Given the turn of events in the last few months, the situation seems as though no one gives a tiny rats backside about sweat. So much that they are more than happily holed up in their own zones of idealism that reality doesn’t dare knock.
The credibility of a nation rests on its ability to handle any adverse situation. It may be anything, a man made disorder, a natural calamity or a medical situation.. anything. The most unfortunate turn of events starting from November 2019 has proved to all humanity that we are at Mother Nature’s mercy. There seems to be no plan.
A news article few days ago highlighted that a certain country’s strategic stockpile had been exhausted. Not low, not diminishing, but, exhausted. This is downright ridiculous. When asked how this happened, pat came the reply – “ we had prepared for natural calamities, terror attacks but not for something like this”. What seems to have eluded everyone is the fact that actual war kills less as compared to the collateral damage that happens later. More people die of hunger, disease and lack of facilities that are the fallout of a war, than the actual war itself.
So as per the great doomsday pundits and experts, shouldn’t the world have adequately catered for this pandemic? What we are fighting today is nothing short of a World War. A war fought by the entire world against an invisible enemy. And yet, here we are, squabbling like high schoolers, as to who started pushing.
Whoever started it, that fact though not irrelevant, should be shelved for sometime later. I am not saying exonerate the guilty. Draw and quarter them for all I care, but not now. Now is the time to come together as a species. Unite and fight. Forget borders and languages and economies. Shed your egos and fight together. Humans have endured much worse, don’t let our better understanding and superior intellect come in the way of survival.