Can it get any worse?
Of course, I know the answer but I wanna stay in denial and want this terrible nightmare to be over in a blink. Yet, the tele in my home keeps screaming day and night about how things are drastically changing and effecting each and everyone of us around the world. Some of you might want me to turn that God damn tele off or change the channel for the sake of my own health but you see, I have an old set of amazing Parents-in-Law who would like to keep themselves updated with as much depression as possible, so they could pray every second of their lives and make their Jannah (Heaven) affirmative while on other hand I go through anxiety attacks because my sanity is fragile or maybe because I haven’t been through the Partition (of India and Pakistan). Hence, those same channels stream around my brain in the darkest hours of lengthy nights, (in which I was suppose to be a romantic wife as per the standards of being Newly Wedded Association) but unfortunately, we couple have no time for that but to survive another day without getting infected or infecting his parents.
Can it be controlled?
Of course, not. I, you, none of us can control it. People getting infected, dying, doctors, nurses, healthcare staff, desperately working to save lives, making places for the funerals in the churches, mosques, they even have to arrange mortuary freezers for the deads because we’re dying in bulk and can’t be put aside to be buried one by one. The infected people can’t even see their loved ones or be buried away by them, they haven’t even seen the ones they once couldn’t imagine to live without. I cannot stop thinking about the death toll it speaks of in Italy, Spain and US, more so in Italy, I hear 900+ deaths a day and I don’t understand how do they cope with it as a nation, what motivates the doctors to treat another hopeless case where they help the patients to have a last video call with their loved ones or to send a last picture to their children, parents or siblings. I cannot stop imagining the scenes which I’ve only heard of and not experienced. It’s getting worse in my country too and people are continuously being warned, the country’s on semi- lock down but still, we all know that it will spread. It reminds me of the Dan Brown’s Inferno, in which Langton speaks of “Black Death” which broke down in Middle ages in Europe and the big white “beak masks” also known as the plague masks, doctors used to wear to treat the ill person. Reading about that in completely different times just felt like it was a mere a fictional writing but now having read that and comparing it with the similar situation literally pinches my heart to reality, and I could feel every word and pain he described in his book. That’s another problem of a reader, they feel a lot and they can live many lives through a single book, now imagine actually becoming part of such event, which once you read in some random book of interest (I can feel the chills down my spine).
Can malignant people be managed?
I wanted to be rather put together before talking about such people but unfortunately my vocabulary has no bounds in describing their unintelligent moronic behavior. People are continuously being warned by the government about the infection, however there is a set of pathetic losers believing that the Corona Virus is all bogus and less of the reality. It’s crazy but yes, there are those who are not willing to sit home and have planned long crazy adrenaline rushing holidays for themselves and their entire families and yes, they have been either put behind bars or in fact, I was watching the video the other day in which police men were punishing young boys by making them do the sit ups with their ears pulled and arms crossed, by the side of the roads. What else this government can do? Our Prime Minister have been continuously making efforts and speaking to the media as well as putting efforts with the monthly ration for those on their daily wages. All we have to do is be the heroes during this pandemic, and by not doing that we are not only putting ourselves in danger but a chain of such people is putting the whole world to collapse and yet we all fail to recognize it. These same people wanted to do nothing and sit on their bums for the rest of life, excuse my language but how can I or anyone keep calm when each and every type of media is screaming at the top of their lungs to “stay home, stay safe”, even when I ring my mum, it doesn’t give me those telephonic beeps, it instead tells me how can I protect myself from this deadly disease and how can I protect my loved ones with by only sitting at home, washing my hands for 20 seconds and breaking the chain but no, no, now since we’ve been given off for 3/4 weeks, we cannot put ourselves to rest but we are ready to put the world to Rest In Peace!!!!!
When this all will be over?
I have a simple one-liner for this, “Nobody knows when”, however I can’t just say it (even though I just did but we can ignore it). This virus have taken lives over lives, starting from China, where it is rather controlled or at least that’s what the media actually says about it. Anyways, we all have to understand that Chinese people listened to its government, they took it serious, they might not knew what exactly was coming towards them but they took as much precautions and safeguarding measurements as possible. Understanding the facts that even some of the G7 countries have the worse record of death tolls, even though they have best of the economy and healthcare facilities, yet even they couldn’t handle this virus. They’re going through the darkest of the times, the whole world has been put to rest, the economy is at the verge of the breaking point, even the ones best in position are crying for help then how can we keep calm and look over the mistakes they made. We don’t have such well-designed governmental system or healthcare or cleanliness or flourished economy, we’re one of the developing countries and with situation like this we might only reverse towards being underdeveloped. As every channel, every media, even social media, government, everyone keeps telling us to stay home and stay safe, that’s the best we can do. Just to become a better productive human being, we can pray, I literally mean do your prayers, whether you are Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Jew or Muslim etc. we all believe in some power, if not power than in science, anything, any freaking thing, so just pray to that power, but don’t forget to wash hands, keep distance, cough in your elbow or wear mask and gloves and then just PRAY.
Keen Wayfarer 