Cautious optimism is how people should negotiate this crucial phase of the occurrence of Covid-19, a pandemic that has ensnared the world in turbulent turmoil not only as far as health aspects is concerned but also as far as maintaining sustainability of livelihoods is concerned. Continue wearing face masks, empathetic social distancing, use of sanitizers, hand washing and refraining from large gatherings as well as performing strenuous exercises.
Imagine, the most advanced countries in the world like the US, Brazil, India, Spain, UK, Italy and Iran have become victims in huge measure despite their highly advanced health care systems are concerned. To top it all famous and celebrated individuals such as the US president Donald Trump, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Jamaican Usain Bolt, the legendary sprint world record holder, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, the super hero of the footballing world as well as the famous Romanian Simona Halep, the queen of the women’s tennis world and more known for having become the world women’s No. 1 before winning two Grand Slams have all been fighting and are surviving the Covid-19 infection, which definitely should encourage people that the battle against Covid-19 can be won by having the indomitable spirit of will power.
While resorting to judicious measures it should be understood and practiced with faith and inner resolve and zeal to defeat the pandemic through disciplined living.
It would be pertinent to note here that the tales of those who have recovered and survived be not smothered so as to caution how this minute corona virus has left indelible scars in those who have been infected and survived. Gory tales of how the corona virus led to removing the freedom that the pre-Covid-19 world had and restricted movement as well as suppressed their lives by a mix of co-morbid after effects of the various organs, but also severe mental scars that have to be surmounted in the quest for that complete mastery over this pandemic that has bogged the lives of the entire populace of the world.
The World Health Organization (WHO), as well as Covax tie-ups among countries as also the multinational pharmaceutical giants kike Sanofi, Glaxo Smith Kline Plc, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Gilead Sciences, Regeneron etc. as also country-specific vaccines such as Russia’s Sputnik V are making an overwhelming bid to introduce vaccines through diligent human trials in three phases that have met with great deal of success and should sooner or later lead to breaking the global jinx that will become exactly what the doctors wish to prescribe.
These multinational companies and country wise physiologists, virologists and researchers are on the way to finding vaccines that will transform the face of the world post the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus is now shifted to vaccines deployment. This pandemic has put into perspective a challenge that science will ultimately confront and master. Most of these multinational pharmaceutical companies are confronting and in a race against time that will set the stage for men’s mastery over the pandemic.
A judicious mix of will power, disciplined living, restraint, boosting of the immune system both by physical exercises as well as immune-boosting nutrition should see us through until then.
