It is not a fight against Pandemic!

It is not a fight against Pandemic!

-Sukanya Singh

What to utter? How to? Blaming right? Trolling? Sarcastic memes? India is a developing country. It is growing from multi spheres right from agriculture to trade to transport to health care to security aspects to science and technology, education to cultural arenas to social chapters. We think with the help of immense collaboration of people from different walks of life, a collective decision making would modify and keep on bringing in positive changes to our country. What I would convey these as our ‘imagination’. Why because in the past few months, during the lockdown period, I have noticed one thing that, in a situation like ‘pandemic’ stage, people could not even function certain operations peacefully and as 'one'. I literally observed two distinct types of war. One, the ‘external’ due to the outburst of Covid-19 and second one, ‘internal’ due to the misleading information that was intentionally typed up by some section of the population on their facebook profiles, stories or whatsapp statuses, tweets or any other public information carrier platforms. Almost whole of the lockdown witnessed the criticise, taunting and all the negative speeches from some sections of people. How can a nation like India would develop in such a way? What I saw it as a ‘political biased fight’ rather than a fight against the dangerous pandemic.

I went through many posts, tweets and other such stories of some people and got to know that some people are focusing somewhere else rather than where they should actually. To take out the answer of the ‘because’ aspect of the statement above, make a flashback of the initial lockdown days. We knew we were all prone to the deadly virus if we go out. Lockdown was imposed. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi humbly requested all the citizens of the country to stay calm and engage into some activities. One was to boost up the people such as the doctors, nurses and other such individuals who were working like anything day and night equally for the covid affected patients in the hospitals by ringing bells and clapping from their balconies, without stepping outside their homes. The second activity was to light the earthen lamps, candles, torch lights, mobile flash lights and other illuminating objects from people’s balconies. The other sources of light were asked to be switched off inside the house for some time. It was a symbolic act against the darkness spread by the corona crisis as stated by the Prime Minister of India.

 

What do we see next? Right from the very first speech for the nation by Narendra Modi, some sections of the people did not cooperate at all. It was observed that some people took this event lightly and stepped out of their homes to pay tribute to all those brave hearts working for the patients. On the other hand, some 'educated fools' created a scenario and mislead the other people of the society as if the Prime Minister told the people to come out of their homes and celebrate the first event in that way. Again when the second activity was announced, some of the people already started to post that such an activity is useless, baseless and that would lead to certain accidents. Some created memes of diwali, pictures showing burning houses, etc. These people should have at least minimum level of understanding that there are some members especially the illiterates of the society, the children or the teens who might not have the ability to understand such memes or sarcasm. A mere picture is enough to influence and misguide them. They might not know what the world is suffering from. They might not know what is corona virus and what is it doing to people. The sections of people who were at their possible pace to make the world know that these are baseless activities, they should have this much of sensibility that Prime Minister did not tell people to burn the houses nor celebrate diwali. Again those people should have this much of knowledge that no any matured person would ask a small child or a kid to light the earthen lamp or burn a candle and if it is then for sure not without the elder’s presence. They are not so foolish to select a place to do so where they see something dangerous. People light diyas and other sources of light and they have the understanding of where to light and how to light. Sometimes accident might take place but this did not mean that just because the Prime minister told and it happened. We witness many such accidents in our day to day lives.

 

 

It is very pathetic situation when people did not stop making criticising statements or sarcastic memes or posting any other misleading information during such a worse condition of the country. Instead of helping each other to inform about the actual cause and remedy, these sections of people were seen misguiding others with their self made stories via different social public platforms; which were actually reflecting their distinct 'political biased fight'. A country would never get developed if such things keep on happening every now and then. It is a humble request to all to maintain peace and harmony. It is time we stood together and fight against the pandemic rather than to sow the seeds of hatred, faulty information to provoke others and reflecting stories that are of no use and value.

As a responsible citizen of India, I have just outlined certain mistakes of some of the people of the society who entitled the rest with ‘thalibajao morons’ and request them not to continue such ill practices, so as to make our country happy and more powerful than before. I request all to work positively for the betterment of the country and follow humanity.