CORONAVIRUS

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)

A sign of Pause to the Humans

"We were focusing on the crumbling walls and now I feel we are focusing on our pillar; being human".

Coronavirus aka COVID-19 a disease caused by a SARS like virus attacking the immune system of human beings. Starts with a mild fever, cold and headache mostly unnoticeable in the initial stage of the infection shows symptoms of common flu but can become severe within days. This disease was first noticed by a group of doctors in a hospital in Wuhan China during December 2019 but were not taken seriously  by the Chinese Government in fact they tried to suppress the news about the new Virus, Corona, those doctors were labelled as rumour mongers and couple of them were even arrested by the Chinese police. However after a months’ time the virus became epidemic in Wuhan forcing it to lock down and isolate itself from rest of the world physically. People reading this must have already read the news, heard about the situation caused by this disease and some of us might have seen the places where this Virus is causing trouble almost in every aspects of day to day life. So, I forbid myself from telling about the Virus in depth and if anyone reading about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) for the first time, I suggest you to do a google search about the Virus and the disease it causes, google can help you find a lot about this virus, it's symptoms, prevention/precautions, and pretty much everything to get your attention glued on the information you see. More than 8800 lives have been lost with more than 200000 infected but a ray of hope can be seen as more than 84000 people have been cured. Thanks to all the concerned authorities who has taken all possible measures to provide information about this deadly virus to the public. Visit the website of WHO and you'll find all the prevention methods and other valuable information about the virus.

Thanks to those as well who tried to suppress about the VIRUS which WHO recently declared as Pandemic on 11th March 2020. All I think is this Pandemic was supposed to happen in this fast paced world. Even though I was living in a developing country till 2019 and from 2020 we have declared as a developed nation, the place I stay is quite safe from this Virus for some time, so, I am taking this opportunity to share my views about this pandemic.

It hurts to lose someone we know but does it hurt when we lose our self, I guess it does and that's why hand sanitizer are running out of stocks, just kidding. All the news channels are covering about the latest developments about the disease and I nearly ended up believing about the discovery of a medicine to cure Coronavirus which in fact was a lie, maybe to attract readers to their blogs/websites but it’s okay people has always been using events to fulfill their desire of making money. Trust me, don't believe everything you read because there is nothing powerful than our time that will kill us otherwise all the people of China should have died by now. The only fool proof way of preventing this virus is to stay being as minimalist as possible, not meeting people and avoiding being part of a crowd or in other words locking oneself is possibly the best way to prevent this virus from entering into our immune system but I doubt it may not kill everyone if it invades our body. We have faced a lot of calamities in the past and as we are moving forward in every field I hope we find a cure to this Virus.

Recently I read somewhere, where they were talking about building homes in the moon. Nuclear weapons, war strategies, mining, digging, deforestation, wildfire, pollution and so much more even the space junk, all these needed a pause. We were getting signs during different times yet we moved forward calling it a natural calamity. It was actually a sign from the earth asking us to see our wrongs and maybe pause.  It is sad to see the situation all over the world, everything is at standstill. Death is the main reason of panic for every individual but there are people who are more worried about the well being of the nations; all in vain, as we can see how countries are isolating themselves, states and every other cross border activities are at halt. Education which has never been affected like this before is a sign that we are doing what we are supposed to do, pause for a while. Private sector employees are being asked to stay home with LWP, few are working from home, economy of the world is at toss, international flights have been cancelled and are not operating for a month's time causing people stranded in foreign countries. People whose livelihood relies on tourism are the worst hit as tourists are not banned from entering tourist places, in fact no one wants to go for a vacation in this kind of situation so, they are praying for the pandemic to stop as soon as possible. Hotels, restaurants, trains, flights. Pilgrimage and every other businesses are at halt. There are news where the police is thinking of freeing life sentenced convicts on parole amid this pandemic because they think the place is small for inmates and the Virus can spread quickly. People who has died till now were mostly above 60 years and had other illness as well.

"As we know a coin has two sides, so here we are witnessing the chain effect of our actions". We never did realize only talked about how our future generations will survive with limited natural resources out of which we are consuming resources at a faster rate which will definitely finish one day. No one's fault to have babies and growth in population is natural but to educate them about preserving natural resources is our choice. Living is not only about making money rather it has more than this, exploring our existence and creating art out of it. We are lost behind things which can't be taken when we die and we already know this, "everyone gets what is written" yet we live like we aren’t going to die, this is why we take everything for granted. I used to hear elder people telling how it was back then and how it has become now, even we can see changes happening like time lapse, instead of living we are trying to survive with surplus. Again no one's fault to have healthy competition but trying to excel others materialistically creates the problem. This world has been bearing more weight of Ego than humanity and now the planet wants to balance both, that is why this CORONAVIRUS aka (COVID-19) is a clear sign of pause to the humans and time for the nature to heal.

If we look at the ways nations are implementing to combat COVID-19, all points to one direction i.e. social distancing. Mother Nature wants humans to take a break from advancing technologically and focus more on the well being of an individual. I think CORONAVIRUS can be compared to THANOS whose intention was to wipe out human being from the planet so that the nature can thrive again but he failed. He was able to wipe out 50% of the total population. His intention was pure yet he was labelled as a villain, so is this CORONAVIRUS. Don’t get me wrong here but just think for a while what if all the people above 60 years of age dies? It was just a movie though.

I hope we as a human being learn to appreciate things which we used to look upon, love ourselves a little more than money, praise arts honestly, spend time with the loved ones more than at job, understand we are here for sometimes and it is our responsibility to make this planet beautiful naturally rather than advancing in technology by destroying the nature, learn to love, give more and expect less, run for your kids not for their school buses, understand we are not the centre of the creation and lastly give thanks to the universe for you are still alive.

Most importantly thanks to the CORONAVIRUS for allowing us to take a break rather a pause from everyday life practically.