A Detrimental Chain System
To just give a background of last year’s happenings, I’d say that in April 2020, none of us could have imagined that things could get so worse. We’d often be oblivious of the serious repercussions of COVID, and think that we were invincible before the virus.
Instead, we’d just boast of the work from home schedule, making videos of us cooking, cleaning, dusting, mopping and making Dalgona coffee, and circulating on social media. Possibly, a huge chunk of us were inspired by the celebrities running errands, and doing all of the household chores by themselves.
At a time when we’d be hearing and reading about the heartbreaking news of the migrant labours walking back to their home towns on foot, and over millions losing jobs, we’d think that we are immune to all the banes of the virus, and that nothing bad can ever happen to us. Now, to begin with, that’s firm conviction, one can be applauded, only that the reality is far from it.
Things have been much worse than people actually imagined. Just at this point of writing this article, I read a report by two renowned publications that in April alone around 7.35 million people in my country, India have lost their jobs. Matters have become so worse that people have become frustrated to look for jobs anymore. Perhaps they have gotten a hint that searching for a new job would mean working for a lesser salary, and ending up doing twice as much work.
Question is who is responsible for all this menace? Of course, the virus came in absolutely unannounced, completely rupturing our lives, letting people go astray. But, now when we got the hang of it, that COVID’s ramifications are really destructive, are we doing ample on our part?
As of now, I can identify a chain system. Kickstarting with a person that steps out often sans a mask, affecting nearby people, and eventually crippling the economy. As, the governments are not left to any other choice but to impose lockdowns, leading businesses to bleed, and finally ending up in job losses.
Now, these people that have lost their jobs might not have left their houses at all, they might have just locked themselves up safely inside their houses, and would just step out when necessary. Now, typically at someone’s callousness, these deserving and efficient people lost their jobs, further intensifying an atmosphere of frustration, unhappiness, eventually landing to depression.
What does that leave us with? Is there any solution? Till the time all of us aren’t vaccinated, the least we can strive to do is maintain these safety measures, and try to save ourselves and our fellow people from a deteriorating state further.
We have to remember that this isn’t the time for ego clashes and petty fights, but to be unified, and beat the virus collectively.
