CORONA VIRUS, TOPIC OF THE WORLD TODAY

For the last few weeks the whole world is moving towards a total  shut down due to the shocking appearance of  Corona Virus or Covid -19 with its multiple dangers and repercussions on global economy, health, culture and social life.

This is not the first time that the world is facing  a calamity of such proportion and doomsday forecasts in the form of videos and articles are becoming a regular feature. The 21^st century began with the forecast of the World ending on 1^st January 2000 and a huge public believed in its actual happening and seriously waited for the end in India!

The jolt given by Corona Virus may force the people  world over to introspect and find out  why such disasters are taking place so regularly and do we humans need to change to survive or continue following the same path and perish.

The main reason behind such  disasters is human greed and its lust to conquer the world and Nature. The entire History of countries are full of wars fought to capture other countries or to prove their supremacy as a Race . The biggest  blunder is the constant abuse of Nature. Having mastered the land, sea , sky , mountains and even space  with the scientific  inventions human beings are not satisfied and countries are perpetually in a race to be  the most powerful in the world. The natural outcome is fighting Wars directly or helping proxy wars among  various countries.

Countries that created most advanced weapons of destruction prospered by supplying  them to the countries aspiring to become advanced.  In ancient times wars were fought by brave soldiers on the battlefield but now two warring countries are fighting with invisible  support from  weapon supplying countries creating immense suffering to their citizens. Nobody  is trying to change this instead more advanced scientific research is being carried out to find  ways to destroy countries without fighting actual wars . Nano technology and bio warfare are two  examples of this mindset. I had read a novel in which the Nano , almost invisible, weapons created  were so potent it melted  huge number of human bodies , a really scary scenario.  The news of a book published in 1981 describing  China  creating Virus in a laboratory to destroy other cities is  being circulated , seems to prove that the experiment failed and  boomeranged  .

One thing is sure writers anticipated and imagined the future situations quite correctly. The monster Frankenstein was  imagined by Mary Shelley as early as 1818 and it may be a reality someday.   Similarly  English Writer George Orwell’s dystopian novel  1984  could describe very accurately in his book about the life of citizens if the state took over the privacy and freedom of its citizens , people  in several countries behind Iron curtains faced  this situation  in their life .

Panic about pandemic is not going to help. We all know one has to leave this world someday. The way there are various modes of transportation in life to travel there are several ways to leave this world like accidents, disease , old age ,natural disasters and epidemics. Best way to deal  with any difficult situation is to  take recommended precautions and   to have faith in destiny. Spreading fear is the worst kind of overreaction.

One thing is sure , Corona virus will be remembered as the greatest uni-fier of the century for countries are collaborating like never before  and it has obliterated the class distinction .The president of the most powerful country is as  vulnerable as a common man of any poor country.

Let me end this blog on a lighter, optimistic note. The mathematical predictions about the Corona Virus is that 1 person can give the virus to 100 persons easily therefore if  one reader of my blog circulates it to 99 others the blog will go viral.