From “Everyone wears a mask, no one is real” to “THERE ARE NO MORE MASKS AT THE PHARMACIST, THIS IS THE END”, Things did take an unexpected turn.

The society has come to a complete halt and yet the experts haven’t been able to find out what the hell is going on?

Naturally, the knowledgable know when to speak because of their knowledge of knowing when not to speak.

TLDR; if you know you know.

The people around you…well, They just won’t shut up will they?Honestly, I feel like strangling them but I can’t… because that person is me.

It me.

So I’m just going to talk about what I learnt from this pandemic.

Obviously there’s the exotic birds walking in the middle of what used to be busy streets, mould growing on breads, Wild animals visiting local shops. What is this a crossover episode of Bojack Horseman with real life?!

All those animals after we finally step out:

I wonder what the kids reading about this whole Corona episode in future will get to read. What will happen to pop culture?

Will we have a Fast & Furious sequel?

Logline: Dom and his gang join hands (well not literally because social distancing) to loot Johnson & Johnson.

Title: 4 Fast 4rious: Healthcare 4 all.

Coming to the topic, This pandemic has brought entire systems to a halt. I was looking at the numbers in America and couldn’t help but say, “Yikes, God bless America”. This is America, the most powerful nation in the world, the epitome of capitalism, A country that spends $649 billion on its self defence and yet struggling to fight this crisis. Probably because we’ve lived under an Us Vs Them narrative for so long we forgot that other threats exist out there, in this case a pointy boi named the Corona virus.

If only all those cool military toys had any use for the healthcare professionals to protect themselves from the virus. I wish.

Now we see how healthcare systems everywhere rely heavily on the society at large being healthy, that the system is totally broken but the realisation came in the middle of a disaster.

The system came to a dramatic halt. When the system is up and running you can’t see its flaws. It’s like looking at a ceiling fan, when the fan’s moving you can’t see its blades, you just know they are there and they’re working because you can feel its breeze but when it’s stationary you can see the blades and all the dirt the blades have accumulated, all the ugly.

Our society came to a halt and all it’s ugly has surfaced itself. Migrant workers walking home because they can’t sustain themselves without pay, people dying of starvation, people not being able to afford medicines or basic healthcare amenities, lack of good healthcare, preferential treatment of a few, unequal distribution of wealth, patient dumping, shortage of equipment. The list goes on and on.

Everyone sees it now, people have started showing solidarity to those who aren’t well to do, feeling empathy for them. This pandemic has brought us all together as humans. The irony of forcing people to isolate themselves is what it took for them to recognise the human beings in each other.

All of a sudden you have newfound respect for your local sanitation worker more than the CEO of your company. Because he’s a ‘soldier’ in this ‘war’. It’s true because we will never stop the romanticisation of putting people’s lives at stake. No human life is dispensable.

Looking down upon people because of what jobs they do is a toxic trait, these people are the glue that holds your broken system together. You’ve just come to see it now.

That’s the nature of emergencies. They fast-forward historical processes. Things that in normal times could take years of deliberation are passed in a matter of hours — Yuval Noah Harari.

(Harari said this in the context of mass surveillance being implemented to tackle a state of emergency because of the pandemic and the threats, long lasting effects when the pandemic ends. Please do read his article as well.)

We’re standing here, It’s a new beginning. When we step outside it won’t ever be the same again. The trauma of it all will always stay with us but its also an opportunity to step into this new world leaving behind our prejudices and biases, our hatred of each other, our stereotypes, our reservations, to constantly work for the betterment of each other with a sense of community for there are many such calamities yet to come.