Who is responsible for this pandemic, the resultant pandemonium
and the loss of precious human lives? Of course, a tiny invisible virus who
came out of either Wuhan wet market bat or a lab, found a friendly ally in an
ignorant human body, started replicating and mutating itself with the help of
human cells for its own survival while this human being who is a very social
animal carried and transmitted it to others in this well-connected world, all over.
Initially WHO was blamed for the delay in alarming the world on
the formation and the spread, who in turn blamed China for the same, who in
turn blamed USA and the pharma companies as a man-made biological disaster.
While the who did what blame game was on, the infected travelers were merrily
traveling all over spreading the same, all the governments were caught
off-guard and by that time it had already spread far and wide. The
infrastructure was never sufficient to cater to the medical needs and as there
was neither any data or medicine available to contain and cure thus lockdowns
were imposed to buy time to improve combative health infrastructure, curative
medicine and as a preventive measure the tried and tested method of social
distancing and hygiene were propagated, by WHO.
The disciplined societies and their respective governments in
the world took stringent, proactive and workable measures suggested by WHO and
ensured containment while the who is who in the world(developed/developing,
democratic and Industrialized nations) where, in the name of freedom individual
rights are sacrosanct while duties are expendable, faltered in building
consensus, decision-making, enforcement of do’s and don’ts, could not foresee
the gravity thus failed to bolster the infrastructure and the system to cope
with the unfolding of the waves and ensuing loss to the economies as well as
the humanity.
The virus, in the meantime is thriving and fighting the odds,
after all like many others it also has come into this world to exist and having
found a friendly partner in the human body is even mutating variants.
Individuals who are affected are also fighting for survival, the stressed-out
medical fraternity has done it’s best to build medicinal protocol for cure with
trial and error, treat the patients and have even invented vaccines to save
lives and contain the spread. The battle is on, who will win over the other? No
one but the vaccine should surely nullify and or contain the destructive cells
of the virus, over a period of time-WHO knows.
Earlier it used to take a decade to come out with vaccines but
thanks to the technological advancements, the scientific research, data
analysis and the hard work of the community, the same has been made ready
within a year, though due to the imbalance between production and he size of
the population it could be the end of year 2022 when the majority population
could be immunized, so till then who is to take care and behave response-ably ,
it is the missing I in it, the I who is arrogant, callous, disrespectful,
selfish, and exists all over in many govts, institutions, politics, media,
executive, judiciary and the public and these are the people who believe in
I-Me-Myself who are responsible for the
current mess and will continue to do so.
The societies which were able to save lives, contain the spread
and continue to take care of the people are the ones with the attitude of
I-We-Us and oneness. Thus, the character building of the societies of
developed/developing nations need to change and must inculcate the thinking of
“I am part of a whole and not a whole in itself”, instead of I as a part of a
problem I need to become a part of a solution (dutifully right) as we all seek
to survive, coexist and look beyond to live in harmony with humanity and the
nature. Who will bell the cat(!) only I- We-Us attitude towards oneness, the
ultimate truth can do and not I-Me-Myself towards self-destruction?
Satish Shitut
Author, Effective R.U.L.E
To live life effectively- A life
changing process
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