Evidently the coronavirus, named Covid-19 has spooked the world. It has turn out to be the bogeyman of the 21st century. At first, it frightened the medical career on the manner it quickly unfold and killed individuals. They, in flip, spooked the governments everywhere in the world to take drastic measures to enter varied levels of lockdown. It has been nothing however a socio-economic catastrophe for many international locations. And the best way the media continues to report this virus an infection is inflicting additional pointless panic, chaos and confusion among the many public.
In my earlier article titled “Corona- The Making of the Bogeyman”, I identified how a spooked thoughts is incapable of rational considering. I additionally identified how a bureaucratic thoughts can be incapable of such thought. So it’s clear to me {that a} frightened bureaucratic individual could be doubly incapable of constructing any rational choice. This truth is clear from what we have now seen within the bureaucratic motion taken by governments everywhere in the world.
What dismays and disappoints me most is the medical career and the position it’s enjoying. It’s imagined to take care of the bodily and psychological well being of individuals but helps the federal government to create individuals’s life extra depressing. They don’t appear to understand the truth that saving lives in any respect value isn’t the one factor that issues. One has to bear in mind the socio-economic prices into our choice making; in any other case, our actions turn out to be counterproductive and irresponsible. Tens of millions of individuals have misplaced their jobs, and tens of millions of companies have gone out of enterprise. How can we ignore the psychological and bodily unintended effects on the inhabitants of presidency bureaucratic motion which creates poverty? Poverty turns into fertile floor for a rise in crime, violence, drug abuse and suicides and so on. Please keep in mind that the brunt of all these measures is born by non-public people, not authorities workers who’re largely financially unaffected.
In my thoughts, I regard the lockdown as an inhumane motion. To lockup individuals residing in tall towers for six weeks is like sentencing them to solitary confinement of their cells. Additionally, how can we justify locking up individuals on a cruise ship for days for no fault of their very own, simply because they’ve a case of coronavirus on board? Lockdown can solely be justified if the measures we take kills or eliminates the virus; in any other case we’re solely grabbing the tiger by the tail.
If we look at all of the measures we have now taken thus far, we are going to discover that they’re panic measures. They don’t remove or kill the virus. The lockdown solely slows down the unfold of the virus. It’s the nature of all virus infections to unfold. So as soon as we raise the lockdown, this virus goes to unfold. The an infection curve has to rise. We’ve to understand the truth that this coronavirus is right here to remain, and we should study to reside with it in the identical manner as we’re doing with the influenza virus.
So what does the long run maintain for us? Can we go into lockdown each time the an infection curve rises? Can we shut down our colleges and workplaces each time somebody is examined constructive? Can we stay spooked and be subjected to some bureaucratic management till we discover a remedy?
It’s straightforward for international locations with a comparatively small and sparse inhabitants like Australia and New Zealand to say success in managing this virus with lockdown measures. Nonetheless, in densely populated international locations with massive populations like India and Europe, it’s undoubtedly not a sensible proposition.
Thus there needs to be a greater manner of managing this downside. If I discovered myself in an outback nation city and a case of coronavirus introduced to me for remedy, I ask myself, what would I do? Having no diagnostic facility accessible to me, I’d have handled that affected person, in the identical manner as I’d have handled a case of influenza. Would this have resulted in any completely different consequence for my affected person or me?
One can see that every one this testing for the virus within the inhabitants could also be academically fascinating; nevertheless, the best way the media reviews it needs to be a matter of concern for all of us who’re attempting to enhance our psychological well being. It’s spooking the general public and inflicting pointless anxiousness and alarm.
Maybe we will study from our animal buddies how they handle to reside peacefully with all of the predators round them for the reason that starting of time. If we take a look at the buffalos and the lions, we see that the lions spook the buffaloes by chasing them. As soon as the lions catch the weakest one, the buffaloes cease operating. They begin grazing in a relaxed manner, figuring out that the lions is not going to be attacking them till they’re hungry once more. They don’t stay spooked.
I regard all of the viruses lurking in our environment as predators ready to pounce on us just like the hungry lions and tigers. Often, a wholesome particular person will resist a virus an infection relying on the energy of 1’s immune system. However as soon as any psychological or bodily elements weaken our immune system, we will turn out to be prey to any such virus. Thus the onus is on each particular person in society to keep up a degree of health which can shield the individual.
Nonetheless, we have now do-gooders in society who need to save us from ourselves just like the medical career and the federal government. They need to present us and show to us that they’ll save human lives, it doesn’t matter what the fee. There’s, in fact, a political motive in all this. Nobody needs to die, so nobody goes to object to somebody who’s going to guard us. How can anybody object to such a noble trigger when one is saving lives? Politicians and the medical career turn out to be our heroes, and so they get our votes.
Sure, it’s comparatively straightforward to avoid wasting lives and turn out to be heroes if we predict in a bureaucratic manner and ignore the adverse penalties of our motion. However there are larger tasks hooked up to the roles of our medical and political leaders than simply attempting to avoid wasting human lives in the event that they cared to consider Suppose you might be in control of a rescue boat overloaded with individuals. You realize that when you take yet one more individual aboard, the boat goes to tip over and sink. There are individuals within the sea nonetheless begging to be rescued. Do you’ve a selection? Please assume. Will you’re feeling like a hero? Do you continue to consider in saving life at no matter the fee?
As I see it, we have now to return to phrases with the coronavirus and deal with it in the identical manner because the influenza virus. The world can’t afford to stay spooked. In my thoughts, there is no such thing as a such factor as the long run. The longer term is what we create by means of the actions we take within the current. If we take no motion now, our current turns into the long run.
Are we going to reassess our method to the coronavirus? Are we going to stay spooked? Will our medical and political leaders get up to their tasks? Are we going to proceed with this bureaucratic insanity?
