food but of basic amenities. In a country like India, where a large majority struggle under the poverty line, a lockdown for weeks destroys them far before any virus can. People live in slums and it is impossible to stop the virus from spreading amongst them. Social distancing can only be practised in a dream in a country where human beings live like rats in slums and tiny rooms. Not only in India, people live in cage homes in Hong Kong and many other countries.
Fear has made us take decisions that create a cure that is far more dangerous than the disease itself. We are trying to protect lives by switching off a source of their livelihood which will kill them anyway. What has caused us to take such a call? It is fear! So-called task forces are inspired by fear and make proposals that mask the reality. Fear makes us blind to the truth and it will ultimately kill us.
The economic crisis created by fear of the pandemic is unprecedented. It is said that the globe hasn’t seen anything like this in the last 100 years. In reality, it is not the pandemic that is killing the world, it is fear. It is a global mass hysteria. Panic is disguising itself as precaution and killing millions, far more than the virus is killing.
What is the ground reality? Of course, thousands of people have died in countries worst hit by the virus. Months have