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“When life gets
tough, average men kneel down & surrenders but a few gets tougher than the
life & sail through”...
This has been said by nobody but me, thanks to lockdown
philosophy! Well, indirectly nearly fifteen days are complete of things getting
stand still & directly one week of total lockdown of entire country! Best
part is people are cooperating (what else they can do) & worst part is we
are most useless lot using all our creativity to crack silly (not funny) jokes
& share confusion & spread negativity when we have time at hand! In
short we are not at all used to sit idle & do something creative & with
due respect I am referring to majority of public as there are a few who are
trying to use this lockdown time for creating something productive which will
help others to fight with depression creeping in by doing nothing for
hours!
For e.g. there are few who are designing on-line workout programs,
some are planning on-line art work making sessions, some women (even men too)
are taking on line cooking classes, WHO has on line tips for being at peace,
even there are now on-line music conserts & news papers too & list is
increasing. But on other side most people are busy is sharing repeat forwards
& 99 out of 100 such people themselves have not read or seen what they are
forwarding, just by sharing such forwards they are trying to achieve two
things, one is spending their free time & second is trying to mark their
presence on whstap groups!
And then there are who are active in arranging support in
any form for the very few who still are
physically mobile & fighting the war actually on street , from their
offices i.e. most are govt personnels including few social organizations!
Yesturday it rained & a whtsap prank came to me
saying,"If you are confused what date & day is today then with the
rains you will now think which season is this!" Creative indeed but I
wish if we can use our creativity on better fronts also as nothing is more
waste than wasting creativity for wrong purposes. I don’t say humour is
bad & don’t crack jokes but its just one part of life or else life itself
becomes a joke, if overdose is done of jokes!
Coming down to implementation of lockdown, slowly the feeling is
sinking in the minds & though with all disasters in the past right from
bomb blasts, terror attacks, earth quakes, floods, swine flew out break we have
not learnt anything, hope at least this time we won’t forget lesson of facing
disaster! There has been epidemic terror in very recent past ie swine flew
& dengue types but I dont remember any of us learning any lesson from it
except buying masks & sanitizers to such extent that the only business in
this country is manufacturing of these two items! Neithe civic bodies (read as
govt) has any arrangement of qurentine places at hand nor people knew how to
face in such epidemic, as ususal! As this is what we are witnessing from
the efforts law enforcement authorities taking to make people remain in homes
& understand their responsibility towards the disaster! Agreed one should
not live under constant fear but one should be careful at least that much
is expected from learned grownups! And for that the
system i.e. govt is equally responsible as where were disaster management mock
drills towards epidemics, any ways just joking as in a country where mock drills
are not carried out even for fire or bomb blast, why I am expecting epidemic
mock drills! Oh, yes the mock-drills are carried sometimes by the police
& it’s about some imaginary terrorists holding hostages in some popular
mall (yes popular malls is a must or else how we will get publicity) & then
the commandos rescues the imagainery hostages, next day all media prints snaps
of police constables without any protection entering in mall on rescue mission
(just the way police are on roads today) & show is over. I even remember
seeing a snap of police constable handling a so called bomb in one such mock
drill news without even basic life jacket type protection, anyways; he knew its
mock drill! If this is scene with concerned govt depts' then no wonder in this
Smart City in half of the multi- storied buildings fire systems are down &
never repaired & not even 10% completed building’s residents has ever spent
for safety audit of the building ever, thats why when I am a true fool to expect
from govt mock drills & be ready for the disaster like virus attack; after
all govt is "of the people, by the people & for the people", perfectly
in tune with each other in disaster management, aren’t we??
If you think I am
sarcastic or negative, here is a test; call/whatsap your any ten friends (this
test includes your own self also) & ask him/her the contact numbers as well
address & details of local Disaster Management Cell (if he or she knows
what it means) & if even two people give right answer I will delete this
sharing from my blog! My daring to challenge you, itself is a proof of our ignorant
attitude as a society about not just this but any disaster & disaster doesn’t
comes with a warning call! Well, most disaster do, but we are too busy on
forwarding silly whatsap messages to ignore those warnings, that’s another
story!
Lastly, with all such background when it’s an epidemic disaster,
all it comes to individual immunity of human body & on this from we
are way ahead of any county in the world! Thanks to very basic things like
nearly 90% population of this country doesn’t has access to potable water by
WHO standards & yet we live on. When I have gone to my first trip to Europe
some two decades back, I casually asked a friend there about carrying drinking
water along while leaving from hotel as I knew buying a water bottle is costly
thing. On that, my friend proudly has said, no need to carry water, in Europe
you can just open up any tap & drink from it, that will be safe to drink
water! Well, here in our country its
exactly reverse, you can open up any tap or container & the water will be
equally unsafe to drink & yet we drink it & our life moves on, making
us able to digest anything, keeping us immune to most of virus or bacterial
attacks! This is scene in Pune the Smart City if you go to villages or even
towns then you will faint looking at the sources of water people drink from is
naked truth, search Google for live (and real life) images of water scene in
India! And I am not joking as when it comes to immunity it’s not water,
millions of people doesn’t get any basic sanitation, our public hospitals stinks
(most of them) & our workers who cleans our drainage lines doesn’t have access to any safety measures when they get down in the sewers to clean the mess
we only make & die due to toxic gasses! And why drainage cleaning crew, even
our doctor’s are used to perform major operations in a ventilation-less rooms
without light or proper operating safe equipments at hand. Our labors die in mines as there are no
life saving measures or training given to them & list or reasons by which
death comes to you in this country is endless! On top of all this, thousands of pregnant women get delivered with suffering labor pains in train bogies, on
bus stands, on roads, in fields & with bare minimum rest starts working
with baby at chest; yet life doesn’t stops & moves on here in this country!
And the new born survives again drinking unsafe water & eating no
healthy food, this is life cycle here which makes us immune to almost everything around!
But let’s put our past back & write something new at least
from this lesson as every time we can’t be saved by some miracle but we need to
adopt some good habits along with our inbuilt immunity, at least start
individually a bit more civic when its personal as well public hygiene &
raise our voices wherever we can on the issues of public health than just
petrol & gas prices hike or reservations!
Sometimes I wonder
about immunity of our countrymen, its more mental than physic, as how can
somebody survive in so adverse situations where every day is a suffering (for
most of them), but I think there only lies the hope for winning the present
battle! No wonder the most sacred words in this country are “Shradhha aur
Saburi” i.e. Faith & Patience, & it makes us top on immunity scale, Jai
Ho!
--
Sanjay Deshpande
Sanjeevani Dev.
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