Life under Lockdown

We are facing the prevalent global crisis of our generation where a virus has spread to all countries by infecting more than a million people. This overwhelming state of affairs has created fear, anxiety, stress, and melancholy among people. The solution of it seems to take life under lockdown condition as soon as possible.

It’s no longer when we got the news of an epidemic breakdown of a virus that first started to build its roots in Wuhan city, China. That was December of 2019 when the news and epidemic spread just like a forest fire. Later on, WHO identified that virus as Corona Virus and they named it “COVID-19”. In the early days of breakdown most of the people were not taking it seriously because to them it was just flu or something like that, but to their surprise it proved lethal. China, the most populous country of the world took such effective measures to ensure lockdown to prevent further outbreaks because it was increasing its sufferers from hundreds to thousands within a few days. With introducing effective as well as preventive measures, they ensured implementations for more security.

The world under the influence of COVID-19

By 26 February 2020, the number of cases in China began to decline but the graph turned to increase rapidly in Iran, Italy, and other countries. The world was under a panic situation when the number of COVID-19 positive patients tend to increase enormously. But the horrible fact behind that situation was the negligence and non-serious attitude of the people. No one was taking it seriously. Governments of the countries imposed lockdown all over their vicinity to reduce the outbreak and death tolls, but in return, people started hanging out with their friends and families outside. Most of them consider it as normal flu or fever and even claiming that the mortality rate because of coronavirus is just 2%, Woah! Like seriously?

We are aware of the fact that most of the deaths all over the world are just because of heart attacks or some other diseases. But it doesn’t mean that we should start making fun of such a life taking situation. People took it seriously when near about a thousand people died in Italy by taking the death rate on top of the list. The whole scenario was miserable when the army carriages brought dead bodies to bury them without even showing them to their families. Can you even imagine how hard time could be?

Iran and Italy were the countries with the highest mortality and suspected rates, while China, the root of that coronavirus at once took control over it while the deaths and corona virus-positive patient rate stopped at a certain number with no more outbreaks.

 

Corona Virus in Pakistan

The first case of coronavirus in Pakistan reported on 26 February 2020. In the earlier time, the numbers of cases were increasing by the speed of snail but to our surprise from 16 March, the COVID-19 positive patients turned to double and triple. As we all are aware of our desi people jot down their desi totkas to fight against the deadliest Corona Virus. There was a rapid exchange of messages by our elders that Onion is the best remedy to cure COVID-19 patients. Wow, the scientists and doctors of the world were burning the midnight oil to find a remedy but our desi families were relaxed as they found the accurate solution.

The situation wasn’t the same in the whole country, as there are many responsible and sensible people are here, they played a significant role to introduce awareness among people. The mass media played its major role in making people aware of the fact that stop taking this virus as a joke and try to take some preventive measures against it.

When the pilgrims visited from Iran to Pakistan, there was another controversy among some sects that these are the Shias who brought that virus here. Some were blaming western countries and tried to impose that this virus is only a curse to Kafirs. But what would they like to say now when this COVID-19 is not even taking care of any age, sect, religion, caste, and country. This kind of attitude of a few people is the major fact in devastating the very foundations of a nation. So, we have to stop this kind of attitude.

Social Distancing-COVID-19

Later on, when advertisements began to introduce consciousness among people, they started a panic in that situation. Yeah, we desi people often do “overacting” in any situation. But the need is to fight against that Corona Virus. Now you don’t need to get a rifle or scalpel to kill that virus, you just try to keep some distance from everyone. There was a slogan playing on every news channel that “Corona se Darna naheen Larna hai”. There was a need for social distancing to be introduced.

Yo, here again, the situation was overwhelming when there was an introduction of another word in our vocabulary, “QUARANTINE”. The meme lovers started making memes by using the word quarantine in each of their sentences. The people under quarantine were spending their time with difficulty and they are the only ones who can only justify their pain. But instead of high lockdown and preventive measures, the number of cases is increasing rapidly by reaching up 3000 plus within a few days.

 Stay Home, Save Lives

There is a need to take this situation seriously by taking recommendations under concern introduced by experts. No one knows where this destruction will go. The only thing in our control is to stay home, stay safe , and save the lives of our loved ones. We are the only ones who can save our elders. Please try to follow all-important instructions to avoid any contact with corona virus-positive patients. We can make a difference by staying far from each other, not by staying together because this is the need of the hour.