TURNING THE THREAT TO OPPORTUNITY

Avdhesh Jha

Health as we are aware is the state of being free from abnormal situation whether physical or mental. The state of being ill, weak, tired, anxiety, stress, fatigue, anger, hatred, revenge, extreme love or attraction, betrayal, fear, challenge is not considered to be healthy. Anyone who is suffering whether physically, mentally, socially, economically, aesthetically, emotionally, ethically, morally or spiritually is not healthy. Health being the fundamental unit of well-being remains the base and the basis for all animal. Being healthy is a boon but unfortunately in the era of development based on money or capitalism, its questionable, if any human is really healthy? The Quadro of wish, time, money and energy is very special here. In youth or early adulthood when we have wishes, time and energy, we don’t have money; in middle adulthood, when we have wishes, money and energy, we don’t have time; in late adulthood when we have energy, time and money, we are too busy to ensure if we have wishes and in old age when we have time, wishes and money, we die struggling for energy. Wishes are all time but they are hardly cared for. It is said that health is wealth and if it is true, can we say that human is really wealthy? Health although being the basic aspect of human life, it is the only one which remains the most neglected. With the fact that economical health exists in every aspect of human society and human health; with respect to the human and the human society, human health can be categorised in hierarchy as physical health, emotional health, mental health, social health, moral health and spiritual health. 

The world terrorised with pandemic having the power and strength to attack the human body, mind and soul remains under critical phase of health and hygiene. In 21^st century, when the human ambition and strife leads the human mind far of galaxies and planets; directly or indirectly, this micro-organism challenged the world in such a way that the whole world is shocked and shattered. More than the virus, the fast spreading news about the possibility of getting infected and its consequences attacked the human existence and its harmony but human is no less to raise itself in any situation. China, the first infected country, with its readiness to control the virus strongly adhered to complete isolation and thus recommended isolation to the world. The lessons from China depicts that with due care and strong adherence of control on movement by each individual, this virus can exist no more. China did it and still adheres to it with utmost care and severity and on the same lines, to avoid any similar painful event. To avoid similar situation, well in advance India posited controls with lock down. With lots of happenings and mis-happenings the lock down was not very successful because of the baseless, clueless and thoughtless decisions that turned the lockdown more a chaos. But again, every event has two sides and so has this event. This painful and panicking event is not at all good but this terror and trauma of the human mind and world has also added to the human, society and world.

Whether the cognitive, psychomotor or the affective domain of human, COVID 19 has impacted each domain and all types of human health. Whereby it threated the human existence, it helped the human to ponder on his requirements and achievements. The little virus with its spurious and speedy reach to the world affected the human as an individual physically, mentally, morally, ethically, emotionally, socially, economically and spiritually whereas it affected the world with respect to development, economy, socialism, ethics and spiritualism but simultaneously it added to the spirit of the human and the world and thus led to the rethinking for its development and the real requirements.

With the observations of data depicting 2-5% mortality rate, COVID 19 is not the only dangerous one, yet, as of now the world treats it as the most dangerous. Although, not with extreme contagious capacity, the media as a tool of technological development with its reach and accessibility to each home and individuals across the globe turned the possible effect of this pandemic as the reason of the terror in each human mind. Whereas the ignorance, fake ego, reputation and the lack of control of human mind is also responsible for the reach of this virus to every part of the world even the human bitterness lead with arrogance, hatred, discrimination and difference within the society is responsible for the spread of this virus. The COVID 19 proved to be the mightiest not because of its transmission speed, rapid multiplication, its contagious ability and fastest spread but because of the technological development, lack of control of mind, ignorance among the people, inadequate medical infrastructure,  lack of readiness and preparedness for the pandemic, other priorities of the system and its authorities, casual outlook towards the situation, the inefficiency of the system to setback the virus, as well the hype and exaggeration of pandemic created by the western countries that turned this situation as the battle and even worse. It is this hype and exaggeration that turned it as a grave battle which turned as a war against humanity. In a way, the lack of preparedness of the system added to the spread and transmission of the little corona turning it mighty and gigantic.

It was this time that drew the attention towards human health. It was observed that most of the people suffered from physical health and others suffered from emotional and mental health. The pandemic with its negative energy and power created lot of differences and enforced human to keep away of human. When the sympathy and empathy was required, the human driven by the force of their safety, security and ignorance about its cure turned weird and selfish. Whereby the infected and the sufferers might have been looked upon with mercy at most places they were treated as the species endangering the humanity or as if the virus itself. The lack of medical facilities, ignorance of doctors and panicked leadership rendered the human helpless and turned system insensible and cruel towards many. This turned to be the time of politics for many merciless inhuman newsmongers who abused the technology and added to the uproared fake news which spurred with all its might because of the individuals spreading it by sharing it to many without its authentication.

Whereas a little of common sense, care, courage, caution, control, discipline, patience, hope, selfless action, trust and humane was required in most cases it was turned to need gratification carelessness, restlessness, recklessness, uncontrol, indiscipline, impatience, despair, selfishness, distrust, and being inhumane. The mad-self started with the fight for life but soon because of the poverty and the unsatisfied needs for existence turned it to be a fight of livelihood for the satisfaction of their basic needs. This need oriented people suffering of the terror of poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, lack of understanding of value of life and lack of basic needs had only choice to join the fight for the satisfaction of their basic needs. Its pity the number of such fighters was huge enough to turn this fight as a war and thus willingly they opted, joined and supported this everlasting, all time existing fierce war without any weapon and if at all it was only their spirit to survive.

In this fight with the virus, each one started with the idea of security with positivity towards life. Those with ability to survive because of economic support ended up with control and precaution. Its tragic that others because of lack of economic support ended up with helplessness and some of them even lost life. At this time there were a few who behaved normally and ended up with humane. It was unfortunate that the crisis started with selection of life but many had to think for livelihood and many lost their lives. In any situation, the collection in the form of donation has turned very common supported generously by people at large but simultaneously people should also think for the people around them who with their hard work have been striving for live. It is not the disease but the fear of the consequence of the disease that posits as a threat. Knowingly unknowingly sometimes the society enters in to such panicking situations because of malign intentions of the malafides. It’s only the patience, precaution, care and humanity that will help the society to overcome that threat and turn it as an opportunity to turn life easy and thus help humanity to prevail.