COVID-19 AND NEW LIFE STYLE
By Tarun Shrivastava, Nagpur
The world has been taken by storm with the beginning of COVID-19 novel corona virus affecting almost all countries in the beginning of 2020. Most of the countries have been fighting and battling the new war in their own ways. I have more or less concluded that this virus is going to stay and we have to develop new way of life style in every sphere of life.
Any virus, require a vaccine to counter its effect. With the world working round the clock sharing each other’s experiments is working hard to examine the solutions. The estimate life size of any vaccine development is always going to be another six to eight month or may be one year. By this time the novel corona must have taken many derivative shapes. Thus, the challenge of living with Covid-19 is going to be around us.
We must now accept these facts, and design a new life style and protocol in every business and personal life too. We must learn to live with social distancing, frequent hand washing, wearing mask, using Aarogya Setu App etc. Change is inevitable and thus, we must learn to unlearn many things including certain customs and manner in which we were functioning and adapt to the new methods and rituals.
With so many negatives of the virus, let us also look at the opportunity which it has come to fore that needs to be recognized and tapped. The people are now going to recognize the importance of digitization and modernization. We will learn new method of doing business using electronic and automation. Extra ordinary situations will lead to extra ordinary solutions. Thus, life will have to adopt and move on with this extra ordinary situation and help build a new mankind.
The lockdowns all over the world gave many opportunities to individual to look back or so to say “Sharpening the Saw”. We need to introspect what are the (only) important requirements for mankind while sustainably balancing the environment which was always at receiving end due to unprecedented and unplanned growth.
I hope that we accept the novel corona virus into our stride and work toward building a new tomorrow and making it brighter than ever.
The Author of this article is Shri. Tarun Shrivastava, Scientist- F, Senior Technical Director, working with National Informatics Centre and has been working with various NGOs for over 22 years. He is presently, Secretary of Lodge Trimurty No. 294, Nagpur an NGO working selflessly for relief of needy and poor during COVID19 Relief. Lodge Trimuty No. 294, Nagpur has adopted a school Smt. Dadibai Deshmukh Hindu Mulinchi Shala and Kanishta Mahavidyalaya and are to extend help on e-Learning.
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