Trojan Coronavirus

We are in the seventh month of the year 2020. And what do we have to show as progress for the new year? Nothing much, to be frank.

You may be tempted to say that we have been busy fighting the deadly Coronavirus. But the truth is, all we have been doing was and still doing is, desperately trying to hide from a faceless enemy. 

Our lives have come to a grinding halt. We have been brought to our knees by a tiny, minuscule, microscopic, faceless enemy, the Coronavirus, which has been ravaging the entire world by turning the disease into a pandemic.

Coronavirus has been ravaging people across the country and the entire world for the past seven months unceasingly, relentlessly, ruthlessly. It does not spare any one, treats everyone equally. Race, religion, nationality, gender, age, literate, or illiterate, does not matter.

It is one of the most devastating tragedies that the world of your and current generation has ever experienced. This deadly faceless enemy has exposed the utter helplessness and impotency of the human race. It has rendered all the medical and scientific knowledge and wisdom gained by mankind over hundreds of years into nothing, zilch. 

There are innumerable theories on how to recognize the enemy and on how to protect oneself from it, even to fight it. But mankind is at its wits end. Every day brings a new finding or a new theory, many times conflicting with previous theories or findings.

No one seems to know for sure what we are up against. Fighting a faceless enemy is not easy. From the way mankind has resigned to more of protecting itself from the deadly virus, than vanquishing it, it seems, the faceless enemy is going to be around for quite some time.

Many scientists and pharmaceutical companies are claiming to have found vaccines as a cure from Coronavirus but nothing seems to be a definite answer yet. Some experts are predicting that it may take a year or two to find a definite cure for treating Coronavirus victims.

Every day there is a new warning, a new directive, a new proposition on how to protect oneself from it. But every day there is a new avatar of the elusive virus, rendering us utterly helpless. We are just groping in the dark, shooting at shadows.

Sometimes, your mind starts imagining crazy things. Could the enemy be an Alien from outer space, who has come to destroy mankind! Or could there be some very sinister and deadly "thing" riding on the back of Coronavirus, like the enemy soldiers hiding inside the wooden horse, a Trojan Coronavirus! That is just your desperate mind, running wild, cooking up conspiracy theories where there were none.

Whatever or whoever the faceless enemy is, the wisest thing to do is to do what Noah did. He obeyed God's instruction sincerely and cocooned himself and other creatures in his Ark until it was safe to venture out.

You too have simple rules to follow and to stay home. Venture out only if it is absolutely necessary. And hope that others too practice safe measures. No one can say when the faceless enemy will strike.

Above all, pray and hope that soon the faceless enemy is identified, exposed and vanquished.

That will be the day of redemption, the day to start a fresh chapter of your life with all the life lessons learnt during the cocooned period.