COVID DIARIES
#Devalued struggles
Medicines have become a part of our diet and masks — a part of our attire. A cup of hot water replaced the bed coffees and steam therapy came to be the new norm. Sanitizer became a worshipable entity in our households! Things have changed drastically as fear took its toll…
The world was on its knees, helpless and feeble. Businesses ran down, shops were shut, congregations were banned, travel was prohibited and roads were stranded. The whole globe was in a complete lockdown under the strenuous vigilance of death through its messenger — COVID.
Upon the countries plunged in darkness with immense terror, shone its rays of hope, a profession often trivialized — the field of medicine! Draped in sheets of polymer, it seemed, God descended onto Earth, to protect us from this deadly wrath. Doctors became our only saviours!
Times existed when doctors were misdeemed for cases of medical negligence or criticized for assumed inability in saving lives, by men in grief of their personal loss. Why should a person go to an extent of putting his life at peril and his family at stake for people who have failed to acknowledge him? “Call of Duty” is just NOT the reason to justify this! Stories have surfaced where in practitioners have been back to their jobs in barely a day after the loss of their loved ones only to make sure that no one else suffers the same fate!
“Strength comes not merely from physical capacity; it comes from indomitable will”
In times when its hard for us to even imagine standing next to person with severe cold, these men with humongous courage have stably sought to confront this menacing disease.
Perhaps it requires such depths of loss to truly recognize and value such heights of service… Doctors, health workers and the medical practitioners were honored with titles of ‘Frontline Warriors’. But a greater honor for them would be to see faces with masks and uncrowded bus stops… A much better honor would be to gift them with empty roads and vacant shops by staying home. Lets do our part to keep Corona virus at bay…
“Doctors and practitioners are working alike
Striving hard to keep us all alive;
As we sit home with a constant yike,
For not making it to a party we like!”
Stay Home, Stay Safe! Bye for now…
