Corona Virus Part 4, Pro And Con of Lockdown Days And Need to Do More

               My weekly corona diaries are going on for the past few weeks for the need to contain the virus. Let me delve on some positives and negatives these lockdown days have brought for my own self. The lives of people all over the world have been affected by the virus. It has been the job of invisible miniature to spread a negative or positive aura over the humanity. Everyone has been restricted to homes and all those who lead normal lives before have seen a drastic changes in the lifestyle. It might take few months before we see a relapse of good(or bad) old days prior to corona. I gradually slipped into the new mode of living, working from home for most part of the day, away from office for a month till date. Going to office gave me a place to spend some time away from home but now I was blocked to enter any other place or get separated from family. Though it is not a problem, the problem comes with my regular activities day in and day out during the lockdown time.

               I am engaged in doing something or the other everyday and this activity is not going down well with the onlookers. Since they are restricted to the homes and I am roaming freely by engrossing myself in something - this is seemingly hurting a lot of people. I have no intention to hurt someone willfully or make someone jealous about me by my actions. But it is all happening and I am living these days by hurting others or they are living by taking the hurt. I don’t like this dimension of the corona-induced life of mine or others lives - living with wounds inflicted by me. They are already feeling bad about the house arrest and the further mental agony caused by me is like adding insult to injury. Just for instance, writing this blog once a week must have hurt a lot of people. There are many such instances which are inflicting wounds. What will the wounded crowd do – they will further drive me crazy, saying I am a bit slow with my actions and need to speed up. I am already travelling at 100 miles an hour and if I further speed up, it will be insane and crazy. I loathe when someone asks me to be fast. This is not good for me to travel so fast, not good for the crowd to get the impact from such high speeds and will end up in mutual destruction. The importance of staying cool is more relevant these days and people should encourage coolness rather than egging to be crazy. It might help if I work 5 days a week and take 2 days for relaxation for some time. I would like people to encourage me in that direction rather than going to the extent of spoiling it for everyone.

               Being so eventful and regular also poses lot of risk and security concerns. I can feel I am constantly living with danger these days taking huge risks, living by chance or probability rather than living in a safe zone. My heart is constantly in the spotlight and its beatings are everyone's interest. Many of them who are hurt try to kill me or I become unstoppable myself and it is never new to me. I live the life of a soldier in the Indo-Pak border with many terrorists and soldiers trying to kill. It is like the situation where there is a blood sucking mosquito and they had to kill. I should not suck the blood at first and it is foolish to expect not to be killed. They are doing what they had to do. But getting killed is nothing new to me. I must have been killed hundreds of time till date and I overpowered the attempts to be still alive. Whatever I achieved is because of taking these huge risks, going to any extents and rebirths every now and then. These corona days just amplified the danger. I might not be killed by corona but the lifestyle during these lockdown days might pose a threat. You should not play with fire for long before getting doused in it. I can feel some of them trying to protect me and it is their efforts that are proving to be the deciding factor. For all that I am doing I would like to request highest security standards to myself from one and all to ward off any attempts. When I am in U.S., those dumb idiots used to provide me security through which I used to roam freely. When a big idiot provides security there will be no threat to you from other smaller idiots. But these days, I am not going to U.S., the threat has increased and it is my miss. There are many protectors of holy cow like me in India as well which is why I am still out of any real danger. During these risky times, protection can further guarantee few more days without much anxiety. This is all about the downside of my corona living.

               Coming to the positive side, the lockdown days have provided me a chance to do more and be a real karma yogi or the person of action. It is one of the paths of spiritual practise, while the other prominent ones are Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga. All my life, I am not a man of action and I rarely does something on the ground. The only thing I did was to travel to foreign nation three times. While I am making these foreign trips, there came a question - what did you do in the home land? The answer is simple – I did nothing for the home land till then. But it is something which was etched in my mind and requires action from my end to satisfy myself of the probing question. My action lies in travelling to foreign country and not about doing something in home country. At last this was corrected and I was doing much more in the community I am living. As the thought unfolded into a conviction, you need to do much more for getting great results for the country. Our country is lagging in every parameter and every field due to lack of results and due to inaction.

               If you want to eradicate poverty, you need to act, improve literacy - you need to act, improve human development index - you need to act, improve health and nutrition - you need to act, improve skill development – you need to act, improve agriculture and farming – you need to act, improve basic infrastructure – you need to act, improve in science and technology – you need to act, improve in sports – you need to act. In all these above fields, the nation is lagging even the global average. We can boast the country is great and everything else in talk but in reality very little has been done and the bad results are there for everyone to see. We need to talk little, display less and do more. While we are chest thumping about our achievements, the data always points otherwise. Based on the data published by an Indian body(ICRIER) itself, if we leave the developed countries aside, even among the select 7 emerging economies, India is last in inclusive development index, last in education or skill, below median in employment or labour, among the last in asset building or entrepreneurship. The results and data in these fronts only point to the lack of proper action in the country. There is much more left to do with very little done.

              Moving on to the corona virus pandemic, there are 26.62 lakh confirmed cases of the virus and 1.83 lakh deceased people in the world. In the past week itself, 4.62 lakh new cases are added and 40 thousand passed away. This weekly infected rates and death rates should come down drastically for any country to open itself and free the lockdown restrictions. For every country to function normal, no traces of it should be left in the world since it is highly contagious. The U.S. and the Europe are so irresponsible to themselves and to the entire world that it takes longest amount of time for this highest numbers to come down to zero. There is a chance of recurrence even if it is brought to minimum and the road to recovery is long and the nations need to balance tackling corona with other important activities. The best way to deal is quickly invent a vaccine or medicine for the virus. I am not talking about HCQ or any other fictitious drug which has been branded as a cure and sent the world into HCQ-buying hysteria and selling the theory that it cures when there is no proven record that it would cure the virus. It is too early to fixate on some drug as a definite cure and bully a nation into exporting the same to every other country. It is premature to prescribe a dangerous drug as cure to little known novel virus. There is a lengthy process in approving a drug as cure to a disease and by subverting them all, you are much more endangering the already endangered lives of virus-infected people. Summing up, a responsible effort towards cure or vaccine to the virus must come out as quickly as possible from any part of the world and must reach everyone in real quick time. It is a great opportunity for someone and a benefit for everyone while in the midst of the pandemic.