Very
first time when Nehru said that clock time does play role in deliverance of
humanity, it remained in our reminiscences for years. Before it could fade into
our memories, 8 PM event, kind of made us believe that a time even could
destroy the “humanity”.
Now
when there was a call by the Chief of the PMO of India to come down to the gable,
balcony of one’s house at 5PM today and cheer the crusaders who are helping us
fight with the ailment grasping India slowly, it wrote a different history for
the mankind of the country.
While
12:00 AM event was enforced by citizen of India and made memorable by British,
8:00 PM event was imposed by the government. This 5:00 PM event was requested
by government and voluntarily made memorable by the Citizen of India,
irrespective of the cast, creed, political proclivity, sexual inclination,
spiritual inclination. That 5 minutes when the citizen of India had created a
“Sound of Gratitude” towards all who are helping Country come out of the
Chinese Disease, be it the Medics of the country, the paramedics, security
personals, the cleanliness crusader, the government machineries even.
Those
sound of “Taali, Thali, Shankh and Dholak” for the that short long five minutes
had created such a pious environment that anyone could have got goose-bums.
This one occasion suddenly became event for India. Suddenly all the news
channels switched to broadcasting video clips of this “Sound of Gratitude” swamping
in from across the country. Suddenly for a moment entire nation seems to have
forgot the situation country is facing. When it looked like we already had
concurred the Chinese Disease in that elated 5 minutes. Whatever be the
situation is, this one five minute event had build quite a confidence in the
population and had let them understand the importance of being quarantine. For
the reason that one infected is not only a patient of the disease but also becomes
a career for it and that is bigger a threat for the country.
The
way government and people of the country are handling the situation, I am sure
this Corona crisis will surely be a past story in a short span of time. But
this will lead to answering or rather introspecting various questions for the
nation and world on a larger prospect.
1. The
Disease Incubator :- Why China seems to have become a disease incubator country
for the world. Most of the diseases spreading from there is zoonotic in nature
and is having far bigger impact on world. Since last few recent years SARS,
Bird Flu and now Corona are the horrid gifts given by China to the world. China
has a bigger contribution in world business, the impact every time is going out
of the hand of the world. Entire world has to think very plausibly upon this
and should start pushing China to start developing new businesses for their
citizen beyond various animal farming. The entire macro economy of China is
dependent upon the manufacturing and micro is upon animal farming. In spite of
all the measures China had taken, the population continue increasing there. The
employment generation is not of the same pace. This would lead to people
getting into the businesses that either would bombard the world with the sub standard
products or some kind of animal farming that largely may be on a risk of giving
zoonotic diseases.
2. The
Fragile Economy :- This COVID 19 outbreak had happened in December 2019
reportedly. Took around a month time to sensitize the world and even lesser
time to give a threat to world economy. Now the bigger question to be addressed
is, why the global economy is so very fragile that it can’t withstand even a
month of lockdown? The bigger question to answer is, where the buffer in the
business is going? Why no plan-B is there in the economy across? While bigger
economy could still endure this for few weeks, smaller countries are getting
into a deep disguise when it comes to their economy. World need to look upon
creating a more sustainable economy where on one hand had the potent to handle
such situations that would demand better influx of money while on the other
hand has audacity to repair the situational damages caused during the moment of
distress. While this sounds so very unrealistic, even the concept of AI was
also very unrealistic few years back.
3. The
Manufacturing Hub :- Over a period of time, China had developed himself as
major manufacturing hub of Asia. This had given them big respirate in terms of
generating job for the rapidly growing population. But most of the
manufacturing units are working on the coal burned energy. This is leading to
usage of almost half of the coal of the world and producing more CO2 than US
and EU put together (Forbes report). Even worst is they are giving the nature
around 1/4th of the global Green House gas. The reason behind that
is while they positioned themselves as the Global Manufacturing Hub, they put
less resources in identifying new ways of producing energy that could be
sustainable and would lead to zero land fill. Perhaps the manufacturing
revolution was based on the fact that they need to give world a cheaper option
of the production. This then would lead to using most economical option of
energy and less emphasis on the R&D, after all there is a huge market for
the cheaper products in the world. Now since companies are getting option to
control their production cost and get into the price war, China had been a good
option for them. This lead to making China better option for manufacturing. So
if any issues happens in China, this affects the balance sheet of companies
heavily. Different companies need to understand that this entire situation is
leading to over dependency on one country which in any ways is going to be a
dangerous proposition. Now is the time when global organizations has to think
of spreading the risk than getting into a disproportionate dependency on one.
4. The
Medical Captivity :- While lot has happened on medical world globally, we may
have to see various other options of research need, like the zoonotic that is
killing millions of people every year. Few are what we know very well, there
are many that is not even in our disease menu. Perhaps we may have to develop a
situation where we should start reducing any circumstances where any zoonotic
could lead to a global pandemic and also knowing diseases well before it even
start creating any unanticipated situation. Perhaps a better coordinated
working of Vet – Human Doc is very much required. A global association should
be established to see this happening. This perhaps would ease the research
processes and working towards reducing any cases pertaining to this.
5. The
Bio – Chemical Warfare :- Many conspiracy theory is prevalent post this
outbreak. Though the authenticity of each is to be tested. Considering a
hypothetical situation where the conspiracy theory holds good, we may have to
see where we want to see world in next 20 – 30 years as this will become trend
across. A third world country is no more under developed in terms of the
science and technology. Moreover it is not much of the science to develop this
now a days. We are heading towards a future where the warfare will not be
played on the boarders or over the economy, but on the mass population of the
countries. Perhaps over a period of time, we even would not mind sending some viruses
to the countries that would mutate the population by attacking on the DNA of
the people. We now need some global organization that could impose strict
provisions on usage of chemical weapons and can impose strict penalty to the countries
using or collecting these. Bigger countries need to come forward to have a very
specific regulations on this with literally no exception on this, irrespective
of the size, economy or market of the countries.
6. The
Post Facto Measures :- While such cases leads to major impact on human and humanity,
it has even far bigger impact on the economy. What is required is to have an
even cordial relationship among the countries of the world where each come together
to combat these enemies, without putting business into the perspective. WHO and
other world organization need to work harder towards this. Even countries need
to push the thought over those adamant countries who tries bringing business to
the savage. This may not that easy and have the potent of polarizing the world,
but some majors are required towards this, else we may have to see more pandemic
some time down the line. Also, country / countries responsible for these chemical
/ bio – chemical war should be identified appropriately and should be penalized
strictly to ensure no further country’s attempt towards doing such stunt in
future.
At
the end, what is required is generating correct awareness among the citizen and
citizen should follow instructions of the government of the time without being
too much rational. Since the situation is not normal, hence the majors required
to curb the problem should also not be normal and to be much beyond what
normally is being done.
