By Adarsh Sharma
It appears as if the complete so-known as educated, super intellectual and ever so complaining population of our nation, rightly termed as Covidiots, is hell-bent upon testing the could possibly of their “luck quotient” against the pitiful microscopic creature popularly identified as Corona Virus.
How else would you characterize the lengthy queues and hours of targeted traffic jams across all the national highways major towards well-known vacation destinations all through the nation? From Rohtang Pass to Calangute to Lonavla and from MakeMyTrip to TripAdvisor to Airbnb the targeted traffic figures have surpassed all the measurable parameters and milestones alike! There’s not a great deal that the governments could do when this omniscient but ignorant janta appears to be hell-bent on satiating their desires of playing the genuine-life edition of mortal kombat, post banning of PubG by the government. Howsoever ironic it might sound but this similar janta finds covering a distance of 200-300 km by road and dining at totally vaccinated and sterilized highway dhabas enroute a great deal safer than travelling to their offices for work. The in-vogue “WFH” acronym for sure has located a really new which means, “Work From Hills”!
What is more astounding to notice is the truth that it is been only a couple of months when all our social media handles had been flooded with messages requesting life-saving apparatus ranging from oxygen cylinders to blood plasma to life-saving drugs. How quickly this worried janta, has buried the photos of dead bodies floating more than rivers, crematoriums and hospitals operating out of space and the dire front-web page covers of all the national & international media journals someplace at the back of their subconscious thoughts. How quickly the photos of a helpless wife providing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to her covid positive husband, totally conscious of its consequences or of a husband crying for merely 20 more minutes of life for his wife have been wiped off from our hippocampus!
From “Corporate Cricket” get-togethers to planned WFH sabbaticals, the quest to obtain some solace from what ever had occurred for the duration of the ferocious second wave has undeniably ascended the threat of the third wave. This covid-fatigued population is no longer scared with death numbers ranging into thousands (nationally), a substantial decline from the six-figure mark. Such is the size of our population that casualty numbers operating into hundreds and thousands just fail to get any acknowledgement or placement in the dire scenario category or even becoming classified as one! How else would you categorize the intent of continuing with events of mass celebrations like Kaanwar-Yatra, the arrival of Saawan-Mahina, Eid-al-Adah and so forth. amidst the ongoing second wave? How else would you categorise the continuation of Corporate Cricket Leagues & other possible super-spreaders sporting events across Delhi, Noida, Gurugram and so forth, becoming carried out across agricultural lands converted into sporting facilities, suitable below the nose of the administration?
From political parties gearing up for upcoming assembly elections to our cricket crazy corporate cricket players, every person appears to be hell-bent on obliterating the indicators of this rapacious virus’s wrath & traumatic memories seen for the duration of the initially and the second wave. With only 7% of our total population vaccinated to date, we should admire the tenacity and audacity of our “always B+ positive” group to encourage us to look beyond the peripheries of inevitable disasters. The third wave and the subsequent waves thereafter might be invisible and their timings uncertain but with evident and quite visible indicators of welcoming its arrival, our B+ positive janta is almost certainly going also speedy & far to test the limits of their “luck quotient”, I just hope, want & pray that they survive to celebrate the “Third Time Lucky Too” tag!
(The author is an marketing and advertising and marketing expert with more than 15+ years of encounter in providing customised media options to brands and political parties. He can be reached at adarsh.adi@gmail(dot)com Views expressed are individual and do not reflect the official position or policy of TheSpuzz Online.)