Imagine you were born in 1900.
When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.
Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing 50 million people. And you're alive and 20 years old.
When you're 29 you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and famine.
When you're 33 years old the nazis come to power.
When you're 39, World War II begins and ends when you're 45 years old with a 60 million dead. In the Holocaust 6 million Jews die.
When you're 52, the Korean War begins.
When you're 64, the Vietnam War begins and ends when you're 75.
A child born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, but they have survived several wars and catastrophes.
Today we have all the comforts in a new world, amid a new pandemic. But we complain because we need to wear masks. We complain because we must stay confined to our homes where we have food, electricity, running water, wifi, even Netflix! None of that existed back in the day. But humanity survived those circumstances and never lost their joy of living.
A small change in our perspective can generate miracles. We should be thankful that we are alive. We should do everything we need to do to protect and help each other.
Grateful thanks to Mr.Ajay Bansal, English Literature and Facebook.
I have some doubts. My comments :
Your post is very useful and informative.
But what do we do, let a few more millions die, without making any fuss. Right?
It is this idiocy of approach, that is agonising. We passively wait, following social distancing, masking, gloving and such negative acts of defence, which is already taking a heavy toll, not sparing even doctors and other health professionals. How long can you hide yourself from this micron-size virus? How long are we going to let this fear destroy our economy, dailywagers, the poor and diwntrodden?
Waiting endlessly for a miraculous vaccine is getting us nowhere.
In the absence of a vaccine and allopathic remedy, why not embrace the medicines from alternative systems, which have shown great promise? (like Homeopathy and Siddha)
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.
Why not initiate preventive measures like imnunity boosting? There are medicines and food items which help in this direction. Why not popularise these and take some proven immune-boosting medicines door to door and administer it to all?
By boosting immunity, you are ready to face and fight any invader, be it a virus, bacteria or germ.
Next, some rogue or rogue nation will genetically engineer some other virus and unleash it on innocent people. What other defence have you against such contingencies? You go madly searching for another vaccine?
This may help Big Pharma, not the common people.
Sorry, hope you will my comments in the right perspective.
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