What do you believe? Which of the following statements is true and relevant in current Covid scenario?
“Knowledge is power” or “Ignorance is bliss”
In most circumstances, it’s better to have all the facts at your disposal.
Sometimes, it’s nice to live in a world free from the strains of reality, similar to an innocent child, for at least a little while. Ignorance, or a lack of knowledge, isn’t usually viewed as a good thing. However, there may be situations when you’re happier not knowing the truth. If someone who is afraid of spiders doesn’t know there’s one living under the bed, ignorance would be bliss as long as the person is unaware that the spider is there. Hopefully, it never comes out to introduce itself!
Huge numbers of Covid-19 infection vis-a-vis meagre SARS in 2003 may have relevance to both above statements.
Covid-19 is the first pandemic of the information age. People today can access high-quality real time information from a range of sources. Today’s digital social media is kept on pumping information nonstop 24/7. Is it a boon or bane? As an established fact spread of any negative news is faster than that of positive one. Covid is no exception. Anxiety during such situation is expected.
Questions are:
When does that anxiety become a serious condition?
When does that anxiety trigger an undesirable fear psychosis?
When does the fear psychosis aggravate the condition?
Answer for all the above questions is within every individual mind and obviously differ from individual to individual based on their attitude.
As per WHO, as on 7th July 2021, global Covid situation of confirmed cases stood at 185,291,530 and of deaths at 4,010,834. Though the number of confirmed cases is huge, deaths works out to 2.16%, meaning close to 98% came out of Covid infection successfully. Forget Covid for a while and go through below info:
As per WHO, Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill 41 million people each year, equivalent to 71% of all deaths globally.
While communication with regard to Covid is so widespread across the globe, even vulnerable masses are not informed required info and statistics about NCD, resulting a casualness about NCD and rapid increase of NCD cases. Why not timely proper info about numbers, causes, symptoms, measures required for prevention of NCD reaches those ignorant citizens.
It’s extremely urgent that WHO, Governments, NGOs, health care professionals pass on all info related to NCDs to global citizens in a manner, style and frequency matching Covid info. 41 million NCD deaths are so alarming and show how grave the situation we are passing through. Need of the hour is info to those vulnerable masses with speed and convincing style so that they adapt lifestyle changes to prevent or early treatment to get cured from NCDs .
