Pandemie

Like most of you, it is the first time, I have stayed home for such long period of time. Though it was a major change, I got used to it, as there was null alternatives, unlike several options in our phones and computers. “DELETE” has been the mostly used option/key in recent weeks to remain sane from all those hand-washing videos, root cause explanations and remedies. Though I was irritated with most of those forwards (I had an easy way out…DELETE), I was more disappointed to see some influential people, asking “commoners” to stay home and at the same time bombarding with their videos of cooking, work-outs, showing how cool their lives are, without imagining what it means for those commoners to forgo their wages and stay home and stare at starvation, especially in countries like India. Really hope the support provided by the Governments is reaching the people.

There is just too much information out there and to improve awareness, the message needs to be structured and focus on the “ultimate goal”, which according to me is to minimize the casualties, till we have a vaccination. So the privileged ones like us should spread messages and do the needful in our capacities (moral, emotional, help with local/online chores, food and financial) to people who are suffering the most. I can think of elderly, migrant workers, illiterate, foreigners, differently abled and less privileged. In my opinion, Corona virus is with us and will remain, also I have no doubt that we HUMANS will not let a virus win over us and change everything we are used to, though we will be probably following a new set of glocial (global-social) etiquette.

Recently I realized that we have been living for some years with another pandemic which needs more awareness and immediate actions; it is hatred, discrimination and inhumanity. Recently, I have been following the developments in India on Corona and I was surprised to see how so called “journalists” have been spitting venom and spreading misinformation, creating divide among us people during the time of crisis. Surprisingly, no big stars or influential people in the society has condemned that. Kept wondering whether all our souls are mutated with pandemie of hatred. Searching further I got lucky, there are a few brave ones, who focus on bringing the real stories. According to me, journalism like medical profession, has power to create progressive societies, however looking at some of the insensitive journalists, I believe they are doing injustice to their profession as well as to the societies.

Let us thank all the medical professionals around the world for their sacrifices to save us humans from the Corona pandemic. Now we all humans need to reject all sorts of discrimination, misinformation, biases and let us use the most powerful tool we possess – HUMANITY.

Let us help each other to help ourselves. Stay safe!

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