How often do people reflect on their lives and improve themselves? Most of the time, and especially as we grow older, we, humans, tend to think that we know more because we have lived our life longer. But the truth is, how much is ‘more’? Because of the certain experience that we encounter in life, we often create an auto-defense system to protect ourselves from the same ‘injury’. But how often do we remind ourselves from repeating the same mistakes before we start to suffer again from the blunders that we knew we could have avoided. To some, this might sound familiar. That there is this inner voice that tells us over and over again, that we are not supposed to do that; and yet we chose to ignore the voice and proceed with our actions, daringly and blatantly, confessing on our courage to face any uncalled-for consequences.
The same applies to the current pandemic situation all of us are facing now. Everyone across the world are sharing the same feelings and thoughts about Covid19. When it started way back in early 2020, we looked forward to 2021 because experts believed that when vaccines were made available by then, we will all be saved and we will be able to go back to our normal lives. Nevertheless, we were proven wrong when the second and third waves of the Corona virus appear. And it came almost immediately right when we thought we have won the first battle against it. Lockdowns were implemented by many countries across the globe as they realise this was perhaps the best way to curb the spread of the virus since it is at its greatest transmission rate caused by gathering among humans. For the first time in history (at least in the one that I am living in now), we saw a lockdown (which is similar to curfews which took place during world war time), but this time due to small particles which we cannot even see with our bare eyes.
What has the world gone into? All of a sudden, we are all fighting against this unseen yet powerful virus. It is perhaps even more scary than nuclear weapons. More than 3.7millions lives were lost due to Covid and more than 172million people were infected worldwide.
In my country, we are facing the second biggest lockdown ever since 2020 and this time, we are fighting even harder. I could see us making headlines in other country’s news definitely not for something we are proud of. But it all started because people were too complacent. Just when the number of cases came down, people started to take things lighter. Social activities were allowed when none of us were vaccinated yet. When people were told to stay at home and to reduce unnecessary travel, many rushed back to their hometown to see their loved ones. But for some, that “meeting” with their loved ones was the last one because they did not know that not only did they bring back love but also the unseen virus to their loved ones. And then people regretted their actions and blamed themselves. But had they not been warned before so? We had gone through this for one round way back in 2020. Do we really think that this virus would succumb so easily? There are even people who refuse to be vaccinated.
How long more do we need to go through this ordeal. How many more lockdowns do we need to go through before people realize the severity of this virus. Even though we could see many sharing their experience and fight with the virus in the social media, there are many others who do not fear it and kept giving excuses to leave the house or disregard the standard procedures shared by the authorities. And yet, these strongly stated their fear against death? Maybe these people are very confident that they will not be the “unlucky” ones. Just as when the data shows the calculation of the probability of infection among a million people.
But if given a choice, would you rather play lucky or play safe?
Let’s do our part in curbing this, register for vaccination and play our role in this war against this tiny yet dangerous virus.
