many other medical conditions that can destroy our normal life. However, this stage of fear doesn’t escalate in all of humanity but is only restricted to a few people afflicted by such severe consequence.
Today, we feel the consequence of fear more than ever before. What is the truth? The Coronavirus has spread across the globe. It has killed several thousand people in many countries. Those dying are mostly the elderly and the sick. Thousands are infected but don’t have any symptoms. Those who develop symptoms are by and large recovering and returning home. There is no evidence to show a drastic increase in the number of global deaths. The fact is that over 1,50,000 people die in the world every day. We know that we cannot stop death. Death is beyond our control and the COVID-19 has only added to that list of diseases and reasons that we die of.
While this is the truth, what has happened at ground zero? Fear has enveloped most of the countries. Therefore, instead of discriminating and isolating the more vulnerable ones—the elderly and the ones suffering from some ailment, and then facing the virus till a vaccine and cure is found, fear has made us withdraw in our shell and locked us in our homes. We are behaving as if our cities have been attacked by a bunch of terrorists with guns and ammunition, forcing us to go into hiding.