JAKARTA - The attitude and policies of the authorities that seem to underestimate COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic have had a long-term impact. This is considered to be the cause of growing public skepticism about COVID-19 and a motor for COVID-19 conspirators such as Jerinx and Lois Owien, a doctor whose registration certificate (STR) has expired since 2017.
Before aggressively saying COVID-19 was not dangerous and other conspiratorial things, it turned out that Jerinx SID had participated in the #at home campaign through Instagram. He also shared the kawalcorona.com website, a page that displays daily cases of COVID-19.
According to a Google index search, it appears that Jerinx uploaded the campaign on March 17, 2020. However, at this time the Instagram upload cannot be accessed because Jerinx's account has reportedly disappeared.
Almost in the same period, the government actually showed the opposite. The Minister of Health at that time, Terawan Agus Putranto, seemed so relaxed about the threat of a pandemic which was said to have not yet entered Indonesia at that time.
We know how the former Minister of Health (Menkes) Terawan Agus Putranto challenged Harvard University who predicted the presence of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia. For months the Indonesian government denied the presence of COVID-19 in Indonesia.
All the ridiculous attitude shown by Indonesian officials. We recorded this in the BERNAS article entitled Recording History on Indonesia's Response to COVID.
One month before Jerinx joined the #at home campaign, Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi joked about the corona. According to him, Indonesians have super immunity because they like to eat cat rice.
The head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Bahlil Lahadalia also joined in. He said that the difficulty of licensing investors in Indonesia had an impact on the difficulty of the corona virus entering Indonesia.
The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, also showed a similar attitude when reporters asked about the suspicion of the corona virus in Batam. Luhut replied, "(Corona enters Batam?) Huh? Corona car?" he said.
Indeed, since the emergence of patients 01, 02, 03, and so on, the government has begun to see the real threat of COVID-19. But unfortunately, the impact of looking half-eye on the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of its appearance, has brought disaster to this day. This is because this is the root of the problem of fertile public skepticism about the dangers of COVID-19.
Public Policy Observer Trubus Rahadiansyah confirmed the problem. According to him, attitudes and policies that seemed to underestimate COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic had a significant impact today.
"The impact is significant... If the public is skeptical, that's the result. As a result of the corona (statement), the rondo-rondo community is fascinating, that's official Terawan speaking," Trubus told VOI.
"There are those who think that it's an ordinary disease, there are those who think that the corona did not enter Indonesia because it is a tropical country. It was Pak Luhut who spoke," he added.
Driving the conspiratorsTrubus said this was also the driving force behind the emergence of conspirators such as Jerinx and Lois. Lois was involved in the alleged case of spreading fake news for denying COVID-19.
In her interview with Youtuber Babeh Aldo, Lois explained what she thought was odd about COVID-19. First, he questioned the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients, which, according to him, only depended on tools.
"This is a strange, funny pandemic. Healthy people are being chased and taken care of, looking for using tools, once the device says it's positive, you are exposed to the virus. But people who are sick in the hospital are neglected, they have to wait for what the tool says. Try, where is the brain?" he said.
In addition, he also said that COVID-19 patients who experienced a decrease in oxygen saturation were the result of interactions between drugs. "This is a non-viral, bacterial disease, then the macrolite class of azithromycin drug works directly on the heart, then antiviral drugs, then dexamethasone is given, this is a corticosteroid class that suppresses immunity. So our immunity is signed, we beat antibiotics and antivirals, if the O2 saturation drops, don't do it." viral slander dong."
And lastly, Lois said, a pandemic or as he calls it a plandemic, in the end is for selling vaccines. "It's called a pandemic with a patented virus name. In my opinion, what is the ultimate goal? Vaccines."
The chairman of the Medical Ethics Honorary Council (MKEK) of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), Pukovisa Prawiroharjo, considered Lois' statements as described in general unfounded. "In general, these claims have no/weak scientific basis," he told VOI.
Previously, he also said that Lois's statements jeopardized the pandemic response program and were suspected of violating the medical code of ethics. Therefore, MKEK had summoned Lois to provide an explanation regarding her statement. But recently, the case was taken over by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police.
Although not detained Lois status is still a suspect. The police decided not to arrest Lois because they were considered cooperative.
Trisakti University Public Policy Analyst Trubus Rahadiansyah believes that those who do not believe in the existence of COVID-19 such as Jerinx and Lois are the result of the failure of COVID-19 education by the authorities. "That became the engine of Jerinx, Lois, and a series of people who like to make hoaxes. Everything is a product of the language of his public policy, binary opposition."
The emergence of conspirators like them, said Trubus, as opposed to those who say that COVID-19 can indeed be scientifically proven. "Those who don't believe it's actually a failed product of understanding COVID-19 education."
Trubus said actually if the policies made by the government were consistent, then the people would follow suit. "But if it is inconsistent, the people are also stupid," he said.
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