I don’t think it matters to the owners of MSM that they are digging their companies graves. Their job is to do exactly what they are doing for the “team”. MSM/Big Tech are the propaganda and censorship departments of the people running this operation. By the time the last few people finally wake up that they have been lied to for decades, and never more than at present, it will be all over - mission completed. There will be no more need for media. The “Ministry off Truth” will be all you get. We are just about there anyway with them.
As for Indian states and their differing approaches to Covid treatments, Kerala was a Marxist run state in the past, though I haven’t looked at it recently. What that might mean in this case I don’t know.