V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai: It’s Total Theatre

Dr Shiva is an interesting character.

V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai (born Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva, December 2, 1963) is an Indian American scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur.
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Ayyadurai holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including a Ph.D. in biological engineering, and is a Fulbright grant recipient.

He garnered 3.4% of the vote as an independent candidate in the 2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts and is running as a Republican in the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai

In 1975, I returned to visit my dear grandparents in my village Muhavur in deep South India.

Five years earlier, I had left India for America on my seventh birthday in 1970, and it was on this trip back to India in 1975 that I chose my Dharma – my path.

It is a moment that is etched in my soul – a moment I’ve shared with perhaps a handful of people.

On that trip is when I realized the stark differences between America and India as well as the similarities of the hardworking farmers like my grandparents and the working class folks in New Jersey, where I was growing up in the towns of Paterson, Clifton and Lake Hiawatha.

When I was leaving India on that 1975 trip, my grandparents came to the train station to send me off.

As I saw them through the window of the old caboose train, I saw them weeping – tears flowing.

It was at that moment, as I too wept – I committed myself to becoming useful – an instrument of liberation for hard working, loving and honorable people like them – be they in India or America.

https://vashiva.com/

He’s critical of many aspects of Western medicine.

In particular:

Dr Shiva is unimpressed by the “total theatre” of the COVID-19 drama.

Dr. Shiva – X22Report Spotlight – 4 April 2020

Conversation starts at 1:40

This Theatre of the Absurd is underlined by the ICD Code U07.1 used to accurately capture mortality data for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

In the United States it’s difficult not to laugh when you discover their “accurately” captured death data includes cases where COVID-19 “is assumed to have caused or contributed to death”.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the international “standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes.” Its full official name is International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.

The ICD is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), which is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations System.
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The ICD is published by the WHO and used worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems, and automated decision support in health care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD_code

I guess they wear face masks to hide the clown make-up.

Hat Tip: CW