Corona has been talked
about so much since January this year, that the very mention of this word,
makes one recoil. Believe me when I say, I wouldn’t have touched this topic
again, had it not been for the sudden demise of a friend’s cousin yesterday.
This moved her so much that she wanted to communicate the ACTUAL reason to a
large number of readers and what better medium, than writing a blog post about
it.
Fear psychosis is
basically accompanied with anxiety and with so much happening in the world, most
of us are living in the constant fear of something untoward happening to us.
This paranoia has gripped some of us so terribly that we just cannot take our
mind off it. I would be lying if I said, it does not bother me. It does; in
fact, so much so, that since March, I have been literally been living under
lockdown.
Thanks to the fact that
online deliveries have made this period a smooth sail for people like me who do
not need to leave home for work. This is basically a step to minimize the
chances of contracting the virus, though still not completely negating it. You
never know, how and when it takes us in its grip. But what happens when and if
it actually does? Should it wreck me completely or should it just be like a
roadblock?
Well, now I’ll come back
to the point from where I started and that was about this friend’s cousin. All
of 43 years, she contracted mild fever and a sore throat and visited the
doctor. As any doctor nowadays would recommend, this doc too asked her to
undergo a test for Covid. She gave her sample but the next 24 hours of waiting
for the test result proved fatal for her as she let fear take over her. Fear is
an understatement! She pondered, reflected, contemplated….kept dwelling on the
thought of being detected positive with the virus to such an extent that she
had a heart attack and immediately succumbed to it.
Imagine the plight of the
distraught family members; her children, who will never again see their mother,
and not because she died of Covid, but ‘fear psychosis’ got the better of her!
This post, my friends is
just to tell you that we are living in uncertain times and we all know that.
But maintaining our sanity at this time is tremendously important. The virus is
strong but not so strong, so as to drive every person who gets infected, to
her/his death bed. All those who follow the news would know that the mortality
rate is just about 3%, which indicates that the remaining, will be able to
recover and get back to their normal lives. One should be cautious but not
paranoid and when I say this, I certainly don’t intend to let loose those
people who are so bored of this concept of ‘taking precautions’ that they have
decided to throw caution to the wind and venture out without masks, socialize
and basically disrespect every warning!
While we certainly should
not get paranoid to the extent that our lives are at the mercy of our thoughts,
but we should also not take this lightly. Striking a balance is the need of the
hour. Those who can stay at home, please do. Those who venture out, please
maintain social distance, wear masks and sanitize.
Maintain sanity and good
health people. We are all together in this.
RIP Swastika (not her
real name). God give your family the strength to deal with this irreparable
loss.
