It is fourteen months now since the serious thinking about finding the remedy and relief from the Covid Pandemic started and the first 21 day lockdown was ordered to be observed. The Pandemic had taken the world unawares and resulted not only in massive loss of human lives, but also economic slowdown, huge loss of jobs and employment, mass exodus of Labour , a stop to all educational activity as a result of forced closure of all institutions like schools and colleges.
Amid all the disastrous consequences , there was a lurking hope that the Vaccine which was in the vigorous process of being developed would see the light of the day, hit the market and provide much needed relief if not prove a panacea. There was some respite in the months of October & November which continued through January and some part of February. Come March and the start of Vaccination drive throughout the country and the Pandemic strikes again with much more force and intensity. Also on the flip side are the avoidable elections and the large scale state sponsored celebration of Kumbh Mela, the gatherings in both cases throwing all caution to the winds .No doubt till this time we had Covid centres and Hospitals established and running, and some semblance of a system in place. Unfortunately we lost many Corona warriors to Pandemic.
As of today, are we any better than last year? I think rather worse, with the panicky situation arrived at due to shortage of oxygen required to be administered to serious patients and many losing life due to this only.
As if this was not enough, close on the heels have arrived Black Fungus and White Fungus to add to the woes and suffering.
In short, the Covid has outsmarted all human endeavour.
God save us all !!
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