When the most reputed newspapers and media outlets around the world were airing India’s unprecedented medical fiasco, the people continued to grapple for a puff of oxygen elsewhere in Delhi and other parts of the country.
From the past few days in Kashmir as well, numerous reports of unforeseen Covid related deaths have sounded the alarm bells across the valley. Even some of these cases have reported contracting the deadly double-mutant variant which is a matter of serious concern for us all. However, it’s not the mutation only but the unavailability of adequate medical facilities that should captivate our concerning thoughts more than anything else.
Nature has shown its might again wherein humans have to recognize themselves as a humble part of an enormous delicately balanced system, which once disturbed comes crumbling down with a domino effect. This reality is visible today especially in the regions where Covid has mercilessly wreaked its havoc.
The question still remains boggling in one’s mind: Hasn’t nature provided us with enough resources to counter such an invisible enemy? Sadly, the answer is a big yes wherein resources worth billions of dollars and rupees have been used on manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.
If these resources were aptly and judiciously used for public welfare then there would have been enough availability of life saving ventilators and oxygen concentrators, that would have averted the terrible spectacle of death we witness today and thousands of people would have lived on.
This minuscule virus has exposed the snootiness and pride we collectively enshrine as Human beings. Regrettably, we still possess enough resources to destroy but very less to save lives with. This contagion is a wakeup call for the modern man to introspect his numerous achievements and simultaneously question the self; whether it is worth it to stake every human society thriving on this blue planet.
