scare. 

The courage of general public might have rattled the medical and scientific fraternity at least in India and hence they may be attempting to fear monger by changing the script a bit different; the novel coronavirus and COVID 19 may hit back those who recovered and can again spread to others.

Even if the virus doesn’t re-emerge in those who already recovered, according to the new release of information, the medical complications may last long and therefore all those who got recovered from COVID 19, indirectly implicating the necessity to consult the physician regularly, pay the consultation fee, be scared and watchful, buy and take all those medicines prescribed by the physician based of their patronizing Pharma company etc.   Meaning of the above expression should be seen from the spirit of how the medical ethics in general in India has been eroded and not as an accusation or pointing finger at anyone.

Therefore it is easy to scare those who got recovered than those who are yet to get infected.  Those got infected and recovered may have some horrible experience which they wants to forget but the present pamphlet and the flyer of the medical world that all those recovered people must watch out for medical complication for several months post recovery and the possible viral re-emergence, will never allow them to live in peace at least for another one year.

Most of the viral infections are self-limiting.  Among many viral pathogens known to man, certainly includes both RNA and DNA viruses.  How long the virus would be in the host in quiescent state and then become active in the case of several RNA viruses (except novel coronavirus) should be known to the scientific and medical world. 

From the domain medical and scientific wisdom already available about several RNA viruses, a scientific thread about the possible hibernation period of novel coronavirus also can be postulated. 

But unfortunately the scientific and medical world does not want to refer anything from the known and instead wants to see the novel coronavirus only as new, totally and completely different from all pathogens known so far.

The scientific and medical world appears to have invested its ‘interest’ heavily in novel coronavirus and COVID 19 and hence they do not want to leave the virus.   When the virus started to leave us, what else the scientific and medical world can do. The only way is to scare all those infected and recovered people.  Those infected and recovered people will have several scary experiences to forget.  If we force all those people to keep remember the endurances & sufferings that they underwent and make them believe that they might get some new medical complications in near future and the virus also can emerge from the hideout and may spread others.   Even if novel coronavirus disappears from terra firma, the scientific and medical world can keep the virus alive in the memory of people at large through the new spin ball.

It looks like a wonderful ploy.  For which disease, post treatment care or management is not required?  It is quite understandable that every patient after surgery or prolonged therapy should slowly only returns back to their normal life and until they recoup, they must take rest and follow several do’s and don’ts.

Very interesting twist in the tale is that novel coronavirus may invade the immune privileged sites in human body as its secret hiding place because the immune privileged sites will not elicit any immune response against the virus. 

The question is how the virus navigates such sites?  Is it by accident or with purpose the virus reaches the ‘safe heaven’ (immune privileged site)? 

If it is by accident, then this cannot be the norm.  Because in all those asymptomatic and those not even contracted the virus, the virus cannot reach the immune privileged site.   In those who reacted violently to the virus also unlikely to give space for the virus to reach the safe heaven.  Then in whom, the virus may reach the safe heaven? 

From immune privileged sites, would the virus strike the same host or look for how to spread itself onto others in the population?  When the virus had failed in the past to invade the secret hiding place in many, how would the virus try again the same game with no assured success?

If we have to argue such possibility (invading the immune privilege site) strongly exist in novel coronavirus, then why no other pathogen in the past has ever shown such determination and caused great pandemic like novel coronavirus?  Does that mean the evolution has purposefully favoured novel coronavirus to eliminate human species?

The navigation of immune privilege site by the virus in some individual may be purely an accident and hence such possibility cannot be attributed to the virus or should be used to cause confusion or fear. 

If the viral navigation is intentional, then the medical world or scientific community can do little to nothing because such possibility we must assume as the design of the nature against man.  Time has come, we must let go the virus and must support human life and economy to back on track.  Employment opportunity, job creation, boosting economy and improved health infrastructure, banking reform, complete social security for people above 75 year of age should be the focus of the government and not the coronavirus. 

When the faith healing can claim several of their recipes would prevent and cure COVID 19, then why should Modi government that believes and promotes all those faith healing tenets and recipes should worry about the virus?  Let us cultivate neem tree everywhere and live without any disease in future and with the help of tulsi, turmeric, cow urine and other leaves or deadly arsenic, mercury etc., we can easily ward off all diseases. 

In Modi’s India, it is better to live like a goat or cow eating all leaves and remain free from COVID 19.  Why BJP MP’s and Ministers get treatment from AIIMS for COVID 19 and not from AYUSH therapy centre/hospital?

The novel coronavirus has killed the credibility of medical science more badly than the number of people in the world.  The medical and scientific fraternity must realize the above truth and must do everything possible to save its credibility and must stop fear mongering about the viral pandemic. 

Novel coronavirus is yet another pathogen and human death due to the diseases - COVID 19 is nothing but the bitter truth of life that all those born must die one day. Let us accept it gracefully and re-build our economy and future.