Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Corona -Virus ... April14,2020. ( Memoir : PANDEMIC PARA DOX)

 April 14,2020. Corona-Virus.    ( The Memoir): Sipra Roy. 

                                                 (PANDEMIC_PARADOX )!

We are passing now through hard times.Normal way of living is ransacked by a deadly virus

named Covid-19. "Stay Home,Stay  Safe, Wash Your Hands" :This is the weird prescription  for

the global mass given by all doctors, politicians and well-wishers until the exact cause and

vaccination  against the disease is discovered.

Freedom of normal life  like taking a morning walk to a park near by , going to a movie or

restaurant with friends  has to be at the cost of life-risk.

This Covid19 has disrupted every sphere of life: our heart, soul, emotions, self understanding, our

whole  being. My daughter was full of concern and to calm down her I , though not serious, at the

 beginning, but listened to her and self-qurantined myself.There is no fire or smoke from gun, no

military truck ;but the frequent yelling siren of the  ambulance running through the deserted avenues

creates a painful but dumb hollowness in the mind; If 'social distance' is the most valuable commodity,  how can I

 take any  useful part  in the pandemic? My daughter replied   if you "Stay home" it will control the

 spread of disease ! Think that is helping the society  for  your part .Any way she made  some donation to "GO FUND ME".

No noisy war but a deadly atmosphere of  silence  is spread all around.

Inside  in the most of New York apartments  the scenario is different :As if playing a new drama ,on new stage!

Working from home keeps the young less tired So in the  Friday afternoon the chat-room of video and

   zoom become very busy to active  social  life.They call their parents or closed one and ask to follow

the  rules . I entertained myself by listening them as a non member  Eaves-dropper!

Their discussions spin mostly around food channel (The second instinct after fear ): Like how much

grocery they have stocked or, how  much they are in crisis for the scarcity of food, because home-

staying children are grabbing too  much to empty the  refrigator. It is hard to cope with their

 hunger;  some  are complaining about their husbands who have become intolerable for their growing idleness and demand for enjoying  bed . If Corantine

continues indefinitely, lots of divorce cases will be filed  shooting towards another potential social problem!

While some are sharing the  innovative ideas to utilize the excess fruits and vegetables they have

ordered ; an innovative boutique of culinary creativity!   It seems  that they are ready to start their own restaurant as soon as they will get over the  pandemic !
  All of them enquired whether they have stocked enough the 'most essentials' : enough tissue-paper,Toilet paper  sanitizers and etc, etc,


 Thanks to the benefit of technology;  it replenishes the gap of social distance by introducing Zoom and video-conference in large scale.

I have not to be bothered  with the above problems. As  my daughter is working from home, I get whole-time care from her.

Since lock down I listen the speech of Andrew Cuomo: It gives painful gloomy picture.  My social life

is limited to mostly DOROT.  When I came to know about Carol and Marsha , I really felt the impact

  of the Corona Virus.:
 In the TV  the repeated news relayed  only"increase of numbers ,and the numbers with 

  no names ,no faces "strikes  on

me like  waves,  and the description of  viewing the  pale moon hiding behind the high rising building

leaving its gleam"......is so metaphorical !

".......Let  us carry the 'gleam' that significantly represents  the hope that we will overcome the

pandemic, as we did in the past  to combat against  the lethal   viruses.



I think about the relentless service of the doctors, nurses health-carers, and the employees who

deliver medicines, food and essentials to run the city-life smooth at the cost of life-risk , are  really

 as adorable as angels .

Here in Manhattan right at 7:PM citizens  cheer in chorus with  bell to  greet them ! The positive

side  against the dark screen is " rising of  Human  Love.": Lots of donations and eager volunteers are

coming forward  for required help ; politics, religion  racial differences are swept by  human

love. Hope, Our medical science  to be  equipped more rough and taught to cope with and protect the

global health in  coming days.

I will mention a contrast picture of  the nature of human society with the animal world.

 New York is well-known for the rodent population. Yesterday I read that millions of  rats came out

from the subway in search of food . As the restaurants are closed  and trash-can are empty  the hungry

rodents have turned militant. They are fighting with one another for the land and food  and   grabbing

their own babies.!!

I mentioned this  incident  to notice that rodents are also carriers of disease ; let not it stand in

waiting list  to  invade us next! 
 
                                              [{. IN.  COVID __COMPLEX}]

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