Covid, a Nature’s Conspiracy to get derailed Mankind back on track

Today the entire Mankind seems to be looking so helpless and fearful before a disease named Covid. The whole world is striving relentlessly to explore a permanent cure to Covid as the deadly virus has caused countless fatalities the world over. The virus is evolving with time, and this is leading to new strains and variants of the virus. With the disease becoming virulent, it has caused worldwide fatalities, and spared none. Be it the downtrodden segments, the middle class, or the affluent rich and famous, the disease has overwhelmed all.

Heartfelt condolences to all those that lost their loved ones in these turbulent times. The grief is unimaginable and beyond one’s expectation.

As we grapple with the Pandemic and pray for good old life to be restored to us, we are all compelled to think if the Covid is some sort of a Nature’s bigger conspiracy plan to get the Mankind back on track. Can we still afford to be in a denial mode that we ‘humans’ had got derailed, and this shake up call (not a mere wake up call) was just what we deserved to help us rise from our deep slumbers.

We are all responsible for having badly polluted the environment and the rivers that are the lifeline for sustenance of Biodiversity. During the period of the lockdown imposed due to Covid Pandemic, one could clearly discern between the sky then, and the one before the lockdown. It was a sight to behold gazing at the clear blue sky, and the fresh blue water of the rivers during the period of the lockdown imposed during the months of March-April-May 2020. The air was far less toxic than it used to when we were all confined within the four walls of our homes, and the river waters too, were less contaminated. No rocket science, as it clearly established that we ‘humans’ in the never ending hullabaloo, and to achieve our targets, had caused massive damage to natural resources, and the environment on the whole.

We can’t be naive now so as to not realize that the ‘Nature’ was indeed, trying to teach us humility, discipline, and above all, compassion towards fellow humans.

The Pandemic led to people praying for their near and dear ones, and this again, makes us think if the Nature desires the humans to realize the ‘Power of Praying’.

The second wave of Pandemic in 2021 which can be aptly termed as a “Covid Tsunami” and not a mere ‘Covid wave’, saw desperate scenes of people making a beeline for buying oxygen for their loved ones. This again inspires us to think if the Nature is desiring that we all should go back to our roots, and spare some time towards environment by indulging in tree plantations. Do we need to be retold that our trees are our “Green Lungs”. Alongside the frantic efforts for buying oxygen, ventilators-concentrators and other essential medicines, the second surge of Covid- 2021 saw people realize the essence of vaccines.

The unending serpentine queues outside the vaccination centres spoke volumes that the citizens duly understood the importance of getting vaccinated. Compare this to the situation when some naysayers last year, had publicly spoken against the indigenous vaccines, and expressed apprehension about its safety and efficacy. In their quest of running down the present dispensation, these bunch of people, failed to quantify the damage that their highly irresponsible outburst, had caused to humanity overall.

Were they needed to be told the basics also, that spreading negativity and falsehood during a time as critical and catastrophic such as the Covid Pandemic tantamounts to total insensitivity and maliciousness.

As the 2021 Covid Tsunami wreaks havoc on Mankind, health experts are already warning of the outbreak of a possible third Covid surge that can be more deadly than the previous two. In such a scenario, we have no option, but to rethink that there underneath all this, lies a clear design of the Nature to bring back the ‘derailed Mankind’ back on its track.

In the never ending maddening quest for materialistic joys, why do we forget that we are all lesser mortals, and mere transitory tourists on Planet Earth?

Did we ever imagine even in the weirdest of our dreams that the “Temple of Learning” namely the educational institutions like the schools and colleges will be suddenly be out of bounds for the student fraternity. Did we ever imagine that a day will come when the sacred religious shrines will close its doors for the devotees? The answer is a ‘Big No’, simply because we had all taken life for granted, and never bothered to spare some time for germane issues of life namely ‘environment’, ‘immunity’ and ‘humanity’.

More than anyone, children for no fault of theirs, have been forced to bear the brunt because of the undoing’s of the elders. Not only have they been forced to remain away from schools, but also from playing grounds in the wake of the Pandemic. In such an eventuality, we can only assess the enormous stress that the tender ones might be undergoing in the present times as well as in the future, once Covid curve starts flattening.

With time, we will see the ramifications of “Covid Home Isolation” on the adult populace too. Besides the economic impact, it has irrefutably been a great challenge for all of us to not only remain socially distant from each other, but also remain in solitude.

It is time we understand the real intent of the Nature that aspires us to be better beings, and shed our parochial mindset.

“Humanity” has been the biggest lesson that the Covid Pandemic has taught all of us, and we must imbibe this in our integral system. Noting more noble and rewarding than to be of any service to fellow humans irrespective of their caste, creed or religion.

By Jasprit Singh
(Social Thinker & Crusader)