A notorious whatsapp forward claiming that Indian's 'clapping' on March 22, 2020 during the 'Janata Curfew' actually helped reduce the 'potency of the Coronavirus' as it was amavasya day (no-moon day) was shared by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan on his Twitter page today. To Bachchan's credit, the tweet was accompanied with a picture of Big B expressing shock, hopefully at the legitimacy of the statement.

But twitter was in no mood to give benefit of the doubt, considering the seriousness of the pandemic and while one half of the twitterati stuck to their manners and respectfully pointed out Bachchan's mistake, the other half blatantly came with their swords out at the 77 year old actor.

Do you really believe it or joking?

— Pankaj (@ViewsOfPankaj) March 23, 2020

The clapping thing was to applaud the workers or to scare the virus 🤣

I'm still confused !

— Dᴏᴄᴛᴀ4ᴇɴ (@Ferrero_dr_) March 23, 2020

No sir 22nd March is teras
amavasya on 24 th

— JIGAR JHAVERI (@jigarjhaveri) March 23, 2020

Pls don’t spread WRONG INFORMATION. Firstly, Amavasya is on 24th March, not 22nd. And secondly, the Nakshatra on 22nd was Satabisha, on 24th will be Uttarabhadrapada NOT Revati.

The whole internet is stupidly forwarding this wrong information from some fake astrologer.

— Navin Bajaj (@NavinBajaj) March 23, 2020

WE NEED TO START MASS MOVEMENTS OF BANNING WHATS APP!!

— Sylvester Chintu 🐝 (@Sylvesterchintu) March 23, 2020

True .

— Topdawg91 (@indiandoctor91) March 23, 2020

Well said. Losing respect with this man. Sad! ☺️

— Madhusudan Sahoo (@madhu_sahoo) March 23, 2020

Why didn't you call it out? Did you believe it? Did you? 🤦‍♂️https://t.co/rMN8ys4tSI

— Jignesh (@thisisjignesh) March 23, 2020

Are abhi to dukan jamaaye the
Aur aap aake saara dhandha chopat kar diye..Bataiye aise kaise chalega....

— The Haryanvi Guy (@Saplaprateek) March 23, 2020