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“If the mind
is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall
prey to disease.”
— Dalai Lama
XIV
Well, we would first of all like to thank all
our readers, who have read our blogs
since 2014 and have given us valuable suggestions which helped us improve our
content, its good to be blogging again after a long time!
The time is 5:40 PM; there is a pall of gloom
outside our houses, the empty streets, empty pavements and the shops. One of
the first scenarios the entire humankind is feeling sad when they hear this word
"positive," we think now you are catching the drift of where we are
heading.
Neo corona human virus is
active, and the world is under threat after a long time of pandemic free times, the world is in a war-like situation first time after the second world war.
Have we realized, after nearly four decades
we are in a war situation, and this war is against a non-living thing which is
not even visible to us it is popularly called virus? what is a virus? A
virus is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the
living cells of an organism. Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from
animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.
The evolution of the virus is uncertain; they
say it is present in the environment. These particles are called virions, and
each virus has an RNA ( Ribo Nucleic acid ) the genetic material to replicate
itself and a protective protein layer around it.
Corona
Virus-definition
Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses
that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, corona-viruses cause
respiratory tract infections that can be mild or fatal, such as some cases of the common
cold (among other possible causes, predominantly rhinoviruses), and others that
can be lethal, such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. Symptoms in other species
vary: in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease, while in cows
and pigs they cause diarrhoea. There are yet to be vaccines or antiviral drugs
to prevent or treat human coronavirus infections.
–Courtesy Wikipedia
Outbreak –The when and the how
The outbreak of the Corona Viral disease-2019
happened in Wuhan, Hubei in China in December 2019, even though there are
multiple news items for the cause of the outbreak. They do not have legitimate
proof. However, there are reasons to believe it has got transmitted to humans
through consumption of raw meat of pangolins and bats and has led to hazardous
pandemic across the world leading to lockdowns curfews and sense of confusion
and uncurtaining in the minds of people.
From the beginning of 2020, the outbreak of
Coronavirus has made much noise, and it has become a nightmare too. Countries
having one of the best medical technologies are struggling to find answers to
the questions posed by the deadly virus. Italy and the US have surpassed China
in terms of the spread and number of people infected. The number of positive
cases is on the rise daily, and stats show some real gross figures.
An active case is defined as a case which has
not seen any outcome (recovery or death). These cases take a very sharp
increase from 13th March 2020 at more than four hundred thousand.
The source country China, the number of active cases stood at nearly six
hundred thousand during February 2020 and has seen a steady decline touching
almost zero. Such a drastic improvement needs an explanation. Whereas in Italy
and the US the number of active cases reaching a hundred thousand. Developed
nations like the US is facing challenges on testing. Testing is the key to any
disease. And it has become the most significant challenge since there is no
single contact to maintain the data exclusively on testing.
The daily situation report has no detail on
the number of people being tested. In India, the total of individual tests done
as on 28th March 2020 stands at just over twenty-six thousand. That is at 0.002% of the
whole population of the country, which is a negligible number.
The number of
people who came to India from foreign countries during the past 3 months, i.e.,
January to March is enormous. The whole world would fall flat if the foundation
(testing) fails, and the current scenario is heading towards danger. India,
when compared to other countries, is handling the crisis pretty well until we
know the total number of that is being tested daily.
Well now that we have a brief idea of the problem, the media and the analysts have some views: one of them is that the apparent
threat to humankind, but there is a second view which is the self-healing of
nature, there was a news item in WION a popular news channel which showed the
returning of dolphins and swans to the coast of Italy the programme also made sure to tell the impact of social media impact and the outbreak of fake news which is more deadly than the disease and has also called this as an "infodemic".
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We think that gives us a secure message just like in the case of the fateful Chernobyl disaster, nature has
reclaimed the entire restricted area. Nature for sure has made us a little bit more conscious on the path we have taken and maybe trying to correct it! and definitely has humbled us a little in these
past few weeks, our lives have changed and are changing and we have only option to adjust to that whatever change. We urge and request the citizens to follow Government restrictions to fight this bloodless bio war.
Well, the crisis has hit us all big time, how
would you as a reader like to end it?
Living with hope.
Harish Murthy and Tejus R.S
