Corona Came Calling 2: THE DIALOGUE
THE DIALOGUE
More than a year of extreme carefulness, high levels of hygiene, immune boosting supplements came to naught, when Corona entered our apartment on 24th March’2021 — my life-partner tested positive.
The immediate isolation/quarantine and consultation/treatment notwithstanding, Son too got infected.
We separated ourselves in different rooms; I being in the outermost part of the apartment. One afternoon, Corona tip-toed into my room, and thus started our interactions, sharing the same.
I asked Corona, “why did you come to our world?”
“I did not come on my own. You all invited me through your reckless behavior,” Corona replied.
Corona continued, “Even your scriptures talk about cleanliness. You have forgotten, cleanliness is next to godliness. Remember how clean were your habits and surroundings before the pandemic?”
“You have stopped us in our tracks,” I protested.
Corona growled back, “And how & at what speed, you were running, and at what cost — Polluted Air, Dirty Rivers, Destroyed Flora, Melting Icebergs, Sinking Lands, Rising Seas, Widespread Landslides….”
And I could respond only with a blank look. Yes, we appear to be correcting all that but paying a very heavy cost for the same.
“Spare us now. We have lost too many lives & livelihoods,” I requested.
“Who am I to spare? I am your creation. In your relentless quest to stretch the boundaries of science, you forgot you need to learn to control it when it goes out of hand.” Corona said.
Corona continued, “You can sure control me by being together as ‘One Humanity’, and with all knowledge, advancements and resources that you have across nations & continents, you sure can do it.”
“One more thing,” Corona said, “You indeed need to keep building healthcare workforce & infrastructure, but more than that, it’s high time you create a Culture of Health.” I could just nod.
Corona asked me, “Vaccines are available, why you & your wife did not get vaccinated?”
I told, “yes, we were qualifying as per the age criteria but were not meeting the co-morbidity condition, and it would have been out-rightly immoral for us to jump the queue.”
I felt I built some positivity with Corona, but it was short-lived. She just smiled.
Eventually, myself and my daughter too got afflicted with Corona.
This then triggered the Monologue, which I am sharing soon in part 3.
All said and done, one fact remains, Corona came and has changed our world forever.
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Link to Part 1: Corona Came calling 1: THE PROLOGUE
https://medium.com/@amleshranjan/corona-came-calling-prologue-dialogue-monologue-epilogue-amlesh-ranjan-91d0ff633bba
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