Corona and our role in its control

Today, billions witness themselves being drawn towards a deadly virus. Millions lie on their
deathbeds. Thousands have shunned their deathbeds to mark their way for heaven...

It is the present day scenario which is strongly gripped by the extremely hazardous Novel
Corona Virus. On 30th December 2019, in Wuhan University (China), a virus was discovered
which weakened our immune system and thus made our body more prone to diseases. This
virus, today, has affected about 7 million people worldwide. The very primary way to treat this
virus would be the use of vaccine. But till date all our researchers have been unsuccessful in
making a vaccine. Hence, there is no outright way to eradicate or contain this disease. However,
we can at least prevent ourselves from this disease by not coming in contact with an infected
person as this disease transmits by human to human contact only. All these facts come down to
a very basic conclusion i.e. Lockdown. And that is what we are practicing daily.

In India, since 22nd March 2020, some new words were added to a layman’s dictionary viz.
Lockdown, Sanitizer, Social distancing and face mask. Courtesy - Corona virus. On the next
day at 8:00 p.m.PM Modi, addressed us, in which he declared a complete lockdown. A question
which is wondered about is that this lockdown was declared when we had less than a cent cases
and now when we have about a quarter of million cases, we are unlocking ourselves on the
strength that we are prepared to face it. The cases per day are soaring towards the sky.
However, if we completely abstain the country’s workforce from working, then the whole
economy will suffer. Now the question arises how do we deal in this case where we sit on the
horns of dilemma. We cannot stop our life with corona virus. We have to start our life with it.

It is practically proven that we can work with proper precautions taken in this deadly situation.
Recently Taiwan was affected by an epidemic and the people there had a recent practice to use
masks. The cases there are an excellent example of the efficiency of masks.443 cases with 430
recovered.

Soap and alcohol based sanitizers break the fat layer of the virus which makes it inactive. For
proving this is as simple as washing the hands with soap to get rid of oil after eating pooris.

These ways would prove efficient if we take a personal initiative. If the youth of our country
moves with the ideology of ‘humko kya ho sakta hai’(taking in consideration the fact that
corona virus is deadly for senior citizens only) then we are sure to meet with the fate that Italy
met recently. Now, we all have to maintain a distance so that we can come closer a month or
two later.

It is witnessed that, the common mass is more afraid of the policemen than corona virus since
we hardly care to use a mask till we see a police man. Unless we deal with this pandemic at a
personal level and think about our family members, we might not be able to overcome it. The
Government has released a beautiful app “Arogya Setu” which tracks each and every citizen of
India to prevent the spread of this virus.

Like every other bane for human kind Corona virus has also turned out to be agathokakological.
This is the high time for India to evolve as the world leader, by turning the threats to
opportunities. And achievers are those who transform opportunities into success. The whole
world is adopting Indian traditional customs and practicing Yoga. Shaking hands have been
replaced by Namaste in order to practice social distancing. Thus we should try to become the
vocal for our local needs and get our country into new heights.

Corona virus would leave us teaching a lesson to practice wearing of mask and have proper
sanitization, thus reducing the spread of other significantly. Life would go extremely
transformed. But we don’t know when this situation is going to end. That depends on us. In my
views, human race has always conquered every pandemic. And we have evolved and
immunized ourselves to that epidemic. Thus, I think so would this disease end and humans
would return victorious. I dream and let us dream that our world would surmount this pandemic
and I am damn sure about our dream transforming into future.

By – Siddhant Sekhar Barpanda

Class 9, Junior group.
St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School.
Mob-9437494601