A few days ago, just after the #9PM9Minutes activity of lighting the diyas, a picture was made viral on whatsapp. That is a glowing Indian map with full of lights carrying a tagline "picture taken from the NASA satellite".
How can a satellite capture look like that? How can even the mountains, deserts, rivers and everything glow with lights?
Even the highly educated research scholars and Science graduates have forwarded this silly stuff, without spending a single second observing the pic to judge if it is real or fabricated.
Spreading of ignorance with fake pictures can be an act of illiterates, but not of the learned people. The similar kind of so called satellite picture gets circulated every year even during Diwali.
Sometime ago people started sharing the pictures of "Charminar under construction"!! Shockingly, those who shared were again educated fools. Don't they use common sense before believing and sharing them?
Even a 6th class student knows that Charminar was built in 16th century and the camera was not invented then.
Later, a section of educated fools started sharing the childhood pic of Abdul Kalam riding on a bicycle as a paperboy. The pic was in color and above all, the boy was riding on a modern sports bicycle. There were internet junction boxes fixed on to the electric pole behind.
One can clearly observe the plastic chairs at a kiosk. Any below average mind can understand that the pic no way belongs to Abdul Kalam's childhood days in Rameshwaram. But still, that became viral.
Now, the same educated numbskulls are believing and forwarding some videos and images amidst Covid 19 pandemic.
A video shows a fruit vendor who is counting the fruits and frequently wetting his fingers with his saliva like many do while counting the currency notes. Though the act looks a bit disgusting, it was wrongly made viral in connection to Covid 19 pandemic saying that he is spreading the virus. Judgemental people started forwarding it.
We can see the busily moving vehicles and shops with business activity in the video. Adding to that, nobody was seen wearing a mask. So, there are no signs of lockdown or present social distancing norm. So, it is an old video. Without spending a minute using common sense, the people are still forwarding it, as if it is a great discovery.
In another video a prisoner was seen spitting on a cop. The dumbos those made it viral assumed that the guy was attempting to spread Covid 19 virus. But the video dates back to a few years. No one was wearing masks and everybody is sitting closer.
When searched for the same online, it can be discovered that a prisoner was stopped to eat the food brought from his home, so he was infuriated and spat on the cop.
What is fabricated and what is real? Little common sense and an elementary standard IQ is enough to make out the difference.
Preconceived suspicion and fear on a particular community, inbuilt hatred on a particular political party and jealousy on a specific successful leader have been the reasons for fabricating and circulating such videos and pictures.
Recently a mimicked voice of JD lakshminarayana started making rounds frightening people about the worst lockdown with no banks and essential goods for the next two months.
JD condemned on March 27th itself that it is fake and appealed to everyone not to believe in such things. But still, the audio is making rounds. No body is making any attempt to google about it before sharing to their whatsapp groups. Insane!
Let us use common sense. Think before sharing. Let us not spread panic, fear, hatred and unrest with our negligence and ignorance.
