A Himalayan ascetic calls out science to be a disgrace for the past one hundred years. He points out that our management of COVID-19 has been a crying shame. Change the mind-set – we thought that we lost 250 000 people to date and science has stopped us from losing double this. What if science has contributed to us losing most of this? He calls for the extreme to permit us to open our minds to new truths.

Swami divides treatment into main areas, 'inside and outside' of hospital; and science has fared miserably in both; with our 'pills' and our preventions. The rot began in 1918 in the 'devil's flu' that claimed the lives of between 50 and 100 million people; and has persisted ever since through many 'little fires' culminating in the devastation of the latest.

Our medication is used atrociously 'inside hospital' and we are missing one of the great outdoor resources under our noses to fight back against this merciless enemy – why? The answer is 'rigid science' – he or she will await only that 'all or none result' in one or twenty years from now, after expenditure of one or twenty billion dollars that passes hands. In the meantime we will miss legitimate solutions to save life, at a fraction of the price; or is it because it is a fraction of the price? The people's tool has swung full circle to smite the very hand that has made it.

COVID-19 is a harbinger of worse to come – if this is the way we will advance; then maybe we should fold our cards right now. We do just that – swami calls out the most elevated scientists in the world on legitimate solutions superior to any other available. Bring out a posse against one man.

Why not a gentle overture with passive resistance, by a devout swami? We are in the middle of a nightmare. All faiths will embrace aggression in the face of insurmountable wrong - where some nations in Africa are counting down to 1 June 2020 and winter-time, for a firestorm to raze down over 50 000 people in a blitz of four months. Everything has been tried to no avail so you beat fire with fire. He will meet that deadline; come 1 June 2020.

This will be an unravelling from hundred years in our history, to the diabolical Madras Study of 1957; up to the dark depths of our present portents. None of it is necessary, next to the primary submission under conscience. An empiricist faces his wife at home and his same wife at work in a laboratory. He applies all the solutions in this book at home; and refutes it in his 'lab' to serve the people (Mr President – what is this?). Cast the science away – a mystic tests humanity.

If COVID-19 is past soon; this is a change of our philosophies as a threatened species to contend with a barrage of tragedies to follow. A swami descends to possibly save humankind.

The present writers, as all medical doctors, are also recipients of the swami's scolding above. We hang our heads in some shame and await proof of the swami's accusations against us in these pages. As a medical initiative, any protest, harsh or tame, entirely shines a spotlight on suffering patients with a focus on improving their welfare. The 'Humming Doctors' are 'activist doctors' protesting for peaceful change in general to uplift all and help the world, as in this Covid-19. If missteps are uncovered, this is only for knowledge on improved outcomes.

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