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2020 – A Monologue

 I am not a historian. Neither is a literary nor an intellect. What I feel as a common man, I tend to pen down and keep a log of things as I see from my point of view. I see it as a scribble of my thoughts on paper.

 

2020 started like any normal year previous to this but who knew things will take such swing in mid March. Corona virus aka COVID-19 and its spreading wave shook the Globe. Imposition of lock-down changed the whole scenario in India. Aimed to protect our country from spreading of Covid attack, this lock-down turned the table on its head.   How, the lock-down impacted life of commons is truly unthinkable. Whether corona got restricted or not is highly debatable, but one thing is for sure, improvidence in implementing lock-down cost more lives than corona did. In a country like India, where economic imbalance is strikingly palpable, imposing lock-down brought about curse on thousands and Lakhs of Indians, mostly daily wagers, or small time workers lost their jobs. Their life, already by no stretch of imagination was tough to live, made even harder to face hunger & health issues.

 

As for our state, aids and medication from Government was not sufficient and on top of that reaching out to needy hands did stumble thanks to long practised middleman system. On and on, no matter the intent, effectiveness of lock-down was counterproductive. Having said that, it is undeniable that our fellow countrymen were also very lackadaisical in observing the basic guidelines lay down by administration. Political traders, for their own vested interest, overruled anti pandemic safety measures to organise rampant rallies and public gatherings and thereby making the issue even complicated. However, with the advent of vaccines by year end, at one hand people were sighing relief, on the other hand becoming more and more careless. The largest democracy in the world fighting the biggest pandemic of 21st century, also showcased non-transparent distribution module, where commitment and performance are like two rails of a railway track, never meet each other.

 

Amidst of all these, there came the 2nd wave, as predicted by the experts, taken us completely off-guard. Although, warned well ahead, no one paid heed to it. What resulted!! More casualties & catastrophe. Inadequate health infrastructure, sagging economy due to lock-down, people do not know what to do. Be it State or Centre, Governments allegiance seems to be more for their own political benefit rather than peoples well being. Large section of people became jobless by mid 2021, adding to the woes of unemployment ratio of our country. It is amazement that how, an unprecedented situation like COVID can bring a country, boasted as upcoming economic superpower in the start of year 2020, reeling with joblessness and inadequate health infrastructure.  

 

While we are standing in the middle of 2021, a 3rd wave of COVID is being forecasted, which is supposed to hit our society by October’2021. These are hard times and we need to be at our best to sail this tide over.      

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