Submitted by : Abdelrahman Abdelsalam (2k20/A1/32)

PANDEMIC AND HUMAN PRIORITIES

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ABDELRAHMAN ABDELSALAM (2K20/A1/32)

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Submitted by : Abdelrahman Abdelsalam (2k20/A1/32)

Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly

increase morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause
significant economic, social, and political disruption. Evidence suggests that the
likelihood of pandemics has increased over the past century because of
increased global travel and integration, urbanization, changes in land use, and
greater exploitation of the natural environment .These trends likely will
continue and will intensify. Significant policy attention has focused on the need
to identify and limit emerging outbreaks that might lead to pandemics and to
expand and sustain investment to build preparedness and health capacity.
The pandemic has affected everyone, irrespective of gender, religion,
nationality, or ethnicity. Its effect has been not only physical and mental, but
also economic and social. At this time the COVID-19 Pandemic has changed the
priorities of human like first one is the health and sanitation and second one is
to resetting your country’s economy and etc.
The new luminaries are rightfully becoming those who render vital services to
the society during this challenging time: medical personnel who risk their own
lives and burn the midnight oil to save the lives of others (to the exclusion of
those who are motivated by money or greed), farmers who fill our granary in
return for a pittance, sanitary workers who keep our cities bearably clean and
the entire value chain of manufacturers, transporters and vendors, which brings
to our homes the necessary wherewithal.
The incessant greed for material trifles is transmuting into a realization that the
most precious gift is the life itself and everything necessary should be done for
its sustenance, chiefly our health system. The lack of focus on the health
infrastructure in India exposed the vulnerability of many of its cities like Delhi,
Kolkata, Mumbai, etc. to the epidemics and other similar health crisis. The
situation is quite serious in many poor African and Latin American countries.
Even premier cities like New York and Tokyo that had previously been the
world’s envy, were found to be vulnerable and weak in front of Covid19.
Many nations allocated immense amount of resources to fund research to
discover a viable vaccine and cure to halt the epidemic. Pharmacies have
replaced temples as places of pilgrimage, and renowned doctors have
substituted for priests in providing the prognosis and daily advisory to handle
the current crisis.
Submitted by : Abdelrahman Abdelsalam (2k20/A1/32)

Instead of mindless visits to malls and crowded parties, we are investing in family
time and our intimate life-sustaining relationships thus changing our value
system and priorities. Families are bonding as never before but the social
interaction like marriage, parties, festival gatherings have been reduced to
contain infection. Today the digital media and social sites have become supreme
in educating, informing and entertaining people. Social, or rather physical
isolation (social distancing), masks and sanitizers rule the roost in the
Though the pandemic has bred isolation (social distancing) and confinement
(quarantine), it has also engendered a spiritual quest and an inward-looking
disposition. Many of us have started realizing the significance of adage that
happiness lies within. As fancy couture remains suspended in cupboards and
flashy cars rust in the garage, we are realizing that we need very little to be truly
happy and a moment of creativity can spark more happiness than purchasing
the latest iPhone. The futility of material possessions and the importance of
human relations are highlighted as never before.
The global scenario is in flux as wealth no longer seems to be the determiner
when world’s most powerful country struggles with the largest number of Covid
related deaths. The nation that had formerly led the world response in handling
global crises has been dislodged from this erstwhile position, and the balance of
power is shifting to less wealthy but better-steered nations like Korea, Taiwan,
Israel, etc. The epidemic also showed that lack of effective leadership in a
country adversely affects the battles being fought to conquer pandemic.
The migrant crisis in India resulted on account of lockdown imposed to contain
COVID- 19 infection exposed a major vulnerability in our society. It exposed our
health system’s vulnerability and inflexibility to a major health crisis. The
migrant crisis also exposed our frail transport system as the inter-state migrants
had to walk for days in absence of the rail and bus services.
Their nostalgic desire to return to their home states and the tribulations of a
migrant family feature prominently in ‘Dusk’ (‘Slices of Life’). As visuals of this
informal workforce trudging homewards were splashed on TV screens,
citydwellers across India awoke to their plight and some good Samaritans
emerged to feed them and prioritize their welfare. We all very vividly remember
a child slept on a suitcase that is being pulled by a migrant mother trying to reach
his hometown. How can be forget the young daughter of a migrant labour who
cycled for days with his father in the pillion.
Submitted by : Abdelrahman Abdelsalam (2k20/A1/32)

Urban India is awakening to its moral duty towards this hitherto unseen section
of society that services our homes and builds the city infrastructure and
industrial growth on which we pride ourselves.
One of the biggest transitions has been in the attitude of all right thinking
individuals towards Nature. During the lockdown, after centuries of unmitigated
environmental abuse, we saw nature reclaiming its space as the blue skies
cleared of fumes and the seas of refuse and animals pranced happily in open
spaces without fear of Homo sapiens, the most dangerous species on earth.
COVID-19 has reminded us that we are not the master but a minuscule part of
Nature; it has hollowed our pride in our prowess as we fall like ninepins to a
microscopic virus that wreaks on us the wrath of a maltreated environment.
Hopefully, in the future as well, humanity cherish these changed human
priorities and need to co-exist with other beings.

ABDELRAHMAN ABDELSALAM (2K20/A1/32)