In India, thousands of migrant workers are walking for hundreds of kilometres trying to get back to their homes. Many are dying out of starvation and exhaustion and this is probably not highlighted by the media. Recently, a 12-year- old girl lost her life because she had to walk for 3 days in the hot Sun. Just before she could reach her home in the village, she collapsed and died. Did the virus kill the little girl? Or was she one of those at the receiving end of decisions made out of fear!
Death is certain. Can we control it? People naturally die after they age. But giving them a label of ‘died due to Coronavirus’ is only falsely endangering the global population. Those with cancer, diabetes, or heart disease, are at a higher risk of early death. Just because they have Coronavirus, it does not mean that the virus has killed them. There is no way to prove that it is the virus that is primarily causing the death in the aged and the diseased population. A professor in Sweden rightly remarked that the average lifespan in Sweden was 81 years. But even after the Covid-19 virus, it has not changed. When will we realize that we must gracefully accept death as a phenomenon of life? If the virus was actually deadly like the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, it would have instantly killed the young and the healthy. Because of fear, we do not realize this truth.